All For One: hand-head-heart

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This is a sermon continuing the theme of living with others in God's love -
especially 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 - "There is one body." Also discusses the
gospel reading: Mark 6:1-6.

This sermon is another lesson in Orthodox Christian Spirituality using the
readings of the Malankara - Syrian Orthodox lectionary.

This sermon lesson given on Sunday, February 1, 2009 by Fr John Brian
Paprock at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.


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This is a sermon continuing the theme of living with others in God's love -
focusing especially on 1 Corinthians 4:5 - "Therefore do not judge before
the time, until the Lord comes and brings to light the hidden things of
darkness and reveals the thoughts of the hearts; then shall every man have
praise from God." This sermon is another lesson in Orthodox Christian
Spirituality using the readings of the Malankara - Syrian Orthodox
lectionary.  This sermon lesson was live and extemporaneously given on
Sunday, January 25, 2009 by Fr John Brian Paprock at Holy Transfiguration
Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Human Harmony - Spiritual Blessing - "To this end we follow Christ"
This is a homiletic sermon of 1 Peter 3:8-15 including the meaning of Ticket
(the Ethiopian Orthodox Holy Day honoring the Ark of the Covenant at
Epiphany) and living with others in God's love. This sermon is another
lesson in Orthodox Christian Spirituality using the readings by the
Malankara - Syrian Orthodox lectionary. This sermon lesson in Orthodox
Christian Spirituality given on Sunday January 18, 2009 by Fr John Brian
Paprock at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.
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1 cor 16:13
Remain alert. Keep standing firm in your faith. Keep on being
courageous and strong.

Psalms. 37: 4
Delight yourself in LORD; And He will give you the desiresof your heart.

Let them play circus or "margam kali" or "thiruvathira" in Kerala.
But what we can do is to work for the peace.  Let the court cases in
India and the fractional fights in there prolong as every one knows
it is a power game.

What we the out side India Parish can do.  We can restore the peace
in our sector.  We need to co-operate in here.  If a Patriarchel
fraction clergy comes to our church we let them to have the same
status and let them also do it.  We the laymen also need to
participate in every functions in here.  Let the others open their
eyes when they see this practice.  Then it will spread to other
places and the people will follow this hense the tension may ease.

Charly V. Padanialam, Houston, TX.

Do not
pray for the fulfillment of your wishes, for that may not be in accord with the
will of God. But pray as you have been taught, saying: Thy will be done in me
(Luke
22:42). Always entreat Him in this way, that His will be done. For He desires
what
is good and profitable for you, whereas you do not always ask for this.

Often when I have prayed I have asked for what I thought was good, and persisted
in my petition, stupidly importuning the will of God, and not leaving it to Him
to arrange things as He knows is best for me. But when I have obtained what I
have
asked for, I have been very sorry that I did not ask for the will of God to be
done,
because the thing turned out not to be as I thought.

Evagrius – On Prayer
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*The condition of H.G. Mathews Mar Epiphanios Metropoltan has improved this
morning. His Grace received H. Qurbana this morning and opened his eyes.
Let's all pray for the health of His Grace. *



*His Grace was admitted in the hospital on Thursday because of difficulty in
breathing. His grace was recovered from the difficulty but on Saturday the
condition became worse again and was in the ICU till time. The condition of
His Grace became very worse today and remains critical. H.B. Paulose Mar
Milithios Metropolitan, H.G. Dr. Mathews Mar Severios Metropolitan and H.G.
Paulose Mar Pachomios Metopolitan visited His Grace and prayed.*


