Church Feasts & Fasts

Order of Fasts & Feasts

Festal Letters, 1-12 - St. Cyril of Alexandria

Festal Letters, 13-30 - St. Cyril of Alexandria

Ethiopian Church Feasts & Fasts - Kassa Nigus

Ethiopian Orthodox Liturgical Calendar

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Festivals of the Finding of the True Cross and Epiphany - Walelign Emiru

The Spiritual Implication of Venerating the Holy Cross - Fr. Zemene Desta

Joyful Boys Singing Hoya Hoye: Biblical, Social, Cultural Connotations and Symbolism of the Buhe Celebration in Ethiopia - Timkehet Teffera Mekonnen (academia.edu)

Sermons on the 12 Great Feasts of the (eastern) Orthodox Church

Icons of the Church Year

The Incarnate God: The Feasts of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, 2 Vols. - ed. Catherine Aslanoff

The Living God: A Catechism, 2 Vols, trans. Olga Dunlop

Through the Solemn Lent to the Joyous Easter: Belief and Practice in Christian Ethiopia - Mersha Alehegne

The Holy Fast and Its Desirable Fruits - Fr. Matta El-Meskeen (Matthew the Poor)

Biblical Definition of Fasting - Isaiah 58: 6-7

Fasting in the Orthodox Church - Archimandrite Akakios

The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church - Ephraim Isaac in Asceticism ed. Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis

What Do Christians (Not) Eat: Food Taboos and the Ethiopian Christian Community (13th-18th Centuries) - Thomas Guindeuil (academia.edu)

The Fast of Ninevah (Jonah's Fast)

The Soteriological Significance of the Feast of Mary's Birth - Nicholas Denysenko (academia.edu)

The Feast of the Assumption of Mary (Filsata) in Ethiopia

Filsata: The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the Mariological tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, PhD Thesis, 1988 - Paulos Yohannes (Patriarch Paulos)

Coptic Feast for St. Moses the Ethiopian - Glorification Hymns

The Cross Stands, While the World Turns: Homilies for the Cycles of the Year - Fr. John Behr

About the Holy Pascha - Matthew Vlastares

Chronological Systems of Christian Nubia - Grzegorz Ochala

Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt - Roger S. Bagnall and Klaas A. Worp

The Ethiopic Calendar - Dr. Aberra Molla

Bahra Hassab - Getachew Haile (notation)

The Original Ethiopian Calendar - Heruy Seme (Amharic)

The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity - Messay Kebede

The Christianization of Time in Fifteenth Century Ethiopia - Steven Kaplan, in Religious Conversion: History, Experience and Meaning - eds. Ira Kantznelson, Mira Rubin

Zemen, The Ethiopian Calendar: History and Its Social Evolution, Names of Days & Months - Girma Demeke

A Scientific Examination of the Orthodox Church Calendar or the Old Calendar and Science - Hieromonk Cassian

The Julian Calendar: In Response to the Misapprehensions of Nicolas Ossorgin - Bishop Auxentios of Photiki

Liturgical Renewal and the Orthodox Church - Petros Vassiliadis (academa.edu)

Fasting in the Prophetic Tradition: An Examination of Isaiah 58 - Fr. Aaron Warwick

An Answer to a Question About Sexual Abstinence During Fasting Periods - Archbishop Chrysostomos

How Should We Conduct Ourselves During Meals? - Metropolitan Gregory of St. Petersburg (1784-1860)

Press Release - Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Twahedo Church Endorses Sermon Guide Encouraging Better Nutrition for Mothers and Children (January 12, 2016) - USAID

Fasting and Contemporary Orthodoxy in the Americas - Archimandrite Akakios of St. Gregory Palamas Monastery 

Justice as Asceticism - Maria McDowell (academia.edu)