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Sources & Credits
Gedam’s liturgical content is drawn from validated, cited sources, never written from memory. This page names the churches, translators, and editions the app rests on, in gratitude for their work and in service of the trust this content asks of you. If you find an error in any reading, fast, feast, prayer, or saint, please tell us. We take it seriously.
Holy Scripture
The offline Bible, assembled from public-domain texts the Church receives.
Saints & the Synaxaria
The lives of the saints, commemorated each day.
Lectionaries · the appointed daily readings
Each tradition’s own appointed readings, from its own source.
Fasts, feasts & the liturgical calendar
The fasting rules and feast days of each tradition, and the computus that dates the moving year. The calendar is computed from the Church’s own reckoning, then verified; see the Calendar page.
Prayers & the Hours
Transcribed verbatim from each tradition’s own books, never written from memory.
Terminology & reference
The names of the fasts and feasts, and the wider library.
Written from the tradition
Not transcribed but composed, faithful to the tradition, miaphysite-precise, each item carrying its own citations.
Coverage across the six churches
One faith, kept differently, built as the sources allow.
Gedam serves all six Oriental Orthodox churches, and every one has its full liturgical calendar: its fasts, its feasts, and its Pascha, computed for any year. What differs is the depth of the saints and some readings. The Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean material runs deepest today, because their public-domain English sources are the richest that exist, above all the Coptic Synaxarium and the Ethiopian Senkessar with their thousand-plus lives of the saints. There are simply far fewer English resources online for the Armenian, Syriac, and Malankara churches, so their saints and some content are lighter for now. We are actively deepening them. The differences between the churches are praxis and history, not hierarchy. One communion, one faith, kept differently.
A note of thanks
This work stands on the labor of the Church.
To the translators who carried these texts into English, the parishes that published their readings, and the editors of the synaxaria: thank you. Gedam only gathers what you preserved.