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Kingdom Of Heaven
By E.S.John, Australia
The earth that we live in has seven continents, so also, including our
little earth, Heaven that we generally call as kingdom of God has
apparently seven planes that no one can see with our visual eyes.
Though Heaven is hidden from our bodily eyes, it is like a treasure
that is present within us also. Everything is abstract beyond this
plane of our existence. The reason for Jesus to speak like is this.
"If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you
believe if I tell you heavenly things?" This unseen kingdom of God is
given to His elected `little flock' at the close of the age, Lk.12:
32. Because there are seven planes of Heaven, can we assume the reason
for the Son of Man comparing Heaven for seven times? Mt.13: 44-52.
Paradise that is in the third or third heaven, mid-heaven, Rev.14: 6,
is the third plane, 2.Cor.12: 1-4.
Seven Heavens
If Paradise is the third heaven or mid-heaven, certainly there are
seven planes for Heaven. No human being apparently has any
accessibility beyond the third heaven, while one is in the flesh
because God's hierarchical hosts who hadn't rebelled with Lucifer are
seemingly there in the higher planes incessantly praising the God of
hosts. "He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the
heavens, that he might fill all things", Eph.4: 9-10; 1.kg.8:27. Does
it mean by `that he might fill all things' that He may fill the
highest planes by the specially selected human souls according to
their merits, like 144, 000 virgins? There are many mansions in the
Father's House, Jn.14, and as there are great and small in the land of
the Living, Mt.5: 19, these mansions are likely to be filled in
according to the dessert on accounts of one's struggles in the flesh.
These seven 7 heavens are grouped as 3 categories that we hear about
in the Rite of the Adoration of the cross ceremony during important
festivities and festivals. The top layer of planes is where `cherubim
bless', `seraphim sanctify' and `fiery hosts praise'; the second layer
where `He whom those between exalt' and the 3rd layer where `He whom
the earthly beings below glorify'.
Prophet Ezekiel saw these 3 planes in a symbolic way, Eze.47: 3-12. He
measured 1000 cubits to cross each plane. Each 1000 may stand for 1000
years; consequently it may take 7000 years to cross all the 7 planes.
Man's life here on earth is meant for 6000 years and the next 1000
years is a solemn rest with the Lord and His myriads of angels in
mid-heaven, Heb.4: 9-11.  The epics of India also portray 7 heavens
and 7 hells, about which we find it hard biblically to draw a definite
conclusion that there could be 7 hells altogether. The word `hell' is
used in NT to translate two words, Hades, generally meaning as the
same of `Sheol', the place of the dead and  `Ghehenna', the place of
retribution for evil deeds. But the usage of the phrase `the lowest
hell', Deu.32: 22, Ps.86: 13, conveys the idea that there are more
planes of hells than 2.
There are 12 patriarchs and 12 apostles; each one plane in the
celestial heights may be in charge by 2 apostles, the reason for the
Lord sending 2 in a group for ministry works, Lk.10; 1; Mt.18: 19.
Altogether there are 12 apostles for 6 upper planes. Seemingly there
are 6 planes upward and 6 downward and the earth in between having 2
half planes, cosmic and earthly-Godhood and Manhood of Christ- for
which the Son Of God and Son of Man symbolizing the caretaker
responsibility.  As Judas fell to disgrace, Mathias was elected for
completing the numerical figure of 12. This verse makes sense by
knowing this truth, Acts.1: 20. "Let his habitation become desolate,
and let there be no one to live in it; and his office let another
take". Son of Man is one world, and the Son of God is another one,
making the total as 14.
The 12 sons of Jacob were the shadows of 12 apostles. The curse on Dan
inhibited him to be a Patriarch, just as Judas' habitation became
desolate because of his betrayal. Though Dan was cursed, he has the
right to judge the tribe. "Dan shall judge his people as one of the
tribes of Israel", Gen.49: 16. In spite of Dan's ignominious
disappearance, two more Patriarchs had come to the scene. They are
Joseph's son Manasseh and Ephraim, representing 2 half tribes, who had
been blessed by Jacob as Patriarchs, Gen.48: 8-20. Despite Manasseh
was elder, he was made subordinate to his younger brother, may be to
show later that Judas' place was replaced by Mathias.
Manasseh and Ephraim are treated as half tribes, likely to show that
they represent the two natures of Christ that exist without confusion,
change, division or separation. Thus there are apparently 14 planes,
and they are under the charge of 12 Patriarchs and two half tribes and
12 apostles, as we witness twenty-four elders seating on the 24
thrones, Rev.4: 4-11. In Rev.6 we see the portrayal of the Lamb
opening seven seals, means revealing 7 planes. When the 7th seal was
opened, "I saw the 7 angels who stand before GOD, and 7 trumpets were
given to them", Rev.8: 2-6, for blowing. As the underworld planes are
also under the jurisdiction of God's angels, "It is a victorious
spectacle of binding Satan and throwing him into the Hades for 1000
years", Rev.20: 3.
Difference between Heaven `within you' and in the infinity
There are biblical indications for the abstract references to Heaven
as the kingdom of God, Mt.6; 33; kingdom of Heaven, Mt.3: 2; his
kingdom, 2.Tim.4: 1; my kingdom, Lk.22: 30; thy kingdom, Mt.6: 10, but
is not possible to find out the etymological usage of these words in
different contexts. The first Para of Jn.14 poses a very puzzling and
enigmatic problem. Man is created for replacing the fallen angels
whose rooms have been lying vacant for ages, and we know that they
used to have their abodes on this planet which the Son of Man wants to
destroy because the fallen man is wandering here together with his
older brothers, the fallen legion, who try to convert God's earthly
species to his side. It means that Jesus who presented us to the
Father through His great sacrifice has gone to prepare a different
place for the redeemed race separately, because of the other legions
who hadn't supported Lucifer's rebellion in timelessness are still
worshipping the Almighty and their locations are seemingly beyond the
realms of the third plane.
The first entry into Paradise, the newly prepared abode for the sons
of Adam, which goes in par with Eden, has been filling in by the
robber who was crucified with Jesus.  The OT Elects were kept in a
separate place, known as Abraham's bosom, under the earth because no
soul could trespass the aerial realm of Oyar in the OT period, the
narrow way to the Father's place, prior to the son of Man's sacrifice
on the cross. Jesus was the first one, the first-born into the newly
prepared Paradise, who conquered the astral realm of Satan's Oyar. The
departed souls who now go to the other side of the grave are able to
pass through the twenty toll- houses set up by Satan in Oyar. As it
takes forty days of intense testing in the twenty toll- houses, it
takes about forty days to complete it, the reason for us to supplicate
on behalf of the faithful departed during that period. It means that
there is a place called Heaven beyond the boundaries of our horizon,
although the line of separation of hell and Heaven is within us. If
Heaven is limited within us now, no one has the necessity to die and
go to an unknown place that we have no control at all.
Wrong interpretation
"Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he
answered them, `The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be
observed; nor will they say, Lo, here it is! Or `there' for behold,
the kingdom of God is in the midst of you", Lk.17: 20-21. Very
calculated words, not only here but also the frugal words and phrases
used in the bible translate a celestial world that we find it hard to
penetrate into. Using the phrase `within', instead of using `in the
midst of you', make a difference of stellar distance which mislead and
take us into the territory of the Devil. It would be humanly
impossible for an ordinary observer to find the signs of the birth and
life of Jesus, despite there were obvious signs that the magi,
shepherds and Simeon led to and exposed to, when Jesus the symbol of
Heaven was in the midst of them.  He meant that Heaven was in the
midst of them, means Jesus' presence at that point of time in their
midst while talking about heaven; it doesn't mean that heaven is
within our mind.
This misinterpretation that cut the taproot of the teaching of
salvation has been a universal victory for the infernal blackguards.
Whether Christians or non-Christians, everybody who believes that
heaven is `within us' is of the opinion that going to church or doing
religious duties is only a paraphernalia; the main task is to clean up
the mind. Emptying the mind and filling with the fallen legion is not
the medication for salvation. Cleaning up the mind according to our
pedestrian standard is not the formula for spirituality; doing some
good things in life and whimper about and showing our ego is a sign of
hell that only can profane the name of God and our mind.
Heaven is a place beyond our imagination and grasp; we have to work
for it for the whole life that inevitably invites introspection and
mental cleansing with Christian rectitude. When `Aham' or high profile
head weight that rule our life, the kingdom of Satan can only dwell
`within' us. Unless we worship the God of Heaven in deep penitence and
then do serve our brethren sincerely, Heaven remains as a mirage that
help to corrode our `within'. Morality bereft of God can only help us
landing into the domain of individualism that is a breeding ground for
the demon to build its strongholds. If Heaven that is a distant far
off luminous land, yet remaining as a dream of reality within us and
without, what is the main, enigmatic entry qualification into that
territory of the mysteries?
Entry Qualifications
The only imperative door entry pass is, "Whoever does not receive the
kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it", Lk.18: 17. A simple
statement in few words, but it doesn't limit the meaning within our
horizon. A second childhood that is given to man is basically in
ruminating, reminiscing and re-examining the overall role that he
played during his entire lifespan and become a child of second
childhood that is the exit lane into the next stage of hidden
existence. This second childhood period is named as `Vanaprastham'
that go in tune within the prescriptions of Indian sages. It doesn't
mean to live a childlike life only at the evening of one's life, but
`to turn and become like a child of God' through out one's life that
is periodically at sixes and sevens is the lifeblood of this ephemeral
journey of uncertainties,Mt.18: 3; Mk10: 13-16. Sinning and repenting,
forgiving and forgetting, giving and taking, earning and squandering,
hating and loving and similar other infirmities are the games of this
testing sojourn.  In a nutshell, children have no corruptions of their
character, apart from the sluggishness of their genetic body
temperance and the metabolic requirements that they need from time to
time. Let us ponder over the likely qualifications of a child.
Love and fear
Though the child loves everyone, the immanent fear that scares it to
be in the hands of strangers is a problem for some children. The
language of love makes it smile and laugh, whereas it is frightened by
strange looks and appearances. Though man has the secular right to do
anything that doesn't affect others, we can't do such things in real
life that is crowded with a mob of unlike and like-minded strangers
and associates. Everyone has one's own feelings that branch into
myriads of opinions which will have to be weighed to make a balance.
Loving others like us is a precondition that should allow us to flow
the pure and sincere love through our veins.
Love creates, whereas hatred destroys one's salvation, friendship and
our own inner and external lifestyle, despite the love-hate ethos is
the mode of our everyday normality in the fallen state. The creative
fear that is immanent in every animal, except alien to some mad
people, is for self-protection. Just as a child reacts to strange
situations and clings on its parents, man has a duty to repel from the
diabolic activities and demons, so that we find shelter in the arms of
our own Creator. Man must love God and hate his enemy, the Devil. All
the problems of modern life are the outcomes of the fearlessness of
God that deletes the love of God and towards His creations. Just the
opposite is happening; loving the instincts of the flesh that is
against the inner sensibilities is the dominant appetite of a
high-flying life of modern agnostic way of life. "Do not resist one
who is evil", Mt.5: 39, is a prescription that allows us to love the
passion of the Lord who love everyone and hate the deceit, the tool of
the Devil.
Association
A child has the ability to associate with others without any prejudice
that differentiates between the people of multiracial ethnicities and
linguistics and religiosities, the rich and the poor and beyond age
barriers. The reason for Jesus to identify His followers as sheep is
due to the fact that the sheep flock together while grazing or
otherwise, whereas the goat go according to its whims and fancies,
without giving any heed to the shepherd and other goats. Thus
Christianity makes it as a social religion of equality while working
for the destitute, vulnerable and the marginalized ones. `Love your
neighbour as yourself' by giving honour and glory to the Father is the
pulse of the created order. Love that creates amity and concordance is
the only religion in the world. God is a foreigner where there is
aversion and apathy, cynicism and skepticism, feuding and conflicts.
Learn these superlative qualities from a child that forgets any evil
doings of others and forgives everything and everybody.
Sharing
Despite food is our primary energy-giver, a child quite often likes to
give a part of its food when it is at least half-fed, so also it
allows others to share its belongings and habitats. Almsgiving that
help the needy for food, shelter and protection is as old as life
itself, just as a child lives and adjusts itself in tune with its
surroundings. Life which invites adjustments and sharing with others
is an excellent quality of mind that deletes head weight, jealousy,
back-biting and all other intrigues. No one owns anything in this
world; a caretaker role to look after this planet and its facilities
is only a breath away from man. Why make a false boast, when the
Creator is the owner of our wealth, time, health and our whole
households.  Children don't claim the ownership of anything other than
what they possess for time passing at that point of time. Remember
always that we are the children of the same Father and sharing the
same bread provided by the Creator.
Consoling
The young ones also have the ability to identify with others and their
feelings. They share anything what they have, while its associates are
in dire need or danger. Possessiveness of wealth and property and
money, a dangerous game that the adult exhibits is harmful for their
life here and also in afterlife. Greed that has no limit is a
contagious disease that can kill our soul and body. Whoever is driven
by the passion of greed dislike to share his belongings, triggering
jealousy which has no sympathy and mercy and ignoring the need of
consoling others because any noble pursuit ends up in sacrificing
something from one's belongings?
Vengeance
The passion of vengeance is a deadly nature that invites acrimony and
feuding and vendetta that a child is usually free from. The fire of
vengeance that boils one's blood finds many valves to open for
misdirected and inappropriate actions. "Vengeance is mine…Do not
overcome by evil but overcome evil with good", Rom.12: 19-21.
Vengeance for greed, jealousy and possessiveness is an incurable
pathological condition that works in various levels of our life: in
family, society and most violently in national and international
politics. The parable that is given at the end of Mt.18 should be a
soul –searching medication for our daily life.
Self-deceit
A very pernicious mental condition that betrays our own conscience
exhibits duplicities of character and multiplicities of personalities
is suicidal. One who deceives another is a self-conceited mental
dwarf. Children are innocent and free from this harmful trait of
character.
There are many other sterling qualities in a child that is embedded in
simple and humble love and natural fear which the adults to embody are
the pure signs of a cherished Christian life of love towards God and
charity towards man. When the feuding disciples who asked for greatest
position in Heaven, "who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven",
Jesus' reprimand is of great significance. "Truly, I say to you,
unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the
kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives such child in my
name receives me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who
believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great
millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of
the sea", Mt.18: 1-22.
There are two salient features we note here. The first part is
subjective and personal. One has to be humble like a child, and the
second one is not to create any hassles to a person who has evolved
himself like a child or any other person. Jesus continues: "woe to the
world for temptations to sin…We shouldn't be a problem for anyone who
is likely to withdraw from the camp of God because of our hypocrisy,
while we profess ourselves as a servant of the Almighty. In other
words, we shouldn't be a stumbling-block for others in not receiving
the light of God. We destroy simultaneously ourselves and others on
account of our pretence and greed. One who leads others should be like
innocent lambs that are chosen for sacrifice, otherwise we carry the
label of self-destroyers or society-polluters or terminators. "Let not
many of you become teachers, for you know that we who teach shall be
judged with greater strictness", Js.3: 1.
New Jerusalem
The preparations of the marriage of the Lamb with the church that
takes place in Paradise, Rev.19, after the 6th millennia and after a
millennium thereafter the flock is apparently headed to the Last
Judgement and then accompanying the new elects to a haven of new
heaven and a new earth, New Jerusalem, for an eternal stay there,
Rev.20: 7-22: 19. New heaven and new earth definitely remind us that
the new habitat is a globe like that of ours, bereft of any infernal
molestation. The descriptive beauty of the new earth that marvel and
in superlative excellence which go in tune with the creation history
of this universe and our first parents has no parallel in the whole of
the biblical narrations, except that of the presentation of the Logos
in St.John, chapter one. " And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband, and a voice heard from the throne, saying, "Behold the
dwelling of God is with men,…death shall be no more, neither shall be
mourning nor crying…I take all things new….".
  The wall of this city is founded on the 12 apostles, the reason for
us to follow their footprints and the chaste faith that we have to
adhere to because they have the authority of judging the 12 tribes of
Israel. "And the wall of the city had 12 foundations, and on them the
12 names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb", Rev.21: 14.
It is apparently true to say that this new city that comes out of
heaven from God is a new globe or a place that is exclusively adorned
for the race of Adam, just as Eden was a new creation for Adam and Eve
on this planet earth, Gen.2: 8. It is a similar planet that of the
earth which has water, plants and the Tree of Life that produce
various kinds of fruits, Rev.22. The throne of God and the Lamb shall
be in it, and the elects shall share it there forever. This luminous
territory that has the throne of the Eternal God, where we also
sharing the same, Rev.3: 21, is the seeming land that is referred to
as the kingdom of Heaven that is prepared separately for the redeemed
race of Adam, whereas the kingdom of God likely pertaining to the
oceans of universes of the gigantic universe of Heaven.
  This blissful domain will be within and without us then, also now in
the embryonic stage within us, because we will be in the midst of the
Lamb and His angels.

