Current text edition (2013)
Waldaa Kristaanaa Warra Wangeelaa Makaana Yesus Itoophiyaa, Macaafa Sirna Waaqeffannaa fi Toora Tajaajila Hafuura. 2 vols. Addis Ababa: EECMY, 2013.
[Official Oromo translation of the Amharic EECMY Book of Liturgy and Worship, 3rd edition. Addis Ababa: EECMY, 2008]
Vol. 1 (services):
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Liturgical canticles
Trial version for the 2013 Book of Liturgy and Worship:
Former editions [Q: which ones?] of the Oromo EECMY Book of Liturgy and Worship included music notations of the liturgical canticles:
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Liturgy part in Onesimos’s primer and later hymnals
1894:
Onesimus Nesib (ed.). Jalqaba Barsiisaa: The Galla Spelling-Book [and Reader]. Imkullu: Swedish Mission-Press, 1894.
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1932:
Wassmann, Dietrich (apparently with the assistance of Dafaa Jammoo). Translation of parts of the liturgy used in Hermannsburg during the Sunday service (in the Kleine Kreuzkirche?). Manuscript (seems to be lost). Aira, 1932.
1935 (as already in 1927?); 1959/60:
Nordfeldt, M. and I., eds. Galata Waaqayyo Gooftaa Machaa. 2nd edition (reprint). Addis Ababa: Nigdii Publishing House, 1959/60. [1st ed. Addis Ababa, 1935; probably the same as in the duplicated booklets in 1927]
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(Qubee transcription and English translation)
1953:
N.N., ed. SEM Interim Liturgy Book. Bilingual service order in Amharic and Oromo. [View online later]
196x:
Bauerochse, Ernst, and Dafaa Jammoo. Bilingual service orders in Amharic and Oromo. [View online later]
1969/70:
Lamessa Bato, ed. Sagalee Lubbuu Galata Waaqayyof [ሰገሌ ሉቡ ገለተ ዋቀዮፍ, Words from the soul to praise God]. Mimeograph. [Addis Ababa] 1969/70. [1962 A.M.]
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(Qubee transcription and English translation)
Video
“Kyrie” (Galata Waaqayyoo, 1998, hymn no. 66):
[Video with televised Sunday service during Corona lockdown no longer available because the YouTube account associated with it has been canceled.]
Further reading
Swedish
Handbok för svenska kyrkan. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups Förlag, 1899.
[English translation by Eric E. Yelverton, 1921.
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German
Bauerochse, Ernst. In Dienst genommen: Erinnerungen eines Missionars. Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus, 2007.
- On Bauerochse’s contribution to the Gimbi Board liturgy, see pp. 101‒05; view online]
Agende für die evangelisch-lutherische Kirche der Provinz Hannover. Hannover: Schlüter, 1901.
Kleines Kantionale I für einstimmigen Chor: Zum Band I der Agende für evangelisch-lutherische Kirchen und Gemeinden. 2nd ed. Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, 1960. [1st ed. 1958]
Meyer, Johannes (ed.). Die Hannoversche Agende im Auszug (Liturgische Texte 9). Bonn: Marcus & Weber, 1913.
- A 19th-century Hanoverian order of worship used at the Lutheran Free Church in Hermannsburg during Bauerochse’s time.
Cross-references
» View Amharic EECMY liturgy
» View Dirayta EECMY liturgy
» View Hadiyya EECMY liturgy
» View Kambaata EECMY liturgy
» View Sidaama EECMY liturgy
» View Tigrinya ELCE liturgy
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