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< Back Hegumen Fr. Moussa El-Gohary Fr. Moussa El-Gohary was born on March 5, 1935, in el-Minya, Egypt, and was ordained to the priesthood on May 23, 1980 at the hands of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III of blessed memory. He served as a parish priest at St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in el-Manial, Cairo, Egypt, before being sent by Pope Shenouda III, in December 1990, to St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Natick, Massachusetts, USA, to serve as that parish's first permanent priest. Following over three decades of faithful ministry to that community, and many others in the United States and abroad, Fr. Moussa reposed in the Lord on November 5, 2021. Available Translations at Doss Press: Walking in the Spirit: Embodying Christ's Love and Grace Restoring Dignity: The Unconditional Love of God Audio Collection Previous Next

This is placeholder text. To change this content, double-click on the element and click Change Content. < Back Free Articles Bishop Youannis of El Gharbiyya, “The Motives of Martyrdom in Christianity,” Become Orthodox Blog (July 2015). Charles Kannengiesser, "Arius and the Arians," Theological Studies 44.3 (1983). Charles Kannengiesser, "Athanasius of Alexandria: A Paradigm for the Church of Today," Pacifica 1 (1988). Charles Kannengiesser, "Athanasius of Alexandria and the Foundation of Traditional Christology," Theological Studies 34.1 (1973). Charles Kannengiesser, "Athanasius of Alexandria and the Holy Spirit between Nicea I and Constantinople I," Irish Theological Quarterly 48.3-4 (1981). Fr. Matthew Attia, “The Catechetical School of Alexandria,” Become Orthodox Blog (July 2015). “Old Bohairic Pronunciation,” Coptic.org Fr. Shenouda M. Ishak, “The Phonetics and Phonology of the Bohairic Dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Words in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic,” Oxford University (1975). His Holiness Moran Mar Ignatius Zakka Iwas, “Holy Tradition: Divine, Apostolic, and Patriarchal,” Become Orthodox Blog (December 2015). Robert Louis Wilken, "Friendship in Truth," First Things (June 2021). Robert Louis Wilken, “Culture and the Light of Faith,” First Things (February 2011). Robert Louis Wilken, “The Church’s Way of Speaking,” First Things (August 2005). Robert Louis Wilken, “The Lives of the Saints and the Pursuit of Virtue,” First Things (December 1990). Stanley Hauerwas, "Go with God," First Things (November 2010).

< Back "O river Jordan, accompany me in the joyous choir, and leap with me, and stir your waters rhythmically, as in the movements of the dance; for your Maker stands by you in the body. Once of old you saw Israel pass through you, and you divided your floods, and waited in expectation of the passage of the people (Joshua 3); but now divide yourself more decidedly, and flow more easily, and embrace the stainless limbs of Him who at that ancient time did convey the Jews through you. You mountains and hills, you valleys and torrents, you seas and rivers, bless the Lord who has come upon the river Jordan; for through these streams He transmits sanctification to all streams" (St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, On the Holy Theophany) The Feast of the Cross Hymn 1 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 2 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 3 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 4 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 5 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 6 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Previous Next

This is placeholder text. To change this content, double-click on the element and click Change Content. < Back Online Resources Apologetics: BioLogos . William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith . Bible Study: BibleProject . BiblIndex, Index of Biblical Quotations in Early Christian Literature . Blue Letter Bible . Scripture 4 All, Greek/Hebrew Interlinear Bible Software . Coptic Manuscripts: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Collections: Coptic . Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Collections: Copte . Chester Beatty, Egypt . Digital Vatican Library, Manuscripts Library . Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Egypt . St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society, Online Manuscript Depositories . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Coptic Liturgical Codex . The Morgan Library & Museum, Coptic Manuscripts . Coptic Studies: Coptic Church Review . Coptic Hymns Library (SoundCloud). Coptic Scriptorium, Digital Research in Coptic Language and Literature . Service & Religious Education: Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Department of Christian Education . Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States, Sunday School Curriculum . Grain & Vine, Coptic Orthodox Education . St. George & St. Rueiss Coptic Orthodox Church, Coptic Sunday School Curriculum . Theological Study: Institute for the Renewal of Christian Catechesis . New Advent LLC, The Fathers of the Church . Roger Pearse, Early Church Fathers — Additional Texts . The North American Patristics Society, Early Christian Texts .

