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):
» Read Vol. 2 (front and back material)
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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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
Musiken till Svenska Mässan: Bilaga till svenska kyrkans handbok. Edited by Gunnar Wennerberg et al. Stockholm: A. Lundquist, 1896. [View Swedish excerpt online]
- See also the English translation of a later edition of the “Handbok”: The Swedish Rite: A Translation of “Handbok för Svenska Kyrkan [1917]” [Archive.org]
Den svenska kyrko-handboken: stadfäst av Konungen år 1942. Church of Sweden’s Diaconal Board, 1942.
- View excerpt online
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. 101‒105; view online]
Agende für die evangelisch-lutherische Kirche der Provinz Hannover. Hannover: Schlütersche Buchdruckerei, 1901.
- Probably also used at the Lutheran Free Church in Hermannsburg during Bauerochse’s time; view excerpt online
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]
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Cross-references
» View History of the Oromo EECMY Liturgy
» 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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Secure your copy (2 vols.) from Headquarters of any EECMY Synod using Oromo as language of worship or from:
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus
Central Office
Jomo Kenyatta Road (close to Meskel Square)
Addis Ababa