Holy Bible
Everything else God made, He just spoke into existence.
On day six He made these, the only ones "in our image."
humans (Adam and Eve, mankind)?
Genesis 1:26-27
Soldier on a horse in nearly every one of our churches.
The Church calls him the Chief of Martyrs
St. George
Every one of our churches has one in the sanctuary: a holy copy of the Ark of the Covenant.
No church is complete without it, and only priests touch it.
Tabot (ታቦት)
He missed the first appearance, said he needed to see the nail marks, then looked at Jesus and said, "My Lord and my God!"
Thomas
The Church's word for what we do on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Turns out it works on phones too.
fasting (ጾም, Tsom)
An Ethiopian official was riding home in his chariot reading this prophet out loud when Philip ran up and asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?
Isaiah
Acts 8:28-35
Born in Axum, he got his music from three birds from Paradise and wrote the chants our church still sings.
St. Yared (Jared)
It's the last word of our Church's name, and it means "being made one."
Tewahedo (ተዋሕዶ)
He denied Jesus three times.
After the Holy Spirit came, he stood up and preached, and 3,000 people were baptized that day.
St. Peter
Fasting is not punishment.
It's training this part of you to pick God when something else is easier.
will (willpower, self-control)
People tried to build their way up to heaven and God scattered their language.
At Pentecost, God flipped it: everybody heard the Gospel in their own language.
Tower of Babel
She went to Jerusalem looking for the Cross.
Everyone said it was gone, and there was a whole hill of garbage on top of it.
She dug anyway and found three crosses.
Empress (St.) Helena, Queen Eleni?
The big fast before Fasika: 55 days long.
Give either name.
Tsome Abiy (Hudade), the Great Lent
Seven demons were cast out of her, she stayed at the Cross when most ran, and she was the first to see the Risen Christ.
People call her the "Apostle to the Apostles."
Mary Magdalene
The disciples couldn't free a boy no matter how hard they tried.
Jesus said, "This kind comes out only by ____ and ____."
prayer and fasting
This guy wrestled all night and would not let go: "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."
Jacob
Genesis 32:26
Shipwrecked on the Red Sea coast as a young man, he taught Prince Ezana about Christ and became the first bishop of Axum.
Ethiopians call him Abba Salama, "Father of Peace."
Frumentius
During Semoune Hemamat, the week before Easter, we don't greet each other with a kiss.
Why not?
To turn away from Judas, who betrayed Jesus with a kiss
Jesus made a whip, flipped the money changers' tables, and His disciples remembered:
"The ____ of thine house hath eaten me up."
Fill in the word.
zeal
John 2:15-17
St. Peter wrote that a person becomes a slave to whatever does this to him.
"masters him" (controls him, overcomes him)
The crowd told this blind man to be quiet when Jesus walked by.
He yelled even louder.
Bartimaeus
Mark 10:46-48
She was the Emperor Diocletian's own wife.
She watched St. George's miracles, believed in Christ, and was killed for it.
Queen Alexandra
Our Church, along with the Coptic Church, refused to sign on at this council, because it split Christ into "two natures."
Name the council.
the Council of Chalcedon
Why did Jesus have to go up (the Ascension) before Pentecost could happen?
So He could send the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to live with us and in us
Of all the harms from heavy phone use, this is the one research shows the clearest.
(losing) sleep