Blessings!

Could someone advice me on where to buy her CD? I would appreciate it.

Thank You

Geta

She obviously likes the piano, not the begena, but as any musician worth his/her salt she could probably play any instrument (especially if she practices 9 hours a day). Let her use whatever she likes and play it however she wants.

She obviously likes using music in praise of God. Her life is not unlike Saint Yared’s. He was not understood as well in the 6th Century until Atse Gebre Meskel’s mesmerized wounding of his foot.

She was a member of the Aristocracy and yet shunned her life of pleasure, the chance to have a happy married life with children and a husband in the devotion to her faith and the almighty. Rather than finding some if not all of this astounding and trying to emulate her in some way in your lives, you talking heads can’t help prattling off how she was less than perfect.

Do you realize how ridiculous you all sound ? Christ himself could come down and you would be too busy criticizing how there wasn’t enough flash and bang in his arrival to notice the end of times was here.

What is this assumed right to criticize everything ? Where do you folks get the arrogance to believe you have any right to tell another human being how they may praise God? If the EOTC authorities in the 1950′s and 60′s and the defender of the Orthodox faith the Emperor of Ethiopia didn’t find issue with her practice who are you to judge her?

Her eyes were watching God and trying to emulate him when most of you were probably watching Russia and China and destroying the schools and public transportation system it had taken decades of sacrifice to build.

It is apparent (some of you) do not care about “Ethiopia” unless its the Ethiopia you dream about (and perhaps other folks have nightmares about). You can’t share this Ethiopia with a nun who serves God, how in the world are you going to share/live in it with each other?

You inspire me because you are free. Because you have found the truth in you. And because you have known the God who resides in the temple of your heart. I understand that you herald the words of God through each strike of keys of your piano; Is it just a piano that you play anyway? Otherwise, why would it attract anyone’s taste? Unless it comes from where we came? And that is God.

I also understand that you live in a world which is overwhelmingly filled with misunderstanding. So pe0ple may envy you for your freedom. For the freedom that they missed due to their own laziness- to walk up along the path of truth and honesty and find it for themselves. Crippled by fear, and therefore by ignorance. So they judge you, just to make themselves feel better. It is not surprising though for they had done the same to the lord.

God bless you, God bless the truthful heart.

God be with her. May he be her right hand and give her long life.

With respect,
Dr. Fessessework Assebe

I have heard about Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru for a long time. But this is the first time that I have learned that she is the daughter of Kentiba Gebru and the sister of Desta Gebru, well known Ethiopians.

Emahoy , prisnor of azhinara ?”

By the way, Desta Gebru her sister was once director of Etege Menen School, and the first women elected to parliament.

Long live Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru , with all my heart.

May God give Amahoy love and strength to share her experience with all of us.

God bless Amohay.
Bisrat

The response of Ameha Giyrogis is in the best tradition of the old Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which was governed by Alexandria, Egypt. That church also forbade farming decreeing some 420 saint days in a year of only 360 days. Isn’t that absurd? Yes it is, but true!

When will the likes of Ameha Giyrogis wake up to the reality of the tricks Egypt and the Arabs have been playing on us, Ethiopians, for centuries? Piano and many other musical instruments are sin, and so are arts and crafts the works of the budda, (demons) and they can also cast an evil eye on you… etc.

It is clerics like Ameha Giyrogis within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church that persecuted the famous Kidus Yared, jealous of his talent, because they could not sing and compose music like him. There is no burial place of Kidus Yared as he fled away from their persecution, and no one knows where and how his life ended. The same thing happened to our national philosopher, Zerea Yaekob, and he too fled away from the clerics of Axum to work for a wealthy farmer at Enfraz, in Begemidir, Gonder. So, I am not surprised by the response of Ameha Giyorgis. It is high time that we reject such response as anti Ethiopian, and has no merit.

What Emahoy is doing is beautiful and should be respected. She is a true Ethiopian, and may God bless her, keep her well, and give her many more years to play her music.

MAY GOD BLESS EMAHOY TSEGE GEBRU!!!

God bless your path in life,
A loving Ethiopian

It is very naive for me to comment on this issue of “piano” but I would not say other faithful Christians that have similarity on the 7 Sacraments with the EOTC are conducting the worldly or unfaithful rejoice to our Lord. At time in Rome,Istanbul, or Athena they have rejoiced the Lord with what they got but now different and it would not disqualify them from being the children of God. The last word of Psalm 160:6 says “Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord”.

