We need more,,,hurry up

Today we saw another cool declaration from the Ethiopian Orthodox Churches in Germany about the yestermonth turmoil. It is well compiled and articulated. (http://ethiomedia.com/adroit/ethio_orthodox_german.pdf). We need more of that kind. I feel .. these churches are making sure that their messages are reaching at home especially in the compound where the Ninjas are well sheltered. My surprising is where are the so called 'geleltegna' churches? If they choose to keep on silent, it should be clear for the laities that their reason to chose their path is not because of administrative reasons but something else perhaps business related issue. And I still cry where are 'the World Congree os the followers of EOTC' who came up with a great resolution like http://www.cyberethiopia.com/net/docs/tewahedo/Resolution%20of%20the%20Memenan%20Gubae%20final.pdf.
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Slander and Gossips are NOT Helpful!

When the time runs fast taking us to October, it is disappointing to see fellow country men and women trafficking cybers by Scilly slanders and gossips about issues which do not have any role to play when the fathers once again round the holy table in October. It is not helpful at all. I don't have any doubt that every body have no equal understanding of the church problem and can not think equally in search of solutions. The fathers who are ordained to led the church have no equal understanding let alone the ordinary laities. But, I think, there is something which somehow make us agree. The momentum we saw yestermonth will die for another 10 years unless we help to make it alive and lighted in October. So now is the time to execute that heavenly responsibility. It would be wonderful if views of men and men are directed towards solution making proposals.

So here is my further proposal:
Archbishops are in their respective dioceses waiting for the 2 weeks highly awaited fasting time. It will be a good chance for laities to meet the fathers in person. So let us push our parents, relatives, friends to ask them about the issue, to expresses their outrages about the disappointing action of the Ninjas attacking members of the Holy Synod. Let they demonstrate them their commitment that they will stand with them in defending the church. The same should be done to priests in charge of the morethan 25,000 parishes of EOTC.
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Where is the Online petition????????

I do remember to put my name on a couple of online petition formss about some church related problems - the aged Dier El Sultan Ethiopian Monastery was the one. Why don't some one initiate that campaign so that, by our signature, we can ask the fathers to discuss on the main issues and come up with decisions which will make us happy. Don't tell me that won't add any fuel in the minds of the fathers 98% of whom don't even touched computers let alone know how it brings change. The very information they will be reached about the online campaign will push them to push the issue. So let some one come with his/her expertise of filing the form and distribute among the Orthodoxawuyan in and around the Tech. My answer is simple if one ask me 'what if you do that sir/Madam?'. - I don't know how to make it.
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What I miss in the declarations???????

I have nothing more these days that make me happy than reading outrages from different parishes about the turmoil we saw last month in the Patriarchate. I wish all parishes of EOTC both inside and outside Ethiopia send their vexations that we can be blessed with a breath taking news in October. I even wish the so called 'sidetegnaw sinodos' can come back to its heart and send its stand to the Holy Synod demonstrating its willingness to drop its uncomfortable stand and join the mother church if the burning administrative problems can be solved. But I am missing one important point in the declarative papers dispatched yet. The declarations luck one important precondition. I think churches should say like 'if so won't be done in October, we will do so'. Analysing the contents of the declarations, it also look that they were initiated and wrote by the clergies. They miss the footprints of the laities which should had to be bold. Parish councils should organize the laities whom they represent and come up with more declarations!!!!!!! And where are Sunday Schools. We know that there are some strong Sunday Schools Unions. Where are they? Where is the one time Laities Council who once moved us with its fascinating objectives. Where is the 'Alem aqef yemeemenan goubae'?????????? Where are the so called 'geleltegnoch'??? I thought their choice of being neutral was due to the administrative problem the mother church has. So why they stay calm when the issue they badly needed raised in the house? Come on men...now is the time to stand together for the 'emancipation' of our emancipated church. Cry loud so that the 'building' will be abolished.

What I am missing

Recapping my cries

Dear Orthodoxawuyan,
I read a good wake up call from our Deje Selam today. As I frequently said, we should use our time and empower the fathers that they, in October, can push the most important agenda they could somehow raised last month. We don't have to wait for a wind of gossips and reports to move like we all did last time. This is a time God gave us to intensify the good fight. Let us organize clergies, laities, sunday schools, organizations in our neighbourhoods to come together and stand firm against the evils of our church. When we do so, the fathers will be energized to push the agenda forward and reach at a decision which enable our mother church show us her true beauty. I still believe that the seven question I threw at the eyes of the fathers are not invalid. I paste them here too:

