19 decrees found
Importance of responding to wrong teachings
Concerning some tapes that contain teachings that are not Church-approved that create confusion, the Holy Synod considered the necessity of responding to them so that the people's thoughts would no...
Keywords: Recordings, Preaching, Church Education
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 03 June 1990
Importance of service parts that receive less service
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III appealed to the members of the Holy Synod to take care in serving the countryside, the new areas and the offshoot regions, otherwise they would be food for other sect...
Keywords: Preaching, Bishops, Pastoral Care
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 03 June 1990
Storage of recordings
His Holiness the Pope requested the general use of computers for storage of recordings in all the dioceses, and that each diocese send recordings to the Patriarchate to store them on the central co...
Keywords: Recordings, Technology
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 25 May 1991
Increasing meetings to promote service
- His Holiness the Pope said: It is possible to organise meetings for His Holiness with Priests of all Dioceses, to speak in matters of pastoral care, faith and education.
- The possibilit...
Keywords: Pastoral Care
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 13 June 1992
Efforts towards creating new resources for preaching and education
- The Holy Synod agreed that the Diocese of El Behera and the Youth Episcopate are to publish a series of simplified books, in a question and answer manner, in the topics of faith, doctrine, spi...
Keywords: Technology, Recordings, Preaching, Books, Pastoral Care, Church Education, Youth, Apologetics
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 05 June 1993
Training for servants in understanding the Faith
- It was decided that the Pastoral Care and Service Committee should draft a list of consecrated Deacons. The Committee chose a special [Sub-] Committee to draft this list and present it to the ...
Keywords: Consecrated Deacons, Preaching, Church Education, Apologetics
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 01 June 1996
Priests are not to attend Protestant conferences
The Holy Synod approved the recommendation of the Pastoral Care and Services Committee that Priests are not to go to conferences to which they have been invited by Protestants, except with permissi...
Keywords: Priests, Protestants, Warnings
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 14 June 1997
Warning about Protestant conferences and Protestant servants
- The Bishops should inform the Priests of the Synod’s decision in the 1997 meeting that the Priests are not to go to conferences to which they have been invited by Protestants
- The qua...
Keywords: Priests, Protestants, Warnings
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 06 June 1998
Warning against Mrs. Chenghai
There was talk about Mrs. Chenghai and the New Age Religion and her attempt to give lectures on inner meditation, liberation and happiness. Our congregations were warned against attending her meeti...
Keywords: Preaching, Non-Orthodox, Warnings, Mrs. Chenghai
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 17 June 2000
Need for committees for service of poor
- The Holy Synod decided to establish a Committee for the needy in every Diocese and in its Churches.
- A desire was expressed for the Holy Synod to make decisions to care for slums. <...
Keywords: Holy Synod Committees, Pastoral Care, Poor
Chatper: Pastoral Care and Services
Published: 02 June 2001