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✞✞✞On this day, Hedar 15, we begin the Fast of the Prophets (Advent)✞✞✞

✞✞✞In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen!✞✞✞

✞✞✞The Fast of the Prophets (Advent)✞✞✞
=>The Holy Church has 7 Fasts that She ordered the faithful to fast. A fast is an abstinence. And we abstain from sin and wickedness. In addition, we refrain from foods that would lead our bodies to them (to sin and wickedness).

✞The 7 Fasts are
1. Great Lent - Abiye Tsome /Hudadi/ Tessaracoste (forty days fasting) [contains 56 days in practicality]
2. The Fast of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin
3. The Fast of the Apostles (After Pentecost)
4. The Fast of the Prophets (Advent)
5. The Fast of Redemption (On Wednesdays and Fridays)
6. The Fast of Nineveh and
7. The Paramon (Gahad) Fasts (On the Eves of Christmas and Epiphany)

✞On these fasts except Great Lent one should fast up to the 9th hour of the day (3:00 PM). However, Great Lent has a different rite, it will be discussed in the future. When we talk of fasting, the first question raised is regarding its necessity. But it is better to ask, “What is the need for faith?” than ask “What is the need for fasting?”

✞And this is because it is the principal of the commands of the faith and standing against it is protesting against faith and the One Who commanded it, God. There is a wicked tendency in our country, which is becoming a habit, that is debating stating, “It is not necessary,” when things become difficult for one.

✞I (the author) am astounded by people who quote verses to annul fasts. To sin, to invalidate fasts it is not necessary to quote verses. Nonetheless, we fast to our abilities as our Creator, Jesus Christ, had started it (Matt. 4:2) and as our blessed fathers had shown us by abstaining (Deut. 9:19, 1Kgs. 19:8, Acts 13:3 and 1Cor 4:11).

=>The Fast of the Prophets (Advent) is the fast that our fathers and mothers from our father, Adam, to St. John the Baptist fasted wanting salvation and aid.

✞Particularly, our father Adam, St. Moses, St. Elijah and St. Daniel, these holy men, are attested to for their fasts. (Deut. 9:19, 1Kgs. 19:8, Dan. 9:3)

✞And St. David saying, “chastened my soul with fasting” (Ps. 68(69)10, 108(108):24) showed how he subdued his body for God. The fast of the Holy Prophets that they fasted in toil and hardship did reach heaven and it pulled the Son from His throne (He became incarnate). And it led Him die.

✞In the time of the Old, Saints of each era, because they fasted, were removed from tribulation. And they were endowed with grace, honor and favor. This fast begins on the 15th of Hedar (November 24) and completes on Tahisas 29 (January 7), and once in 4 years, in a leap year, recedes a day (back to Tahisas 28).

✞The Fast has different names. And the following are some of them.
1. The Fast of the Prophets
2. The Fast of Mary (As she had fasted the fast of her fathers’ when she had conceived the Lord)
3. The Fast of the Apostles (As they had fasted it wanting the blessings of the Prophets)
4. The Fast of Genna/Nativity (Genna – means the Nativity of Christ the praised)
5. The Fast of Exhortation [of Advent] (Because the Ministry of the Prophets is remembered in the season)
6. The Fast of Hedar (Because of the month it begins in.)
7. The Fast of Philip (Because the Disciples of the Apostle Philip fasted it [for 3 days] to find his relics after he was martyred.)

✞✞✞May the God of the Prophets not deprive us from the grace and blessing that would be garnered by the fast.

✞✞✞“Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.”✞✞✞
Joel 2:12-13

✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞

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Later, he became an ascetic and was tonsured a monk. 

✞And after struggling for years in the narrow path, he reached perfection. [He reached to such spiritual heights that] he made a great serpent that used to kill the people and animals of the area submissive for 10 years. And on this day, the Saint departed after years of struggle.

✞✞✞May the God of the Holy Angels send them to us for aid. And may He grant us from their blessings.

✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 8th of Hedar
1. The Four Holy Living Creatures (The Four Holy Incorporeal Beasts)  (The Cherubim)
2. Saint Afnin the Archangel
3. Abba Kefronia (Copronius) the Righteous
4. Emperor Saint Constantine the Great (With the Holy Cross)
5. Saint Egzi Kibra

✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. St. Moses the Arch-prophet
2. Abba Bishoy (Pishoy)
3. Abba Karas (Kiros/ Cyrus)
4. Abba Samuel of Qualamon (the Confessor)
5. St. Matthias the Apostle (One of the 12 Apostles)

✞✞✞“And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”✞✞✞
Rev. 4:6-8

✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞

(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)

Matthew aided by the Cherub with the appearance of a Man, St. Mark aided by the Cherub with the appearance of a Lion, St. Luke aided by the Cherub with the appearance of an Ox and St. John aided by the Cherub with the appearance of an Eagle wrote the Gospels, until today they are called as “Matthew the Man”, “Mark the Lion”, “Luke the Ox” and “John the Eagle”.

✞And it is written in many hagiographies and homilies that these holy angels have aided the children of men. Including in their own homily, “The Homily on the Four Incorporeal Beasts”, their deeds have been widely written in the Accounts of Makarios/Macarius and the Acts of Pisentius/Basendius.

✞And us, the Orthodox Christians, believing in their glory, aid and intercession, honor/venerate them daily as our fathers had prayed saying,

“Salutations to you, Cherubim, His mounts
Golden crowns for the head of a believer or a righteous.
Before God Whom by His throne you carry
For those that transgressed and those in iniquity
Beseech salvation and want mercy”
Arke of Hedar 8 – Abba Arke Selus

✞✞✞Saint Constantine the Great - Flavius Valerius Constantinus✞✞✞
=>There is no other Emperor who has done a great deed as St. Constantine in the Era of the New Testament for the Church. The righteous Emperor was born in Byzantium from his mother St. Helena and his father Constantius Chlorus.  

✞The time was an Era of Tribulation in which Christians were brutally massacred. And in the forty years of persecution, to eradicate Christians from the earth, churches and holy books were burned. While many fled to the deserts/wildernesses, millions were viciously slaughtered.

✞A person who does not comprehend the tribulation of that period will not honor St. Constantine. [The Saint is honored] because he was the one who put a stop to the Epoch of Persecution by the Will of God. And because it was during his reign that the power of faith was elevated, much of the rites and orders were prepared, and the Church was able to shine.   

✞The Saintly Emperor also built Churches for all the prophets, apostles and martyrs in Constantinople which he, himself, founded. And during his reign, the Church existed in peace and he lived without rivals by the Power of the Cross.

✞On this day, the Great Emperor saw the Holy Cross at the River Tiber.  When he made an expedition to Rome to defeat Maximianus (Maxentius), he saw in the sky the Saving Cross and the phrase, “ἐν τούτῳ νίκα –  en    toutói  níka” written upon it in Greek.

✞And those around him (a Christian soldier named Awsengios), translated it for him as, “With this Cross you will be victorious over your enemy.” And St. Constantine put the sign of the Cross on the shields, on the spears, on the swords, on the horses and was victorious over Maximianus (Maxentius), the abode of Satan.

✞May God protect us by the Power of the Holy Cross as well.

✞✞✞ Abba Kefronia (Copronius) the Righteous✞✞✞
=>This holy man was a heathen in his earlier life. However, because sincerity was found in him, God called him in His goodness to His House. As his father was a heathen and a governor, he raised Kefronia teaching him as such.

✞Nonetheless, one day, God sent him a call. And it was that the fathers of a monastery saw him and foretold about him a prophecy, when he was a youth.  And when they said, “This man will become a good Christian and a chosen vessel,” let alone to others, it meant nothing to him. In such a manner, as a heathen, he lived for years and then Kefronia became a governor.

✞And at the time, what the heathen governors of Egypt saw as great work was the burning of churches and the plundering monasteries. Hence, he too rose to do such matters. He then reached a monastery on a chariot followed by soldiers. However, when he stepped on the grounds of the monastery, his heart was softened immediately.✞He then sent back his soldiers to the city and he alone entered into the monastery. He then went and prostrated before the Abbot and asked him that he be baptized by him. Thus, the Abbot taught and baptized him.

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