1. የዚህ ቅዱስ ጉባኤ አባላት /ብፁዐን አበው/ ከእንካ ሰላትያ ርቀው የቤተ ክርስቲያሩን ልጆች በሀፍረት አንገታችንን ያስደፉ ልቡናችንን ሲበዘብዙ የሚኖሩ መሠረታዊ ችግሮች ላይ ተወያይተው በመንፈሳዊ ሐሴት እግዚአብሔርን እንድናመሰግን እነሱንም እንድናከብራቸው የሚያደርጉ ውሳኔዎችን በጉጉት እንደምንጠብቅ እንዲረዱ፤ እንደ ተለመደው በኮሚቴ ይጠና ብላችሁ እንዳትቀብሩትና እንዳትቀብሩን፤

2. ሊቃነ ጳጳሳቱ ቤተ ክርስቲያናቸው ሥልጣኑን የሰጠቻቸው ከውስጣዊ ምዝበራና ከውጫዊ ውርወራ እንዲጠብቋት መኾኑን ተገንዝበው ያለምንም ፍርሐትና አድር ባይነት ቀረቡ በተባሉትም ኾነ እነሱ በየማስታወሻቸው በያዟቸው ወቅታዊ የቤተ ክርስቲያን ችግሮች ዙሪያ እንዲከራከሩ

3. ጉባኤው በቤተ ክርስቲያሩ መሠረታዊ የአስተዳደር ችግሮች ላይ ተወያይቶ መፍትሔ ሲሰጥና ቤተ ክርስቲያሩ ተጠያቂነትንና ግልጽነትን ያረጋገጠ አስተዳደራዊ ስልት ስትዘረጋ የጥቅም ጉሮሮአችን ተዘጋ ብለው የሚጮኹ ውሾች በቤተ ክህነቱ ውድማ እንደሚኖሩ አውቀው እዚያ ወርቃማ ውሳኔ ላይ እንዳይደርሱ በግልጽና በስውር የሚያቀብሏቸውን የሐሳብ ተዋሕስያን ይዘው ወደ ተቀደሰው ጉባኤ እንዳይገቡ፤ የሽጉጥ ማስፈራሪያቸውንም ከቁብ እንዳይቆጥሩ፤

4. ውይይታቸውና ውሳኔያቸው ሁሉ የነገውን የቤተ ክርስቲያን ጉዞ የሚያስተካክል እንጂ የትላንትን ስሕተት የሚደግም ወይም ምክንያት የሚሰጥ እንዳይኾን፤

5. የአገሩ መንግሥት ከቤተ ክህነቱ ቅጽር ግቢ ተስፈንጥሮ ወደ ላይ ጉኖ ሲያበቃ የሚነጉደውን ዜና አልሰማም ማለት ጅልነት ስለሚኾን በግልጽም ይሁን በስውር በጉባኤው ላይ እጁን እንዳያሳርፍ፤ ለአባቶቻችን ነጻነት እንዲሰጥ፤

6. ምእመናን አሁን ያሉት ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት ያገለግሉን ዘንድ እግዚአብሔር የሾመልን አገልጋዮቻችን እንጂ የቤተ ክርስቲያሩ ባለቤቶች እኛ መኾናችንን ተረድተን ጉዳዩን በጥንቃቄ እንድንከታተለውና ነገ እናገኘው ዘንድ ለምንፈልገው የእናት ቤተ ክርስቲያናችን ሙቀት እውንነት አባቶቻችን በጥንካሬ ተወያይተውና ተከራክረው ጠቃሚ ውሳኔ ላይ እንዲደርሱ በያለንበት ግፊት እንድናደርግ፤

7. የቤተ ክርስቲያሩን የነገ ጉዞ የተቃና እንዲኾን ከልብ የሚመኙና ለዚያም በትጋት የሚሠሩ ግለሰቦች፣ ድርጅቶችና ማኅበራት ቤተ ክርስቲያን ከተጣባት የአስተዳደር ደዌ የምትፈወስበት ጊዜው አሁን መኾኑን ተረድተው እውነት እንድታሸንፍ የቻሉትን ያህል እንዲያደርጉ፤
I believe that all will be answered in October. But I equally believe that unless we do our part, the fathers will neither answer the above listed questions nor fulfil our wishes. So let us do our part defining the problems from general to particular and propose points which we think can be solutions.
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I can't tell you how I am so happy to hear the outrages from different diaspora (EOTC) churches and fathers against the Ninjas' action of trying to attack the fathers. I pray to hear more outrages. That might be the reason why I stayed out of my corner.
so let me continue:

3. Let us consider the causes of the problem: to have a comprehensive solution for our problems, let us try to explore the ROOT causes of the problem our church is languishing in. Handful of reasons can be listed. Politics, carelessness of the laity i.e. handing over the church to the monks, because of bad players in and around the church, Abba x and Abba y, etc. etc...

