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I Am He: The themes of Sunday Liturgical Readings in the Co...

I Am He: The themes of Sunday Liturgical Readings in the Co... : Reading of Sundays Excerpted from many sermons by The V. Rev. Fr. Athanasius K. Farag Sunday reading aims to show us the work of the H...

The themes of Sunday Liturgical Readings in the Coptic Orthodox Church

Reading of Sundays Excerpted from many sermons by The V. Rev. Fr. Athanasius K. Farag Sunday reading aims to show us the work of the Holy Trinity in the creation, redemption and glorification  of the human, it is called the economia of the Holy Trinity. Month of Tut In the first month of Tut we read the love of God the Father who called all for repentance “who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” I Ti.2:4 Month of Babah In the second month of Babah, the churches tells us “Who is this Saviour?” we see him through his work miracles of healing the paralyzed, casting out demons, raising the dead. Month of Hatour In Hatour we see who is the Saviour through His word which is planted in our hearts. Month of Keyhak •       All from Luke chapter 1: the scenes which accompanied the Nativity season Month of Toba the incarnation of the Only Begotten Son who called us from darkness to the light, who walk...

Websites in Coptic Studies

Websites Searchable Greek Inscriptions http://epigraphy.packhum.org/ http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/firstwelcome.htm Nag el-Hagar in Upper Egypt http://www.vfp-archaeologie.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/provinzial/nag_el_har/index.html Hisn al-Bab http://www.oeai.at/index.php/hisn-al-bab.html Deir Anba Hadra & others https://www.dainst.org/projekt/-/project-display/63443 others numbers 63449, Hagr Edfu, Egypt , Wadi Sarga http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/hagr_edfu,_egypt.aspx Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari http://www.templeofhatshepsut.uw.edu.pl/en Yale Monastic Archaeology Project North (Wadi al-Natrun) http://egyptology.yale.edu/expeditions/current-expeditions/yale-monastic-archaeology-project-north-wadi-al-natrun Minya, Bawit, Monastery of Apollo, Bahariya Te...

How to live Holy Pascha week, learning from Church reading in the Holy Pascha Week

“The person who cannot benefit from the Holy Pascha Week, will have a hard time to get that benefit other times in the year” HH Pope Shenouda III In the Coptic rite the Pascha hour is composed of the following: 1-       Prophecies 2-       Homilies 3-       Doxology of “Thine is the Power …” 4-       Psalm prayed in a sad tone 5-       Gospel 6-       Exposition 7-       Litanies Prophecies: When you read the prophecies, try to relate to this prophecy, e.g. reading a prophecy from Exodus 32:7-15 the story of the deviation of the Israelites from God’s way after He brought them out of Egypt. “they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it” relating to this prophecy is obvious , how God brought us out of the darkness to the light in our Baptism and how we went astray. The Church used to pr...

Clement of Alexandria sees the Church as the mother who feeds milk to her children

Clement is firmly convinced that there is only one universal Church as there is only one God the Father, one divine Word and one Holy Spirit. He calls this church the virgin mother who feeds her children with the milk of the divine Word: O wondrous mystery! One is the father of all, one also the Logos of all, and the Holy spirit is one and the same everywhere and there is only one Virgin Mother; I love to call her the Church. This mother alone had no milk, because she alone did not become woman, but she is both virgin and mother, being undefiled as a virgin and loving as a mother; and calling her children to her she nurses them with holy milk, the Logos for the children (Paed.1,6,42,1). "O graduates of His blessed tutorship! Let us [by our presence] make complete the fair countenance of the Church, and let us as children run to our good Mother. and when we have become hearers of the Word, let us extol the blessed dispensation by which man is brought up and sanctified as a chi...