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Eucharist

EUCHARIST One of seven sacraments in the Coptic church. Although all sacraments contain and impart grace, the Eucharist carries the most sublime grace of all. In BAPTISM, for example, water remains water, as does the holy chrism in confirmation, the visible element of the sacrament thus undergoing no change. In the Eucharist, however, the bread …

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Immersion

Theology / By Armia FAYEZ

IMMERSION It was ordained by Jesus Christ that water represents the visible sign of baptism: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (Jn. 3:5). In conformity with Christ’s teachings, the apostles used water in administering the sacrament through complete immersion. This practice has since been followed …

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Jirjis Al-Jawhari Al-Khanani

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

JIRJIS AL-JAWHARI AL-KHANANI An eighteenth-century priest known from three manuscripts of the Coptic Patriarchate, Cairo: Theology 90, Liturgy 102, and Theology 54. In 1776 he was pastor of the Church of the Virgin at Harit al-Rum in Old Cairo. In 1777 he copied an Arabic manuscript of 207 large sheets (32 x 23 cm; Coptic …

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Egerton Gospel

Books / By Youssef Matta

EGERTON GOSPEL The most important of the papyrus fragments of apocryphal gospels because of its early date, its extent, and the character of the text; acquired by the British Library in 1934. It consists of two leaves of a papyrus codex together with a small fragment. Both leaves are incomplete, but in many lines, the …

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