Name your son, Diocletian, so the other Sunday School kids will be afraid of him and not pick on him.
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Go around pointing out the non-fasting ingredients in foods or meals considered fast safe. For maximum effect do it while a member of clergy is present. Also if encountering foods you don’t care for, just make things up things that are non-fasting about it.
Disclaimer: Not responsible for any physical injury that may occur to you as a result of this, or the fact you may die friendless and alone.
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If they are doing a lot of community service, especially in the hundreds of hours, it does not mean they are a humanitarian.
– paraphrase from Jeanne Robertson
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Apparently there is a ministry out there call E5Men, based on Ephesians 5. It is where men would dedicate a special fast for their wives.
A misguided but well meaning man tried to recruit the Militant Copt for this group. The Militant Copt had to explain kindly that such a ministry was doomed for failure in the Coptic Church. First we don’t have enough free non-fasting days, so to ask me to eat only bread and water at least one day a month if not more on top of 230+ days we fast, especially in a year when the Apostles Fast is as long as Lent; is a bit of excessive piety which may bring pride and the fathers speak strongly against this.
Also historically in the Coptic tradition when a man fasted and prayed for his wife, she ended up dead freeing the man to enter into the monastery. The synaxarium and the lives of the saints have many such instances. Since I do not desire the death of my wife nor to enter the monastery (at the present time) I will refrain from fasting for her.
In addition this poor fool did not realize Coptic women measure love in calories, how much they cook shows their love for you and you reciprocate by eating as much of it as physically possible. For a man to refuse to eat a meal his wife worked on even he states it is her sake, will cause marital strife thus negating any purpose to this fast.
So as proper Copts we should stick to those fast our mother the Church has laid out for us and not a single day more.
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Oh God am I everso thankful for the liturgy.
If I had to sit through that on a regular basis, I would pull a “reverse Paul” I would not only become atheist but I’d start persecuting Christians.
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“I believe teenagers are God’s revenge on mankind. He look down upon man and said ‘How’d they like it if I created someone in their image that denies their existence.’”
– Jeff Allen
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A local area who wishes to remain anonymous, to protect him from his father of confession, confides to the Coptic News Network that a week into the Advent fast and he has yet to start fasting due to the sheer amount of leftover food from Thanksgiving. This year was unusual in that Thanksgiving Day fell before the start to fast so this man’s family decided to go all out in cooking for it. Not that they did not make turkey and other non-fasting foods during the other years, just in deference to fact they should be fasting they just made less of it. But because of this this man, who claims he desires to fast, feels bad throwing away enough food to feed a small village. He feels that wasting all that food would be the greater sin. So when asked how much longer does he have before he can fast, stated that at his current rate of eating he should be ready in time for Lent.
When the Coptic News Network asked an area priest his opinion on this stated simply that that man should be thankful he does not know who he is and that he is not that man’s father of confession.
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Not So Spiritual Words 