Evening: Luke 24: 36-53; (Mark 16: 14 – 20)Morning: Luke 24: 36-53Holy Qurbana Old Testament Readings Deut. 9: 26-10: 5: 1 Sam. 9: 15-10:1; Is. 48: 20-49: 4; Ez. 10: 18-22;Daniel the Younger: 3: 49-90 (Prayer of Azariah & the Song of Three Children) (Jer. 31: 31-34; 2 Kings 2: Read more
‘And He rose again from the dead on the third day, according to the Scriptures. . .’ Christ is risen from the dead! This is the main proclamation of the Christian faith and the heart of Christian belief. It forms the heart of the Church’s preaching, Core of our worship, and Read more
Simon the Zealot is one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus, a man about whom we know so little, to add to the fact that, his name also produces problem. The name occurs in all four lists of Apostles. To distinguish him from Simon Peter, he is called Read more
The Apostle and Evangelist St. John, called the Theologian, was the son of Salome and Zebedee and brother of James the greater. He was a fisherman by trade and while he and his brother were engaged in mending their nets in the boat by the lakeside with their father that Read more
o Evening: John 14: 1-16o Morning: John 16: 16-30o Holy Qurbanao Old Testament ReadingsDeut. 16: 1-8; (Josh. 8: 30-35); Proverbs 9: 1-11; Joel 3: 16-21; Isaiah 26: 1-8 (Isaiah 54 : 1-8)o Epistle ReadingsI Peter 3: 17-22; Hebrews 11: 32-40o Gospel ReadingsLuke 9: 51 – 62
The Orthodox Churches gives the most importance or reverence to the Holy Gospels, the written Word of Living God (Jn. 1: 1). We, Orthodox offer maximum reverence to it. In the Church, we keep the Holy Gospel in special place called, ‘Evangelion Table; in the Madbhaha – Holy of Holies)’ Read more
Gospel (Evangelion) Evangelion (Gospel/Good News – Greek: Evangelion) or Book of the Gospels refers to the first four books of the New Testament. These books are titled as ‘Gospel according to St. ….….’ It is not a simple narrative of the life of Jesus of Nazareth but a presentation of Jesus as Christ, the Word. However, the Evangelion Book’ (or just Evangelion), is a book that contains the Gospel reading portion for Read more
Light signifies the presence of God, Who is light, Himself. Churches, traditionally has an oil lighted lamp in the center of Nave. The most frequent images of lamps in the Bible relate to worship. The lamps on the seven-branched lamp stand in the tabernacle were to be constantly lit (Exodus Read more
The Holy Church remembers May 4th every year, an unsung, selfless pious soul, evangelist, Church poet contributor and composer of Church hymns, especially of our Holy Liturgy. Late C. P. Chandy sir was born in 13 Feb 1916 at Vennikulam, Chakkalakunnel to a missionary, Philipose Upadeshi and Achamma, daughter of Read more
The first Catholicos of Malankara Orthodox Church, H.H. Moran Mar Baselios Paulose I, was born on January 19, 1836 at Vettithara village near Kolenchery to the couple Mariamma and Kurien of the Murimattom family, belonging to the ancestral Pakalomattom family, from Bharananganam, a family that was christened by St. Thomas. The Read more