Sene/Paoni 17 THREAD
On this day, the memory of the Blessed Aba Gerima of Medra was celebrated.
His father was a member of the Roman royal family named Mesphenianus. His mother, Sophania(?), was barren, so she beseeched God through the intercession of the Theotokos.
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Today on February 19 (Miyazya 11),
We commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christians martyred for their faith on the Libyan shores.
May their prayers intercede on our behalf.
Amen!
"Sin that burnt Sodom and Gomorrah not only erodes the holiness that God has bestowed upon Ethiopians, but it will bring destruction and wrath, rather than development and growth.
I assure Ethiopian Orthodox Church fight against such grand sin persistently,"
-HH Abuna Matthias I
My cousin will be consecrated as a Deacon tomorrow.
He has been preparing for this day for a long time, and I am so proud of him. ❤️
Please keep him in your prayers as he enters this new chapter in his life.🙏
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
🎓 Proverbs 3:5-6 🎓
I'm officially a BSc graduate now :)
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey."
Zech 9:9
When He died, His divinity resided within His flesh in the Sepulchre, and was also within His soul in Hades.
For when He resurrected, He reunited His soul with His flesh, as He declared to the Jews, "Destroy this temple, and in 3 days I will raise it up"
St. George of Gascha
Racism has not place in Orthodoxy. Moses married an Ethiopian. We have a saint called Moses the Black and many other African saints. There is neither Jew nor Greek. And we also have
@Kaleb_Atlanta
Laymen, clergy, and bishops all attacked and humiliated him. But His Holiness chose silence, as if nothing had happened, for the sake of the unity of the Church.
For me, Abuna Matthias is the only person of the year.
"You are a golden fortress made of Emerald,
The Holy Chamber of the Son of God,
I shall serve you, O Daughter of David
I shall serve you"
- Aba Giorghis of Gascha
#Nativity_of_Theotokos
"My Lady! The devil is shocked when he hears your name, just as everyone is when lightning strikes, because he hasn't rested since you were born.
He was sick because of you, he suffered because of your son's cross, so he hates you more than all creation."
-St. Giorgis of Gascha
‟This year, all the tools that take human life must go into the warehouse. When it is possible to respect the rule of law, ensure equality, mutual benefits, support the injured, comfort the attacked, the people will be united for the long term”
- HH Aba Matthias
HAPPY NEW YEARl
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If you had said that the Lalibela Shrines were built by the Knights Templar, you should have used your European sources to support your claim. There is no Ethiopian legend that says the churches were built by "blonde angels." Instead, it is believed that they were
@wil_da_beast630
@iamyesyouareno
You're a college professor? Unreal. That was built by the Knights Templar, my low IQ uneducated Afrocentric friend. Even the modern Ethiopian legends claim that "blond angels" built them. The depictions inside are of white religious figures. Go find another job cleaning toilets.
Is "Miaphysite" really different than "Monophysite"? Please state the best "why" in a tweet and if it's that much of a problem, we'll use "Miaphysite" for reporting. I didn't think it was this offensive.
Post your family tree of religion:
Me: Orthodox✝️
Sister: Orthodox✝️
Brother: Orthodox✝️
Dad†: Orthodox✝️
Grandma: Orthodox✝️
Grandpa†: Orthodox✝️
Mum: Orthodox✝️
Grandma: Orthodox✝️
Grandpa†:Orthodox✝️
The Empress commanded to smite St. Dioscorus on his mouth, and to pluck out the hair of his beard. He took the hair and the teeth that were knocked out and sent them to Alexandria saying, “THIS IS THE FRUIT OF FAITH”.
#RarePictures
#Dioscorus
#Orthodox
#Holy_Tewahedo
#Miaphysite
Departure of Pope Dioscorus I (444-451) the 25th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of Saint Mark
On this day of the year 451 A.D., departed the blessed father and the great hero of the Orthodox faith, Saint Dioscorus, the twenty-fifth Pope of Alexandria. His departure took
@solly_man76
Whether you like it or not, the source of Blue Nile is in the territory of Ethiopian Church which blessed by Priests every morning.
