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Orthodox Tewahedo music refers to sacred music of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The music was long associated with Zema (chant), developed by the six century composer Yared . It is essential part of liturgical service in the Church and classified into fourteen anaphoras, with the normal use being the Twelve Apostles .
Video Saint Yared's Hymn for the Feast of Saint Stephen on YouTube , recorded by Beide Mariam Ejigu Retta at St Stephen's Church in Addis Ababa , retrieved 1 April 2017 Students of Ethiopian liturgical chants study the Geʽez language, and begin to practice singing at no later than five years of age in a local elementary school called nebab bet.
En route, he stopped at the monastery of Iyasus Mo'a, where tradition states he received the full investiture of an Ethiopian monk's habit. The historian Taddesse Tamrat sees in the existing accounts of this act an attempt by later writers to justify the seniority of the monastery in Lake Hayq over the followers of Tekle Haymanot.
The kebero is a large hand drum used in the Orthodox Christian liturgy. [5] Smaller kebero drums may be used in secular celebrations. [ 5 ] The nagarit , played with a curved stick, is usually found in a secular context such as royal functions or the announcement of proclamations, though it has a liturgical function among the Beta Israel. [ 5 ]
Orthodox of lower ranks (lay people, altar servers and deacons) when meeting Orthodox priests (or higher ranks) receive a blessing by folding their hands (right over left) palm upwards while he of the priestly office makes the sign of the cross in the air with his hand over the folded hands of the lay person and then places that hand on the ...
The Eritrean Orthodox canon and the Ethiopian Orthodox canon are identical. The Narrower Canon also contains Enoch, Jubilees, and three books of the Meqabyan; The Broader Canon includes all of the books found in the Narrower Canon, as well as the two Books of the Covenant, Four Books of Sinodos, a Book of Clement, and Didascalia;
A baptized and chrismated Orthodox Christian is a full member of the Church and may receive the Eucharist regardless of age [21] and, indeed, does so beginning at the first liturgy attended after chrismation, infant communion being the universal norm.
Holy water is often used during public holidays such as Timkat (), when Christians gather around a small water pool prepared by priests on Ketera, the eve of Timkat. [15] [16] After priests and deacons pray over and bless the water, it is sprayed onto the people "for the purification of their souls from sins committed."