orthodox christianity

An interesting take on the struggle of praying at home and relationships in the home and how they cultivate our virtues in the 'domestic monastery' that our homes ought to be.

(c. 7th century icon on the walls of the Red Monastery, near Sohag, est. 4th century) Abba Shenouda ("the Great", "the Archmandrite", "of Atripe", "of the White Monastery") is one of the greatest saints of all time, and certainly one of the greatest of the Coptic Orthodox Church who I suspect...

Glorious Feast of the Holy Resurrection @ St Mary & St Moses Abbey, TX 04/19/2020

Same information regarding celebrants and location as the other thread from earlier today. For me personally, these services are among the most special of the holy week. The entire holy book of Revelation is read aloud (hence "Apocalypse Night", or in Arab-Greek, Abu Ghalimses), which does not...

His Grace Bishop Youssef: Great Friday Holy Pascha ~ Great Friday: 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 12th Hours St. Mary St. Moses Abbey Coptic Orthodox Abbey, Sandia [Corpus Christi], TX 04/17/2020

Our beloved father HG Bishop Youssef is livestreaming services from his residence at St. Mary & St. Moses Abbey in Texas. Here are this morning's prayers and praises, for all who are dearly missing being able to gather in our churches: Holy fathers of the desert, pray for us and for the whole...

Hello. Thank you so much for reading this and offering any insight or help you can. I'm a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy - OCA parish in the Diocese of the South. I've been Orthodox for many years now. I'm feeling very disillusioned about closed communion and the claims of my church to be "the...

I know it's out of season since it's sung for Pentecost (June 7) and the Apostles' fast (June 8-July 11), but I just found it today and want to post it before it falls down the memory hole, so here's the Greek-Coptic hymn "Asomen to Kyrio" (Let us praise the Lord), sung in Coptic, Greek, Arabic...

CHRIST IS BORN! First from Lalibela, Ethiopia, the Beza Kulu celebration (I'm not sure exactly what this is, but it is apparently connected to Ethiopian nativity, since it comes up in searches when you organize by date), because it is live right now as I am posting this, and very impressive...

So the pastor at that orthodox church gave my gf and I a book to read before we go back to meet him after the new year. I’m almost 1/4 of the way in but there is a problem, my gf hasn’t read any of it. She never commits to anything, I’ve reminded her like 5 times to read it so we don’t go back...

A good sermon from HH Pope Shenouda III of thrice-blessed memory on living life with God. I tried to post it in another thread only to have that thread deleted as I was posting in it, so I figured it could have its own thread here. I hope anyone who sees this finds it edifying and...

[By this, of course, I mean the diptychs in a liturgical setting, not the common art term for icons and paintings set in a diptych (two-fold) arrangement.] The diptych was once a literal object kept in the local church, made of wax tablets onto which the names of the living and departed...

As there are elsewhere right now other threads going on which slander the name and memory of the 25th Patriarch of Alexandria, HH St. Dioscorus (who is called in the Coptic tradition Pensakh, 'Our teacher'), accusing him of all kinds of evil and heresy out of the standardized histories of the...

Presented by Coptic Youth Channel. The word "epic" gets thrown around a lot these days, but I must say, HG covers a lot of ground here, not just in a narrow sense as relates to the title, but as the topic relates to iconography and veneration, missionary work, the overall purpose of life, etc...

Related to the recent thread on mixed marriages where one spouse wants to convert and the other might not, but different enough to warrant its own thread, I think. I sort of agree with one of the comments on the original YouTube page that says the way that this material is presented seems a...

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...

Christ is risen! Liturgy broadcast from the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of St. Vartan in NY: A very short (38 min) selection from the Coptic Orthodox liturgy as celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Mark in El Abassiya (Cairo), beginning with the hymn "Ya Kul al Sefof" (All Ye Heavenly...

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"...

As today, April 7th, is the 29th day of the Coptic month of Paremhotep (Copto-Arabic: Baramhat), it is a day of special celebration in the Coptic Orthodox Church. The same is true for the 29th, as well as the 12th and the 21st, of all other Coptic months except two. As explained in the book...

From today's readings, April 1, 2019 AD/Paremhotep (Baramhat) 23, 1735 AM: From the book of Proverbs, may his holy blessings be with us all. Amen Proverbs 3:5-18 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct...