Participation

The Holy Liturgy Concelebrated by the Oriental Orthodox Churches by Babu Jacob Saturday, February 4th 2006, a blessed day, indeed a blissful day for the ancient Oriental Orthodox Churches and for the faithful in the North-Eastern part of USA. More than 350 people belonging to the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syriac Orthodox...

Bar Ebraya: The Syrian Orthodox Genius of all Times by Very Rev. Kuriakose Corepiscopa Moolayil Bar Ebraya1 was the Maphrian of the Syrian Orthodox Church from 1266-86. E.A. Wallis Budge says, "He is known as the Encyclopedia of the 13th century. No other Syriac writer possessed to such a wonderful degree of knowledge...

Lenten (Saumo) Thoughts by Rev. Fr. Mathai Varkey Puthukkunnathu As we prepare to observe the Three Day Lent (Saumo / Ninweh) and thereafter the Forty Day Lent (Great Lent / Saumo Rabo) and the Holy Passion Week, it is vital to think about the effects and implications of fasting...

Church & Sacraments: Part 2 Prof. O. M. Mathew Oruvattithara The Most Holy Trinity is the primordial reality from which, upon which, and through which, the Ecclesia or the Church springs forth, develops and attains completion. It implies that God the Father reveals...

Contributions of the Smith Sisters in Syriac Studies by Rev. Fr. Dale A. Johnson One of the greatest discoveries in Syriac literature and New Testament Biblical studies was found on a butter plate in 1892, made from a scrap of calf skin leather. Agnes Smith Lewis was eating breakfast in the dinning hall ...

Infant Baptism & Anointing with Holy Oil by Ajay Abraham Kuriakose We all are aware of the sacrament of infant baptism and even more of the controversy some people try to create from infant baptism. They tend to go against the scriptural reference of belief in one baptism.

Heads of Oriental Orthodox Churches held their 8th Meeting Damascus, Syria The Heads of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Church, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas of the Syriac Church and His Holiness Catholicos Aram I of the Armenian Church...

New Church in Charlotte by Shaji Peter The first malayalee church in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA had a great spiritual start. The first official mass of St.George Syrian Orthodox Church of Charlotte NC was on Saturday January 28th, 2006. The blessed event took place with ...

Holy Land Travelogue Part 4 by Jose Kurian Puliyeril Jericho is a town in the province of Galilee on the shores of Galilee Sea. The Good Samaritan in the parable mentioned in St. Luke 10:30-37, was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. Zachaeus, a tax collector...

Bible

Verse 1-4 – Healing the Leper
Verse 5:13: “The Faith of the Centurion”
Verse 8:11-17: “Will take their places at the feast”
Verse 8:15: “She arose and ministered to them”
Verse 8:17-18
Verse 23-27
Verse 28
Verse 31-32

St. Severus the Great
H.H. Moran Mor Elias III