How to Benefit from the Holy Liturgy - Pope Kirillos Scientific Family

2. Midnight Tasbeha
Following the Midnight Praise, believers start the Midnight
Tasbeha. I advise you, my beloved, to partake in these
praises. Pray with all your heart, these beautiful Coptic tunes.
When you learn the praises and partake in chanting them you
will find them to be a source of great and overflowing
spiritual comfort, and you will gain the saying: “Blessed are
those who dwell in Your house, they will be praising You”
(Psalm 84:4). Remember the Psalmist saying: “Those who
seek Him will praise the Lord” (Psalm 22:26). If you seek
the Lord and yearn for a loving relationship with Him,
partake in praising and glorifying Him and rejoice with the
Psalmist saying, “My mouth shall praise You with joyful
lips” (Psalm 63:5).
Midnight Tasbeha during all the days of the year is composed
of :-
1. “TEN-THENO” : the same as what is said after Psalm 50
in the Midnight Prayer. In the Tasbeha it is said in Coptic
tunes with special verses. The church urges us to awake from
idleness and praise the Lord of Hosts and ask Him to accept
us and forgive us our sins.
2. The FIRST HOAS : is the song of Moses the prophet
which he sang with the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea
(Exodus 15). As Moses saved the Jews from the bondage of
Pharaoh, the Lord Jesus saved us from the dominion of Satan
and the tempestuousness of the world. Therefore we ought
to praise Him at all times.
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