Tewahedo vs Tsom Guide

Tewahedo is an app designed for your iPhone and iPod Touch devices that gives you access to a vast collection of carefully curated spiritual resources from one of the most ancient churches of the world - the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church! The beautiful and intuitive user interface makes using this app a delight! Tewahedo brings you: • A well detailed, easy to follow Ethiopian-Gregorian calendar combo integrated with Bahire Hasab and Gitsawe. Finding the liturgical reading for any day in any year is just a tap away. - Bahire Hasab is a complex counting system used to calculate the dates of feasts and fasts of the EOTC. - Gitsawe is an intricate index system used as a guideline to refer to which Divine Liturgy is to be performed including gospel readings, hymns and preaching topics for each day of the year. • Hundreds of songs, sermons, narration of literary works, and a vast archive of radio transmissions from Mahibere Kidusan's radio stations to listen to • Prayer books -- Wudasie Amlak, Wudasie Mariam, Yezewotr Tselot, Yiwiedswa Mela'ekt. • Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church directory - This feature allows you to locate the nearest church and with just one tap you'll get driving directions. - You can also search churches by viewing the state by state directory - Basic information on all churches • Holiday reminders -- never forget the start of fasting seasons and major holiday with this feature of the app. • News and other articles -- read news and other articles related to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church right from the app.

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.