Coptacapella

Watching Us

No Eye Has Seen Another God Like You-Joe Seif

Monday Psali

Lyrics:

R: Oh you oh great Potter
I'm like the clay between your hands
Come create in me a new vessel 
That is pleasing before your eyes 

I give myself to you freely 
To your fingers that fashion me
I will not grieve nor relent 
I long you for you to work in me 

I come to you with all my vices
I trust in your grace and hand
My heart now I devote to you
Not to my despair nor my past

Oh You Oh Great Potter

Original from Anesti.
Singer: John Awad
Writer/Composer: Sarah Bibawy
Production: John Bibawy
Cover Art: Andrew Ayad
Special Thanks to Mina Hanna and David Bebawy for their countless input and effort. 

Little One Feat. John Awad

I Call On The Lord - with Danny Yousef

Truly Risen

“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

Quoting from Psalms 32 and 56, “You Are My Hiding Place” focuses on God as our safe haven not only in times of fear, but “always,” with His constant deliverance from our trials, both mundane and extraordinary. He is even our resting place when we don’t realize we need rest from anything, when difficulties seem distant. Our resting in Him in all of life’s circumstances gives us solace beyond what we can ever experience. We are His children—His light shines despite our sinfulness, His strength is perfected in our weakness.

You Are My Hiding Place

My Fathers, the Monks

04 Track 4

'He Paid All My Debts' by Anesti Productions, John and Joseph Bibawy. 

Debts Feat. Joseph Bibawy

Commemorative track for our beloved Patriarch Pope Shenouda III, originally created by Fr. David Bebawy for St. George and St. Shenouda, Jersey City, NJ. Written by Mark Semaan and Sarah Bibawy. Mena Barsoum on Oud. Cover Art by Andrew Ayad. 
Vocals: Sarah Bibawy, David Badie, Youstina Soliman, and David Bebawy 

Pope Shenouda Intercede for Us

My Coptic Church is a song about the strength of the Coptic Church since its establishment by St. Mark, the Apostle of Christ. Our Lord has never left His Church and His Church has never left her Orthodox faith, given to us by Jesus Christ Himself. Through the blood of the courageous martyrs, the suffering of the confessors, the diligence of the fathers, and the faithfulness of the believers, the Coptic Church holds fast the traditional and essential dogma that Christ intended for the whole world. We hold fast to this precious gem and guard it with our lives through God’s evident grace and care for His Church.

My Coptic Church

The simple melody of “Love, Love” successfully complements the simple yet essential claims of its words. The Gospel fills our human senses with inexpressible feelings and the Holy Trinity is a basic tenet of Apostolic Christianity, to which our Coptic Church has remained faithful and strong since its dawn.

Love Love

“Hear My Cry” expresses the effective prayers of a desperate soul, whose only hope is the Lord. As Jonah poured forth his passionate prayer from the pit—the midst of the fish—he realized his weakness, frailty, and reliance on God. We too sing with him in the midst of our fiery trials on earth, through which we often present our most sincere and heartfelt prayers, pleading for His mercy.

Hear My Cry

“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.

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