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BVM Series : GOLDEN POT OF MANNA | Typifies Blessed Virgin Mary

As the Lord commanded Moses, he said to Aaron ‘Take a golden pot, put one full omer of manna in it, and lay it up before God to be kept for your generation” (Ex. 16: 33). Our Lord Jesus Christ is the ‘True Manna’ Who descended from heaven and to Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 4 yearsAugust 2, 2021 ago
Bible Study

BVM Series : Blessed Virgin Mary | Tabernacle & Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant contained the Israel’s most sacred objects and each object prefigured Christ. Mosha chamachora – pedaka drushtanthamMariyame slomo –jeevajalathin munkuriyam….. Peace thee Mary – Ark of mysteries,That Moses did make – Thy symbol as veil divine God commanded Moses on Mount Sinai to make a Sanctuary Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 4 yearsAugust 1, 2021 ago
Bible Study

BVM Series : The Burning Bush | A Precursor of Blessed Virgin Mary

BVM bore Christ in her virginal womb as the bush on Mount of Horeb bore God in its flame Mulmarameriyaatheri thyee than naduvil-kandathupolChinmayanamariaamil vasichusareempoondu..……  ‘As the fire enflamed the bush, yet did not it burn, So did God come down and well in the virgin’s womb,He was incarnate of her, losing Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 4 yearsAugust 1, 2021 ago
Bible Study

BVM Series : Blessed Virgin Mary | A Prototype of Holy Church, NOAH’S ARK I Mother of God that contained Christ and His Church

Akhila jagalpathiya naayaka, Naayetti goshichangathi bahumanichu Mariaam, valuthaam Padaaythaan… Like a ship did Mary bear, Laud an honour be, Him the Captain and the Lord, God of all the world….. The Ark of Noah is a precursor of the Mother of God that contained Christ and His Church. St. Peter Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 4 yearsAugust 1, 2021 ago
Blessed Virgin Mary

Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Orthodox Church

The Orthodox Church honors and venerates Ever Blessed Virgin Mary as ‘more honourable than the Cherubim and more glorious beyond comparison than the Seraphim……….’ She is placed first among the saints. Her name is commemorated in every service, and her intercession sought before the throne of God, is frequently requested, in hymns Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 4 yearsJuly 31, 2021 ago
Bible Study

The Place of Holy Relics in the Orthodox Church

‘Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints’ Ps. 116: 15 Relics include the physical or earthly remains of a saint or of a person who is considered holy, as well as other objects which have been ‘sanctified’ by being touched to his or her Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJuly 30, 2021 ago
Blessed Virgin Mary

Shunoyo Fast – Fast of Assumption I 15 days Fast (Aug 1 to Aug 15)

­We are approaching the Fast of Fifteen days, that culminates with the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Mother of God), known is the West under the name of the Assumption of St. Mary, (assuming of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary into Heaven by God). This feast is Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJuly 28, 2021 ago
Commemorations

Martha Smeoni (Shmuni) and Seven Holy Youths and Mar Eleazar | Aug 1

Our Church celebrates the Feast of Martha Shmooni (Solomonia) and her seven sons, on August 1. The story Martha Shmooni and her seven sons and their teacher Eleazar, from the Book of 2 Maccabees chapter 6 and 7. After the period of exiles of Israelites to Babylon, before the incarnation Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJuly 28, 2021 ago
Saints

St. Simeon the Stylite – July 27 I Shemavaon Desthunni

Here perhaps strangest, most miraculous of all the Saints; Simeon the Stylite. He was born in 389 in a Cappadocian village Sisan (Sis), in Cilicie, a little town near the border of Syria. His father was a shepherd, and he himself spent the first years of its life to keep Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJuly 25, 2021 ago
Church Edifice, Altar Materials

Liturgical Vestments of Clergy

The ordinary attire and ceremonial vestments of clergy have symbolic meanings and have sacramental significance. As outward things are expressive of the inward reality, so also is true about people’s clothes. The beliefs, ideas, and moods of vestments we wear, when we offer Holy Sacrifices have three-fold significance. They represent Read more

By Jacob P Varghese, 5 yearsJuly 25, 2021 ago

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