Mar Gregorios Yuhanon, was born in 1695 in Bakhdida (Beth Khdeda – house of youths) earlier name for Kooded or Karakosh (Qaraqosh) near Mosul. He was a son of priest Isahak and Semma and belonged to the family of St. Yeldho Mar Baselius (Kothamangalam Bava), whom our Church commemorates on Read more…
The liturgical calendar of the Indian Orthodox Church commemorates the Seventy (Seventy-two) evangelists, whom our Lord chose in addition to the Twelve Apostles; and they were sent by in pairs, so that they could preach the gospel in all those places where Christ Himself was about to visit. Our Lord Read more…
St Theodore was called Sanctified, as he had purified his heart of passions and tuned his body worthy to be a temple of the holy Spirit and because he was the first in his monastery ordained to the priesthood. St Theodore who was born in the Upper Thebaid, to rich Read more…
St. Pachomius, the Great, venerable hermit father, was an early Egyptian ascetic, both a desert Father and a founder of coenobitic monasticism in Egypt. He was born in Thebes (Upper Thebaid), Egypt around A.D. 290, to pagan parents. His name, in his native Coptic, Pachom, means ‘eagle’. He received an excellent secular education, had a good character, Read more…
The two Saints Methodius and Cyril were brothers, who brought Orthodoxy to the Slavic peoples of central Europe in the ninth century. Michael (Methodius) and Constantine (Cyril) were born early in the 9th century in Thessaloniki into a noble illustrious and pious Greek senatorial family, living in the Greek city of Read more…
Mar Julius (Yulios), the bishop of Rome, son of Rustics, was born in Rome or was a native of Rome. Further details of his parents or childhood is not available. Rome was and remains the historic centre of the Western Patriarchate and remains a holy place of Orthodox pilgrimage after Read more…
Week 7 Hosanna/Palm Sunday – (Boys’ and Girl’s Day) Monday of the Passion Week Tuesday of the Passion Week. Wednesday of the Passion Week Passover (Maundy Thursday) Good Friday (Great Friday) Gospel Saturday (Saturday of Good Tidings)
“And the multitudes that went before, cried saying, Hosanna (save us), Son of David, and the ones that followed, shouted, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord (Matt. 21: 9). The streets of Jerusalem echoed ‘Hosanna in the highest’.” Jesus Christ, the King of kings, made Read more…
Evening: Luke 19: 28-40 Night: Mathew 21: 1-22Morning: Mark 11: 1-26 Holy QurbanaOld Testament ReadingsGen. 49: 8-15; Job 26:1-14; 2 Samuel 6:1-7; I Kings 8: 1 – 6; Micah 4: 1 -5; Daniel 3:7-11; Isaiah 52:7-12; Epistle Readings1 John 5: 1 -12; Romans 8: 18 -25 Gospel ReadingJohn 12: 12-19 Read more…
St. Lazarus, ‘Friend of Christ’ is commemorated on the Saturday before Hosanna, in the Orthodox Church. Lazarus of Bethany is a biblical character mentioned in the Gospel of John11: 1–45. Lazarus (Eleazer-Hebrew) means “God helps.” Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary, lived in Bethany, little town two miles outside Jerusalem, Read more…