Podcasts about Coptic

Tony Soliman- Reflection for the Eve of Wednesday of Holy Pascha. Click the icon below to listen.

Eve of Monday of the Holy Pascha Week @ St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church - Port Richey, FL ~ April 13, 2025

Eve of Monday of the Holy Pascha Week @ St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church - Port Richey, FL ~ April 13, 2025

Sunday - 11th Hour of the Holy Pascha Week @ St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church - Port Richey, FL ~ April 13, 2025

Mena Ghebranious- A reflection for the Eve of Tuesday of Holy Pascha. Click the icon below to listen.

Tony Boules- A reflection for the Eve of Monday of Holy Pascha. Click the icon below to listen.

HG Bishop Kyrillos- Homily for Palm Sunday. Click the icon below to listen.

Listen to Fr. Abraham Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Listen to Fr. Anthony Messeh's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Fr. Andrew Iskander- Homily for the 6th Sunday of Great Lent. A reflection on the healing of the man born blind, and a lesson on true worship. Click the icon below to listen.

Tony Boules- A deep meditation on watchfulness. Click the icon below to listen.

An interview with Dr. Kimberly Fowler Dr. Kimberley Fowler explains the Gospel of Philip, one of the lesser known texts from the Nag Hammadi collection. She loves it and finds it “charmingly and remarkably weird,” even though is it does not stray too far from orthodox Christian theology. Although it includes a brief reference to Jesus kissing Mary, that kiss seems to be only one of the many ritual Christian practices explained in the rather randomly organized gospel. Kimberley Fowler is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research incorporates a range of topics in early Christianity, most especially the Coptic texts of the Nag Hammadi Codices, where she has focused on the production and reception context of the manuscripts and what this reveals about diverse early Christian reading practices. She has also worked on the manuscripts of the New Testament and is co-leading a project on an important copy of Paul's letters and its annotation system. Kimberley is currently writing a monograph on the Gospel of Philip for Cambridge University Press, as well as a short volume on the Nag Hammadi Codices for Cambridge's Elements in Early Christianity series. Complete transcript available here: https://earlychristiantexts.com/gospel-of-philip/

Listen to Fr. Timothy Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Join Fr. Anthony Messeh for Part 5 of In His Steps.https://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

In this episode we host Dr. Candace Lukasik, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In March 2025, she published her book titled “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire.” We discuss her book as well as her research as a whole.

Fr. Kyrillos Ibrahim- Homily for the Sunday of the Paralytic. The healing of the paralytic after 38 years is used by the Lord to display the life-giving virtue of Hope. The fruits of hope are endurance, patience and fortitude, which being new life to the Christian struggle. Click the icon below to listen.

Ashraf Ibrahim- A reflection on the life of a modern day saint. Click the icon below to listen.

Listen to Fr. Abraham Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Join Fr. Anthony Messeh for Part 4 of In His Steps, a six week lent series. https://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

Listen to Fr. Anthony Messeh's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Join Fr. Anthony Messeh as he discusses confession in part 3 of "In His Steps". https://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

Fr. Andrew Iskander- Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Great Lent. A reflection on the parable of the Prodigal Son and obedience. Click the icon below to listen.

March 12, 2025 Samuel Farag,Reformed Christian apologist, founderof ExpositingTheWord.org, & pastor ofBethel Baptist Church, Gorham, NY,who will address: “FROM EGYPT to GENEVA: ONE MAN'sJOURNEY OUT of COPTIC (ORIENTAL)ORTHODOXY into the REFORMED FAITH” Subscribe: Listen:

Listen to Fr. Timothy Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Join Fr. Anthony Messeh for Part 2 of In His Steps, a six week lent series. https://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

Listen to Fr. Abraham Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Fr. Kyrillos Ibrahim- Homily for the Feast of St. Pope Kyrillos VI 2025. A spiritual maxim of St. Isaac the Syrian was one of the most important guiding principles in the life of St. Pope Kyrillos VI. "Love all men, but keep distant from all men." How does such a maxim apply to us living in the world? Click the icon below to listen.

