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Holy Week

جزء من صلاة الصلح - القداس الغريغورى

For English translation please scroll down.

غناء و ألحان:  نورخان 

موسيقي:  عبد الله محمد
https://soundcloud.com/snowflakes91

"الكلمات: سميح القاسم - من قصيدة "غرباء

هندسة صوتية:  أحمد إيهاب

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و بكينا.. يوم غنّى الآخرون
و لجأنا للسماء
يوم أزرى بالسماء الآخرون
و لجأنا للسماء

و لأنّا ضعفاء
و لأنّا غرباء

نحن نبكي و نصلي
يوم يلهو و يغنّي الآخرون

و حملنا.. جرحنا الدامي حملنا
و إلى أفق وراء الغيب يدعونا.. رحلنا
شرذماتٍ.. من يتامى
و طوينا في ضياعٍ قاتم..عاماً فعاما

و بقينا غرباء

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Performed/Composed by: Nour Khan

Lyrics: from the poem "Ghorabaa" by Samih al-Qasim

Music: Abdalla Mohamed
https://soundcloud.com/snowflakes91

Mixing and Mastering: Ahmed Ehab

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Lyrics Translation:

We cried, the day the others sang
And we turned to the sky
The day the others despised it
Because we are weak
Because we are strangers
We weep and pray
The day others sing and play
And we carried our bleeding wound
And to a skyline behind the unseen we flit..we were invited
Little pieces of orphans
We've been folded inside a dark waste..year after year 
And we remained strangers..

Nour Khan - Ghorabaa | نورخان - غرباء

Studio version of "Perfect Love" - As performed at the Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, September 2013.

Mira Ghaly - Perfect Love

Studio version of "Joy In My Song" - As performed at the Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, September 2013.

Mira Ghaly - Joy In My Song

Nee Men Epchois- Abouna Mina Shaheid & Abouna Isidoros

Shadow of Your Wings

ترنيمه يا طبيبي هات دوايا

Your Mercies Oh My God (Nek Nai)

Shere Ne Maria- شيري ني ماريا

The More I Seek You

Friday Theotokia (Feast of the Cross)- H.G. Anba Zosima & Sydney Chorus

لحن المعقب البرموسى الكيهكى - قبطى و عربى

واثق فيك_fadia bazzi

Psalms of the 12th Hour of the Coptic Divine Office (Agpeya) Prayers.

(A work in progress, more to be added soon)

Psalm 141

Heb. 12:13, 2 Sam 13:4
Oh why am I parylized?
Daughter of a king but every day where is my strength?
Oh You wake me up with a goal to glorify You to serve Your name but I give nothing
But today, O Lord, I want to change. 
But today, let me be who You see in me.

Malachi 1:8, Heb. 13:15, Ps. 73:26
Lord I’m done with lame and blind 
I want to offer You a pure sacrifice, a true offering of praise
Lord today, give me a heart of strength 
to trample the enemy
Lord could this be me?

Matt. 12:11, Heb. 12:6
Today, I feel myself going astray
But Lord pick me up and place me in Your loving embrace
Today, teach me, even chasten me 
Lord anything, just let me hear what You have to say

1 Cor. 15:57, 2 Cor 6:2, Eph. 1:18
Cause today is the day of victory
Lord today and always You are mighty!
O Lord, show me the hope of Your call
Please Open the eyes of my heart
To see Your richness

Lord I want to be,
Lord, make me want to be
Everything You see in me
I want to be
Lord, I want to see
All the glory You want me to see
All the miracles, blessings for me, I want to see
Oh, and I want to believe in Your heavenly promise for me, 
In Your life giving mysteries, I want to receive
Lord, I want to be.

Haggai 1:14, Matt. 5:13-14, 2 Cor. 2:15
Dare I say, make me a giant, Lord make me a saint
Lord please bear with me and stir me to change
So I can glorify Your name
Lord make me a light, Oh make me salt
I want to be spreading Your beautiful aroma
For the world to see
For the world to know
The mighty God, who loves them and me
Lord, I wanna be

Today

لحن أيها الإبن الوحيد الجنس - أنطون إبراهيم

Holy week ,5arg Aswark  خارج اسوارك يا اورشليم

Psalm 25

Mira Ghaly - Fix Me

Watos Aspamos - O Lord, God of Hosts (Standard) - (David Ensemble)

“O Beloved” recalls the salvation we have been granted by our Lord Jesus Christ. He suffered, was ridiculed, condemned, smitten, abused, and was crucified before rising from the dead, effectively raising us from our death in sin. The path of suffering is the same path that led to triumphant glory. We live in His resurrection, so now when we share in His sufferings, when we struggle against evil, when we sacrifice ourselves for the love and salvation of the world, we are also active and faithful participants in His glorious resurrection!

O Beloved

A stranger I lived in the world, 
A foreigner like my forefathers.
A pilgrim in my attitude, 
In my thoughts and my desires. 
A stranger, I have no one to, 
Unload on him, my thoughts so true

The people do not like my roots
Nor do they understand my end
In craze arise the multitude
In maddening noise without an end
And I remain in solitude, 
Serenity in my heart felt
A stranger, I can find no home,
Nor a corner to rest alone. 


