Hymns, Praises, and Books

Hymns, praises, and spiritual songs.

Coptic hymns are deep, harmonic and exactly defined songs meant to express the innermost emotions of the praising spirit. And through it we are raised to the same rank of the heavenly Angels

You can explore, listen, and download spiritual Hymns and praises of the Coptic Orthodox Church at Tasbeha.org

To preserve the great heritage of the Coptic Hymns, this site was originally developed to aid deacons and Coptic music enthusiasts explore and learn new hymns Alhan.org

To download Coptic Orthodox songs OrthodoxSongs.org, Also from the same website, and since we’re in the fasting of Saint Mary, The album “Second Heaven” is an album of songs of praise for Saint Mary.

Sermons 

Orthodox Sermons, is a website that hosts a collection of English sermons originally intended for the orthodox Coptic English speakers.

Scope Of Coptic Hymns

The Coptic hymns total above 300 songs, which differ in music, tones and length (in excess of 20 minutes of some). The bulk of them are written in Coptic but few are written in Greek and some of them have been lost or disappeared.  So diverse that only very few could claim absolute mastership of all hymns.

Coptic hymns are essential to any Coptic Church’s tradition, rites, worship and spirituality. Thus there is no specific time allocated for the hymns in the service but the whole service is a symphony consisting of the priest, deacons and congregation served by the music. In other words the hymn is the part of the service during which the spirit is let free to praise God with its full capacity and strength. This could be appreciated if we imagine our church services without hymns?!

1. The Coptic hymns are phrases written around Divinity, faith and theological beliefs, which reflects the human conception of the nature of God. When it is sung driven by the spirit it expresses our participation in faith.

Thus, its real effect comes from the fact that the hymns are centred around God and his love. It is an appreciation and a display of love and gratitude towards the love giving Father!

2. Praise is a Divine service whereby we join the cherubim and seraphim in their continuous praise. Thus, we get raised to the same rank of the heavenly Angels.

Notable hymns:

• Golgotha is an ancient coptic hymn that dates back to pharonic times. The melody is said to have been the same melody used when pharohs were being buried. At the foot of the cross when Joseph and Nicodemus went to get the body of Christ for burial, they saw and heard angels singing, HOLY GOD HOLY ALMIGHTY HOLY IMMORTAL, the church in its wisdom and custom, took these powerful words and adapted to the ancient melody of this Hymn.

Source: https://tasbeha.org/content/articles/coptic_hymns.php

Source: https://www.stminahamilton.ca/2011/04/the-golgotha-hymn