Makrina was born in A.D. 327, Caesarea, Cappadocia, in a renowned holy family. Her father, Basil the elder, was a well-known lawyer and orator in Pontus. Her mother, Emelia, was the daughter of a martyr, during the time of persecution of Maximian. Her grandmother was Makrina the Elder. Basil and Emelia had Read more
Evening: Mark 4: 1-23;Morning: Matthew 13: 10-23 Holy QurbanaOld Testament ReadingsExodus 3: 9-15; Job 23: 1-7; Jer. 7:21-25; Isaiah 52: 1-6 Epistle ReadingsI Peter 2: 4 -10;Hebrews 4: 14-5: 5 Gospel Proclamation Mark 4: 1-20
The legend of Yulletti (Julitta) and Kuriakos (Quriaqos in Syriac Aramaic) means “belonging to the Lord”, still persists in various forms. We are told that when persecution was raging against Christians under Diocletian (284-305), a wealthy, faithful and pious Christian noblewoman named Julitta was widowed with a three-year-old son named Kuriakos Read more
Mar Abhai, saint, and martyr, ascetic, born in a village Raksan in Mardin, Turkey in the middle of the fourth century BC. Abhai abandoned the world, gave all his wealth to the poor and joined a Dyayra (monastery). He had recourse to ascetic life in the mountain of Karkar and Read more
Joseph Mar Dionysius II was born on November 12, 1833, in the Pulikkottil family of Kunnamkulam near Trichur. His father was Tharu Kurien, the nephew of ‘ Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysius I’ (the founder of the Old Seminary at Kottayam) and mother, Thadamma, the brother’s daughter of Paingamukku ‘Kuthuru’ Geevarghese Read more
His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Paulose II was born on 30th August 1946 in a village called Mangad near Kunnamkulam, Trissur District, Kerala as the son of the late Kollannur Iype and the late Kunjeetty, who hails from the famous family of Pulikkottil. Paul was baptized at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, Pazhanji, named Read more
Evening: Matthew 12: 30-37Morning: Matthew 12: 38-50 Holy Qurbana Old Testament ReadingsLeviticus 16: 29-34; 1 Sam. 4: 18-22; Hos. 5: 1-5; Is. 57: 15-19 Epistle ReadingsActs 4: 24 – 31; Ephesians 2: 11 – 22 Gospel ReadingMark 3: 20-30
Zechariah Mar Dionysius Metropolitan was born on 6th August 1924, as the third son to Chandapilla and Elizabeth of Mulamootil Mangalavila family in Kundara. He was baptised by HH Catholicos Baselios Geevarghese II, at Kundara Valliya Palli. He had his preliminary schooling in St Kuriakose School, Kundara. He continued his Read more
Mar Thoma VII was a bishop of the Malankara Church from 1796 and Malankara Metropolitan from April 1808 to July 1809. Mathen, as he known in his childhood, was born in Pakalomattom family, one of the oldest families in Kerala. He became a deacon and a priest at a very early age. Read more
Scripture Readings – July 3 Feast of St Thomas Evening: John 20:19-31 (John 11: 5 – 16)* Morning: John 11:1-16 (John 14: 1 – 7)* Holy QurbanaOld Testament ReadingsGenesis 12: 1-9; 1 Kings 8: 1-6; (Gen. 9: 1 – 12; Dan. 1: 8 -21)* Isaiah 43: 1- 14 Epistle ReadingsActs Read more