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  1. dzheremi

    Happy Father's Day, Abouna Marcus! A lovely find for me today of all days

    As usual, I was searching for something unrelated but came across this on YouTube earlier this morning: A tour of St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church -- the Church in which I was baptized in 2012 -- by Fr. Marcus Mansour, the priest by whose hand I was baptized. I hate the jittery MTV-style editing...
  2. dzheremi

    Well how about that! Coptic liturgy in Russian in Hurghada, Egypt

    From the headquarters of Deir Anba Antonious in Hurghada, under priest-monk Abaskhiron El Antoni. Hurghada has the largest number of Russians (some 3,000, though there are supposedly many more who are not officially registered there) in all of Egypt. Had no idea they had translated the Coptic...
  3. dzheremi

    *Catholic Forum* Maybe sensitive topic: selling/donating/leasing Catholic parishes to other churches

    Christ is Risen! Greetings to you all in the risen Lord, Jesus Christ our God. I was searching for something completely unrelated to the thread topic this morning when I came across this article from 2017 in the New York Times titled "Feelings of Betrayal After Catholic Church is Leased to...
  4. dzheremi

    Hosanna in the Highest: Hosanna Sunday in Oriental Orthodox Churches

    While the Western Christian world is celebrating the Resurrection today, today is Hosanna Sunday for us, so we are celebrating the entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. So today in the Coptic Orthodox Church we sing one of the ancient Greek hymns that the Church has preserved, "Evlogimenos"...
  5. dzheremi

    HH Pope Tawadros II Papal Message for the Feast of the Nativity 2019 (Arabic with English subtitles)

    Christ is born, uniting the humanity with His divinity without mixture, confusion, or division of any kind, and thus restoring, redeeming, transforming, and saving us. Glory be to Him Who is born miraculously of the Theotokos, St. Mary, on this day, according to the prophetic sayings! We...
  6. dzheremi

    Fr. Matthew the Poor (Matta Al-Maskin/أبونا متى المسكين) in Coptologia vol. III, Fall 1982

    Note: I have made some slight revisions to remove cumbersome inclusions of transliterated Arabic words (placed below in italics) where their frequency may inhibit smooth reading, in those cases where removing them would not reasonably alter the meaning of the text itself. The only other changes...
  7. dzheremi

    Question related to "cut off date for Western saints" thread

    Hi everybody, I didn't want to derail the other thread, but it made me wonder about something sort of related to it (particularlu Buzuxi02's point about there being no hymns or commemorations for particular Western saints, even if they're within the time when they could be recognized): How...
  8. dzheremi

    Fr. Lazarus El Antony teaches a European on the Jesus Prayer and silence

    For our edification:
  9. dzheremi

    A unique aspect of celebration of the Resurrection in the Coptic tradition: The (Re)enactment

    Christ is risen! At this time in the liturgical year, we in the Coptic Orthodox Church enjoy not only the feast of the glorious Resurrection, but also a unique ritual tied to our liturgical celebration of it: a reenactment of the Resurrection itself, which takes place during the liturgy of the...
  10. dzheremi

    Today, June 22 (Baounah 15): the return of the relics of St. Mark the Apostle to the Egyptian Church

    In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the one God. Today is a great day in modern Coptic Orthodox history, and since it directly involves also the Roman Catholic Church, I figured I should share it with you guys here on OBOB. From the synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox...
  11. dzheremi

    Interview with Julia Ibrahim, survivor of the bus attack: "I want to go there with them."

    This tiny child, this witness, has some words for the terrorists, and words to say about the seven relatives she lost that day when the workers of iniquity decided to attack a bus full of pilgrims, including children such as her. She reaffirms her identity as a Christian and reports that...
  12. dzheremi

    HG Bishop Rafael: "We strongly demand to have a holy church" at martyrdom site

    Citing ancient precedent, HG Bishop Rafael, secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has demanded that a church be allowed to be built at the site of the martyrdom of Coptic Christians in the recent bus attack. We shall see now where al Sisi and Co. really are on the 'Coptic...
  13. B

    In Light of Mass Prosecution of Orthodox Christians in Egypt

    Please pray for the Christians facing prosecution in Egypt, there have been several bombs placed in churches as well gunmen killing people going to a close by monastery. Please keep us in your prayers and if you would like to learn more about the Coptic Christians in Egypt and how you can help...
  14. dzheremi

    "We are all going to die for the Lord. We don't belong to earth; we belong to Heaven."

    The Orthodox faith of the Coptic Church shines through the darkness in the wake of the bus attack in El Minya. We are once again blessed to have so many martyrs, all witnesses to Christ and powerful intercessors for the believers. The martyrs are our strength, the cross is our life, the Lord is...
  15. dzheremi

    Message to the killers in Alexandria and Tanta

  16. dzheremi

    Funeral prayers for the new martyrs of Tanta and Alexandria

    Tanta: Alexandria (begins at 1:18):
  17. dzheremi

    HG Bishop Suriel (Australia): This is ethnic cleansing; hatred is incited in mosques

    HG Bishop Suriel of Melbourne tells it like it is, as he always does.
  18. dzheremi

    Comfort in the happiness of the martyrs: a reminder from Fr. Tadros and HG Bishop Moussa

    Since Alexandria (and now Tanta as well) is once again the land of the martyrs, let us remember these good and comforting words from our fathers, Fr. Tadros and HG Bishop Moussa, delivered at the funeral of the martyrs of the bombing of the Church of the Saints (el Qeddiseen) in Alexandria in...
  19. dzheremi

    Preparing Prosphora in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Zimbabwe

    In this video, Deacon Michael of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Zimbabwe prepares the prosphora/qurban/holy bread for the day's liturgy.
  20. dzheremi

    The boundaries of the OO world in the 10th century re: Severus Al Ashmunein

    Hi everybody, I woke up early this morning so I've been doing some reading from Severus Al Ashmunein's The Lamp of the Intellect (what little of it I can actually read; due to a binding error, most of the pages of Ebeid and Young's 1975 English translation are fused together). It brought up...