The Agpeya, Readings, and Raising of Incense are included for free while the Liturgies, Psalmody, and Distribution Melodies can be purchased for a small fee through the application.Īdditional Diocese publications are currently being integrated into the application and will be released as they become available all users will have unlimited free updates of purchased content as they become available.Īn iOS version of the app is planned for iPhone and iPad.The Dutch Coptic Orthodox community is small but growing steadily.Ĭoptic immigration to the Netherlands started in the 1960s, when a few families arrived to pursue higher education and started high-profile jobs at universities and banks. Coptic Reader is currently available for download from Google Play 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. You may also choose optimized graphical themes and change the document's text size. (Arabic is correctly supported on Western devices with Android 3.0+ only.) Coptic Reader is also 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 also select any feast or day of the year and the application will automatically update with the appropriate rites.Ĭoptic Reader supports English, Coptic, and Arabic languages.

Once you open the desired service, the application will automatically generate all of the appropriate hymns, doxologies, rites, instructions, and readings of the current day in the correct order.

Coptic Reader includes all of the Diocese's liturgical publications and is specifically designed to harness the power of modern mobile computing technologies to deliver a seamless user experience.Ĭoptic Reader contains the Diocese's official translation of the Coptic Book of Hours (i.e., Agpeya), the newly released Psalmody, the three Divine Liturgies with integrated Service of the Deacons, the expanded readings for the entire liturgical year including the Synaxarion, and the Distribution Melodies book.These publications were integrated into this application to make it easy for the end user to access any prayer or hymn desired. J- The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States is pleased to announce the release of the first mobile application for the Android operating system (Android 2.2+).

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