Blessed Virgin Mary is the Best Pointer to our Lord.Let us all be pointers to our Lord and Saviour Mary is really the best pointer to our Lord. Angel Gabriel said, ‘our Lord is with you’! What a blessing is this! With God she is worthy of everything. Mary with Read more
Virgin Mary lived her Whole Life in complete surrender to God’s will.Let us live, our entire life, FULLY SURRENDERED TO GOD’S WILL. “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word,” (Lk. 1: 38) said Virgin to Angel Gabriel. Mary surrendered Read more
Mary became a dwelling place for God.Let us become living temples of the Most Holy God. God’s dwelling place here on earth, is fulfilled in Mary. Mary became a dwelling place for God, by submitting to the will of God. God, Who became present here on earth, truly dwelt in Read more
Blessed Virgin Mary, Chosen to Bear Christ!Let’s Choose to Live, as Blessed Virgin Mary did! Blessed Virgin Mary was the Creator’s Chosen Creation to Bear the Creator. God chose Virgin Mary, a common and ordinary person to bear Christ within her. Blessed Virgin Mary was God’s chosen instrument to carry Read more
The Holy Gospel records but a few incidents from the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It says nothing about her parentage, her nativity, or her childhood. All such information comes to us from the early tradition of the Church, which was recorded in the middle of the second century Read more
Joseph of Arimathea was a righteous, holy, pious, and devout disciple of Lord Jesus. He was a good and upright, just man (Lk. 23: 50). He was born to one Matthias, in Arimathea, (otherwise, called Rameth or Ramathaim, native town of Samuel the Seer), a city in Judea and is Read more
Mar Labi often called as Judas (Jude in English) is variously named. Jerome called him Thaddaeus Trinomius, which means a man with three names. In Mark he is Thaddeus.In Matthew he is called Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddeus. Matthew 10:3 in the Peshitta Bible reads as (and Philipos, and Bar-Tholmai, and Thoma, and Mathai Read more
It was the Lord’s day, and the 15th day of the month of August, when that blessed hour that all were awaiting drew near. It was the third hour of the day (nine o’clock in the morning). In the room, the Holy Apostles were offering praise to God, with many lamps burning. Theotokos Read more
The bodily and spiritual virginity of Mary ensures us the divinity of our Lord. If anyone does not agree that Mary is the mother of God, he is at odds because Elizabeth filled with Holy Spirit (Lk 1: 41) pronounced Mary as ‘Mother of my Lord’ (Luke 1: 43). The Read more
Peace be unto you, Mary! Full of Grace! Mary was ‘Full of Grace’ (or highly favored), and Archangel Gabriel declared, she is filled with it! (Lk. 1: 28). Grace is unmerited favor, which God gives when a recipient is not expecting or deserving. Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God is the Queen of Read more