Title: Languaging in Hampton RoadsEpisode 14: Voices of Faith in Hampton RoadsHosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue SalaskyDate: March 5, 2025Length: 48:50Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each monthIn this episode we interview several pastors, all first-generation immigrants, who minister to their flocks in the native language of their country of origin.The interviews are with Pastor Echo Lin from the Shanghai region of mainland China, who leads services in Mandarin at the more than 100-year-old independent First Chinese Baptist Church in Virginia Beach; Father Joseph Nguyen who ministers to two Catholic Vietnamese congregations, Our Lady of LaVang Catholic Church in Norfolk, and Our Lady of Vietnam Catholic Church in Hampton ; and with Luke Do, Senior Pastor of Peninsula Korean Baptist Church in Newport News.(We also talked to Pastor Trung Phan, leader of Hope Vietnamese Church in Annandale, Va. Time and geographical constraints meant we weren't able to include his interview; we will run it as bonus material at a future date.)From our interviews, we learned about the changing role of the church in each community, the importance of language for identity, the generational rifts as assimilation occurs -- and what the future of ethnic-centered churches might be as globalization and technology reduce differences.We did not address the use of traditional liturgical languages, such as Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Koine Greek, all of which are represented in Hampton Roads. Nor did we cover the multiple Spanish-speaking churches, by far the largest segment of non-English services in the region. Instead, we focused primarily on Asian-led churches that minister to their communities through the use of the vernacular. In talking to ministers at Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese churches we learned not only about immigration patterns in the region, but also the ealier history of colonization and missionary activity. We learned in many cases that faith was secondary to a sense of community and cultural belonging.Our interest in the topic was sparked by a sign for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Mehane Hiwot Abune Gebre Menfes Kidus, in the Park Place neighborhood of Norfolk . We learned that the Norfolk church, started in 2013, is part of one of the most ancient branches of Christianity, part of the Coptic tradition dating back to 300 AD. Priest Teshome Yohannes Feleke presides over a congregation of 200 drawn from throughout Hampton Roads. Services are in a combination of Ge'ez, the ancient liturgical language, and Amharic, Ethiopia's everyday language that evolved from it. (Plug in the church's name to find beautiful chanting on YouTube.) The church is celebrating its renovation with a grand re-opening on March 14/15.We also discovered Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Norge, which once held services in Norwegian. Today the language is no longer used, but the church is the proud possessor of a Norwegian Bible donated by Norway's royal family in 1939. We also learned that Norge is actually the name for Norway in Norwegian, a tribute to its original Scandinavian settlers at the turn of the 20th century!As you can gather, it's a very rich topic and we only scratched the surface of the Babel of languages used in worship in our Hampton Roads region.Please send your questions and feedback to languagingHR@gmail.com

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Vespers Doxologies @ St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church - Phoenix (Peoria), AZ ~ March 1, 2025

Youth Meeting @ St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church - Phoenix (Peoria), AZ ~ March 2, 2025

Fr. Andrew Iskander- Homily for the 1st Sunday of Great Lent. A reflection on the virtue of calmness. Click the icon below to listen.

AD Mark Soliman- A reflection on the Parable of the Good Samaritan told through iconography. Click the icon below to listen.

Listen to Fr. Abraham Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

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Join Fr. Anthony Messeh in part 5 of RelationSHIFThttps://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

