يسعد إبراشية لوس أنجلوس تحت رعاية الحبر الجليل الأنبا سيرابيون أن تعلن عن إفتتاح موقعها الإلكتروني علي الإنترنت باللغة العربية.
سوف تتضمن الصفحات الجديدة علي عظات ومواضيع روحية بالإضافة إلي قداسات وإذاعة مباشرة لقناة لوغوس تحت إشراف الإبراشية. الموقع الجديد سوف يحتوي أيضاً علي أقسام للآبائيات، الإجتماعيات، وكل ما يهم الأسرة والشباب. كما يتيح الموقع أيضاً لكل أعضائه المسجلين أن ينشروا أخبار إجتماعية من أعياد ميلاد، معموديات، تعازي، تهاني، وغيرها في قسم الأخبار الإجتماعية.
الموقع الجديد سوف يتناول أهم الأحداث التي تقوم بها الإبراشية من مسابقات ومحاضرات ورسائل رعوية. سوف تقوم الإبراشية أيضاً بنشر جدول مواعيد نيافة الحبر الجليل الأنبا سيرابيون، بالإضافة إلي النتيجة الشهرية لأنشطة الإبراشية.
الإبراشية تشجع الجميع علي الإشتراك والإستفادة من هذه الخدمة وتطلب صلواتكم وتتمني أن تعود هذه الخدمة علي الجميع بالإستفادة الروحية والنمو في المسيح.

 On February 21, 2010, (14 Meshir 1726 A.M.) the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria observes the Second Sunday of the Great Lent, in which we remember our Lord Jesus Christ overcoming temptation and evil in the wilderness as He fasted for us forty days and forty nights. (More)

في يوم الأحد الموافق ١٤ فبراير ٢٠١٠ أقامت الإيبارشية تذكار الأربعين لشهداء نجع حمادي، وقد ألقي نيافة الحبر الجليل الأنبا رسالة رعوية تذكاراً لذلك. يمكنك الإستماع للرسالة الصوتية هنا: رسالة رعوية في ذكري الأربعين لشهداء نجع حمادي

The month of Tubah is a month celebrating the salvation of our Lord which has come to all the earth. He was born for the specific purpose of saving all of humanity, both Jew and Gentile. During this month we celebrate the Nativity, the Circumcision, the Epiphany, and the Miracle at the Wedding of Cana of Galilee. It is a month of blessings.

You would never know it if you opened the news. We know of our brothers who were shot to death in Egypt. We know of the now 100,000 people that were killed in the earthquake in Haiti. We know of churches being burned in Malaysia by Muslims. There is violence and death everywhere. So how do we rejoice? (More)

From Monday, January 25 through Wednesday January 27, the Coptic Orthodox Church observes the Fast of Jonah, a three-day fast commemorating the fast of Jonah the Prophet in the belly of the great fish and culminating in the Feast of Jonah the Prophet on Thursday, January 28, 2009. (More)

Let revelry keep away from our rational entertainments, and foolish vigils, too, that revel in intemperance. For revelry is an inebriating pipe, the chain. The passage is obscure. of an amatory bridge, that is, of sorrow. And let love, and intoxication, and senseless passions, be removed from our choir. Burlesque singing is the boon companion of drunkenness. A night spent over drink invites drunkenness, rouses lust, and is audacious in deeds of shame. For if people occupy their time with pipes, and psalteries, and choirs, and dances, and Egyptian clapping of hands, and such disorderly frivolities, they become quite immodest and intractable, beat on cymbals and drums, and make a noise on instruments of delusion; for plainly such a banquet, as seems to me, is a theatre of drunkenness. (More)

Words about music are secondary to music itself. The true meaning of music lies in the aural experience. Other experiences are merely adjuncts or glosses on the acoustical event. Music is inseparable from function as is the case of music in the Bible.

I. Definition of Music

The science or art of incorporating pleasing, expressive or intelligible combinations of vocal or instrumental tones into a composition having definite structure and continuity. (Webster Third New International Dictionary, vol. II).

Music is the most abstract of the arts. Its components: pitch, duration, texture, rhythm, color and ultimately form, speak their own language. The composing experience which brings these together in a satisfying wholeness, is to be matched in the listening experience, which then must comprehend this wholeness. (Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol. IV ,p. 311). (More)

Throughout the past month the world has witnessed the unprecedented visitation of the holy Virgin Mary in the lands of Egypt, across several churches, by tens of thousands of eyewitnesses, and countless miracles and healings. (More)

The blessed prophet David shows that those who put their trust in God were most courageous when he says, "Act like men and let your hearts be strong, all you who hope in the Lord" (Ps. 31:24, LXX). For those plants which are in pleasure gardens both increase, bloom, and are raised to a great height by abundant streams of waters. And a man’s soul, by the comforts and encouragements of the Holy Spirit, becomes brave in piety, is made firm in faith, and gets that unbreakable patience which the blessed Paul admired more than all other virtues and so says, "And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint" (Romans 5:3-5). Therefore, patience is the supplier and winner of all good to us, a way of approval and esteem, a nurse of the hope which is unto the life to come. (More)

People react quite differently when confronting suffering. Some cry out in anger; others rebel in frustration. Another might seek scapegoat to vent his frustrations. A fourth might instead abandon the way of purity and righteousness, and decide to live a life of pleasure and lust, feeling almost justified to lust for his light affliction. (More)

On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. (More)

“A time is coming when people will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us.’”

– Abba Antony the Great (More)

On Friday, September 11th, we celebrate the The Feast of Nairouz and the beginning of another Coptic New Year (1726 A.M.). The Church chose the beginning of the reign of Emperor Diocletian in 284 A.D. to mark the beginning of the Church Calendar, because he was one of the cruelest emperors, who severely persecuted the Christians, especially in Egypt. The Coptic Orthodox Church offered thousands of martyrs during the reign of this emperor.

When we celebrate the beginning of another Coptic New Year, we are actually celebrating our martyrs, who because of their love for Christ joyfully offered their lives, preferring death to denying their faith. The courage of the martyrs along with their strong steadfast faith is what preserved the faith until our present day. (More)

I would like to thank you all brothers and beloved. I am not only present with you now but you are always in my heart. I lived all my days in your hearts and I am still living there… And when I went to the monastery I took you all with me in my heart and mind. For you I am here, and for you I go there… (More)

The lawyer—wishing, or even expecting to be able to entrap Christ, and get Him to say something against Moses, and affirm that His own doctrine, was far better than the commandment of which Moses was the minister—drew near tempting Him, and saying, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life? (More)

"Salvation belongs to the Lord" [Ps. 3:8, NKJ]. Just as no man is from himself, so no man is saved by himself. Therefore most truly and right well does the psalm say, "O Lord, You shall save men and beasts." Why? (More)

We celebrate two great feasts on Thursday. The first great feast of the Lord is Great Thursday of the Holy Pascha, on which the Lord gave us the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. The second is the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord into Heaven, after He spent forty days with His disciples. This Thursday is also a Feast of the Lord called the Feast of Ascension. (More)