For the feast of our great father, ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ, I would like to share this beautiful ⲁⲇⲁⲙ doxology from our work on the Bohairic Coptic Psalmody! The ⲁⲇⲁⲙ doxologies can be chanted in Matins during the Matins doxology, ⲡⲓⲟⲩⲱⲓⲛⲓ ⲛ̀ⲧⲁⲫⲙⲏⲓ (before the conclusion: ⲭⲉⲣⲉ ⲏⲗⲓⲁⲥ) or in the veneration service (concluded by ⲡⲟⲩⲣⲟ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ϯϩⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ). …
Month: January 2024
When you hear the phrase, “The holies [are] for the holies,” what comes to your mind? For me, my memory takes me straight to the ending of the Coptic Eucharistic liturgy, just prior to the confession. But, would it interest you to know, that this theme, this motion, is present all throughout the liturgy? Today, …
Over the years, I’ve received and asked the following question probably closer to a hundred times: “What does ‘As it was and shall be’ mean? What was and will be?” What’s more interesting is the plethora of varied responses that I’ve heard. Here are just a few: 1. As the departed lived and died, so …