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1 < Back Further Reading: Ritual & Liturgical Studies Liturgical Theology & The Eucharistic Liturgy Adolf Adam, Foundations of Liturgy: An Introduction to Its History and Practice. Adolf Adam, The Eucharistic Celebration: The Source and Summit of Faith . Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World . Alexander Schmemann, Introduction to Liturgical Theology . Alexander Schmemann, Liturgy and Life: Christian Development through Liturgical Experience . Alexander Schmemann, Liturgy and Tradition . Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom . Andrew McGowan, Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective . Arsenius Mikhail, Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt . Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist . Brian D. Spinks, Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day . Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold, The Study of Liturgy . Christopher Hall, Worshipping with the Church Fathers . Christopher Irvine, Cross and Creation in Christian Liturgy and Art . Colman E. O'Neill, Meeting Christ in the Sacraments . Daniel Sheerin, The Eucharist (Message of the Fathers of the Church). Dom Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy . F.E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Ante-Nicene Church . Fr. Athanasius al-Makary, A Summary of the Liturgical History of the Church of Alexandria (vol. 1-3). Fr. Athanasius Iskander, Understanding the Liturgy . Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty, Christ in the Eucharist . Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty, The Eucharist . George Kalantzis and Marc Cortez, Come, Let Us Eat Together . H.G. Bishop Mattaos, Spirituality of the Liturgy . H.G. Bishop Mattaos, How to Benefit from the Holy Liturgy (vol. 1-2). H.G. Bishop Mattaos, Sacrament of the Eucharist . Hippolytus of Rome, On the Apostolic Tradition (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press). Jean Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy . J.G. Davies, The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship . Joachim Jeremias, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus . Josef Jungmann, The Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer . Joseph L. Price, From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion . Joseph Ratzinger, Theology of the Liturgy: The Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence . Louis Bouyer, Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer . Lucien Deiss, Springtime of the Liturgy: Liturgical Texts of the First Four Centuries . Maxwell E. Johnson, Sacraments and Worship: The Sources of Christian Theology . Owen Cummings, Eucharistic Doctors: A Theological History . Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson, The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation . Peter D. Day, The Liturgical Dictionary of Eastern Christianity . Ramez Mikhail, The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies). Raniero Cantalamessa, The Eucharist: Our Sanctification . Robert Taft, Liturgy: Model of Prayer — Icon of Life . Robert Taft, Saints — Sanctity — Liturgy . Robert Taft, Worship is What Liturgy Does . Rudolf Yanney, Coptic Church Review vol. 32 Special Issue: The Eucharist and Its Theological Aspects in Scripture, Liturgy, and Patristic Writings . St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Lectures on the Christian Sacraments (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press). St. Serapion of Thmuis, The Prayers of Saint Sarapion the Bishop of Thmuis (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press). Thomas Fisch, Primary Readings on the Eucharist . Thomas K. Carroll and Thomas Halton, Liturgical Practice in the Fathers (Message of the Fathers of the Church). Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life . Willy Rordorf, The Eucharist of the Early Christians . The Liturgical Calendar Adolf Adam, The Key to Faith: Meditations on the Liturgical Year . Adolf Adam, The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy . Andrew Doss, The Coptic Orthodox Lectionary in Diagram. Fr. Alexander Schmemann, The Church Year (Celebration of Faith, Sermons, vol. 2). Fr. John Behr, The Cross Stands While the World Turns: Homilies for the Cycles of the Year . Fr. John Paul Abdelsayed, Treasures of the Fathers: Patristic Meditations on the Sunday Gospels of the Coptic Lectionary (series). Fr. Lev Gillet, The Year of Grace of the Lord: A Scriptural and Liturgical Commentary on the Calendar of the Orthodox Church . Fr. Mikhail E. Mikhail, Focus on the Family: A Scriptural and Liturgical Guide Based on the Coptic Orthodox Lectionary . Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Lenten Spring . Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Winter Pascha . Georges A. Barrois, Scripture Readings in Orthodox Worship . Hugh Wybrew, Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary: Liturgical Texts with Commentary . Johanna Manley, Grace for Grace: The Psalter and the Holy Fathers . Johanna Manley, The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox . Maxwell E. Johnson, Between Memory and Hope: Readings on the Liturgical Year . Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson, The Origins of Fasts, Feasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity . Raymond E. Brown, Christ in the Gospels of the Liturgical Year. Thomas J. Talley, Origins of the Liturgical Year . Baptism, Confirmation, Repentance, & Confession Alexander Schmemann, Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism . Ambrose of Milan, Method of Mystagogical Preaching . Bill Corcoran, Preparing the Rites of Initiation with Adults and Children of Catechetical Age . Boda Smith, Repentance in Christian Theology . B.T.A. Evetts, The Rites of the Coptic Church: The Order of Baptism and The Order of Matrimony According to the Use of the Coptic Church . E.C. Whitaker, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy . Edward Yarnold, The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation . Enrico Mazza, Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age . Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries . Maxwell E. Johnson, The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation . Oscar Cullmann, Baptism in the New Testament . Peter J. Leithart, Baptism: A Guide to Life From Death . Robin M. Jensen, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions . St. Augustine, The First Catechetical Instruction (Ancient Christian Writers). Matrimony H.G. Bishop Moussa, The Christian Meaning of Marriage . John Chryssavgis, Love, Sexuality, and the Sacrament of Marriage . John Meyendorff, Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective . Kenneth Stevenson, To Join Together: The Rite of Marriage . Moheb Thomas and Youstina Thomas, Weddings and Wedlock: Insights from the Church Fathers on Happiness, Marriage, and Wedding Celebrations . Paul Evdokimov, The Sacrament of Love . St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press). Ordination Alexandre Faivre, The Emergence of the Laity in the Early Church . Alistar C. Stewart, The Original Bishops . James F. Puglisi, The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry: A Comparative Study . James Monroe Barnett, The Diaconate: A Full and Equal Order . Paul F. Bradshaw, Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology . Phyllis Zagano, Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches . Death & Illness Alexander Schmemann, Liturgy of Death . Charles W. Gusmer, And You Visited Me: Sacramental Ministry to the Sick and Dying . David C. Ford, Prayer and the Departed Saints . Jean-Claude Larchet, Theology of Illness . Jeff M. Brannon, The Hope of Life After Death: A Biblical Theology of Resurrection. Joanne E. McWilliam Dewart, Message of the Fathers of the Church, Volume 22: Death and Resurrection . Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life . Kenneth Kramer, The Sacred Art of Dying: How the World Religions Understand Death . Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke, Lay Me in God's Good Earth: A Christian Approach to Death and Burial . Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Our Faithful Departed: Where They Are and Why It Matters . Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Sacraments of Healing . Michael J. Taylor, The Mystery of Suffering and Death . Michael Marsch, Healing Through the Sacraments . Paul Meyendorff, The Anointing of the Sick . Philippe Ariés, The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years. Thomas G. Long, Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral . Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch, The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care . Disclaimer: This list serves as a collection of various perspectives, titles, and backgrounds, and may not necessarily endorse the teaching, history, and understanding of the Coptic Orthodox Church or the views of Doss Press. 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"O river Jordan, accompany me in the joyous choir, and leap with me, and stir your waters rhythmically, as in the movements of the dance; for your Maker stands by you in the body. Once of old you saw Israel pass through you, and you divided your floods, and waited in expectation of the passage of the people (Joshua 3); but now divide yourself more decidedly, and flow more easily, and embrace the stainless limbs of Him who at that ancient time did convey the Jews through you. You mountains and hills, you valleys and torrents, you seas and rivers, bless the Lord who has come upon the river Jordan; for through these streams He transmits sanctification to all streams" (St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, On the Holy Theophany) The Feast of the Cross Hymn 1 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 2 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 3 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 4 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 5 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 6 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Previous Next

"And Christ offered Himself for a savor of a sweet smell, that He might offer us by and in Himself unto God the Father, and so do away with His enmity towards us by reason of Adam’s transgression, and bring to naught sin that had tyrannized over us all." (St. Cyril of Alexandria, On the Presentation of the Lord into the Temple) The Feast of the Lord's Presentation into the Temple Hymn 1 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 2 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 3 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 4 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 5 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 6 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Previous Next

"With sweetly sounding doctrine let us send forth praise worthy of the Divine grace; forasmuch as earth, and sea, and all created things, visible and invisible, bless and glorify God's love for man; for that His majesty was among [us]. For being God He appeared in the flesh, and taking on Himself extreme humility, was born of the Holy Virgin, to the end that He might renew afresh him that was dead through disobedience." (St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, Homily Concerning the Holy Mother of God 4) User's Guide Hymn 1 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 2 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 3 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 4 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 5 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Hymn 6 Ibrahim Ayad Gad Lewis Previous Next