The Book of Jonah tells about Jonah’s personal encounter with the LORD. But Jonah’s prophecy speaks to us not much with words but more with symbols. The Church sees within this book’s simple story an icon of Christ symbolically represented. Like this world, Nineveh certainly deserved to be destroyed because Read more
Jonah prophecy speaks to us more with symbols than with words. The Church sees within this book’s simple story an icon of Christ symbolically represented. God destroyed the old World by flood, when the people of Noah’s day persisted resolutely in their evil. Likewise, Nineveh certainly deserved to be destroyed Read more
‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning’. John 1: 1-2. Yet another New Year is just at door step! The curtains are to fall on 2025 and the doors of 2026 are set Read more
We are on a grand pilgrimage to the Promised Land and very soon we will be on the doorsteps of yet another Great lent. The Great Lent is one of the main keys to the Kingdom Of God. Lent, in our faith describes the complete dedication of our body, soul Read more
The New Testament makes explicitly clear that the first day of the week, or Sunday, was a holy day for the primitive Christians, even before Nicaea Synod (325). The Holy Eucharist, the central act of Christian worship, is celebrated on Sunday, otherwise known as ‘the First Day‘ (Matt. 28:1; mk. Read more
The Liturgy of Christmas (Yeldho Perunaal) is celebrated in the silence of night, often creating an inexplicable, incomprehensible experience of the coming down of heaven to earth, in the minds of the faithful. Prior to the Celebration of Holy Eucharist, there is a special service performed of a burning fire Read more
I. Thou shall not leave “Christ” out of Christmas. II. Thou shall be as a little child. Christmas is the day of the Christ child; as a little child be thou ready to enter into the Kingdom of heaven. III. Thou shall not neglect the Church. Its Christmas services are Read more
MARANAYA FEASTS Feast means ‘big day’ and ‘Maranaya feast’ means a big day related to Christ. These days are considered dedicated to Christ. Sunday is the Lord’s Day. So, it is a Maranaya day. Different kinds of Maranaya Feasts: All Maranaya Feast days should be set apart to engage in Read more
Haevorae Monday Evening: Luke 24: 13-35 Morning: Matthew 28: 11-20 Holy QurbanaOld Testament Readings Gen. 41: 41-46; Num. 7: 84-89;I Kings 18: 36-40; Judg. 8: 13-21; Jer. 1: 4-12; Isaiah 40: 9–15. Epistle Readings1 Peter 2: 19-25; Romans 6: 12 -23 Gospel ReadingLuke 24: 13-35 Haevorae Tuesday Evening: Mark Read more
Come, all you faithful, let us hasten to the Virgin: for long before her conception in the womb, the one who was to be born of the stem of Jesse was destined to be the Mother of God. The one who is the treasury of virginity, the flowering Rod of Read more