We can say that she is an apostolic, contemporary church that carries life and thought to the contemporary man without deviation.
She attracts the heart towards heaven without ignoring actual daily life. The Coptic Church is rich with her evangelistic and ascetic life, her genuine patriotic inheritance, her heavenly worship, her spiritual rituals, her effective and living hymns, her beautiful icons, etc. She is also new through her Living Messiah who never becomes old and through the Spirit of God who renews her youth (Ps. Mark the Evangelist and traditional in holding fast to the original apostolic faith without deviation.
Our Church is ancient and new at the same time: ancient in being apostolic, founded by St. Sometimes the people of towns were martyred and many struggled to win the crowns of martyrdom happily and with a heart full of joy. She continued to offer a countless number of martyrs and confessors throughout ages. The Egyptian Church carried our Lord Jesus Christ's cross throughout generations, bearing sufferings even from the side of Christians themselves. This happened at the time when the doors of the royal court had been opened to the clergy, and this consequently endangered the church, as the quiet and spiritual church work was mixed with the temporal authority and politics of the royal court. The Christian monastic movement in all its forms started in Egypt, attracting the heart of the Church towards the desert, to practice the angelic inner life. The star of the Egyptian Church shone through the School of Alexandria which taught Christendom the allegoric and spiritual methods in interpreting the Holy Scripture and was the leader in defending the Orthodox faith on an ecumenical level. Thus our Lord Jesus Christ came during His childhood to Egypt to lay by Himself the foundation stone of His Church in Egypt which has become one of the four primary "Sees" in the world, among the churches of Jerusalem, Antioch and Rome, and joined later by the "See" of Constantinople. This promise was fulfilled by the flight of the Holy Family from the face of the tyrant Herod to find refuge among the Gentiles. God's promise to His people is always fulfilled He foretold that He would ride on a light and upon a swift cloud and come to Egypt (Isa 19:1) and in that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border (Isa 19:19). Home › coptic orthodox › the coptic church › introduction Introduction
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