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The Agpeya (Coptic Book of Hours)

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This is a great book. I am Orthodox and work the graveyard shift and have time for prayer amid caregiving duties. This book has prayers for each of the "hours" with Psalms, Epistle and Gospel reading. Lovely words. Good navigation - if there are lots of Psalms, probably a few for each day, there is a tag which says "skip to gospel reading" and pressing it takes you there ... of course you could just page turn. There are not that many Orthodox prayer book out there for Kindle, but this is a good one and cheap, too.

This the prayer book for the Coptic Orthodox church. My paper bound copy is starting to fall apart and I needed a replacement so why not the kindle? I found this translation of the Agpeya to be consistent with what I have used over the years and it is excellent overall. I am a native American that joined the Coptic church several years ago thus my English is excellent and I have watched the Coptic community slowly translate their religious material into English, it is quite a chore and I have seen the translation improve over time.

This is a beautiful little book. It appears to be an excellent translation. It is well formatted, complete, and easy to navigate. It even has a beautiful illustration at the start of each hour.