Assyrians in Syria celebrate the anniversary of
the historic Fast of Nineveh

Hasaka - Osama adware Moses
Feb 3- 2007

Syria Politics, History, and Religion

Assyrian_celebration_in_hassakeh_1_2 held at the Church of Our Lady the Syrian city of Hassake large mass on the occasion of a festive anniversary of the Fast of Nineveh on Wednesday, December 31 of this month. And presided over the ceremony of the Divine Liturgy His Eminence Archbishop Mar Afram Otniil pastor Hasakah Assyrian Church of the East, assisted by a group of deacons distinguished and accompanied choir church choir. After reading out Isahaha of the Holy Bible, tenacious delivered a lengthy sermon in which he spoke of the sanctity of the occasion and their place in the Christian community in general, and our people, especially the Assyrian Syriac. As listed in which the incident fast of Nineveh (or Baot Nineveh) on the Prophet Jonah (Yunus the Prophet or as furnished by the Holy Quran) which Allaah commanded him to go to the city of Nineveh (capital of Assyria at the time) to call upon the sons to repent and return to the path of the Lord, and in time the famous Assyrian King Ashurbanipal.

He stressed that the Bishop of Saint Ephrem the Fast of Nineveh is a feature of parental singled out by God to our people of the Assyrian Syriac Christians all over the world and tenacious added: "We, Christians of today should be proud that we are descendants of those who repent and bones returned to the path of the Lord from Bmllekem and their children through the end of the Bnsaihm and their babies, who have fasted three days and nights as was the will of God. " And grant His Eminence Archbishop Mar Afram Otniil at the end of his homily, blessing the faithful who have borne the trouble of fasting for three consecutive days, praying to God to accept their fasting. And invited guests who filled the seats of the Interior and the outer courtyard to eat breakfast in the church hall, which the Commission on Women in the Church of the Virgin Mary cooked by the city of Hasaka and supervision.

This has been established in a number of churches Hasakah festive masses for the same event in each of the villages and cities and Khabour Qamishli and Maalikis and Qahtaniya and others. And Mrs. Hanna, the head performed Assyrian_celebration_in_hassakah_3_1 him for the Ladies Committee at the Church of the Virgin Mary on the occasion, saying: "linked to the appropriate number of religious traditions, heritage, which is the spirit and culture of peoples, Ktqrb persons who wish to marry (especially young males and females) to God the Creator through fasting for three consecutive days and nights.

Hanna and continued in an interview with reporter wealth in the city of Hasaka, saying: "In the meantime, the mothers prepared a dish popular Assyrian is a seven different types of cereals and pulses, Vtahmass together and grind to form a precise is called homogeneous (Buchenwald), does not complete the appropriate image only being addressed in the first breakfast after fasting. " Part of the architect said Juliet Yitzhak member of the Committee: "What distinguishes this event from other religious ceremonies is the tradition that accompanied."

She and Mrs. Atto "of the most important of these traditions to youth and young women from non-fasting and fasting, they eat seven teaspoons of eating the" Pokhin "after the end of fasting on the night of the fourth day and sleep - as required rituals - without drinking water, and is expected to dream of the person of the opposit sex who will bring them a glass of water to drink, "and follows Mrs. Isaac smiling" and, of course, is expected to be the person who loves them."

The Fast of Nineveh linked to the historical city of Nineveh - and is the capital of the Assyrian era before the collapse of the empire during the reign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who ruled Assyria in the seventh century BC - a duty of faith belongs only to the Christians of the Assyrian Syriac people deployed in Syria and Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Lebanon, and not regent other Christians in Syria and the world.