Coptic Rites

Our Latest Blog Post discussing the "Holy Kiss"

Something that We have not Been Practicing for 2 Years! If you remember the times before the COVID-19 pandemic, in the Liturgy the Deacon will pray a response called Aspasmos (ασπασμος, which is a Greek word that means greet or kiss). He will say “Greet one another with a holy kiss. Amen. Lord have mercy … O clergy and all the people, with pr...

Our latest Blog entry

Do we find Guardian Angels in Coptic Traditions? In the Coptic rites, we do have many hymns and occasions to celebrate the angels and the heavenly hosts. For example, the Archangel Michael the head of the hosts of heaven is celebrated monthly on the 12th of each Coptic month; He is involved in many Coptic feasts, his intercession is very powerful....

Lecture 05 is rescheduled to Saturday 09/04
We will not have Our Lecture 5 on Saturday 8/28/2021 because Abouna is traveling for this week. We will resume our Lecture 0n 9/04, during the Liturgy Sermon. Sorry for any inconvenience.

For Lecture 5 Abouna will discuss how the church picks the liturgical readings

Liturgy Readings Lecture A Look at the history and the rite of the Liturgy readings

We recently published two new articles on our Blogs:

- The First is on depicting God the Father in the Coptic Church (https://www.copticrites.org/post/copts-do-not-depict-god-the-father).

- The second is on the historicity of the Liturgies (https://www.copticrites.org/post/early-church-and-liturgies-how-old-are-the-liturgies).

Please read and comment and let us know if any of the info is not correct

Early Church and Liturgies … How Old are the Liturgies? Some people think that in the early church, there wasn’t any liturgy as we have today. They claim that the Liturgy is a church invention in the 3rd or the 4th century. However, this claim couldn’t be further from the truth. Yes, It is a fact that the earliest manuscripts of a written form of Lit...