He was born sometime in the mid-fourth century on an island in the Aegean. For a time he lived successfully in the world, receiving a good education in Constantinople, then serving for a time for the Prefect of the Praetorium. But, becoming aware of the vanity of worldly things, he answered Christ's call, gave away all his goods to the poor and entered a monastery in Syria. After four years in obedience, he came to feel that the security of monastic life was inconsistent with the Gospel command to take no thought for the morrow; so he withdrew to the desert, taking with him only his garment and the Book of the Gospel. There he lived alone for seven years.   At the end of this period he set out on an apostolic mission to Mesopotamia, where he brought many to Christ: the city prefect Rabbula was converted after Alexander brought down fire from heaven, and a band of brigands who accosted the Saint on the road were transformed into a monastic community. He finally fled the city when the Christians there rose up demanding that he be made bishop. He once again took up a solitary life in the desert beyond the Euphrates, spending the day in prayer and part of the night sheltered in a barrel. There he remained for forty years. His holiness gradually attracted more than four hundred disciples, whom Alexander organized into a monastic community. Each disciple owned only one tunic, and was required to give away anything that they did not need for that day. Despite this threadbare life, the monastery was able to set up and run a hospice for the poor!   Alexander was perplexed as to how the admonition Pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17) could be fulfilled by frail human flesh, but after three years of fasting and prayer, God showed him a method. He organized his monks into four groups according to whether their native language was Greek, Latin, Syriac or Coptic, and the groups prayed in shifts throughout the day and night. Twenty-four divine services were appointed each day, and the monks would chant from the Psalter between services. The community henceforth came to be known as the Akoimetoi, the Unsleeping Ones. (Similar communities later sprang up in the West, practicing what was there called Laus Perennis; St Columban founded many of these.)   Always desiring to spread the holy Gospel, Saint Alexander sent companies of missionaries to the pagans of southern Egypt. He and a company of 150 disciples set out as a kind of traveling monastery, living entirely on the charity of the villages they visited. Eventually they settled in some abandoned baths in Antioch, setting up a there a monastery dedicated to the unceasing praise of God; but a jealous bishop drove them from the city. Making his way to Constantinople, he settled there with four monks. In a few days, more than four hundred monks had left their monasteries to join his community. The Saint organized them into three companies — Greeks, Latins and Syrians — and restored the program of unsleeping prayer that his community had practiced in Mesopotamia. Not surprisingly, his success aroused the envy and anger of the abbots whose monasteries had been nearly emptied; they managed to have him condemned as a Messalian at a council held in 426. (The Messalians were an over-spiritualizing sect who believed that the Christian life consisted exclusively of prayer.) Alexander was sent back to Syria, and most of his monks were imprisoned; but as soon as they were released, most fled the city to join him again. The Saint spent his last years traveling from place to place, founding monasteries, often persecuted, until he reposed in 430, 'to join the Angelic choirs which he had so well imitated on earth.' (Synaxarion)   The practice of unceasing praise, established by St Alexander, spread throughout the Empire. The Monastery of the Akoimetoi, founded by a St Marcellus, a successor of Alexander, was established in Constantinople and became a beacon to the Christian world. 'Even though it has not been retained in today's practice, the unceasing praise established by Saint Alexander was influential in the formation of the daily cycle of liturgical offices in the East and even more so in the West.' (Synaxarion)

Fr. Kyrillos Ibrahim- Homily for the Sunday Before Lent. The Holy Great Fast of Lent is a time of remembrance. I remember God. I remember my sins. I remember the necessity of directing by whole being back to God. Click the icon below to listen.

Sam Wasfi- A continuation of a discussion on family rituals, and practical tips for engaging in them. Click the icon below to listen.

The Nag Hammadi texts are a collection of early Christian and Gnostic manuscripts discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Written primarily in Coptic, these documents include the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and other works that were not incorporated into the traditional Christian canon. They offer unique perspectives on Jesus's teachings, delve into esoteric beliefs about the nature of existence, and shed light on the diversity of thought in early Christian communities.

Join Fr. Anthony Messeh in part 4 of RelationSHIFTS. https://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

Fr. Andrew Iskander- Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Amshir. A reflection on the feeding of the multitudes from the Gospel of St. John and God's tests. Click the icon below to listen.

AD Mark Soliman- A reflection on the martyrdom of the 21 saints in Libya. Click the icon below to listen.

Tod's animation work includes the projects: The Pumpkin Of Nyefar, El Tigre, The Secret Of Kells, Howl, Escape Of The Gingerbread Man, The Book Of Life, The Prodigal, and more recently The 21, which honored the 21 Coptic men martyred by ISIS in Libya in 2015. Tod also wrote the book The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen Of Animation Design, a look at the life and animation philosophy of the Background Artist and Layout Designer legend. 

Listen to Fr. Timothy Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Fr. Kyrillos Ibrahim- Homily for the 1st Sunday of Amshir. After the miracle of the feeding of the multitudes, the Lord exposed the motives of the hearts of the people who sought Him. To discern the purity of our intentions is a great gift from God. The monastic life has a prophetic witness in manifesting a pure love for God. Click the icon below to listen.

Listen to Fr. Timothy Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Join Fr. Anthony Messeh in part 2 of RelationSHIFTS.https://www.youtube.com/stsachurchhttps://www.stsa.church/the-well

Listen to Fr. Abraham Fam's Sunday sermon.www.stsa.church

Today we look at the fifth saying in the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest." That is a translation of the Coptic text.The Greek version, which dated earlier, adds another line. Jesus said, “Know what is in front of your face and that which has been hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not become clear and nothing buried that will not be raised.” Greek Oxyrhynchus Papyri (200 AD)This talking about the revelation of the gospel of nonduality. It is saying it is both hidden and obvious at the same time.