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DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
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H.G. Mathews Mar Barnabas Metropolitan
Diocesan Metropolitan of American Diocese
Malankara Orthodox Church
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Real love is unconditional and selfless. Our Lord is forgiving us and blessing us in every way. What we have to do is only to open our hearts to Him. He is knocking at the doors of our hearts. The same Lord full of unconditional love asks us to have the same love for others. Only when we have this selfless and unconditional love, we can have real and full heavenly bliss.
COVER MESSAGE
DOING NOTHING IS A SERIOUS SIN
By Dr K.C.Nainan, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A
Lack of caring and indifference for our fellow-human beings in our society who really need help and doing nothing for them is a serious sin. James in his epistle emphasized that faith without work is dead. Being labeled and called as Christians is not going to help us to be partners and citizens of Kingdom of God. We are called to be the true witnesses of our Savior and Living God in this world as well as in the other world.
BIBLE STUDY SERIES
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF A STUDENT
| By Fr. Dr. Reji Mathew, STOTS Nagpur
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Fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All wisdome oriinate from God.All worldly knowledge explore the depth of the universe created by God. Discipline is something which makes one a disciple. Laziness is the biggest enemy of a disciplined person. The religious leaders should be spiritual and guardians of morality.
ARTICLE
WHERE IS GOD WHEN WE NEED HIM?
| By Dr. Zac Varghese London
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Our life on earth should be a mission which reveal the reliability of a living God. In this process, under God’s grace, our life should become the answer to the universal question, 'Where is the God?'. Jesus Christ is the ultimate affirmation of the presence of God being with us, Immanuel, as a real person not as a thunder, lightening, wind, or burning bush but as a person you might walk and talk with us in feeble voice.
ARTICLE
BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED
Jesus is the only one who bought salvation for the soul at the expense of His own blood that is shed by His own children. God sends His special messengers for redirecting the derailed majority from time to time, so that He wants a remnant to be saved at the end of the day. All the prophets and apostles carried the yoke of afflictions that was inflicted by the common mass that has no feeling of affection or mercy; all the tortured ones dreamt for a life of Heavenly Jerusalem and wait in procession in the mid-air.
MEDITATION ARTICLE SERIES
LIVING ON GOD'S DESIGN - SERIES 2
LARGER FREEDOM : OUR CHRISTIAN CALLING
| By Dr. George Zachariah, Washington
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At the center of the Christian faith is the experience of liberation, the reality of freedom, the basis and promise of human rights. Christian freedom is not an abstraction. It is a gift of grace. It comes with the acknowledgment of God’s claim over us. It is a pre-requisite for responsibility and maturity. Freedom depends on our living in the Word, on a living relationship with God. We are called to be apostles of freedom in the power of the Risen Christ.
SYNOPSIS-SERIES
SYNOPSIS FOR
MEDITATION-MAY
By V. Rev. Thomas P. Mundukuzhy Cor Episcopa
Fifth Sunday After Easter (Sunday Before Ascension) : [Luke 9:51-62]
Mothers' Day (Second Sunday of May)
Sunday After Ascension/ Before Pentecost : [Mark 10:17-22]
Pentecost : [John 4:10-24; 14:1-18; 15:1-14; 16:5FF]
Golden Friday : [Matthew 19:23-30]
First Sunday After Pentecost : [John 6:26-35]
MALAYALAM SECTION:
ARTICLE [MALAYALAM]
RETURN TO GOD
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By Rev. Fr. Mohan V. George
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Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return? God is one who desrve worship as He is our creator. We are friends of God if we do what He command us. Jesus love the unlovable. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Man's extremity is God's oppertunity. God loves us in all circumstances. He loved us to that extent that He gave His life for us.
ARTICLE [MALAYALAM]
MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU - CHAPTER 4
PRAYERS FOR MEDITATION
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By Fr. Dr. K.M. George And Mrs. Mariam Philiph George
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Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.
ARTICLE [MALAYALAM]
GOD WITH US
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By Rt. Rev. Bishop K.P. Kuruvilla
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The Virgin shall be with Child and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, 'God with us'. Here the Old Testament prophecies had their accomplishment in our Lord Jesus, for this was he to whom all the prophets bore witness. Now the scripture that was fulfilled in the birth of Christ was that promise of a sign, which God gave to king Ahaz. In the bringing of God and man together as per design of God, bring us to be with God, which is our great happiness.
