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June 2021

Lectionary

Scripture Readings – June 30 I Feast of the Twelve Apostles (Tresar Slihe Qadise)

Evening: Matthew 9: 36-10: 5Morning: John 21:15-25; (Matthew 10: 11- 15, 19: 27 – 30) * Holy QurbanaOld Testament ReadingsGenesis 12: 1-9; 1 Kings 8:1-6; Jer. 16: 16 -21; Dan. 1: 8 – 21; Isaiah 43: 1-14 Epistle ReadingsActs 2:37-47; Galatians 2:1-10; (Acts 1: 12-14; 1 Corinthians 12: 28-13: 10)* Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 29, 2021 ago
Lectionary

Scripture Reading – June 29 2025 I Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul

• Evening: Matthew 16: 13-20 • Morning: Matthew 19: 27-30 (John 21: 15 – 25)* • Holy Qurbana• Old Testament ReadingsGenesis 12: 1-9; 1 Kings 8: 1-6; Jer. 16: 16-21; Daniel 1: 1 -9; Isaiah 43: 1- 14 • Epistle ReadingsActs 1: 12-14; I Corinthians 12: 28-13: 10 • Gospel Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 28, 2021 ago
Apostles

St. Paul – III – ‘The Apostle by God’s Choice’

Paul is seen as a new being in the Christian Church and an architect who worked hard for building the Church. Paul knew more about the work of Jesus only through relation with the Church and life in the Church. His knowledge of Christ deepened through Church life. He talks Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 26, 2021 ago
Apostles

St. Paul – II – Death of ‘Saul the Pharisee’ & Birth of ‘Paul the Apostle’

Saul was brought up as an exact Jew.  His religious nature, deep rooted Jewish piety and Jewish faith made him a persecutor of the Christian Church, with a fanatic zeal and raging fury. His aim was to destroy Christian Church. Paul played a vital role in bringing St. Stephen, before Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 26, 2021 ago
Apostles

St. Paul – I – Saul, ‘The Pharisee and Arch-Persecutor’

St. Paul is the invaluable wealth of Christian Church, just after Christ and Scripture. It is said that while Christianity begins with Jesus, there is a second beginning to Christianity in Paul. He who is remembered as the Pharisee who admitted that, ‘I am the first among sinners’, started his Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 26, 2021 ago
Worship and Holy Sacraments

Significance and Importance of the ‘Sign of Cross’

The Sign of the Cross is a holy, life-giving symbol of our salvation, the principal symbol of the Christian religion, symbol of our deliverance and emblem of the mercy of God, giving redemption to sinful man. It is a symbol of recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the redeeming benefits of his Passion and death. A Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 24, 2021 ago
Lectionary

Scripture Readings – Jun 13 I 5th Sun after Feast of Pentecost.

• Evening: Mark 9: 30 -41 / (Luke 9: 10 – 17)* • Morning: Matthew 20: 17 -28 / (Matthew 17: 20 – 28)* Holy QurbanaOld Testament ReadingsExodus 23: 14-19; Zach. 6: 1-8; Hosea 14: 6-10; Isaiah 40: 27-31 (Ps. 16)* Epistle Readings Acts 9: 10-18; 2 Corinthians 5: 14-20 Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 23, 2021 ago
Saints

Birth of Harbinger of Monasticism – St John the Baptist – June 24th I Fore-runner of the Lord!

“I tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John…let the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” Luke 7: 28 St John the Baptist, one of the most prominent and powerful; influential and impressive personality in all history, is this man who Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 23, 2021 ago
Bible Study

We Venerate the Holy Cross, never worship it

‘He who seeks not the Cross of Christ, Seeks not the Glory of Christ’ – St John of the Cross The veneration of the Cross is a topic, which many Orthodox Christians are confused about. The fact is that we worship Crucified Christ not the cross-shaped wood. We venerate the Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 21, 2021 ago
Apostles

St. James – The Just, The Calloused, Brother of our Lord I June 19

The New Testament tells nothing but his name and even the legend and tradition is silent about him, yet a towering and an important spiritual figure of the NT . St. James is not among the first twelve apostles. Truly little is known of them and there is much speculation Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJune 19, 2021 ago

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