It is normally a wooden table, kept in the center of the Chancel area (Azhiaagam). It symbolizes Mt. Sinai from where the Ten commandments were given by God and also the wooden platform from where the priest Ezra read out from the Book of Law (Neh. 8: 4). It also Read more
The fact of Jesus Christ being alive, after being crucified on the cross, would have been hard for anyone to accept. ‘St. Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin or doubting Thomas, was not present with the other disciples, when Jesus appeared to His disciples’. He was the only Read more
From Feast of Holy Resurrection, the Feast of feasts, when we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord to Pentecost, emphasis is on resurrection and hope of faithful. The Resurrection of our Lord means death is conquered and that Devil and his forces are defeated. The first week of this season Read more
The liturgical calendar of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast of Annunciation to Blessed Virgin St Mary – the Theotokos, twice in a year – during the season of Annunciation, five weeks before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and another on March 25. The Annunciation to BVM is Read more
Sleeba Mar Osthathios was born in the village, Kafarso, (near Shrehre) near the city of Amid, south-east Turkey on 1 January 1854. He was born in the Abakkar family to Salbi and Naboona. He had two brothers and three sisters. He was baptised with the name was ‘Saliba’ (Sleebo/Sleeba). His Read more
A movable curtain, a veil is provided at the entrance of the Holy Sanctuary (Madhaha). It has an embroidered Cross (signifies Risen Christ) at the centre and sometimes decorated with doves, wheat and wine stalks. The veil signifies the sky, that separates the heaven and the earth (Ex. 36: 16; Read more
The Holy Altar The Altar is the most important symbol and structure in the Holy Sanctuary of the Church Building. It is generally about 3.5 to 4 ft. high, 6 ft. long and 3.5 to 4 ft. wide (sizes vary in Churches). It is built of wood or concrete and Read more
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 liturgical calendar of the Indian Orthodox Church commemorates the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste on March 09. Emperor Constantine, in AD 313, had issued a decree of religious tolerance, that Christianity was an official religion and gave them freedom of worship, through the Edict of Milan. However, seven years later, Read more