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drewmeister2

posted on Sep 25, 2005 - 03:08 AM

How is Confession done in the Coptic Church?

Thanks .

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Cephas

posted on Sep 25, 2005 - 03:49 AM

¿ Iryny nem `hmot ¿

Usually face to face, or you sit beside the priest. There aren't any confessionals as in the Catholic Church.

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Faith

posted on Sep 25, 2005 - 04:20 AM

Hey drewmeister2, here's an article that goes into a lot of detail about the sacrament of confession. It's really good, I recomend you read (or at least skim through) it.
http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/thec ... stion.html
It's fairly long, but it's worth it.
Take care and God bless

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drewmeister2

posted on Sep 25, 2005 - 04:56 AM

Thanks!

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Ranya+++

posted on Dec 30, 2010 - 01:57 PM

For those of you who are interested in learning more about confession, there are some good lectures on this topic.

The Healing of Confession
"From a Lenten series on repentance delivered at the Orthodox Christian Women's conference in Montreal in March of 2008." Mother Christophora adds some humor to this lecture. I really enjoyed it. She also talks about the different styles of confession.

http://ancientfaith.com/specials/mother ... confession

Here is another series of lectures on confession:

http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/ourlif ... ion_part_1

http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/ourlif ... ion_part_2

http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/ourlif ... ion_part_3

Also, I'm currently reading a very good book titled, "The Forgotten Medicine: The Mystery of Repentance" by Archimandrite Seraphim Aleksiev.

Take Care and God Bless.

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