Beginning of the Blessed Coptic Year - The Martyrs year

[copticorthodoxy]

Today ( 11 Sept ) is the beginning of the blessed Coptic year.(El-nayrouz )
It is necessary to keep it a holy day with full purity and chastity. Let us start a new demeanor as St. Paul the Apostle says, "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation." (2 Cor. 5:17-18)

The Nayrouz Feast (1st of Tout, c. September 11): The word "Nayrouz" is Persian, meaning "the beginning of the year." The Egyptian calendar goes back to 4240 B.C. Copts restored the calendar with the beginning of Diocletian's reign in AD 284, to commemorate the millions of Coptic martyrs. His reign is considered a golden era in which the church offered true witnesses to Christ, when the souls of martyrs departed to paradise and kept shining as living stars therein.
This feast, with its joyful hymns, continues until the feast of the Cross (Tout 17, c. 27 September). Thus the church announces her joy and gladness with the martyrs through bearing the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, the sufferings and martyrdom were turned into a source of joy.

at the Martyrs year we :

Celebrating the new Coptic year.
We offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God for He gave us a new year.
On this occasion we remember our beloved martyrs.
Moreover we thank God for the blessings He gave us in the previous yearI Wish to all the Copts all over the world , Christians , and all the world a happy new Coptic Martyrs year .

I ask all of you to remmber our Coptic Martyrs who have been killed in the name of Christ since our Evangelist St. Mark till now .

In the Coptic Martyrs year i remmber all the Martyrs who died to preserve our Christian Faith .

I remmber our Armenian and Syrian Brothers who died in The Armenian Genocide in the name of the lord .

I ask the Lord to Bless the World and Bless our Alexandrian Orthodox Church and Our Pope .
Pray for us o Holy Martyrs

[Kas]

Happy new year...I'm kinda won over to the idea of using the martyres as the basis of our calander...I wish all my brethren well...and continue to speak on your behalf here in the lapsed and lazy west!

Kasx

[copticorthodoxy]

OTTAWA ” In an historic letter, Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada,
extended warm greetings to the Canadian Coptic community as they celebrate the
Coptic New Year. The letter makes Canada the first country to acknowledge the
sacrifices of the Coptic Martyrs. "This is a time when, .., you honour those
traditions with which the Coptic Orthodox Church has enriched this great country
we call home", says the Prime Minster.
Coptic Christians are the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians and make up 10%
of the Egyptian population. There are 15 million Copts worldwide, including Canada,
the United States, Europe and Australia. They have been victims of religious
persecution by almost every ruler of Egypt beginning with the Roman Empire and sustained for 1400 years under the Islamic rulers who invaded Egypt in the sixth century.
Until recently, the blood of Coptic martyrs continues to be shed as in the massacres
of Assiut in 1992, Al-Kosheh in 2000 and in the latest attacks on the churches of Alexandria during the Holy week this year which ended on Easter Sunday.

A Russian bishop has recently put the number of Coptic Martyrs as one per day.Copts take pride in the persecution they have sustained as early as May 8, 68
A.D.,when their Patron Saint Mark, the Gospel writer, was slain after being dragged
from his feet by Roman soldiers all over Alexandria's streets and alleys.To emphasize their pride, Copts adopted a calendar, called the Calendar of the Martyrs that is identified by the abbreviation AM (for Anno Martyrum or "Year of the Martyrs".) The calendar begins its era on August 29, 284 A.D., in commemoration
of those who died for their faith during the rule of Diocletian the Roman Emperor
who was enthroned on that day.

The Prime Minster's letter, which was sent to the Coptic community today, was
dated "Tout 1, 1723" in reference to the Coptic month "Tout" and the current year of
the Martyrs 1723.

[HolyMary]

Happy (late) new year to you all. :wave:

[God_Owned]

OTTAWA ” In an historic letter, Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada,
extended warm greetings to the Canadian Coptic community as they celebrate the
Coptic New Year. The letter makes Canada the first country to acknowledge the
sacrifices of the Coptic Martyrs. "This is a time when, .., you honour those
traditions with which the Coptic Orthodox Church has enriched this great country
we call home", says the Prime Minster.
Coptic Christians are the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians and make up 10%
of the Egyptian population. There are 15 million Copts worldwide, including Canada,
the United States, Europe and Australia. They have been victims of religious
persecution by almost every ruler of Egypt beginning with the Roman Empire and sustained for 1400 years under the Islamic rulers who invaded Egypt in the sixth century.
Until recently, the blood of Coptic martyrs continues to be shed as in the massacres
of Assiut in 1992, Al-Kosheh in 2000 and in the latest attacks on the churches of Alexandria during the Holy week this year which ended on Easter Sunday.

A Russian bishop has recently put the number of Coptic Martyrs as one per day.Copts take pride in the persecution they have sustained as early as May 8, 68
A.D.,when their Patron Saint Mark, the Gospel writer, was slain after being dragged
from his feet by Roman soldiers all over Alexandria's streets and alleys.To emphasize their pride, Copts adopted a calendar, called the Calendar of the Martyrs that is identified by the abbreviation AM (for Anno Martyrum or "Year of the Martyrs".) The calendar begins its era on August 29, 284 A.D., in commemoration
of those who died for their faith during the rule of Diocletian the Roman Emperor
who was enthroned on that day.

The Prime Minster's letter, which was sent to the Coptic community today, was
dated "Tout 1, 1723" in reference to the Coptic month "Tout" and the current year of
the Martyrs 1723.
interesting