The visa qualification to that territory is very strict. The
post-puberty lifestyle that is overruled by the virulent passions of
money(wealth), power and sex games is not the ideal pattern of our
life which pertain for our entry permit. Whereas the gate pass for the
admission into that arena of eternal peace is the pre-puberty life
culture of purity, innocence, humility and serene and selfless love
towards God and man without any power, money and sex corruptions is
the pulsating rhythm which is the one that is meant for our entire
life, Mk.7: 21-23; Gal.5: 18-24. Beware that a child has not at all
any power position or wealth and is in the dormant sex purity.
Triggering sexual impulse on the onset of puberty is exclusively aimed
at is for the propagation of the species, not for any sexual foul play
which will have detrimental backlashes that are inscribed within our
mortal and immortal frames, permitting God to cleanse the stains by
our salty tears and sweats. Just as our entire carefree childhood life
is in the hand of our parents and relatives, our earthly life should
be dedicated totally to God and His hosts who care and nurture  in
this life and take us into the land of the Living ceremoniously. Our
sins and infirmities unless submitted at the feet of the Lord and
sought sincere absolution, we won't be taken into the God's Holy land;
a blemished life only tend to lead us into the territory of the outer
darkness. "But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor anyone who
practises abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in
the Lamb's book of life", Rev.21: 27.

