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Welcome back the homepage for Ti Agia Maria and St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church!

The Peace of the Lord be with you,

As you can see, the website has been completely redesigned in the hopes that you will find it a valuable and blessed resource that you can visit everyday. This is only the start, as we will be continuously adding more features and resources.

Here is a list of our current features:

  • Dedicated sections for the Youths Corner, Family Meeting, Bible Study Group, Kids Corner
  • Verse of the day, updated everyday through www.biblegateway.com
  • 8 Photo Albums.
  • 60 Spiritual books in English, for topics ranging from Bible Study to Theology, written by our Blessed fathers, such as Fr. Malaty and H.H. Pope Shenouda III
  • 7 previously published newsletters in Arabic and English.
  • Audio sermons by H.G. Bishop Angaelo
  • Calendar Section to be updated regularly.
In the future, we hope to provide the following:
  • Arabic Functionality.
  • Daily readings from the Katamerous.
  • Additional books in Arabic and English.
  • Subscription form to join the Church mailing list.

As always, the website will be continuously updated and improved, however, we need your suggestions. Please feel free to make any suggestions or comments here.

We ask always for your prayers to make our Church and this website successful vessels of our Lord.

What's New

Prayers of Ascent

These are the psalms that you pray (not recite) as you are going to church, to prepare you for Church.  Please note that the numbers of these psalms are the numbers in the Agpeya, not in the Bible.

  • Psalm 121, found in the Vespers' prayers
  • Psalm 83,   found in the 6th hour
  • Psalm 14,   found in the Prime Prayer

Psalm 11 (1st Hour - Prime)

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Save me O Lord, for the godly one has ceased; and the truths have diminished from the children of men. Every one has spoken vanities to his friend. Deceiving lips are in their hearts, and thus they have spoken with their hearts. The Lord shall wipe out every deceiving lip, and every tongue that speaks great words; those who have said, We will magnify our tongues; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Because of the misery of the poor and the sighing of the oppressed, now I will rise, says the Lord, I will set them in salvation, and I will be revealed in it.

The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in the fire, proved in the earth, purified seven times. You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us from this generation, and forever. The ungodly walk around: accord­ing to Your greatness You have prolonged the lives of the children of men.

ALLELUIA.

Psalm 83 (6th Hour - Sext)

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How beloved are Your dwellings, O Lord, God of hosts! My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God. For, the sparrow has found for himself a home, and the turtledove for herself a nest, where she may lay her young; Your altars, O Lord, God of hosts, my King, and my God.

Blessed are all who dwell in Your house: they will praise You forever and ever. Blessed is the man whose help is from You, O Lord; he sets paths upward in his heart in the valley of weeping, in the place which he has appointed, for there the Law ‘Giver will grant blessings. They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be revealed in Zion.

O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of Your anointed. For one day in Your courts is better than thousands. I chose to throw myself down in the house of God, more than to dwell in the tents of the sinners. For the Lord God loves mercy and truth; He shall give grace and glory: the Lord shall not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord God of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in You.

ALLELUIA.

Psalm 121 (11th Hour - Vespers)

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I was glad for those who said to me, "We will go into the house of the Lord." Our feet stood in the courts of Jerusalem, Jerusalem which is built as a city that is closely compacted together. For there the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, confessing the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones for judgement, even thrones for the house of David.

Ask for the things which are for the peace of Jerusalem: and for the prosperity to those who love you. Let peace be within your strength, and prosperity in your heavy towers. For the sake of my brothers and my companions, I have indeed spoken peace concerning you. Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought good things for you.

ALLELUIA.

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