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Interactive tools for the Coptic Orthodox faith, built to help the next generation learn it, love it, and defend it.

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The Council Game

Orthodox Challenge

An Ecumenical Council–style team game for Sunday school: three rounds of church history, theology, and Orthodox life, then the Heresy · Orthodoxy · Culture finale. Host it from one screen.

Enter the council
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The Journey Game

The Alexandria Road

Eight stations from St. Mark’s torn sandal to the fasts of the year: the Creed, the School of Alexandria, the three councils, the desert, the shape of a church, the calendar. Then sixteen voices to name from three clues each.

Walk the road
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The Witness Game

Salt and Light

Two halves for Building Block 9. First the Weighing: eight situations out of an ordinary week, every answer scored on whether it was true and whether it was in love. Then the Fifth Journey, across the Mediterranean St. Paul actually mapped, where the hazards are 2 Corinthians 11.

Weigh your words
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For Catechumens & Servants

The Catechism

The full two-volume Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church by Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty: 1,452 questions and answers, searchable and offline. Look anything up, or browse the seven books.

Open the catechism
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The First Six Centuries

The Church Fathers

A browsable reference to the Fathers, from Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty's A Panoramic View of Patristics: a life and writings for each, a timeline of the ages, the schools, and the councils, linked to where each is quoted in the Catechism.

Meet the fathers
Or read them by topic
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The Divine Liturgy

Christ in the Eucharist

The full text of Christ in the Eucharist by Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty: a prayer-by-prayer walk through the Coptic Divine Liturgy, from the offering of the Lamb to Holy Communion, with the meaning of the Eucharist and its roots in the Scriptures.

Enter the Liturgy
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The Synaxarium

Saint of the Day

The saint the Church commemorates today, in the Synaxarium's own words, with the day's Katameros readings, the fast, and the feasts ahead. Read from the living Coptic calendar, so the moveable seasons are right every year.

Keep the commemoration
Prayer & Praise
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The Hours of Prayer

The Agpeya

The Church's seven hours of daily prayer, each kept with a moment of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection. See which hour the Church prays right now, and how every hour is prayed.

Keep the hour
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The Midnight Praises

Tasbeha

The order of the Midnight Praises: the four Hoos, the Theotokia, and the shape of the praise the Church sings through the night into the dawn.

Arise and praise
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The Jesus Prayer

The Prayer Rope

A digital komboskini for keeping the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner,” bead by bead, prayer by prayer.

Pray without ceasing
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The Language of the Church

Your Name in Coptic

Write your name in the alphabet of the Church of Egypt, letter by letter, in the script the Copts still pray in.

Write your name
The daily verse card: Psalm 26 verse 1 in gold on a dark ground
Daily email

A word every morning

The verse of the day as a card you can keep or share, the saint the Church remembers, and a line from the Fathers. One short email at dawn, and nothing else.

You will get one email to confirm it is you. Every email after that carries a one click unsubscribe link, and your address is never shared.