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  • hey everyone, thanx for all the help. i'll get on it asap Pray for me chiefofsinners
  • hi ok, this is a tough question with a simple answer that leads to a new question. the word CHRISTIAN, can be split into two words CHRIST and IAN. the first word means christ, lol. the second word however, means like. so if you put it together it …
  • actually the way we, the orthodox do it, is by the bishops think would be the best person for the job. then the top three most voted for have their names put in to a cup, then they draw out of the cup. the name they pull out is the name of the perso…
  • hi well i'm really glad that ur going to chuch, even if ur parents arn't going. regarding the verse, well i don't know any that talk about wat ur looking for, but i know one that really moved me. not sure of the exact words but here it is "asurdly …
  • [quote author=StrangeD link=board=4;threadid=2234;start=0#msg33968 date=1122954967] I just wanted to let everyone know, if you didn't know already, that the 2nd Coptic monastery will be opening very soon in the United States. [/quote] actually it's…
  • hi i personally feel the monkhood is a blessing, which brings us closer to god. but unfortionatly we can't all part take of this blessing. but for those who can, HOW DO U KNOW IF U WANT TO BE A MONK? irini pasi
  • hi my favorite saint is st. moses the black. he is also called the strong avva moses, cause he was strong in repentence, that y he's my favorite irini pasi
  • hi that's exactly y i think the police didn't say much about who didn't or for. it was for that reason. if mulims and christians start to fight in the u.s. then we might have another 9/11. and more wars in the mideast. but still they should tell us…
  • hi When he felt that his departure was near, he ordered his disciples to hide his body, to give his staff to St. Macarius, his sheepskin overcoat to St. Athanasius, and his slippers to St. Serapion his disciple. (http://www.stantonymonastery.org/s…
  • hi sleepy, although u may be right, i find it unlikely, cuz i went to a church where they had a relic of st.anthony, :-\, i donnu, maybe it was a different st.anthony but i'm pretty sure it's st.anthony the great. God Bless
  • me too God Bless O... when u said yea, did u mean i was right about the answer or the amount of saints in that time?
  • hi it's abu paula, he said that he didn't want his body found to st.anthony. who told the pope who was... st. athenesuis. wow, there were a lot of saints back then. lol God Bless
  • hi i was wondering the same question, about predestination, so i asked H.G. Bishop Youssef, and he explained it in a odd way. he said it's like a man in a really tall building, looking down at the street which happens to be on a hill. on this stre…
  • hi to answer ur question, he can not. it would be like judging them. also, the person might have already confessed his sin to another priest, and the might have already repented. so i highly doubt that a priest would even do that (cuz they are good…
  • hi although it's supposed to be a joke, it can also be related to our spirutal life. the booming voice can be related to the way it feels when we sin, and the lost limb can represent our salvation, if we loose a limb it can be replaced. the pain c…
    in Lost Comment by chiefofsinners July 2005
  • hi in this fast, are we allowed to eat fish?
  • ok this really isn't that hard but o well wat does barabbas mean, and wat could/is important about his name
  • personally i think that if u r orthodox u shouldn't convert out, they should convert to orthodoxy. just my opinion
  • hi the sacrements are there to help u get closer to god. a pope or bishope are monks, they devote their whole life to god, no one else, thats y they don't get married. the reason a priest can get married is because priesthood is a calling, monks ch…
  • good post
  • first off, the censer also symbolizes st.mary. she is the censer and jesus is the incense. secondly, the beards symbolize wisdome (i'm pretty sure) thirdly, the priests wear black, cuz it symbolizes wisdome and humbleness. that's as much as i kn…
  • well i don't remember anything happening to me. but my mom's dad was a big smoker, and she said that one day she prayed using pope kyrolos as her intersescer (sorry about the spelling) hoping that her father would stop smoking. she said that 2 weeks…
  • first off, WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! second off, according to my dad, we have a lot of family in australia God…
  • "These things i have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. in the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, i have overcome the world" (John 16:33) my favorite part in the tasbeha is the fourth hos
  • not yet i've been waiting for it to come out, if it is out plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tell me
  • abu polla?(srry about spelling) :\ God bless p.s. (i don't even think this is right)
  • macrious, was a ranking in the roman army. st. philomater had this ranking. he is also know as abu safain, as metioned before. this is because before a battle an agel appeared to him and gave him the sword which helped him defeat his enemy. if i'm …
  • i hope u don't mind but i'm gonna start a new question 1. st. macrious (sorry about the spelling) is also know as wat 2. wat does that name symbolize 3. wat does macrious mean good luck god bless
  • you r very lucky the school that my sisters went to wouldn't consider them anything but white, so they weren't eligable for minority scholorships but s'ok. god luck with school, and life God Bless