POEM [MALAYALAM]
MY UNIQUE JESUS
Jesus is the only one who gave His life for us. Jesus is the only one who renounced heaven to wipe out the tears of man. Jesus is the only one who prayed for his persecutors. Jesus is the only one who resurrected by breaking the seal of the tomb. Jesus is the only one who promised that He would come again.
POETRY [MALAYALAM]
PSALMS 63, 82 AND 84
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory. Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips will praise You. God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers. How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
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HOMAGE
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TRIBUTE TO H.G. THOMAS MAR MAKARIOS METROPOLITAN
By Rev. Fr. John Brian Paprock
H.G. Thomas Mar Makarios, Diocesan Metropolitan of Canada, Europe and Senior Metropolitan of American Diocese of Malankara Orthodox Church departed this life and went for heavenly abode on February 23, 2008. The 40th Day Memorial was on April 5, 2008. Mar Makarios had an extraordinary capacity to act befittingly in tense and uncertain situations and influence people with his glib tongue and rare sense of humour. Thirumeni was like that, seeing miracles in all our lives – willing to follow the Holy Spirit even when it led him away from us to that other side of the veil. Thirumeni, we miss you. Pray for us. May your memory be eternal!
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THE CHRISTIAN MIND SERIES [CMS] AND THE TRACI-FOCUS |
The Christian Mind Series (CMS) was founded in India, more than a decade ago, by Rev. Valson Thampu, with a two-fold purpose:
To highlight the contemporary relevance and power of the biblical faith.
To promote the discipline of thinking biblically on all aspects of life.
Recently, the CMS took a leap forward in its outreach by entering into a partnership with the FOCUS Movement, a movement devoted mainly to serving the spiritual needs of Indian Christians in Diaspora founded by Dr. Zac Varghese and Mr. Mathew Kallumpram.
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New York (ENI). Pope Benedict XVI, head of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, capped a six-day visit to the United States, his first as pontiff, with a public Mass at New York's Yankee Stadium in which he declared the need for US Catholics to be obedient to church authority. While the 15-20 April visit is likely to be remembered for the Pope's public declarations of shame about the sexual abuse scandals that rocked the Catholic Church in the United States, the trip also provided an opportunity for Benedict to meet a range of US Christian leaders. [419 words, ENI-08-0322]
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New York (ENI). Pope Benedict XVI has met privately and prayed with several survivors of sexual abuse by clergy during his visit to the United States, in a move that is believed to be the first time a pontiff has met with abuse survivors. The unannounced meeting on 17 April, reportedly at Benedict's request, was held at a chapel at the papal nuncio's residence in Washington. [591 words, ENI-08-0316]
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London (ENI). Tony Blair has told an audience of 1600 people at Westminster Cathedral that his faith foundation, to be formally launched in May, will aim to bring together people of all major religions in pursuit of the United Nations' millennium development goals for improving conditions in the developing world by 2015. Speaking on 4 April in his first detailed public speech on religion since his conversion to Roman Catholicism after stepping down as Britain's prime minister in 2007, Blair made no mention of the Iraq war and argued that religions of all kinds should be rescued from extremism to help meet a "profound yearning within the human spirit" at a time of unprecedented global turbulence. [573 words, ENI-08-0278]
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Oxford, Ohio (ENI). Ted Turner, who once called Christianity "a religion for losers" has launched a joint initiative with Lutherans and Methodists in the United States to raise US$200 million to fight malaria in Africa. Best known globally for creating the Cable News Network, the 69-year-old Turner on 1 April launched the anti-malaria project through his United Nations Foundation. Other partners in the campaign are the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church. [393 words, ENI-08-0269]
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YOUR HELP REQUIRED FOR THEM
DIVINE CHILDREN'S HOME - TRIVANDRUM |
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Divine Children's Home is a warm caring for the destitute and neglected children of Thiruvanathapuram city and around. Mother's of many of these children are serving long time imprisonment in the Central Jail of Thiruvanathapuram. This Home is intended to nurture, protect and care the destitute children who are left in the streets and also children from poor and broken families. Started as a caring work for an abandoned child of a lady condemned to imprisonment, by the compassionate hands of a mother by name Alice, now the institution had expanded in its scope. Divine Children's Home is now a sanctuary for twenty-four destitute children who are either orphans or whose parents are mentally or physically incompetent to work after their children.
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