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'what we see ... depends ... on what we look for'

There is this saying - what we see and hear depends mainly on what we look for. We were tensioned much thinking about the result of the assemly. And today, we're reached with some news about the result of their first day meeting. The main, perhaps, the only decision made was empowering the leadership of some departments with members of the HS. Let us take this as a positive decision for it, at least from the experiences we see in other sister churches, will help the departments (and in a way the church) perform better. But if we read in between the lines, this decision was agitated to indirectly achieve the goal of keeping the upper hand soon and later. The obvious hypothesis that should come into our mind is - this is done either to destroy the Executive Committee as a body of management or disperse the members of the HS who are and to be entitled in the body; to let their power be confined in the departments they are assigned for. Remeber it was the first team of this body who moved the house and got the ninjas act as crazy and foolish. This fear will be off if they are going to decide to keep the management body they formed. The other gossip is to indirectly corner the HS to accept the quiry of ordaining more bishops who are believed to be loyal memebrs who can balance the pivot. If we remember, the ajenda was unanimously rejected by the HS when it was tabled with the argument that there are enough fathers who can serve the church. Now if these fathers are given departments, it would be easy to convince the HS members that ordaining new bishops is vital.
We pray to see the following accomplishments at the end of this meeting : the Holy Synod gets back its full authority to lead the church; the ninjas who emaciated the church are erradicated from the house; the members of the HS are unified to maintain the honor and grace of the church. Until we see these, we don't have to enjoy or sit back and say, 'temesgen'. Let us rather pray and do what we can do.

Cries...distress...desperation - October!

We made and heard too many cries of concern, distress, and desperation! Cries to members of the Holy Synod to save our church from the Ninjas. Distresses for we are scared of the way our church is marching. Desperation because of the bold involvement of external unholy hands in the internal issue of the holy institution, the Holy Church of Jesus Christ. We did all these waiting for this week - the week we hope, pray and excited for that the Heavenly Father do a Miracle and spare His Church from destruction. And here come the week. Today at dusk, the fathers hold the usual prayer for the opening of the Holy Synod General Assembly. They called upon God to be with them in the hall leading their assembly. They were spiritually joined by all the children of the church from cave to metropolis, from monastic huts to well furnished apartments. As created beings, we can't forecast what will come when this much anticipated meeting is over. But this is what we believe. The Almighty will judge against the evil tactics designed (by the enemy), the garbage propaganda Satan circulated (through his agents), the wicked wish enemies of the church are looking for. Our eyes, ears, hearts... are teamed up and sent to that compound. In doing so, we truly cry and ask God for His Divine intervention that we '' we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Psalm 90:14. Yes we should pray cryin'!!!

Great Job

It should not be questioned that our church should use what God avails to his children today - the technology! That should be the must win challenge our church has already faced because of the 19th century mentality its leaders are weird of. We all are proud of the well articulated and truly biblical teachings of our mother church. Its dogma is divinely formulated upon which prescribed is its canon and cultivated the enormous body of tradition we find in the day to day life of the church. We should unearth all these wealth so that the spiritually deserted world can get rest in the Hands of the Almighty God. One or (at this era of technology) best way to accomplish this heavenly task should be using the technology. So much so for the intro and now comes what we called the 'Great Job'.

Deje - Selam, the most vocal blog which (in its own way) is fighting the good fight to clean the house from the Ninjas has come up with an online petition which should be signed by everybody who want to see prosperous Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church and, after all, Ethiopia. Azekiri, as it was one of the proposals she forwarded a couple of months ago, would like to express its heartfelt admiration to the blog and the team which worked hard to make that happen. We wish we could get the petition online a couple of weeks ago for it could reach to the eyes of all the holy synod members especially those who lead different Diaspora dioceses. We could even ask them to take the petition with them as it goes to their responsibility. But we are not late. let us all sign the petition and we hope the bloggers will have a way to make it read before the inauguration of the much expected and much wished to be historic Synodal Assembly.

AD21