I cast away the world's pleasures, 
Ignoring her callings to me
I went, I dragged away my things, 
Away from their merry-makings
My heart silent indifferent 
To all they think is important
My listening will never yield
To loud and worldly conversing

I wander off all  on my own
So happy to be in the vast
With my timbrel and my cymbal
And melodies of praise I sing
And now comes the holy moment
In which I retreat with my King
I roam about as a spirit
Invisible to on- lookers
The world alien I am to it
A foreigner like my forefathers

My existence is a triumph
No wealth ,power to disturb me
No house is here to delay me
Nor any friend or family
And with me are sweet verses
And great proverbs to console me

The bible here my only lamp
And nothing else to concern me

I do not know of any fear
Nor any bonds that hinder me
No longer does the world rule me
Against me and at times for me
No longer does the world rule me
Against me and at times for me
I say to every enemy
Who only wants to seduce me

Be aware that now i'am alive
I stranger as were my fathers




Stranger - By Pope Shenouda

United Pursuit - Simple Gospel

Oh Beloved, is one of the very known and loved songs that expresses our feelings for Christ on the Cross. This track is a part of the Easter Album by St Mark's Melodies & Asaph Tunes. check out our iTunes, Google play or eBay to get your copy.  

O Beloved (Feat: Christina Maurice, Mark Botros)

Nativity Fraction - Anba Abakir

Via Dolorosa (english + arabic + lyrics )

ثوك تي تي جوم - بصوت مثلث الطوبي قداسة البابا شنوده الثالث القديس

ثوك تي تي جوم بصوت البابا شنوده وابراهيم عياد

The Prayer (La Preghiera) Cover by Markexander & Michelle Yaneza

Fi Tareek El Golgotha (Via Dolorosa in Arabic)  Lyric Video - By Michael Adel & Mark Adel - Produced by Michael Adel.

* Performed by Michael Adel & Mark Adel.
* Music Produced by Michael Adel.

Watch the Lyric Video here: http://youtu.be/Q7ad_OHkbcI

Fi Tareek El Golgotha - By Michael Adel & Mark Adel

4th Canticle St.Shenouda NY

“Father God” is a song about man’s fallen state and his subsequent realization of the indescribable goodness of a new life with God and the change it brought about. This new life, in which man comes to understand and appreciate his full purpose and potential, is established through the Holy Sacrament of Baptism in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The use of “managed” here does not imply our ability to exist, survive, or endure without Existence and Life Himself. Instead, it is an emphatic proclamation of man’s acknowledgement of his dire need for, yet unworthiness of, salvation.

Father God

In “Amen Amen Come” the soul’s yearning for the return of Jesus Christ in His glorious Second Coming is clear. The elaborate imagery in St. John’s book of Revelation describes the magnificence of this eternity in which there will be no more pain, tears, or suffering, but the Church will be forever joyful with Her Groom whose light shines brighter than can be comprehended. With excitement and patience, with eagerness and diligence, with hope and love, the Church eagerly waits for this Day. Come quickly, Amen!

Amen Amen Come

How we are to revere these holy words given us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as our model prayer! It is through these Divine words of the Lord’s Prayer that we boldly dare to address our God as “Father,” as we have properly received our adoption through His Son. Our loving God has always taught us through the righteous and the prophets of the Old Testament, through His revelation in the New Testament, and through His activity with us now through His Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ sanctified our humanity by living a real and full life on earth, and He sanctified our prayer by teaching us these words. He does not leave us with this only but sent us His Holy Spirit who gives us the words in every prayer we utter and the strength in every effort we make.

Our Father

“Resurrection” tries to convey the reality of our victory over weakness, sin, and death through the power of our Lord Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Amid life’s struggles and troughs, it can be easy to lose sight of this fact and how in His resurrection, we rise daily from the depths of the darkness that surrounds us. His resurrection is alive in us today—now, and for this reason the lyrics emphasize “gives” and “makes” in the present. By His death He abolished death, and in His resurrection we experience new life. We preach His resurrection when we shine as lights in His glorious triumph, and we await our final resurrection when we will be forever surrounded by and engulfed in this exuberant, incomprehensible glory.

Resurrection

Asaph Tunes aims to encourage young Orthodox Christian artists to write, compose and sing new songs using contemporary music
Description
Music is an integral part of our make up as human beings. Music has always been found to inspire many different emotions in the human soul that nothing else could. This is not a twenty first century find but it has been right from the beginning of creation. We read in the book of Genesis hidden among a long list of names of the sons of Adam and Eve, and only four generations removed from them a character who’s name is Jubal, the bible says about him that “he was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.” Genesis 4:21. Later on we know that David not only wrote psalms that were and are still used for worship but he also assigned musicians and chief musician who’s primary role is to play music in the temple worship.
The Orthodox Church has always embraced music in its worship; some of the music that is used in the Orthodox Church worship have stood the test of time and have until today taken the worshippers into a spiritual realm that prepared them for receiving the Holy Eucharist.

Historically music was not restricted to church worship alone but there are many saints who have offered the church a great library of songs and poems that taught Christians their orthodox faith against the many heresies. A perfect example of this in the Coptic Church is the mid-night psalmody especially the Theotokia (praises to saint Mary) which very accurately spells out the Orthodox Church’s theology of St Mary. Other contemporary examples are the many poems of the late Pope Shenouda III.

It is for this reason that Asaph Tunes, aims is to encourage young Orthodox Christian artists to write, compose and sing new songs using contemporary music. A very important aspect of a song is its educational value that it offers to listeners. In other words the lyrics must present a substantial theological teaching about the Orthodox Church teaching and theology. Asaph Tunes role is to encourage and present the work of those artists to the best quality and provide it in the most common media available such as iTunes and sound cloud and various other internet radios stations.