{"id":9040,"date":"2025-09-18T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:56:12","slug":"the-feast-of-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-feast-of-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mfpa3ry6-eae433a9758852688eb54ca85e01b2c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Feast of Flower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time where earth is ornamented by flowers, there is a feast we celebrate specifically on Mesekerem 10, known to be \u201cTeketsel Tsige (The Feast of Flowers).\u201d Teketsel meaning \u201ccrown\u201d, and Tsige to mean \u201cflower,\u201d is a feast that Holy Church celebrate in this ending of winter season. There are reasons for this also. One of them is related with the previous King\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst earth is surrounded by flowers, green leaves, plants and other vegetables, King Emperor Gebre Meskel presented himself amongst the people, wearing a crown, colored green, yellow and red flowers on Meskerem 10, announcing the ending of the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopians celebrate this feast during Emperor Mesekel. By then, it was celebrated on Mesekerem 25. Onwards, on the tenth century, the cross of Lord Jesus Christ came to Ethiopia by the Emperor on Mesekerem 10. And thus, the feast changed in to the commemoration named as \u201cTeketsel Tsige and Aste Mesekel\u201d on the tenth day of Meskerem.<\/p>\n<p>The great feast of \u201cTeketsel Tsige\u201d has been celebrated until the end of Emperor Haile Selassies\u2019s Empire. But at the reign of Dereg, the feast seized to be celebrated till the year 1983 E.C. After the fall of the Dereg Regime, it might not have been commemorated in the palace, but was celebrated in the Menbere Tsebaot Holy Trinity Cathedral, in front of the Patriarch up to present day.<\/p>\n<p>May God\u2019s benevolence be with us, Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time where earth is ornamented by flowers, there is a feast we celebrate specifically on Mesekerem 10, known to be \u201cTeketsel Tsige (The Feast of Flowers).\u201d Teketsel meaning \u201ccrown\u201d, and Tsige to mean \u201cflower,\u201d is a feast that Holy Church celebrate in this ending of winter season. There are reasons for this also. One of them is related with the previous King\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9043,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}