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P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ P̣enṭe) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians.Today, the term refers to all Evangelical Protestant denominations and organisations in Ethiopian and Eritrean societies.
The Lutheran liturgical calendar is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by various Lutheran churches. The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are from the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship and the calendar of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and ...
This date corresponds to the Old-Style Julian calendar; the start of the year has been transferred forward in the currently used Gregorian calendar to 11 or 12 September (on the year just before the Gregorian leap year). [2] This deviation between the Julian and the Gregorian Calendar will increase with the passing of the time. [4]
Year B begins on the first Sunday of Advent in 2020, 2023, 2026, etc. Year C begins on the first Sunday of Advent in 2021, 2024, 2027, etc. It differs from its Latin predecessor, however, in that—as a result of feedback collected from the participating churches during the trial period—a greater emphasis is given to Old Testament passages ...
As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year. In addition to figures found in the Bible, early Christians such as Saint Lawrence and Martin of Tours were retained as saints on the calendar, as were extra-Biblical commemorations like the Assumption of Mary. Following the ...
The Revised Julian calendar has the same months and month lengths as the Julian and Gregorian calendar, but, in the Revised Julian version, years evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, except that years with remainders of 200 or 600 when divided by 900 remain leap years, e.g. 2000 and 2400 as in the Gregorian calendar.
Protestant music also plays a dominant role since booming its distribution via CDs in 2000s, and recently it evolves from digital downloads. Some Ethiopian religious music has an ancient Christian element, traced to Yared , who lived during the reign of Emperor Gebre Meskel (Son of Kaleb of Aksumite Empire ) in the 6th century.
Some Eastern Protestant Churches are in communion with similar Western Protestant churches. [1] [5] However, there is no universal communion between the various Eastern Protestant churches. This is due to the diverse polities, practices, liturgies, and orientations of the denominations which fall under this category, as can be seen in Western ...