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SHAME ON THE MONASTERY OF SAINT MACARIUS THE GREAT FOR ITS NEGLECT OF THE...
The Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great (Dayr Aba Maqār, دير الأنبا مقار) is one of the greatest Coptic monasteries that has had a great impact on Coptic Christianity and history. It lies in Wadi...
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE COPTIC EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS...
In a collaborative effort, the St. Mark Foundation for Coptic Heritage and the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (or IFAO) are holding on 17-19 February 2022 an international conference on the...
View ArticleBOTH THE COPTIC READER AND THE COPTIC BIBLE APPs NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION...
The two digital apps – the Coptic Reader which was produced several years ago by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States to help with the liturgical services of the Church, and the...
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SHRINK YOUR STOMACH LITTLE BY LITTLE – THROUGH FASTING
Gluttony by David Seidman Train yourself to shrink your stomach little by little through fasting. The same as a stretched water skin shrinks, so it is with a stomach that takes a lot of food. If on...
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AN EXCELLENT NEW EDITION OF COPTIC-ARABIC NEW TESTAMENT PUBLISHED IN EGYPT BY...
A regular correspondent (Kyrillos) has alerted me to a new publication by the Bible Society of Egypt of the New Testament in two columns: Coptic and Arabic. It is a hard cover edition, 765 pages long...
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WHEN POPE SHENOUTI I TOOK THE CRUSIER IN HIS HAND AND WENT TO FACE THE...
An important writer of the History of the Coptic Patriarchs (HCP) is a monk by the name of Yoaannis (John) II. He was the personal clerk of Patriarch Shenouti (Sanutius or Shenouda) I (858 – ?880). He...
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NO, WINE IS NOT HARAM, AND IT IS DANGEOUS TO MAKE IT SO
In modern times, we have been bombarded by strict ecclesiastical rhetoric that wine (an alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice) is ‘haram’. Haram is of course not a Christian expression but...
View ArticlePAXAMATIA – The STABLE FOOD ITEM AND MAIN CALORIE PROVIDER OF THE FATHERS OF...
The staple food of the Fathers of the Desert, and their main energy provision, as revealed in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers) was the paxamatia as the word is given in the...
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EVEN THE LORD’S PRAYER IS MESSED UP WHEN THE COPTIC PARTICLE “Ϫⲉ” IS...
It’s a tell-tale of the current sorry state of Coptic is the way Copts recite the Lord’s Prayer in churches and outside them. The Lord’s Prayer is wrongly called in Coptic circles ‘je pen iowt” (ϫⲉ...
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COPTIC RELATIONS WITH ROME 1: PURCHAS’ ACCOUNT
Samuel Purchas (c.1577 – 1626) was an English clergyman who was geographic editor and compiler of reports by travellers to foreign countries.[i] In 1625, he published the encyclopaedic Hakluytus...
View ArticleKIND REQUEST FROM ON COPTIC NATIONALISM JOURNAL TO ITS READERS
The Journal of On Coptic Nationalism would like to kindly ask readers, if they approve of what we write, to like it and help in spreading the word by sharing. With many thanks and kind regards....
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A NEW PROJECT DEDICATED TO THE CRITICAL EDITION OF THE CHRONICLE OF JOHN OF...
On 29 July 2019, Daria Elagina, a research fellow at Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg, defended with success her PhD dissertation in Ethiopian Studies: The Textual...
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PROFESSOR PHIL BOOTH AND HIS WRITINGS ON THE CHRONICLE OF JOHN OF NIKIU
Professor Phil Booth is A. G. Leventis Associate Professor in Eastern Christianity, St Peter’s College, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. He is interested in ecclesiastical...
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HAPPY NATIVITY TO ALL FRIENDS, FOLLOWERS & READERS OF THIS BLOG!
Happy Nativity, according to the Coptic calendar that follows the Julian calendar, and hence the Nativity for the Copts, and many other Eastern and Oriental Christians, falls on the 7th January and...
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