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Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Model of Life – PREPARE OURSELVES AS LIVING TEMPLES OF GOD, AS MARY DID

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 12 months12 months ago
Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Model of Life – CHOOSE TO LIVE AS BLESSED MARY DID

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 12 months12 months ago
Blessed Virgin Mary

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Nativity (Birth of St. Mary)

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 12 months12 months ago
Commemorations

Righteous Joseph of Arimathea – Donor of the Tomb for Christ

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 12 months4 months ago
Commemorations

St. Labi (Lebbaeus) | Aug 19

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 1 year12 months ago
Bible Study

Dormition of Blessed Virgin Mary – The Theotokos delivers her soul, Full of Light

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 1 year1 year ago
Bible Study

The Dormition of our Most Holy, Glorious Lady – The Theotokos and Ever-Virgin

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 1 year1 week ago
Bible Study

BVM Series | Blessed Virgin Mary : ‘Full of Grace’!

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…

By Jacob P Varghese, 1 year1 year ago
Bible Study

BVM Series | Blessed Virgin Mary : Our New Eve, Second Eve

Eve returned to dust; Mary was taken to Heaven. The Church considers St. Mary, as ‘the mother of all the living’, calls her as the ‘Mother of God’, ‘Mother of all believers’ and picturizes her as the ‘Second Eve’. Eve of the Garden of Eden was the mother of mankind in Read more…

By Jacob P Varghese, 1 year1 year ago
Bible Study

BVM Series: Theotokos – The Mother of God

Mariam Deelathhok… (Mary who bore Thee forth, John who baptized Thee……..). This anthem at the outset of Holy Qurbana asserts and affirms Mary, as ‘Mother of God’. Elizabeth filled with Holy Spirit (Lk 1: 41) pronounced Mary as ‘Mother of my Lord’ (Lk 1: 43). The word “Theotokos” literally means Read more…

By Jacob P Varghese, 1 year1 year ago

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