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How to earn inner peace? The peace of forgiveness (2/3) (7)

How to earn inner peace? The peace of forgiveness (2/3) (7) By: Servants of God’s Love Hostel · We hope in Christ that this series would reach the hand of every Christian youth for the least cost. · You could share this hope by giving it to your friends, loved ones and children in …

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The Place of Qusqam in the Textual Data on the Flight into Egypt

History / By Armia FAYEZ

The Place of Qusqam in the Textual Data on the Flight into Egypt Dayr al-Muharraq is for Christian Egyptians a very blessed place— maybe the most blessed place in Egypt. Tens of thousands of people come here every year on special feasts and occasions: not only for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin …

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Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq

Liturgy / By Armia FAYEZ

Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq The Monastery of al-Muharraq has special peculiarities in its liturgical practice.[1] For example, the term used there for ‘hymn’ is different from all other manuscripts: luhunat, rather than alhan. There are even differences in the musical instruments, as the monks of the Monastery of al-Muharraq use, in addition to …

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An Overview of Rock-cut Coptic Sites in Asyut

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

An Overview of Rock-cut Coptic Sites in Asyut Introduction This research is an attempt to provide an overview of some of the most remarkable rock-cut monasteries in Asyut Governorate. The Asyut plateau was a suitable area for monastic settlement as it is bordered on the east and the west with mountains flanking the agricultural land. …

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St. Mary In The Coptic Rite

Liturgy, Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

ST. MARY IN THE COPTIC[1] RITE It is too difficult to give an account of the prominent place of St. Mary in the Coptic Church in this short treatise. For St. Mary is commemorated and invoked in every daily hymn and liturgy, and even in every canonical hour, day and night. Various Marian feasts are …

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Dictionaries

Books, History / By Armia FAYEZ

DICTIONARIES From the time when the Copts, like other nations or linguistic entities, felt the need to have at their disposal in writing the equivalents, exact or approximate, of the words of their language, attempts were made to compose modest lists of bilingual vocabulary; these may justly be considered the ancestors of modern Coptic dictionaries. …

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Coptic Calendar

Culture, Heritage / By Armia FAYEZ

COPTIC CALENDAR The Coptic calendar, sometimes referred to as the Alexandrian Calendar, is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar of the solar year. This calendar system continued to be used by the Coptic Church. The Coptic year is divided into 12 months of 30 days each, followed by five more days, called epagomenai, as well …

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Athanasius, Bishop Of Abu Tij

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

ATHANASIUS, BISHOP OF ABU TIJ A collector, restorer, and copyist of manuscripts (d. 1819/20) This bishop, known chiefly from the history of Coptic Arabic manuscripts, must be considered a major protagonist in the early Coptic cultural awakening of modern times (19th century).1 He is to be distinguished from two other homonymous bishops of the same …

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Al-Mufaddal Ibn Abi Al-Fada’il (?-After 1357)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

AL-MUFADDAL IBN ABI AL-FADA’IL (?-after 1357) A Historian. Al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada’il continued the world history of al Makin Jirjis ibn al-‘Amid (who may have been his great-uncle), picking up where al-Makin left off with the accession of the Mamluk sultan Baybars in 1260, and continuing through the death of al-Malik al-Nasir in 1341. It …

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Dayr Anba Hiziqyal

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

DAYR ANBA HIZIQYAL A monastery in Armant. The name of this monastery is given in two notices of saints by the recension of the SYNAXARION of the Copts from Upper Egypt, which provides an approximate indication of its geographical location. In the summary at 14 Kiyahk concerning one Ezekiel (Hiziqyal), a native of Armant, whose …

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