4. Let us develop alternative solutions: once we list the causes of the problems, let us draw up a list of feasible alternatives that will meet our needs. Much alternatives can be listed if we put our minds together here or somewhere else.

5. Let us evaluate the listed alternatives and communicate them with the stakeholders (laities, fathers, spiritual associations, Sunday schools, the government, etc)

6. Let us chose the best alternative and implement it: After examining the alternatives on the three conditions listed above, let's select the one which best addresses the problem defined in the first step and LET'S be sure to check that the selected alternative is the one which best meets our objectives and priorities.

These are the steps which, I think, we should follow to meet our objectives. I will continue on how to move forward and realize the steps mentioned above.
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In my private communications with friends and messages addressed to this blog, almost the majority of the people are disappointed by the resolutions the HS(?) came up yesterday after days of strife and harsh dialogue. We all have a reason for that. But as I said yesterday, the problem (administrative) the church inherited since decades is plenty in number and diversified in nature, what we got is satisfactory. Looking closely into the history of the HS under the current Patriarch, what has been achieved (out of the recent turmoil) is significant and satisfactory. We know that most of the members of the HS were speechless when horrible insults were thrown at them and amazingly intimidated by the Patriarch and the Ninjas under him. It is not small achievement for a sleepy lion to bark this loud and bite this small. I hope most of the readers who closely followed the 17 years journey of the HS of the Holy Church will agree with what I am saying. We might be surprised and angered when we hear an ordinary woman openly insult members of the HS as promiscuous people from whom no one can fit to be promoted. This is a normal ritual in the house - graceful fathers are always always always insulted and degraded by women and armed men in the compound. Women have a special place in the house. Armed men are the second. So let us be happy and thankful to the Lord that the sleepy lion has felt alerted. Let us hope that with this alacrity, the lion will crush the Ninjas to a fine and clear the house. Not too long but in October. For that to be true, let us do our assignment as parts of the Church we wish and cry to see her glorious. What are our assignments to be done until October?


1. Let us identify the problems of our church and define them clearly:

In the last 17 years, plenty of people showed up with their own lists and definitions of problems of our church. Different bodies mentioned what they believe are the main problems while the majority tried to define them in a narrower sense. Congreggations shouted, sunday schools cried, associations out voiced what measures should be taken, even some Archbishops started the mob. All ended up in vain. Because the staged problems lucked the representation of the full physique of the giant church. They look to be focused on the head. As to me this prevent the important stake holders from paying attention to other invisible problems. Therefore, let us clearly identify these problems and share each other. For the October General Assembly, we should outline the problems we want to be addressed by the HS and handover them in whatever way. When ever the number of my proposals increase below, the practical question which may come across into our mind will be answered.

2. Let us establish our objectives and priorities:

unless we establish our objectives, nothing will happen out of our cries and clamor. What was our objective to follow the 'concluded' turmoil in the patriarchate? What was our objective to support one idea over the other? What was our objective to discuss the issue with one another? What objective we still have to be achieved sooner or later? We should answer these questions before we engage our selves in the struggle to come. Our objectives should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound. But I kindly say this: let's set our objectives as soon as we can but at the same time, let us make sure that the objectives we are to work hard to achieve won't creat more new problems. I think we have to think seriously and identify all the other problems that will be created when the objective we set is achieved. Witness the invention of the atomic bomb. The problem raised to be solved by the time was how to drop 2 million tons of bombs on Japan using the least number of airplanes to accomplish this goal. Prior to the atom bomb, it took 1,000 B-29s to drop 200,000 tons of munitions on a Japanese city. The atom bomb allowed one airplane to do the work of 1,000. This was as far as the thinking went in July of 1945 when the decision was made to nuke Hiroshima and three other Japanese cities. Little did anyone consider that someday atomic bombs could be put in a suitcase and delivered by Federal Express to a city. Frankly speaking, if we are serious and loyal to the church's canon, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church should erase the third (HH Abune Tekle Haymanot) and the fifth (HH Abune Paulos) Patriarches from her Patriarchal history book. Because both were ordained while their predecessors were alive. But let us be lazies and accept our past history as it is. And at the same time, let us commit our selves not to repeat the weakest records of our history. As ordinary children of the church, let us not aim even think of removing the Patriarch from his chair. Let us give that part to those who have the full authority to do that.


hopefully to read different views, yiqoyen for more of my views


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