Finally, I am a sinful person and I ask my Lord for his forgiveness.

God bless you all.
Let Mary the mother of our Lord shield us from all evil work

Dear all underline that, as I am a sinner one, I am not commenting on, but from the point of reality that we must be in line with our Church.

As I have read the history of “Emahoy”, I afraid that it is not the right deed, since the current challenge to our church is, people have query “why the church not use the worldly musical instruments… Guitar, Piano…”. However, our Church does have a very precious and spiritual gift to praise our LORD, based on the Holy Bible, i.e., St. Yared’s Holy Hymen, written books of the hymen…

In the late 1980′s of Ethiopian calendar, trial and challenge to use the worldly musical instruments was a big issue, by “Tehadso” movement (currently, they have already joined the Protestants). Thanks to our LORD, our Fathers solved it amicably.

However, today also many ask about its use forgetting the background, the sacrifices that our St. Fathers paid to transfer all the things in our Church for today, Which is stated that praising our LORD, using Begena, Mesenko… (Mezmur 150:1-6), what ever the English Bible would say, our reference must be our Holy Bible.

As our Church puts the right rules and regulations with the will of our LORD, the way we should follow, while we live in., we must abide with her rules, unless other wise, unknowingly or knowingly, we would trace back to the queries of the “Tehadiso”, which is very contrary to our Church.

So that at any point, whilst we have issue of such kind and others, we have to see them against our Churches Dogmas, rules and regulations and traditions. Besides, we should have to consult the concerned Church Fathers.

Your sinner brother,

Gebre Eyesus

Tekle Mariam

Although it is a very touching story, I was not pleased with some of the things I see on this article. First off, as you may all be aware, the name is Emahoye is given to for women that are followers of the Ethiopian Orthdox Tewahedo BeteKiristian , who chose to give up this materialistic world and give their lives to serve only the Almighty God. When choosing to be a nun in EOTC church, you vow to not to look back to your past and all the sinful worldly life, considering yourself dead to the things this world has to offer and fulfill the duties of God by walking the path and the rules our Great Fathers laid for us, and one of the path as I mentioned earlier is leaving this world behind, which includes your past hobbies that won’t bind you with God, in this case, playing the Piano. Our Mother, as we read her story, in her past life, she loved playing the piano before becoming menokse (nun) which means nothing because each of us plenty of hobbies that do not please God, however, after becoming a nun, after repenting and giving our word to God to leave this world behind along with the things that will pull us back to the world playing the Piano is defiantly not allowed, in a sense Piano is of the world not part of the Church. Please believe, this is not just part of a culture but part of the religion’s rules. As I read her story, I saw that she studied the hymns of St. Yared and mentioned how the Kolo Temariwoch lived outside churches to study the beautiful hymns of St. Yared, as our mother is a witness of this beautiful gift from God which has no attachment with the worldly musical instrument (Piano), for those of you know the hymns of St. Yared, Piano has nothing to do with it, but has its own gracious sounds and movies that was given to St. Yared to praise ONLY the Lord of Hosts. As I tried to explain the difference between living in this world and being a nun (Menokse) which is significantly different, thus my last statement to our Mother is to trade her hobby (or love of music, or love of piano) to the love of Christ, as she is restricted only to serve him not to please this worldly feelings. AS our Lord himself said, he who wants to serve (follow) me leaves everything (this world) behind and carry my cross. As piano (music) in general is from this world, we should all leave that behind and concentrate on servicing and pleasing only God. Especially the followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, because God gave us the hymns of St. Yared. We need to commemorate the hymns of St. Yared NOT jazz & classical music. We need to work harder to introduce the breath taking hymns of St. Yared not the worldly music.

Please Note: I am not Judging her but stating the facts about our religion, please pray for me so I won’t be judgmental as judging a person is a great sin (Mat 7:1)

Egziabhair Yihn Endinderg Yiradn, please pray for so I can leave by what I wrote above

Ameha Giyrogis

Thank you.

Concerned,
Virginia

Thank you
Haile-

Thanks,
Tame’ from DC