Coptic Reader 4+
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern USA
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Coptic Reader is a mobile application that contains the liturgical text, rites, psalmodies, hymns, melodies, services, and sacraments of the Coptic Orthodox Church. See below for a full list of included content. Coptic Reader is not simply a text reader but rather it dynamically creates each document/service according to the rites of the current day, or selected day/feast. Coptic Reader builds each document on the fly with all appropriate hymns, rites and instructions to take the guess work out of the order of a church service.
Coptic Reader can generate documents in a combination of English, Arabic, and Coptic and supports both English and Arabic as the application interface language. Coptic Reader is fully customizable and allows you to show/hide different liturgical roles (i.e., Priest, Deacon, and Congregation), inaudible prayers, rubrics/comments, and languages.
You may choose between different graphical themes as well as change the document text size. A presentation mode is also supported that allows you to project the content in your church for a complete experience. The application also allows you to control which saint or archangel commemorations will be shown in doxologies, hymns, responses, and other prayers for your church's intercessors.
Content List:
- Complete Bible including Coptic New Testament and Deuterocanonical books
- Book of Hours (Agpeya)
- Holy Psalmody including Midnight Praises, Vesper Praises, Morning Praises (Standard, Koiahk, Nativity, Theophany, Great Fast, Pentecostal, including all festal psalies)
- Antiphonary (Difnar)
- Divine Liturgies with integrated Service of the Deacons (St. Basil, St.Gregory, and St. Cyril, as well as Vespers and Matins service)
- Katameros (Sundays, Weekdays, Great Fast, Pentecostal, and feasts)
- Synaxarion
- Distribution Melodies
- Unction of the Sick
- Baptism Prayers
- Crowning and Engagement Prayers
- Pascha Prayers
- Prostration Prayers
- Liturgy of the Waters (Lakkan)
- Veneration
- Funerals (Men, Women, Boys, Girls, Monks, Memorials, and Prayer at the Tomb)
- Consecrations (Church, Vessels, Censers, Icons, Baptistery, Ordinations, Reception of a New Priest, and Home Blessing)
For more information about Coptic Reader, visit: http://suscopts.org/wiki/Coptic_Reader
Please direct any comments or questions to:
copticreader@suscopts.org
https://www.facebook.com/CopticReader
What’s New
Version 2.97
- Major update to Unction English translation
- Good Friday litanies of the 6th and 9th hours start with deacons, not priest
- Added Coptic text to Ezekiel prophecy in General Funeral Prayer
- Minor corrections to Liturgy of the Waters
- Updated Arabic text for Resurrection psalies for Resurrection Monday
- Added vows for bishop ordination
- Update to English translation for Apostles doxology and aspasmos: 'Their voice went forth / upon the face of the whole earth / and their words have reached / the ends of the world.'
- Updated English translation for Watos Psali for the Three Saintly Children: 'We follow You with all our heart (singular)'
- Added missing word to Psalm 86:2,5,7
- "Our Savior" distribution hymn, changed text to: "And the mind of the heavenly".
- Made minor change to Transfiguration gospel response.
- Removed Paope 5 as feast day for St. Victor Romanus
- Moved misplaced verse in the exposition for the Resurrection
- In Adam Psali for Thomas Sunday, changed "rose" to "arose"
- Corrected Antiphonary entry for Tatos and Koubitlas by removing mention of St. Julius
- Updated the conclusion canon for Pentecost Matins
- Added intro to the expositions of Vesper Praises during Koiahk
- Added missing English to Psalm 72:17,18,21 in katameros
- Removed non-papal hymns from papal hymns menu
- Reverted to original Nativity Mohayyer'
- Updated first verse of Apekran
- Added "metropolitan" to Rejoice O Mary'
- Added Arabic text for the Synaxarion entry of Coptic Engineer Sa-eed Ebn Kateb El-Faraghany
- Readings for Koiahk 13 are from Thoout 26
- Miscellaneous Arabic and Coptic corrections
Ratings and Reviews
Great app
It is easy to navigate. Very complete app. It is amazing to have all church’s prayers book in one app. I use it daily at home. I use it at church often, for example during Pascha week, I didn’t have to carry my big traditional Pascha book. It is a must to have for every Copt. You can easily access your agpeya and your bible (without the need for internet connection) during your breaks, during using public transportation or during anytime you’re waiting in line or for something else.
Awkward translations
As an overall concept it is well set and nice navigation.
As for the translations they are subpar and very awkward. The translations show that translator(s) utilize a word by word and literal translation, rather than a more complete format. There is a very limited use of vocabulary and a utilization of the Arabic as a main source.
The Agbeya prayers are very difficult for congregational oral rendition. The Synaxarium, as in all known English types, are childish. I can give hundreds of examples but the Egyptian thing to say is: “it’s better than nothing”. I’m glad that some ridiculous renderings such as the Advent Ps 150 refrain have been removed. Can we now fix the Easter time refrain for the Ps 150 as “Christ IS Risen” not “Christ has Risen”.
Greatest application.
99% of people either pray in English or Arabic. Your Agbia part of this application is really great but, I really wish if it gives u the option of English or Arabic or even both. Just having both English and arabic next to each other is killing the space and size and very eye straining. I do pray in both language but never at the same time. So having English and arabic in such a small space is not the best idea. Other than that u guys are the best. God bless
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Information
- Seller
- Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate D
- Size
- 69.3 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern USA
- Price
- Free