![]() This app presents the lives of the saints of the Ethiopian church. ![]() ![]() The lives are arranged according to the Ethiopian calendar with the corresponding western Gregorian dates given in the titles. In Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Synaxarium is the classic, abridged, collection of the Lives of the Saints, intended for reading in the context of public worship, and to nourish the personal prayer life of the faithful. The Ethiopian church places a heavier emphasis on Old Testament teachings than one might find in any of the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Protestant churches, and its followers adhere to certain practices that one finds in Orthodox or Conservative Judaism. As the Church continues its journey toward its fulfillment in the Kingdom of heaven, it does not cease to grow through the addition of new saints in every generation. Thus the Synaxarium is a work which continues to be written, no so much with ink, but with the blood of the martyrs, the tears of the ascetics, and the wondrous deeds of those who love God, in every place where the word of the Gospel has resounded forth. The world is sanctified, saved and redeemed through the presence of the saints that are in it like the leaven in the loaf, preparing mankind for the final revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. The saints who shine with the divine light have become gods by the grace of the Holy Spirit, to the extent that baptized into Christ they have put on Christ.
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