Dear believers,
  I have skimmed over the agitated and angry postings that try to
validate, somehow, the militant group's stand of snatching the voting
rights for women in our parishes, without knowing that humanity is now
at the crossroads as once happened in Gethsemane garden. The apostles
were under the vexation of a leadership fight, the ominous signs of
Jesus' alleged departure and the heaviness of the Passover food, just
as the present generation is under the obesity of Epicureanism and the
vicious greed for power and money that derail our life from its normal
path. There it was Jesus under the threat, now here we are facing the
betrayal of God's Spirit who brood over the church. God the Father's
temporary defeat in Eden, Son's by the Jerusalem hierarchy and the God
the Spirit's by the steward of the church are the naked realities
which grieve the Triune God. The apparent defeat of God the Father for
an apple in Eden, as no money coin was a transaction medium, Son's
sacrifice for 30 silver coins and the Holy Spirit's crucifixion for
tons of fossil money and power positions for the unfittest at the end
of the days are the real foul games in the battle that began between
good and evil in Eden.

Bible is a compendium of prophesies and their fulfillments in course
of time. "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the
prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should
suffer these things and enter into his glory?", said Christ,Lk.24:
25-26; Mt.24: 33-39. Jesus suffered and entered into glory by the
heinous betrayal of His own disciple from the inner sanctum, so also
the Spirit of God will have to grieve over the tortures inflicted by
the religious hierarchy of the Bride, the Orthodox Church.  There is
only one Bride, not two for the Groom. Jesus explained the truth to
the spiritually blind people about the prophets and about their
prophesies, and   made them aware of the prophesies about the
Incarnate Word. Who is there to explain about the human history's
darkest age that befalls on the Bride that is betrayed from within at
the accomplishment of time? Prophets, particularly Daniel and minor
prophets of the OT times have meticulously forewarned what should
happen at the close of the age that envelopes gloom and cataclysmic
disasters and humanitarian crises in an epic proportion to the whole
world. Jesus also delineates in brief about the impending dilemma
about the end of the time, Mt.24. The fossil money has blinded the
spiritual hierarchy that ends up already in power and money games. The
apostles, especially St.Paul, St.John, st.Jude and St.Peter have
portrayed a clear picture of the society at the culmination of time.
The Orthodox Church was so far to an extent within the perimeter of
their teachings and doctrines, but is being eclipsed now by the money
spirituality, consumerism and recycled materialism. As the inner
instincts are dictated by the secular sensibility, the church and many
of its ministers have gone astray; having about 2,500 denominations
and countless number of cults outside of it, and it is seemingly in
the wasteland of Satan's fortress.  Now let us come to some of the
salient aspects that don't allow women to take part in the
decision-making bodies of the parish/church.
Theological side
The question of women's involvement in the decision-making venues is a
product of the Women's Liberation Movement that is an outcome of a
genuine claim of `same job, same wage concept', the brain child of
Labour Unions that is an amalgam of all sections of workers, hailing
from atheists, agnostics and moral imbeciles and many fair-thinking
mobs. Thus feminism, a byproduct of social anarchy became a strong
force that encroached into every arena of our life, including
religions that are now controlled by political and commercial
spirituality. As it happened in other churches, the stage by stage
step of controlling the church /spiritual hierarchy is the game of
today's religious aims of a majority section in the Orthodox Church.
As Eve fell to the prey of Satan in Eden, no woman till now is allowed
to touch the Holy Mystery or recite the worship and play the role of
the celebrant in the Orthodox churches. Moreover, as sex is the
outcome of the forbidden fruit and sex impulse is only the instrument
for the propagation of the species on this earth, femininity is meant
only for this planet. As there is only manhood in the celestial
sphere, no woman is allowed to be a worker or co-associate in the
religious vistas of our parishes, the second Heaven, and church
hierarchy. Since sex is the outcome of the forbidden fruit, church,
the second Heaven, should be untouched in all levels by its influence.
Experiences have revealed that the choir and such places have become
the places of match making, even the clergy seduces and marries girls
from the choir. Hence women's any role in the church is a forbidden
fruit. Allowing women to sit in the decision-making venues is an
infringement of ethical code.

