Coptic Gospel Responses (chanted after the selected pericope of the day) allow the members of the Church to engage with the passage of the gospel that was read over them. In many cases, the responses vary from one parish or monastery to another; in compiling them, we find a number of stanzas for each pericope—forming …

In the Coptic Rite, specifically in the current Bohairic tradition, the time of the synaxis of the eucharistic liturgy (commonly called “Liturgy of the Word”) includes five pericopes (excerpts) from certain books/genres in the Scriptures: (1) Pauline Epistle (an excerpt from the 14 epistles of Paul including Hebrews), (2) Catholic Epistle (an excerpt from an …