Selah III

The 4th Canticle

مديحة برامون عيد الميلاد
Madeeha/Melody for Paramoun of Nativity 
Fr. Mina Ibrahim Ayad Gerges, Makary Ayad, Kerlous Soliman (Krunchy) 
St Mina’s Coptic Church, Holmdel
5 January 2023
Icon by George Makary

Nativity Paramoun (5 January 2023)

Where He Leads Me (Ft. Julian Barsoum)

Saturday Theotokia - Bola Mounir & Chorus

Lyrics:

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 calling to me
I went, I dragged away my things
Away from their merrymakers
My heart silent, indifferent
To all they think is important

My listening 
will never yield
to loud and worldly conversing

I wander off on my own
So happy to be in vast
With my timbrel and my cymbal
In melody of praise I sing
And now comes a holy moment
In which I retreat with my King

I roam about as a spirit invisible to onlookers
The world alien I am to it a foreigner like my forefathers

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

The bible here my only lamp, and nothing else to concern me (2)

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
The world, in the end, I am to it
A foreigner like were my fathers (2)

A Stranger - Jam Session (Pierre Aziz and Tony Morgan)

These recordings are all from the day that my parents flew out to move to Germany. Since the time I knew they were moving, I had a mission to have a recording session with both my dad and grandpa before my dad left. My dad made it happen IN THE LAST HOUR LEADING UP TO US TAKING THEM TO THE AIRPORT. Hallelujah!
The reason the room is so acousticy is because we cleared out the whole house before they moved. You can kinda see what I mean in the album cover. 
The last two recordings, Sweet will of God and A little bird I am, were just me (duh). I came back to the empty house alone after we dropped my parents off the airport. Sweet day.

And I saw the holy city (Rev. 21:2)

Midnight Praises(Coptic Society)-Ibrahim Ayad

Lamentations of Jeremiah (English) -- Bishoy Sourial

Khristos Anesti

Veneration Medley w/ Tabla

Fe Etshop Fe Enafshop (Coptic Gregorian Prayer of Reconciliation)- Abouna Philopateer Kamal

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Coptic Hymns in English

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