The abomination of desolation that prophet Daniel prophesied and
quoted by Christ, mt.24: 15, is about female and gay clergy, the last
sign that invites unbearable cataclysmic disasters which uproot
societies and will be gulped by antichrist. Most of our present clergy
and laity that are the products of once the K.S.U or Marxist Unions
don't have a clue about Orthodox mysticism, the reasons for some
clergy members and a section of men folk supporting such moves of
women's participation in all levels of our religious venues. As the
church hierarchy can't fight against this combined militant group,
they seemingly try to yield to such pressures, first sit as observers,
then giving voting rights that pave the way for grabbing the
hierarchical clerical roles step by step. Whoever stand against will
be destroyed because profanity should reign at the end of the day, as
all the prophesies will have to be fulfilled before the Lord's coming.
Just like the Jerusalem hierarchy of religion and secular and
political spectrums of Christ's time was corrupt to the core, the
religious hierarchy that has no idea about the time of the coming of
the Lord is fighting within for grabbing the best position that bring
honour and money. The high-tech era is a curse for the church and a
blessing for some laity and clergy in indulging in money and power
spirituality. Woe unto the clerics who betray the Bride for the sake
of political and religious spirituality, a crossbreed product for the
period of abomination of desolation. This abomination of desolation
refers to the desolation of the Holy Spirit from the vicinity of
spiritual or religious places which will be haunted by the vulture
means the legions of the devil.
Practical problems
I know of a parish that enshrines the equality of both sexes for about
the last 3 decades. People don't fear and tremble during the Qurbana
times, but they shudder and tremble to go for the parish meetings
because both husband and his wife, also adult children, in most cases
join together to add fuel for the scenes of pandemonium there. Or the
family members will fight against themselves by washing their dirty
family linen in public. That parish never had the quorum to hold the
meetings on the first scheduled day, except during the formative years
that had a membership of less than half a dozen families, but they
have the provision of having the meeting next time without counting
the heads of the members. Our Fathers have been very wise and
practical while making the rules that constrains within the doctrines.
One family shouldn't be allowed to prowl over the weak or vulnerable
families that are either poor or having no higher social status.
Purity of Worship
Sexual impulse that is a sacrilege to celestial culture has no place
in the second Heaven, church, where Christ is the head. This is the
reason for the cardinal rule that totally disallows women to
participate in the decision-making bodies. Moreover, as Christ is the
head and church the body, man is the head of the family that is a
miniature heaven.
The biblical proofs authenticate that we are at the garden of
Gethsemane where Christ said that "it is your time and the hour of
darkness", Lk.22. I can't understand why the religious hierarchy that
is the steward of the House of the Lord is having a long slumber of
Rip Van Winkles, despite there is millions of signs that this
high-tech, high-flying life is the last flicker of the candle, earth
that is dying out. Time is running out, my dear sisters and brothers,
the time the wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept due to the
delay in the coming of the Lord, Mt.25: 1-13.
Follow the prophets and apostles who have given us warnings for the
last 6000 years of a detrimental dimension that suffocate this world
and its life at the close of the age by Anti-christ. Try to understand
the scriptures and prophesies that portray about the apocalyptic
sufferings in epic proportions. "First of all you must understand
this, that no prophesy of scripture is a matter of one's own
interpretation, because no prophesy ever came by the impulse of man,
but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God", 2.Pet.1: 20-21;
Mt.24: 33-39. But nothing can quell the ego-thrilled motivation of "it
is better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" because bringing God
down to His knee is the war cry of the Devil.