Please don't drink, Nile is only for Copts🙏
Most of Secular Countries, even some Islamic Countries follows Catholic Gregorian Calendar parallel to their local one, and you know that, right?
So why do you need to avoid the Ethiopian one unless you have a deep hatred views among the religion you are pointing to?
Ethiopia as a secular nation should get rid of the so called “Ethiopian Calander” find a way to become more inclusive there is many nations & nationalist who have their own norms & cultural values that can also nationalized if not follow the rest of the world
#EthiopianNewYear
Melkite historical forgery strikes again!
First of all, polyphonic voice, instrumental use, dancing, and talking are all forbidden in Ethiopian liturgy. The bell is rung 4 or 5 times, but sistrum is used substitute a bell once a year only (during the last supper).
Second,...
“You think the Ethiopians’ religious use of dance, drums, and tambourines proves anything? You’re right, it proves they’re liturgical innovators and Monophysite heretics.”
I want to find the EO seminary curriculum to know about what they teach about OO communion.
Let me list some allegations I have heard against OO
- OO venerates Origen AKA pest
- OO have no unity until 1960s(meh)
- OO is ethnic church
- Ethiopian observes Torah
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@Nektarios01_
If I remember my Greek studies correctly, Ethiopian loosely means "burnt face."
It's what Alexander the Great called Africans in general, and the patristics used it as a symbol of the demonic.
One was about race the other was about spirit.
My patron wasn't referring to race.
I remember when I told my mom I was going to the Maronite Church here in Utah and explained they were Lebanese
She lamented I was going to a Muslim place of worship until our priest explained they were Catholic
Translation🧵:
"Oh Nestorius, Theodore hath bequeathed unto thee his heresy;
And Diodore hath led thee astray with his foolishness.
Oh Nestorius, Sheol hath nourished thee with her bosom,
And The Hell hath raised thee on her cursed milk.
Thou hast worn Belial as thine garment,...
- Armenians are iconoclast
- Pope Shenouda rejects Theosis(How Genius!)
- "I believe 10th-century pseudography of St Euphemia's miracle"
- Ethiopian used to incense the church with marijuana
I have no idea why they keep lying!
Reasons:
- 900 years Executions by Imperial Christian State of Byzantine.
- Islamic persecutions.
-Intermittent Ethnic cleansing.
-Open mass genocide.
and so on
- Docletian and Roman emperor tried to exterminate Egyptian Christian for entire 250yrs
- Melkite tried to cleanse them for centuries.
- Arab conquest were killing and still killing continuously for millennium
- Do you still think you can finish this holy people?
Every 30 days of a month& 13 months of a year have names dedicated to great saints, bro.
1) Most of Monastic fathers are Egyptian, lol.
2) OO saints are exotic. Winged as Taklahaimanot, eternal as Elijah(even my patron Aba Garima)
3) Ask me and I will send you OO Synaxariums.
@lullitx
The comment under this post showed me that how much we are failed as Orthodox Christian.
People critically focus on political and jurisdictional conflict while ignoring the dogma and our true Apostolic faith of Christ
@UlfatMachanov
Shut up bro! But don't you think we have no idea about the Armenian Apostolic Architecture?
If you hate Armenian, good keep it. But don't deny and steal their identity and history.
@LVieEstBelle
@Armenians4UA
Ethiopian here; this is ridiculous.
- Armenian script type is Alphabet, Ethiopian one is Abugida.
- Armenian letter is invented in 405, while Ethiopian one was upgraded from Abjad to Abugida between 350-480(not exactly known).
- Armenia & Ethiopia had no relationship at the time
The Pentagon has confirmed that yesterday’s seizure of the Israeli-linked cargo ship was carried out by Somali Pirates, and not Houthi Pirates, as originally thought.
