Saturday, October 22, 2011

Eglise Archange Michel et Saint Georges (Villejuif, France)

The website of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael and St. George, in Villejuif, France; it contains many audio and video materials in French.
http://www.moneglisecopte.com/

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Pensée 570 (Blaise Pascal)

Pensée 570:

Christ prefigured by Joseph. Innocent, beloved of his father, sent by his father to see his brothers, is sold for twenty pieces of silver by his brothers. Through this he becomes their lord, their saviour, saviour of strangers and saviour of the world. None of this would have happened but for their plot to destroy him, the sale, and their rejection of him.

In prison Joseph, innocent between two criminals. Jesus on the cross between two thieves. He prophesies the salvation of one and the death of the other when to all appearances they are alike. Christ saves the elect and damns the reprobate for the same crime. Joseph only prophesies, Jesus acts. Joseph asks the man who will be saved to remember him when he comes in glory. And the man Jesus saves asks to be remembered when he comes into his kingdom.

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. trans. by A. J. Krailsheimer. London: Penguin Books, 1996. p. 195

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Marcion Project Coptic Dictionary

"[Coptic English and Coptic Czech dictionary related to Crum's Coptic Dictionary, written in C++, with embedded MySSL server and Qt GUI. Contains Coptic texts, grammars, Greek texts, LSJ Greek-English lexicon and others. Can be used as Bible-study tool.]"
http://marcion.sourceforge.net/dictionary/search.php

Myriobiblos, the E-Text Library of the Church of Greece

A part of the "atropos" cultural center containing a host of English (as well as Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, and German) texts from the Greek Orthodox Church's online presence:
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/index_en.html

Sunday, October 2, 2011

St. Mary and St. John Coptic Orthodox Church E-Book Library

Dozens of e-Books in PDF format, including a large collection of books by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III and Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty, as well as modern writings by non-Coptic authors:
http://stmarystjohn.org/resources/bookstore/library