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Holy Week Saturday

Liturgy, System, Theology / By Armia FAYEZ

HOLY WEEK SATURDAY The first allusion of the rite of the Holy Saturday is the description of Egeria: “Those who are able to keep the vigil do so until the dawn. . . . The clergy keep watch there, and hymns and antiphons are sung there through all the night until the morning.” It is …

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Hosanna

Bible, Liturgy / By Armia FAYEZ

HOSANNA Hebrew word, meaning “save us.” In the Coptic liturgy, it relates to Palm Sunday. In the 12th century, Abu al-Makarim wrote his book, the History of the Churches and Monasteries in Egypt. The feast of Palm Sunday was a special ceremony in his church (Church of the Holy Virgin in Haret Zuwylah in Old …

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Shams Al-Ri’asa Abu Al-Barakat Ibn Kabar (?-1324)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

SHAMS AL-RI’ASA ABU AL-BARAKAT IBN KABAR (?-1324) A Priest, encyclopedist, scholar of Coptic. The writer known to contemporaries as al-Shams ibn Kabar provides one of the last great examples of the flowering of Arabic-language Coptic Orthodox literature in the 13th and early 14th centuries. Ibn Kabar served for a time as scribe to the Mamluk …

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Dayr Apa Hor (Siryaqus)

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

DAYR APA HOR (Siryaqus) This monastery, probably situated near the town of Siryaqus, in the province of al-Qalyubyyah, about 12 miles (20 km) north of Cairo, is described by al-Shabushti (end of tenth or beginning of eleventh century) as populated by numerous monks. Its festivals attracted a great number of people. The author relates the …

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Dayr Apa Jeremiah (Saqqara)

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

DAYR APA JEREMIAH (Saqqara) History We do not know if Jeremiah was the founder of the monastery that bears his name, or if he succeeded someone else. According to JOHN OF NIKIOU (Chronicle, chap. 89, pp. 4-14), Anastasius, the future emperor of Byzantium (491-518), visited Saint Jeremiah in his lifetime, when he himself was exiled …

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Abu Al-Majd Ibn Yu’annis (?-Before 1357)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

ABU AL-MAJD IBN YU’ANNIS (?-before 1357) A Priest, theologian. Abu al-Majd ibn Yu’annis was a priest of Minyat Bani Khasib (present-day Minya) in Middle Egypt. The dates—and even the century—of his activity are not known, although the oldest dated manuscript of his work (from 1357) provides a terminus ad quem (a final limiting point in …

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Theotokia

Liturgy / By Armia FAYEZ

THEOTOKIA Part of the Psalmodia service. According to Abu al-Barakat ibn Kabar, in his encyclopedia The Lamp of Darkness for the Explanation of the Service, the compiler of the Theotokia was a virtuous potter who became a monk in Scetis. He adds that some people consider St. Athanasius to be the author of the Theotokia. …

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Tubh

Culture / By Armia FAYEZ

TUBH (Arabic, plural Tubuhat). This is a Coptic word meaning “pray for.” The Tubuhat were introduced as deacon’s responses in the liturgy or in the Holy Week (for the liturgies, see the Anaphora of St. Basil, St. Gregory, and St. Cyril). The Tubuhat of the morning service of the Holy Week was composed before the …

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Turuhat Of The Holy Week

Liturgy / By Armia FAYEZ

TURUHAT OF THE HOLY WEEK It is difficult to detect the history of a Coptic liturgical rite, for part of it had been written originally in Greek and translated after that to Coptic and then to Arabic, and another part had been directly written in Coptic and then translated to Arabic. A linguistic approach would …

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Monastic And Liturgical Vestments

Liturgy / By Armia FAYEZ

MONASTIC AND LITURGICAL VESTMENTS Many sources show the evolution of the monastic and liturgical vestments, which are attested in Egypt as early as the fourth century. The description of Evagrius, Palladius, and the Saying of the fathers gave the names of some monastic vestments in Lower Egypt. The Middle Egyptian tradition of the period is …

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