This comes days after Somali Pirates seized another ship off the coast of Eyl for the first time since 2017.
@orthoarmenian
Abuna Paulos, the late-Patriarch once said,
"Don't complain about having a wicked leader. If you end up with a wicked one, it's the result of your actions. Because this is what you deserve.
To have a good leader, you must first become good people."
I wish I could recognize myself as a member of Coptic Church of Alexandria STARTING FROM TOMORROW.
I don't want to involve in another Ethiopian Episcopal controversy.
😢😢😓
@MarcDesCoptesII
Both of them are two of the first 4 Ethiopian-born bishops who are canonized as Martyr and Saint.
The 2nd picture is of Abuna Petros. He was tortured and shot 11 times for refusing Italian occupation and anathematizing Fascists.
The story of Abuna Petros is really so lamenting
If you get the opportunity to see any bishop from the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Synod, do not forget to record an audio.
I want to know how audible His Eminence's slap is.
Wild take but The Eritrean Orthodox Church should isolate itself from the OO for good and start having a union meeting with the EO (Russian Church), it wouldn’t only benefit the Church but even the country having Russians as our allies and brothers in faith
Tired of these history expert wannabes!
1) Axum has never had any relation with Roman Empire.
2) Ezana adopted Christianity through St Frimentius, the Phoenician man who was the slave of his father.
3) Christianity became state religion of Axum, even before Roman Empire.
African nations were not Islamic or Christian before slavery excluding Ethiopia. The kingdom of Aksum in Ethiopia worshiped their own gods before King Ezana adopted Christianity in the 4th century for trade purposes with the Roman Empire; We are Africans.
O blessed Saint Arsema (Hripsime),
How fortunate you are,
That your children have kept your faith alive to this day.
Your courage and sacrifice inspired them,
To stand strong in their faith,
We pray that we may always be faithful to God,
No matter what challenges we face.
Mark 14:4-9
❝There came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
For it might have...
Wait until you learn it was built during the era of Emperor Fasiledes, a king who was responsible for wiping all Portuguese and Catholic-looking fellas out of the empire.
It should be made clear that the majority of Christian views should not involve disseminating hate speech against Jews or Palestinians. Christianity advocates for the inherent equality of all individuals, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds. Like myself, many Christians..
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A message to all the gentiles in the world:
This war, is the war of the redemption,
you have to choose now.
it doesn't matter if you are Christians, Muslims or Hindu, you still have a choice.
Are you on the side of G-d almighty who created Earth and choose the Jewish people
@OrthoMemeSquad
@thefaithfulturk
which Heresy? Nestorianism?Dyothelithism? I'm sure you are not going to say Monophysite, because Oriental Orthodox labels Monophysitism as heresy.
Are you really part of the EO on Twitter if you don't block OO moots from your circle because you couldn't respond to the 3 Miaphysite quotes from St Cyril and Gregory of Nyssa, but still cry as if the epistle you have never read was poorly cropped?
Are you really part of the OO on Twitter if you don’t inject yourself in EO threads with the same 3 quotes from St. Cyril and Gregory of Nyssa as a poorly cropped screenshot from Discord?
Shortly after his coronation, Lalibela welcomed 5,000 Egyptian and Cilician Christians who had been expelled from Jerusalem by Saladin. Lalibela chose not to fight against Saladin, as his religious order forbade him from taking the life of another person. Instead,
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Lalibela's wife, Meskel Kibra, suggested that he build a replica of the Holy City of Jerusalem. Lalibela worked tirelessly for 2 decades to carve 11 churches and 2 homes for himself. After the finalization, he hired 20 Egyptian& Ethiopian sculptors to decorate the interior.
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You have bumped into an Ethiopian Oromo here!
First of all, the statement is uncertain!
In January of last year, 3 archbishops in Oromia uncanonically consecrated 26 additional bishops without the consent of the patriarch. Archbishop Abuna Sawiros led the consecration.
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