Abba Macarius & The Cherubim
While I am delayed in sharing my experience visiting the land of our forefathers for the first time (for which...
A Good Find!
Coptic Gospel Responses (chanted after the selected pericope of the day) allow the members of the Church to engage with...
A Second Glance at the Coptic Gospel Pericopes for the Sundays of Great Lent
In the Coptic Rite, specifically in the current Bohairic tradition, the time of the synaxis of the eucharistic liturgy (commonly...
Glory to God in the Highest…
The Gloria, among other names supplied in the comparison below, is often called a liturgical hymn, but I feel this...
ⲡⲓⲛⲓϣϯ ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ
For the feast of our great father, ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ, I would like to share this beautiful ⲁⲇⲁⲙ doxology from our...
Holies for the Holies
When you hear the phrase, “The holies [are] for the holies,” what comes to your mind? For me, my memory...
As He Was — On the Name of God in Coptic Liturgy
Over the years, I’ve received and asked the following question probably closer to a hundred times: “What does ‘As it...
Coptic Chant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
In a historic event and for the first time, Coptic chant was prayerfully performed today in the Metropolitan Museum of...
The Coptic Invitatory Prayers
In all honesty, the last post about ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲛⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ got my writing motor running again, so I had to crank...
ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲛⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ
After a lengthy hiatus, and more or less pending another more permanent one, I write today another post about one...