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Tigrinya Hymnal Suggestions, Anyone?

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Tue, 07/20/2010 - 17:57 — Haruo

I got home from the Hymn Society convention in Birmingham only to discover that my church now (first meeting 7/18) has an Eritrean church plant meeting in the sanctuary Sunday afternoons. Assuming this is not a flash in the pan, this means among other things rethinking where we will hold our next Evergreen Hymn Sing, currently set for 10/24 at 2 pm in the sanctuary. But more immediately, it means I need to find out about Tigrinya (or Tigrigna, or Tigriña, same thing—the real name is ????) hymnals, if such exist. A Google search suggests nothing of the sort. I shouldn't really say "hymnals"; "hymn resources" is more like it, including webpages, sound files, etc.

Anybody hereabouts know anything about this? Many Eritreans are Christians; the Orthodox Church, using Ge'ez as its liturgical language, goes back at least to the time of the Council of Chalcedon (ca. 450). I assume that even the Orthodox have some indigenous religious songs, even if they are not sung in church, and I assume that the many Protestant and other non-Orthodox Eritrean Christians have songs (whether indigenous or borrowed/translated) that they do sing in church, but so far I have not located any information on this subject nor any references to where such songs might be found.

Any assistance or suggestions would be an improvement over the nothing I currently know.

Haruo


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Tue, 10/02/2012 - 18:30 — Balambaras

I have a copy of Mezmur Selam (Songs of Peace), a hymnal in Tigrinya that was publishedd in Asmara in 1969, words of the songs, no music; copyright by the Swedish Evangelical Mission, Asmara. This was the only Protestant hymnal that I knew of in the 70s when I was there.
Let me know if I can be of help. Of course there are Christian congregations in this country (US) that use Tigrrinya and who might help you, I know of one or two.
regards
You can write me at enfasit@gmail.com. Actually the correct address name is nefasit rather than what you see at the left. Low end spamblocker.

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