Going to an EO service tonight

[LJCTAM]

Well guys just got off the phone with my Coptic buddy. It had been a while. It was encouraging.

I read the calendar wrong on the EO church site so instead of Friday night service wll be Saturday night. I'll be going to an Antiochian EO service. That probably tells you more than it does to me. It sounds cool and I hope to have a good time. But more than that I hope to meet believers that love others. More than that, I hope that God will minister to me in whatever way he wants. Need His lead.

Thoughts?

 

[Tzaousios]

There is an Antiochian parish near where I live. When I get the chance to "steal away" (normally I have to go to the Baptist church with my wife and son ), I go to Vespers or the Divine Liturgy here. There is an OCA parish up the road too but I tend to like the Antiochian one better.

 

[LJCTAM]

There is an Antiochian parish near where I live. When I get the chance to "steal away" (normally I have to go to the Baptist church with my wife and son ), I go to Vespers or the Divine Liturgy here. There is an OCA parish up the road too but I tend to like the Antiochian one better.

Hey tzaousios, I talked to two. One is Greek and the other is Antiochian. The Antiochian would be the equivalent of an EO megachurch, slightly smaller though. I read the calendar wrong thinking it was tonight but it is tomorrow.

 

[Tzaousios]

Hey tzaousios, I talked to two. One is Greek and the other is Antiochian. The Antiochian would be the equivalent of an EO megachurch, slightly smaller though. I read the calendar wrong thinking it was tonight but it is tomorrow.

That's cool. There is a large Greek parish in my hometown that I have been to many times with a friend who is a member. It was very beautiful since the Divine Liturgy was mostly in Greek. The Antiochian parish's services are mostly in English with some chanted in Arabic by one of the older members. It is a decent blend between converts and cradle Syrian and Lebanese members.

 

[WisdomTree]

If it's your first time, get ready for some culture shock!

 

[Dorothea]

I hope you have a blessed experience.

 

[LJCTAM]

If it's your first time, get ready for some culture shock!

Wisdomtree, I've been to Coptic servies before and they were awesome. I can read Coptic, Greek, and Arabic (which they use in Coptic services minus Greek), but in some Assyrian Orthodox they read Aramaic/Syriac; which I can only make out half of since there are three to four main ways of writing it. Serta to Estrangelo is somewhat opposite ends of the spectrum writing-wise.

The Greek stuff is amazing. I've studied it a little and appreciate the music most of all. The smells, bells, art, and architecture itself can take you somewhere else.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Well guys just got off the phone with my Coptic buddy. It had been a while. It was encouraging.

I read the calendar wrong on the EO church site so instead of Friday night service wll be Saturday night. I'll be going to an Antiochian EO service. That probably tells you more than it does to me. It sounds cool and I hope to have a good time. But more than that I hope to meet believers that love others. More than that, I hope that God will minister to me in whatever way he wants. Need His lead.

Thoughts?

cool, my home parish is Antiochian. hope you have a great time, fill us in on how it goes

 

[WisdomTree]

Wisdomtree, I've been to Coptic servies before and they were awesome. I can read Coptic, Greek, and Arabic (which they use in Coptic services minus Greek), but in some Assyrian Orthodox they read Aramaic/Syriac; which I can only make out half of since there are three to four main ways of writing it. Serta to Estrangelo is somewhat opposite ends of the spectrum writing-wise.

The Greek stuff is amazing. I've studied it a little and appreciate the music most of all. The smells, bells, art, and architecture itself can take you somewhere else.

Glad to know. Don't get me wrong, I do find the Eastern liturgies to be quite beautiful. However, for someone who has spent the all his life in western-style low churches would find the Divine Liturgy or the Holy Quabarna of an Eastern high church would find almost everything quite suprising.

 

[Knee V]

Well guys just got off the phone with my Coptic buddy. It had been a while. It was encouraging.

I read the calendar wrong on the EO church site so instead of Friday night service wll be Saturday night. I'll be going to an Antiochian EO service. That probably tells you more than it does to me. It sounds cool and I hope to have a good time. But more than that I hope to meet believers that love others. More than that, I hope that God will minister to me in whatever way he wants. Need His lead.

Thoughts?

It will be Great Vespers. It's a series of Psalms and evening prayers, one of which is the oldest extra-biblical christian hymn, marking the transition from one day to the next (O Joyous Light). It also includes the Prayer of St Simeon (O Lord, now let your servant depart in peace...). I think you'll like it.

 

[Tzaousios]

I can read Coptic, Greek, and Arabic (which they use in Coptic services minus Greek)

That is really cool! How did you gain competency in all of those diverse languages, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[LJCTAM]

It will be Great Vespers. It's a series of Psalms and evening prayers, one of which is the oldest extra-biblical christian hymn, marking the transition from one day to the next (O Joyous Light). It also includes the Prayer of St Simeon (O Lord, now let your servant depart in peace...). I think you'll like it.

Yeah my intro to the Vespers were Coptic services. Reading from Coptic to Arabic to English. The oly confusing thing is that the regulars know the shortcuts betwen the verses. You may skip a line here, skip a page there and then switch languages in between. that was the only thing I did;nt get--the switcheroo.

 

[LJCTAM]

That is really cool! How did you gain competency in all of those diverse languages, if you don't mind me asking?

Here are a few reasons:

Socially stunted, multi-racial, multi-religious family or lack thereof, having slight autism with high IQ/low EQ. Since most people only skim the surface, my interests appear odd to some people. Some people don't get me at all.

My dad wouldn't teach us his first language and discouraged it by making fun of us or hitting us when we tried, read foreign dictionaries, reading books, talking to people when I got the chance, taking classes here and there to fill in the study gaps, love for art and calligraphy, wanting to know sentence structure and roots of words in the bible after I became a Christian, wanting to read and understand languages when I was little because they looked cool but confusing and I wished I could read them, when I was little I lived in an abusive home and escaped by reading encyclopaedias and mentally going to other parts of the world; later in life I went to a few of them. My love for the coptic language, the music, and my heart is joined to those people. There's more.

In a nutshell.

 

[LJCTAM]

Wow

 

[Anhelyna]

AH

I think that

Wow

says it all !