After the death of Saint Arsema and the other martyrs, Their bodies were laid them in a holy place until the days of the persecution were ended on December 15 and a beautiful church was [then] built for them signs and great wonders took place through them.
The weeks before the birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the prophets fast are called are called Sermon, Light, and Nolawi. The weeks before the birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the prophets fast are called are called Sermon, Light, and Nolawi. They are the resemblance of the time when prophets pleaded in hope for the salvation of human beings and God’s mercy.
Our holy Lady the Virgin Mary, the God-bearer, into the Sanctuary, Temple of Jerusalem, entered the temple when she was three years old and she was the daughter of a vow to God.
In scripted in the Holy Book the Bible, Lord Jesus Christ’s explained about wisdom; He said, “Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.”
Dear Children of God, Greetings to you and Glory to God!
Children! On our last lesson, we have learned about Prayer at Church. Today, we will learn about the Divine Liturgy! So, follow us attentively!
Holy Father Abune Habtemariam was born in a country east of Raeuye, where there was a kind man named Fre Buruk. He was a very wealthy man, and blessed with a wife, Justina. She is adorned with virtues and works. This kind mother was diligent with fasting, prayer, almsgiving and genuflecting.
Martyr Philopator whose name is interpreted as “lover of the Father” and also meaning “servant of Jesus Christ” died on December 4. The holy man was a native of the city of ‘Asletes, which was also the city of his father, and his grandfather who were born therein, and he was brought up in the city of Rome. Now the occupation of his father, and grandfather, and his kinsmen was that of hunters of wild beasts.
Zion biblically symbolizing our Holy Mother Saint Mary originally refers to Mount Zion, a hill in Jerusalem, where Prophet David’s Palace is built and the Ark of Covenant is found.
God imprinted His Divine Image, into the nature of man which draws us toward everything that is morally good and averts him from everything that is morally evil. This inner law works through the voice of conscience, which justly is called the voice of God in man. Because it is an integral part of human nature, it is active in all people regardless of their age, race, education, or development…
The Prophet’s Fast is amongst the seven canonically recognized by the Ethiopian Orthodox Incarnation Church. The Fast begins on November 24 and ends on Eve of the Holiday. (Fetha Negest, Article 15, Number 565)