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JULY 2006	FRONT PAGE	VOL:5 ISSUE:07

DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE 'DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE' By H.G. Dr. Issac Mar Clemees [Diocesian Metropolitan of Thiruvalla ArchDiocese, Malankara Catholic Church]

All ecumenical outfits elicit and pose a great campaign against divisive, self-motivated and unpleasant viewpoint of the society, organizations and churches with the back strength of the living Word of God and it volunteer for the mission of dedication to curtail the divisive evil of the society. The aim of ecumenical fellowship is to enhance our sharing nature in the society and to be the partakers of its growth and responsibilities. Do this intricate question hang around our private life? 'What shall I do to inherit eternal life?' CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

COVER MESSAGE CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT HIERARCHY By Dr K.C.Nainan, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A

Today though Christianity is the most dominant religion in the world, our Lord never started a religion. He brought kingdom of God in the midst of us about which he said that his kingdom does not belong to this world. Religion is man’s search for the invisible God and supernatural experience. True Christianity is not a religion. It is a divine kingdom of which Jesus Christ is the only king and leader. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

ARTICLE FAITH AND FAMILY - SERIES 9 : KNOW THIS WOMAN? By Rev. Dr. Valsan Thampu

We worship routinely. But do we know what true worship is? Worship of the hiding kind is hypocrisy because it excludes true fellowship. It stands on the self-deception that fellowship with God can exclude fellowship with neighbours. The fundamental purpose of worship is to enable us to come out of hiding in respect of life as a whole. All of human life, unless reoriented through a liberating and transforming relationship with Jesus, is an exercise in hiding. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

ARTICLE 'WE ARE DOING IT TOGETHER' By Prof. Dr. Zac Varghese London

We worry about relevance, popularity and power in developing Christian leadership. But ‘doing it together,’ and for building Christian lifestyles and leaderships is a most dignified way of mission. Jesus did not send his disciples alone to preach the word, he sent them two by two. Our Lord showed the importance of washing the feet of the disciples; Mother Teresa showed us the need to touch the wounded and dressing their wounds. If two of us on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted by my Father, in heaven. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

ARTICLE HOCKEY AND EUCHARIST By Mini Kirshnan - Madras

Church history witness many violences all these years. If the Romans persecuted Christians, what did the Christians do to non-believers? Did Jesus ever say “Kill the non-believers, torture them if they do not turn to me?” The grandest line in history must surely be “If anyone smites you on one cheek, show him the other cheek also”. An eye-witness account of the Crusades says jubilantly that the massacre of Muslims and Jews on a particular day brought on a river of blood that rose to the knees of his horse. “This is the most glorious day since Christ died to save the world” he says with such perfect ignorance of what Christ died for. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

ARTICLE SENTIMENTAL CHRISTIANITY By E.S. John Australia

The religious sentimentalism that breeds religious fundamentalism is the root cause for the religious disharmonies of the moderns, despite its roots can be traced back to the origin of history. The majority Christians are mere nominal Christians who are even worse than the pagan worshippers because we are hypocritical in our outlook and approach. The martyrs’ blood that shed in the first three centuries kindled the flames of the Master’s love in most of the regions of that time. Our worship has become the carbon copies of pagan rituals that please only the spirits of this world. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

ARTICLE HOLY TRINITY By Rev. John T. Mathew - Canada

We all know we believe in God—the same God everyone believes in and that is that. We all have a different and a distinct way of understanding God---one that sets us apart from everybody else. God is a whole lot bigger than anything we can ever say or imagine; therefore, all references to God will be both figurative and imperfect. Ministry is not first and foremost a job or a contract. It is not something we are hired or even invited to do. The ministry is created by the call of God and the authority to preach and teach is intrinsic in that calling. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

SYNOPSIS-SERIES SYNOPSIS FOR MEDITATION-JULY By V. Rev. Thomas P. Mundukuzhy Cor Episcopa

Seventh Sunday After Pentecost : Mark 3:20-30 Eight Sunday After Pentecost : John 6:47-59 Nineth Sunday After Pentecost : Luke 14:7-11 Tenth Sunday After Pentecost : Matthew 18:1-4 CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

NEWS CHRISTIAN WORLD NEWS - JULY 2006 Courtesy To ENI As Source

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ARTICLE [MALAYALAM] DA VINCI CODE : IT'S INFLUENCES AND RESPONSES By Jose Kurien Puliyeril

The design of Satan in raising persecutions against the faithful servants of God is to bring them to apostasy, by reason of their sufferings, and so to destroy their souls. Sobriety and watchfulness are necessary virtues at all times, but especially in times of suffering and persecution. So we are exhorted to be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong taking up the shield of faith with which we will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

ARTICLE [MALAYALAM] HOLY MYSTERIES IN THE HOLY BIBLE - PART 3 By H.H. Basalios Marthoma Mathews II

In the holy Bible we come across many mysteries which human mind can not comprehend. These are the Godly secrets beyond the imagination of the limited brain of human. Jesus Christ had revealed these mysteries of heaven to His Apostles and to the believers to grasp same by the strength of faith. Human is earthly and at the same time heavenly as man become a living being by the breath of God. All wondrous things Jesus had done were mysteries. The establishment holy Eucharist is the biggest holy mystery. CLICK HERE FOR FULL MESSAGE

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