#Feasts of #Megabit_25
✞✞✞On this day we concluded the Season of Hagay/Bega and commemorate the departure of the Apostle St. Onesiphorous (one of the 72 Disciples)✞✞✞
✞✞✞In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen!✞✞✞
✞✞✞Completion of the Season of the Ethiopian Summer (Hagay/Bega) – Winter in the West✞✞✞
=>Our Creator, God, made all creation for the benefit of the children of men. And He, the Lord, has formed, defined and given us years, months, weeks, days and hours. [Accordingly] the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as an ancient apostolic Church does all Her activities in order.
✞And conferring to her calendrical computations a year is divided into 4 seasons. And basing these seasons, our father, St. Yared (Jared), has composed spiritual hymns [in the 6th century A.D.].
✞✞✞And these seasons are;
1. The Season of Kiremt [Ethiopian Winter – Summer in the West] (From Senne 26/July 03 – Meskerem 25/October 05),
2. The Season of Metsew/Tsege [Ethiopian Spring – Autumn in the West] (From Meskerem 26/October 06 – Tahisas 25/January 03),
3. The Season of Hagay/Bega [Ethiopian Summer – Winter in the West] (From Tahisas 26/January 04 – Megabit 25/April 03) and
4. The Season of Tsedey/Belg/Meker [Ethiopian Autumn/ Fall – Spring in the West] (From Megabit 26/April 04 – Senne 25/July 02).
=>May God Who blessed the Season of Hagay/Bega also bless and make this, the Season of Tsedey/Belg/Meker, a time of repentance for us all.
✞✞✞Saint Onesiphorus (also called Friska)✞✞✞
=>On this day departed the Apostle Onesiphor(o)us who was counted as one of the 72 Disciples. He followed our Lord from the city of Nain and had spent the days and nights where He did.
✞✞✞Jews concluded their plot to kill the Lord✞✞✞
=>Also on this day, the Jews finalized and agreed on their scheme to kill our Lord. And Judas of Iscariot made a pact with them to deliver Him up for 30 silver pieces.
✞✞✞May the forgiveness and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.
✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 25th of Megabit
1. St. Onesiphorus the Apostle (One of the 72)
✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. St. Mercurius Martyr
2. St. Thecla Apostolic
3. St. Abakragoun Martyr
4. St. Domadius El-Souriani (The Syrian)
5. Abune Abib (Abba Bula)
6. St. Abba Abu Fana the Righteous
✞✞✞“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds . . . when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”✞✞✞
Heb.1:1-3
✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞
(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)
✞✞✞On this day we concluded the Season of Hagay/Bega and commemorate the departure of the Apostle St. Onesiphorous (one of the 72 Disciples)✞✞✞
✞✞✞In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen!✞✞✞
✞✞✞Completion of the Season of the Ethiopian Summer (Hagay/Bega) – Winter in the West✞✞✞
=>Our Creator, God, made all creation for the benefit of the children of men. And He, the Lord, has formed, defined and given us years, months, weeks, days and hours. [Accordingly] the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as an ancient apostolic Church does all Her activities in order.
✞And conferring to her calendrical computations a year is divided into 4 seasons. And basing these seasons, our father, St. Yared (Jared), has composed spiritual hymns [in the 6th century A.D.].
✞✞✞And these seasons are;
1. The Season of Kiremt [Ethiopian Winter – Summer in the West] (From Senne 26/July 03 – Meskerem 25/October 05),
2. The Season of Metsew/Tsege [Ethiopian Spring – Autumn in the West] (From Meskerem 26/October 06 – Tahisas 25/January 03),
3. The Season of Hagay/Bega [Ethiopian Summer – Winter in the West] (From Tahisas 26/January 04 – Megabit 25/April 03) and
4. The Season of Tsedey/Belg/Meker [Ethiopian Autumn/ Fall – Spring in the West] (From Megabit 26/April 04 – Senne 25/July 02).
=>May God Who blessed the Season of Hagay/Bega also bless and make this, the Season of Tsedey/Belg/Meker, a time of repentance for us all.
✞✞✞Saint Onesiphorus (also called Friska)✞✞✞
=>On this day departed the Apostle Onesiphor(o)us who was counted as one of the 72 Disciples. He followed our Lord from the city of Nain and had spent the days and nights where He did.
✞✞✞Jews concluded their plot to kill the Lord✞✞✞
=>Also on this day, the Jews finalized and agreed on their scheme to kill our Lord. And Judas of Iscariot made a pact with them to deliver Him up for 30 silver pieces.
✞✞✞May the forgiveness and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.
✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 25th of Megabit
1. St. Onesiphorus the Apostle (One of the 72)
✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. St. Mercurius Martyr
2. St. Thecla Apostolic
3. St. Abakragoun Martyr
4. St. Domadius El-Souriani (The Syrian)
5. Abune Abib (Abba Bula)
6. St. Abba Abu Fana the Righteous
✞✞✞“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds . . . when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”✞✞✞
Heb.1:1-3
✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞
(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)