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about prayers, Agpeya& Psalms!!
i want 2 know if you ppl use the Agpeya when u pray or not.
and i have a question as well:
why do we pray the psalms? and wat is special about them
and i have a question as well:
why do we pray the psalms? and wat is special about them
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Our wonderful church actually retraces Christ's life on three levels...the DAILY...the WEEKLY...and the YEARLY...the yearly is of course well understood...that is...the beshara...then the advent...and going on till the ressurection (excuse my english :-[) and this is repeated yearly
The weekly is actually in the tasbeha...in the "Ibsalyyat" that change daily and are repeated every week....Sunday's "Ibsalyya" for example commemorates (if I'm allowed to use that phrase) Christ's rising and alot of other things...(I would STRONGLY encourage ppl to pray the tasbeha)
The daily...however...is the agpeyya....that's why it is so important...when we pray "Baaker", we remember Christ's risening, and pray for His mercy on us on this new day...when we pray the third hour, we remember the Pentcost, and Christ's trial before the Cross....when we pray the Sixth hour...we remember the Cross and the Horrible pains our Lord went through as a slave to protect his children from Satan...when we pray the Ninth hour, we remember Christ's bodily death...when we pray the 11th hour...we remember Christ going down from the cross...when we pray the 12th hour, we remember the grave where He was buried for three days...when we pray the three midnight prayers, we remember that the true Christian is the one who stays up and ready for the Lord's coming (or the person's death) "Hayat el Isteedaad"
This is achieved through selected psalms...ones which the church gave us...for example...look at the first psalm in the 12th hour...and remember here we remember Christ's grave....
IN conclusion....the psalms make us concentrate on the meaning of the hour that the church put before us..the prat of the Bible serves to do the same...and the parts after it lets us understand and go very deep into OUR part in all this...my personal relationship with my Lord through HIS church...
Well...long topic, deep topic...ask ur FOC...but whatever u do...go through with the Agpeya...it's WONDERFUL....and deep...and teaches u a lot of things....
RFZ
David the King's heart, despite its failures, was one of the closest hearts to God EVER...that's why the Chruch chose to use David's Psalms...written with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to express what was written before...
That doesn't mean u don't pray using ur own words, and GUIDED BY THE PSALMS AND OTHER LITURGICAL PRAYERS...:D That's the point...what do u think humans alone can do when trying to pray for their God...if there was no mass, no agpeya...no sacrements...if the church was just a building we come sing praises in...how'll u know ur Lord? There'll come a time where u won't know what to say! That the church's point! We're humans, we have a limited mind, after that, we just can't grow without His Grace through His Church!
Pray for me
RFZ
-sandra A.
sometimes it gets 2 like i'm thinking about other thing and my eyes r just rolling around the words ::)
May God help us and bless us all
RFZ
do u memorize any
y?
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....Hey guyz...
couldn't help but comment on ur topic!!!
One reason why we pray the psalms is because of the authority of the psalms over the devils!!!!!!!!
David still a boy would play his harp and sing his psalms causing the evil Spirit on King Saul to depart and comfort him,, same for us, the devils and his traps to depart!!!!
read 1 samuel 16:22....
Also till today those priest with the gift of casting demons use psalms!!!!!!!
The psalms of david are a sweet aroma arising to The Creator... No one can say they have had such a full life as david did, He has psalms covering all feellings, emotion and experiences , they are absolutely awesome.. as H.H. Pope Shenouda says....
Keep the psalms and they will keep You...
trust me read them, and memorise one or two
ur brother in Christ, Mark... GOD BLESS and Pray 4 me!
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"la`ow teh fazo el psamls, ho`ma ha yeh fa zoo koom"
i heard that from a bishop, i dunn remember who. think it was abna moussa.
nyways it means if u learn and memorize the pslams, they will take care of you and protect you. lol i noe many psalms, its not that hard to memorize them. nd if u memorize them, they help u in dealing with problems in life because most of them are talking with jesus and asking him for help.
--CHIPSY