George Kyrillos in Cairo Opera House

Song of the Coptic liturgy "The Lord is my light and my salvation"

A curious custom of the Coptic Church is the liturgy that prays and sings it in Coptic, the original language of ancient Egypt. The Church keeps alive the language of the pharaohs, which was written in hieroglyphics, hieratic and demotic and now a modified version of the Greek alphabet, Egyptian written in Greek and demotic (the Copt) was gradually being forgotten, lost ground to the Arabic and thus became incomprehensible. However, the Coptic Church preserved the ancient Egyptian language by tradition thanks to its rites. The Copts are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians who have become Christians.

God bless you brother George Kyrillos

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• Egito
• Egypt
• Kemet
• Kimi
• Masr
• Misr
• Coptic
• Copta

[egiziano2010]

i love david ensemble & george kirollos..thank u very much..

[Pharaoh714]

Great hymn in the Cairo opera house.

God bless the Coptic Orthdox Church may she grow and prosper.

[boobster2000]

@fezrel

are you sure it isnt suppose to say "LOL!" instead of LO!.... maybe it was all one big joke that got messed up by a typo lol

[7ayati2010]

Great hymn, I love it.

[galvk]

God save the Copts!

"Blessed is the man

who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked

or stand in the way of sinners

or sit in the seat of mockers" (Psalm 1)