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Our Saints
The Importance of studying the lives of Saints
Many times some would say in amazement: Who can carry out these principles?! Is it really possible for one to turn the other cheek to the one who slapped him? (Matthew 5:39). Is it possible that one always ought to pray and not lose heart? (Luke 18:1) to pray without ceasing? (1 Thessolians 5:17) is it possible for one to give all he has to the poor? (Matthew 19:21) We see all these questions and many similar ones answered and presented in the lives of the Saints. The whole commandments and teachings of God may seem as being theoretical. But in the lives of the Saints, we see them carrying out the Lord’s commandments in their everyday lives.
Saints are humans but yet by their lives manifest the power of God at work in them. When we honour them as the heroes of our faith, we honour God who has worked in them to bring about holiness, faithfulness, humility and every other virtue.
In a truly amazing way that calls for great admiration of the spirituality of these righteous ones, they were raised above the level of material and body, as if they were earthly Angels. They lived in the spirit with God, a life of complete victory over all the wars of the enemy. We may even say that they returned to the divine image in which Man was created from the beginning. Their lives give encouragement to any person to continue on the spiritual path with no fear or hesitation.
The life of righteousness is then possible and available for whoever asks for it. The grace of God is willing to work in every heart and raise it to the highest level, no matter what its condition. The Spirit of God works leading souls towards God
Our Saints
Saint Mary
The kindest amongst all creatures, whom if all the world is weighed would not value as a single of her hair, the honored from the entire Mankind, and even above all the Angels, that no person could ever be able to speak of and write of her purity or holiness....
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Abune Tekle Haymanot
Our patron Father Abune Tekle Haymanot is the most prominent saint in Ethiopia. He is one of the very few, if not the only human on earth given wings! It is good to note here that saint Tekle Haymanot is one of the very few saints that Christians celebrate their birthday. He is probably the only Ethiopian saint celebrated officially in foreign churches such as Egypt and Rome. He has a monthly feast on the 24th day of every month in the Ethiopian calendar (which is the same as the Coptic calendar and derived from it). He performs many miracles daily in the lives of his children and we commemorate it in holy church. (Coptic Synaxarium)
The Prince of Martyrs Saint George
On the year 307 A.D., the great among the martyrs Saint George, was martyred. He was born in Cappadocia in Minor Asia; in the first half of the third century to a wealthy and godly Christian family. His father’s name was Anastasius, and his mother’s name was Theobaste. When he was fourteen years old, his father died and their mother took charge of raising them up on a Christian piety. His mother took them back to the city of Lydda in Palestine, her homeland.
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Saint Yared, the Poet and Hymn Writer
Saint Yared’s three types of rhyme “Geeze, Ezile and Araraye” were written after his return from the heavens. He has prepared the songs for each seasons for summer, winter, spring, autumn, for festivals and Sabbaths, for the days of the Angels, the Prophets, the Martyrs and the Righteous, in three modes, that is to say, the first mode to be used on ordinary days, the second mode to be used on fast days and days of mourning and the third mode to be used on the great festivals. His songs of heights brought the meeting with the King Gebre Meskel and the Queen.
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Dear Children, today we will tell you a story about Saint Ephraim the Syrian, who has greater love for our Holy Mother Virgin Saint Mary that he wrote a praise for her for the whole seven days of the week. This is the prayer we read for the seven times of days called “Wudaasiee Mariam” (Praise of Saint Mary)
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The Egyptian Nun Saint Sarah
The Egyptian Nun Saint Sarah
The righteous and ascetic Saint Sarah the nun who was a native of upper Egypt departed on March 24. Her parents were Christians. They had no other children and had raised her in a Christian manner by teaching her reading holy scriptures and writing word of God. For this, she habited to always read the holy books of the Church. She frequently read especially “the biography and sayings of the fathers the monks.”
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