On blessed and holiday Tikmet 14, our holy Father Aragawi, who is surnamed ZaMikael disappeared. This holy man became a guide to the servants of God on the road. He went up to the holy Dabra Damo holding the tail of a serpent, and there he fought countless noble fights.
As they were burying him they found a paper grasped tightly in his hand and they were unable to remove it. They prayed together to the God of heaven; When they had prayed the paper was released from his hand, and they read it. They knew that he was their son. Then they wept bitterly and buried him. His tomb became a place where the sick were healed, the blind, where many miracles were wrought and where countless acts of grace were performed.
On the year 224 A.D., the pure and celibate father, the fighter of lusts, and the vanquisher of nature, Abba Demetrius I, 12th Pope of Alexandria, departed. This saint was an illiterate farmer, and was married. He lived with his wife 47 years until he was chosen a Patriarch.
The Chief Executive of the association Teacher Wasihun Belay stated that previously, many books were written, translated and published by the Mahibere Kidusan, yet the translation of these books is for the first time.
Dear Children of God! How are you? How have you been in this New Year and the season of summer? Have you planned good things in this year and put it into practice? We hope your good wishes will come true in this year.
Little ones, if you remember we ended our lesson of last year with questions and answers from the education we have been presenting it to you consequently. It was significant trial and lesson for you to test yourself. May our Lord make this year as fruitful for as well! Good!
Now, we will proceed to the present lesson which is about “Holy Icons” that are also known as “Pictures of Salvation.” Our Holy Orthodox Incarnation (Tewahedo) Church has doctrine (teaching) about holy pictures of our Lord, God, Holy Mother Saint Mary, the Archangels, Angels, Saints, Holies, Hermits, Monks and Martyrs.
The Dessert Star is a prominent epithet for Abune Gebre Menfes Kidus, an Egyptian-born saint and founder of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church monastery at Lake Zuqualla. This title reflects his spiritual power and his life of severe asceticism in the desert, where he lived among wild animals like lions and leopards, famously raising dead animals and taming the beasts.
Saint Arsema was born to devout Christian parents, her father Saint Theodorus and mother Saint Athanasia. They were well-known for their faith, spiritual works, and dedication to God through prayer, fasting, and acts of charity. However, despite their pious life, they were deeply saddened as they had no children.
Time welcomes plentiful natural events. The universe receiving continuous occasions ornaments, the earth sometimes prosperous whilst other time desiccates. In winter season wets by the rain whilst in summer dries by the sun and warmth. When the wind in this season shakes her, the blooming flowers gives beautify.
At the year 325 A.D., 318 fathers assembled in the city of Nicea, in the days of Emperor Constantine, the righteous Emperor. Among them were the heads of the four Sees and they were: Anba Alexandros, the 19th Pope of Alexandria, who was accompanied by Athanasius, his Archdeacon and private secretary; Estasius, archbishop of Antioch; Macarius, Archbishop of Jerusalem. Sylvestros, archbishop of Rome, because of his old age did not attend and sent two priests in his place.The reason for their assembly was to judge Arius who was a priest in Alexandria. He blasphemed against the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ by saying that he was not equal in essence to God, His Father, and there was a time when the Son did not exist.
The history of Gishen Mariam’s parishes establishment has its own reasons. The fragment of the Holy Cross came to Ethiopia from Alexandria in Mesekrem 10. Yet it was kept at Gishen in a church, in Meskrem 21 where Emperor Zera Yacob, announced it to the whole Ethiopia in reading texts.