The Holy Synod Decisions June 2016

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• minatasgeel

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  ثانياً: توصيات لجان المجمع المقدس

  
  

  1- توصيات لجنة الأسرة :

  - مراجعة جميع مراكز المشورة على مستوى الكرازة لتوحيد منهج معتمد وتحديد مراكز معتمدة كنسياً لاستخراج شهادات الدورات اللازمة لإتمام الزواج ويعمل بهذه الشهادات إجبارياً من أول يوليو 2017

  
  

  2- توصيات لجنة الرعاية والخدمة :

  - إلتزام الكنائس بتعيين نسبة خمسة في المائة من المعاقين في العمالة بالكنيسة ومشاريعها بقدر الإمكان

  
  

  3- توصيات لجنة الطقوس :

  - إدراج ظهور السيدة العذراء في إدفو - إيبارشية أسوان - في عام 1982 ضمن ظهورات السيدة العذراء في الكنيسة القبطية

  - صلوات الليتورجية لها قدسيتها وكرامتها ووقار ممارستها الأصلية لذا توصى اللجنة بعدم الخروج عن اللياقة في الممارسة بإستخدام المجسمات والتماثيل أو ما إليه

  - إنشاء مدرسة للشمامسة في كل إيبارشية واقترح الحاضرون أن السن الأدنى للرسامة في رتبة إبصالتس تكون 6 سنوات وألا يرسم شماس في أي درجة إلا بيد أسقفه

  - لا يجب أن نضيف أو نحذف أي عبارة في طقس القداس الإلهي إلا بعد إقرارها من المجمع المقدس 

  - حيث أن ملابس الخدمة الكهنوتية تميز الرتب وتتناسب مع طبيعة كل منها، فالقس والقمص لهما أن يلبسا طيلسانة وليس التاج ويلبسا البرنس ولكن بدون حرملة او قصلة أما التاج فهو خاص بالأسقف وكذلك القصلة (الكلوسة) في البرنس التي تطورت إلى الحرملة لذا توصى اللجنة بالإلتزام بما هو مستقر بالكنيسة

  
  

  كان مقررو اللجان الفرعية قد عرضوا تقارير بأنشطة لجانهم خلال العام المنصرم قبل أن يصدر المجمع قراراته وتوصياته النهائية
• minatasgeel

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  Translation:

  
  

  The Holy Synod Decisions June 2016

  
  

  The final and general session of the Holy Synod, held this morning (Thursday, June 6th, 2016) and headed by his holiness the Pope resulted in a bundle of decisions and recommendations and what follows is the text of the decisions:

  
  

  First, the Holy Synod decisions:

  1. Election H.G. Bishop Rafael as Secretary of the Holy Synod and the election of the secretariat of the Synod:

  - H.G. Bishop Thomas of Quseya and Mir

  - H.G. Bishop Youssef of the Southern USA

  - Bishop Apollo of South Sinai

  This decision is for another three years

  
  

  2. The decisions concerning the recognition of the monasteries [and convents]: 

  - Recognition of St. Demiana and Anba Moises convent in the Diocese of Balyana

  - Recognition of St. Mary & St. Demiana Convent,  Dawsonville, Atlanta, Georgia in the Diocese of the Southern USA

  - Recognition of the Great Abba Moussa the Strong monastery in Al Alamein 

  
  

  Second, the Holy Synod Committees Recommendations:

  1. Family Committee Recommendations:
  

  - Confirm with all counseling centers in the See (keraza) to unify an approved curriculum for pre-marital counseling and establish centers that are approved by the church that will issue the certificates to this course which will be mandatory July 2017

  
  

  2- The Care & Service Committee Recommendations:

  - Churches must commit to hiring 5% of disabled (handicapped) individuals in church labors and projects as much as possible

  
  

  3- The Rites Committee Recommendations:

  - The inclusion of the appearance of the Virgin Mary in Edfu of the Diocese of Aswan in 1982 among the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the Coptic Church

  - The sanctity, honor, and reverence of the liturgical prayers are found when they are practiced in their original rite. Therefore, the committee commands to keep decency in practice without using sculptures nor statues nor such objects

  - The establishment of a school for deacons in each diocese. It was also proposed that the minimum age for ordaining a chanter (psaltos) be 6 years old and each deacon must be ordained by the bishop of the diocese 

  - We ought not to add or delete any phrases (terms/words) to the rite of the divine Liturgy without the approval of the Holy Synod

  - Since the liturgical vestments differentiates between the ranks and fits each of their duty, the priest (presbyter and hegumen) wears the “talasaana” and not a crown (mitre), also a “bornos” (cope/mantle) without “harmala” or “qosla”. The crown is for the bishop to wear and the “bornos” with a “qosla” which developed in the “harmala”

  ***We think that the “harmala” and “qosla” are the ballin and shield mentioned here (pg 11): http://www.suscopts.org/servantsprep/pdf/RIT/RIT102-churcharchitecturepriestsvestments.pdf ;

  
  

  
  

  The sub-committees presented their reports to their respective committee’s activities during the last year before issuing the final decisions and recommendations of the Synod
• minasoliman

  June 2016

  I must say that it is with great gratitude that you took the time to translate these. Thank you! I think the Holy Synod should undergo a project in which these decrees be translated at all times for the Coptic Churches abroad, in the same way as they take translating the Papal encyclicals seriously.
• minatasgeel

  June 2016

  @minasoliman...I think all of this is in the works. The accomplishment actually is the fact that it's out there in arabic. No one used to get these written decisions anywhere but recently the church has been using facebook to make announcements and that is a great idea to spread trusted news.  
• Khepra

  July 2016

  Harmala and qosla both mean hood. Some priests in America tried reviving it by wearing it themselves, without realising that it is an episcopal vestment.
• minasoliman

  July 2016

  Have there been any news regarding the 40/80 churching rule?
• minatasgeel

  July 2016

  @Khepra...i don't think it's really the priests fault on wearing those, but it is those that make the bornos that way. very few bornoses you see today don't have either. 

  
  

  @minasoliman...i don't think that was discussed but i'll try to remember and ask Anba Karas about it next time I see his grace. 
• Khepra

  July 2016

  Oops I didn't mean the priests were at fault. But definitely fault of the Coptic vestment industry which has been hijacked by greed in the last 30 years. They just make whatever they want, at minimal cost and then you have no choice but to buy it