Your Parish vs Tsom Guide

Your Parish Orthodox — Your Community, In Your Pocket Your parish is more than a building — it is a living community of people, traditions, and shared faith. Your Parish Orthodox brings that community to your phone, so you can stay connected, informed, and involved wherever life takes you. Belong to Something Bigger: Your Parish Orthodox is not just a schedule app. It is the heartbeat of your parish between services. The moment news is posted, you receive it. Feast day announcements, volunteer calls, special events, community milestones — nothing slips through the cracks. Stay Close, Even From Afar: Life does not always allow you to be in the pew. Join services through livestream and remain part of the community whether you are traveling, unwell, or living far from home. Distance is no longer a reason to feel disconnected from the people and traditions that matter most. Know Your Clergy and Community Get to know the clergy who serve your parish — their backgrounds, roles, and how to reach them. Whether you have a pastoral question or simply want to feel more at home, your community leaders are just a tap away. Participate in the Life of Your Parish: Commemorations — submit names for commemoration at the Liturgy through Book a Service, keeping a tradition that has united Orthodox Christians for centuries. Donations — Support your parish's ministry, upkeep, and special campaigns directly through the app. Reserve Bookings — Reserve sacraments, pastoral appointments, and services with ease, no phone calls, no waiting. Parish Store - Browse and purchase items from your parish community. Never Miss What Matters: Push notifications deliver parish news, service updates, and announcements the moment they are published. Because being part of a community means staying connected to it — not catching up after the fact. Nourish Your Daily Spiritual Life Begin each day with the daily scripture reading, drawn from the Orthodox lectionary. Browse the parish photo gallery and explore the history and story of your community — all in one place. Your Parish on Your Home Screen: Add the Your Parish Orthodox widget to your Home Screen for an instant glance at upcoming services, the latest announcement, and today's reading. A quiet, daily reminder that you belong to something greater than yourself. Whether you have been a member for decades or are walking through the doors for the first time, Your Parish Orthodox is built to help you find your place, deepen your connection, and grow within your community. Your parish. Your faith. Your pocket. Available in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.

What may you eat today? Tsom Guide answers the question every fasting member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church asks each morning — not just "is today a fast?", but exactly which foods are permitted: strict vegan, fish permitted, or no restriction at all. A TRUE FASTING-RULE ENGINE, NOT A DATE LIST At the heart of Tsom Guide is a genuine per-day engine for the Ge'ez calendar. It computes the moveable feasts and fasts from first principles — Fasika (Easter) and everything that hangs from it: the Great Lent (Hudadi), the Fast of Nineveh, the Apostles' Fast, Peraklitos — alongside the fixed observances: Advent, Genna, Timkat, Meskel, Filseta (the Fast of the Assumption), the weekly Wednesday and Friday fasts, Gahad, and the great feasts of the year. Because every day is computed by the same engine, the calendar, the season countdowns and the daily verdict can never disagree. YOUR OBSERVANCE, YOUR RULING Choose Strict or Standard observance in Settings, and every ruling follows it — including the contested question of fish on the Wednesday and Friday fasts. Switch observance and watch the same day re-rule itself. EVERYTHING THE FAITHFUL NEED, IN ONE PLACE • Today — this morning's ruling at a glance: the fasting level, the reason the day is kept, and plain lists of what is permitted and what to avoid. • Day Detail — every fast explained: its meaning, its hours (one meal after 3 p.m. where the canons ask it), and the foods that belong on the table. • Calendar — the whole Ge'ez month at a glance, every day colour-coded: green for no restriction, ochre for fish permitted, crimson for strict fast, gold for the great feasts. • Seasons — the year ahead in order, counting down the days to each coming fast and feast, from Enkutatash to Fasika. • Daily reminder — a quiet morning notification carrying the day's ruling, at the hour you choose. • English and Amharic together — every observance named in both tongues, as it is in the life of the Church. Tsom Guide is dressed as a page from a Ge'ez manuscript: parchment, ox-blood and gold, serif lettering, and the hand-drawn cross of the Ethiopian tradition. Reverent, calm, and made to be opened every morning. The fasting rules encoded here are drawn from public sources on the Tewahedo tradition. Where practice varies between parishes and households, follow the counsel of your priest.