Posted on 02/21/2015 4:02:24 PM PST by NRx
The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the murder of the 21 Egyptian Christians killed by the so-called Islamic State in Libya will be commemorated in its Church calendar.
Pope Tawadros II announced that the names of the martyrs will be inserted into the Coptic Synaxarium, the Oriental Church’s equivalent to the Roman Martyrology. This procedure is also equivalent to canonization in the Latin Church.
According to terrasanta.net, the martyrdom of the 21 Christians will be commemorated on the 8th Amshir of the Coptic calendar, or February 15th of the Gregorian calendar. The commemoration falls on the feast day of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.
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Good! Martyrs don’t need a lengthy process. They died for confessing Christianity, and ISIS was so proud of it they made a video about it. But the martyrs were the final winners.
From byzcath.org forum:
Edward Yong of Singapore has written these for the New Martyrs:
Draft troparion of the Libyan Martyrs. Suggestions for improvement are very welcome.!
Tone 1 Kyivan, perhaps?
Like meek lambs ye cried out with your last breaths,/’ O Lord Jesus’,/ and like roses blooming in the desert of Libya,/ ye shed your blood for the Master./ With godly valour, ye showed your godless persecuters/ true strength from the true faith,/ O pride of Minya and boast of the church of St Mark, / intercede with Christ that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion in Tone 8
(to the special melody ‘To thee the Champion Leader’)
O ye new-martyrs, faithful sons of the nation of the Cross,
Ye denied not Christ to save your mortal lives,
with your constancy ye earned the true crowns of life.
Ye are witnesses to us who venerate your sufferings
that the Lord gives courage in the hour of trial,
By your example we sing:
O Lord Jesus, be our comfort and strength!
Revelation 20:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
And some people ask, "why would anybody want to watch a beheading Video"?
They are no different than the Malefactor next to Christ on Cross.
Wonderful and terrible. May the Lord give us a portion of their spirit, as Elisha asked of Elijah.
Be prepared.
Praise God.
Blessed, blessed souls
Beautiful and touching icon.
I’m hoping our pastor will let my read out the names at tomorrow’s church service.
So, do you equate their beheadings with those of Thomas More and John Fisher?
Whenever we post something about fresh outrage in the U.S. regarding Christians, we should think about what the Copts go through every day. It brings a little perspective.
Wisdom! Let us attend!
Amen.
O Lord, bless and keep them. RIP brave souls, indeed!
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