Coptic Imponderables

  • When abouna is at home washing dishes does he have a deacon stand beside him saying “shere pistavros” after he cleans each dish?
  • Do abounas put curlers in their beards when they sleep?
  • Is there a secret group of designers who determine the latest in trends (i.e. sleeve lengths, saints pictures on tonia, patrachelion with/out tassles etc) for deacon tunics?
  • What happens if your patron saint doesn’t like you?
  • Wouldn’t communion be Atkins friendly since its Christ’s flesh and blood, i.e. high protein?
  • Would you be an anchorite if went for a walk in the desert one day and got lost for a few years?
  • Is it normal for your father of confession to stop seeing because he claims you are bad for his spiritual life?
  • Do the plant which grow in the area that the baptismal water drain be considered Christian?
  • What if Coptic is the language of heaven?

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