On Mid Lent Wednesday, our Holy Church commemorates, an Assyrian King named Abgar V, who ruled Edessa (Oraha – presently called Urfa/Urahay, is a city in the border of Turkey and Iraq. During the public ministry of our Lord, King Abgar of Edessa, was suffering from an incurable disease, sent Read more…
The Great Lent commenced with the Sign at the Wedding Feast at Cana, where Jesus has asked us to fill six stone jars water, so that He can transform the ordinary, tasteless, colourless, bland water to extraordinary, tasty, blessed, best, sweet lives. The six stone jars represent the six weeks Read more…
The problem of human strife is as old as mankind. It began on the outskirts of the Garden of Eden, when Cain driven by envy murdered his devout brother Abel. Ever since then, man fought with man, man has revolted against God and man has allied with Satan. But the Read more…
By the grace of God, we are once again set, to enter into the 50 days, ‘Great Lent’ – the biggest of the 5 canonical fasts of the Holy Church that leads us to greatest episode of memory of Christ’s Resurrection (Kymtho), the center of the liturgical year in the Read more…
On Feb 2 each year, our Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation and Dedication or Entry of our Lord, to the Temple of Jerusalem, also called as The Meeting of Our Lord and God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus Christ. Holy Read more…
We are closing in, towards the Great Lent of this year 2021, just weeks after Epiphany and 18 days before the Great Lent. Thus, we are in between two Lents: the smallest, but strict & rigorous 3 days lent and biggest, but solemnest & 50 day lent, known as the Read more…
Nineveh Lent is close at hand, starting from Monday February 10 (to be exact from the evening of 10th February). The three-day lent though the smallest of the five canonical lent, is one of the Rigorous, Unique Symbolic and Traditionally observed, fasts of the Orthodox Churches, commemorating the three days of fasting that Prophet Read more…
This feast is commemorated in the liturgical calendar of the Malankara Indian Orthodox Church in the honor of Blessed St Mary is the ‘Feast of St Mary for Seeds’ (i’do d-yeldas Aloho d Al Zar’o,) on January 15. It is Blessed Virgin Mary’s Feasts that we commemorate among the saints. Read more…
John (God is gracious) the Baptist came, preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.” Prophet Isaiah, referred to him 700 years before his birth “A voice of one calling in the desert, “Prepare the way for The Lord, make straight paths Read more…
“And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom Read more…