E.S.John, Australia

"...through patient endurance we may be granted forgiveness for many sins.
Moreover, if we do not forgive others their debts, the Father will not forgive
us our debts (cf. Matt. 6:15). Indeed, nothing leads more swiftly to the
forgiveness of sins than this virtue or commandment: 'Forgive, and you will be
forgiven' (cf. Matt. 6:14)."

St. Peter of Damaskos.

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"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your
neighbor as yourself."  Galatians 5:14

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Prayer Requests:
If you have an update on a prayer request, please let me know.

Please remember the following in your prayers:

Emad. Cancer. very urgent.
Theresa - Cancer.
Scott - Crones Disease
M. Askandar - In the hospital suffering from a stroke.
J. Shapiro - Cancer.
C.L. - Complete recovery after a tragic car accident.
David - a little boy that will be having surgery next month.
T.M. - Imprisoned in Abu Dhabi
K. Abdelmessih - Recovering from surgery
M. Ragheb - Out of the ICU but he is still under critical care
M. Fleming - Multiple brain and spinal cord diseases.
Fr. Wissa Bessada - In the hospital.
G. Roubil - Out of ICU
The Boulos family, that the Lord may comfort them on the repose of their son and
brother Timothy Boulos.
Elizabeth - Liver cancer.
The Coptic mission trip to Mexico.
Camilo, Julio Renaldo, Diego and family, Hong and Pablo - Accept the faith and
get baptized.
H.H. Pope Shenouda III
David - rectal and liver cancer.
The congregation of St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Delaware and the family
of Malak M.
The family of Larry W. - May the Lord grant them peace.
H.M - Hardship.
William H. - Cancer
Makram G. - Liver Cirrhosis in the last stages
Emad - Lung cancer.
Albert - Operation
Abanoub
Eva S - Breast Cancer
M.B.- Breast Cancer
Mark - brain tumor
Fr. Anthony H.
Luka-- May God unite him with his family.
F.Z. may God help him in his service.
Tasony Esther, May God heal her and comfort her.
Akmal T. - Major heart surgery.
Amal M - Lymphoma Cancer.
Shery - Tumor near her spinal chord.
E.Salamah - Breast Cancer.
Mena - Displaced mandibular joint.
Esme - Severe lupus with heart & brain function involvement.
Yvone Y. - Serious Eye Surgery. The doctors now feel she might not need the
surgery at all.
Anthony - PTSD from Iraq
Elisha Mary - return to Communion
E. - Brain tumor, 22 yrs old with 2 kids.
M. Chouinard and her family and students.
Marianne and her family
E. Farag's family

The unity of the Churches and all Christians.

The Christians in Egypt. "Blessed is Egypt My people." Isaiah 19:25

Please remember me in your prayers.

Please pray for the peace of the world.

"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

There is a
Christian in the Post Office
Author Unknown


This is one of the kindest things I've ever
experienced. I have no way to know who sent it, but there is a beautiful soul
working in the dead letter office of the US postal service.


Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The
day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking
about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so
that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I
thought we could, so she dictated these words:


Dear God,

Will you please take care of my dog? She died
yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you
let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play
with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her you
will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.

Love, Meredith.


We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of
Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on
it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because
she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven.
That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few
days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I
thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold
paper on our front porch addressed, 'To Meredith , in an unfamiliar hand.
Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies.'
Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its
opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith
and this note:


Dear Meredith,
Abbey arrived safely in heaven.

Having the picture was a big help. I recognized
Abbey right away.

Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with
me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't
need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so
I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have
something to remember Abbey by.

Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your
mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother
you have. I picked her especially for you.

I send my blessings every day and remember that I
love you very much.

By the way, I'm easy to find; I am wherever there
is love.

Love,
God

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The following are some extracts from the canons of the ancient "undivided"
church. Refer this canons to see there is no primacy for the Pope of Rome over
other churches..
 
Canon 6 of the Council of Nicea held in 325 AD says -
"Let the ancient customs in Egypt, Libya and Pentapolis prevail, that the Bishop
of Alexandria have jurisdiction in all these, since the like is customary for
the Bishop of Rome also.  Likewise in Antioch and the other provinces, let the
Churches retain their privileges." 
This clearly shows that Patriarch of Rome have jurisdiction over the Western
world, Alexandrian Patriarch in Africa and Antiochene Patriarch in East. Further
see, it was the custom of the ancient church, not a new invention of the 4th
century.
 
Since the Patriarch of Rome was in the capital of Roman empire, it had an
"honorary" role.
 
But, with in five years of the council, the capital was changed from Rome to
Constantinople i.e, around 330 AD.
 
In the 3rd canon of council of Constantinople held in 381 AD says'
" The Bishop of Constantinople, however, shall have the prerogative of honour
after the Bishop of Rome because Constantinople is New Rome"
 
See the growth of Constantinople. A bishop who was not even a Patriarch in the
last council, got importance over Alexandria and Antioch.
 
Very soon, in 451 AD, Patriarch of Constantinople became the authority of the
full Christian church ( Reserving only honorary title to the Patriarch of Old
Capital).
 
9th Canon in Council of Chalcedon held in 451 AD says -
" And if a bishop or clergyman should have a difference with the metropolitan of
the province, let him have recourse to the Exarch of the Diocese, or to the
throne of the Imperial City of Constantinople, and there let it be tried."
 
The said power was not there for Rome also. (Refer the canon of Nicea, which
restricts Roman Patriarch in Western regions alone). Thus the Patriarch of
Constantinole gets the power to interfere in the affairs of other church.
 
Canon 28 of the council of Chalcedon says that New Rome is equal to Old Rome. It
says - 
"The bishop of New Rome shall enjoy the same honour as the bishop of Old Rome,
on account of the removal of the Empire.  For this reason the [metropolitans] of
Pontus, of Asia, and of Thrace, as well as the Barbarian bishops shall be
ordained by the bishop of Constantinople."
Thus it¢s clear now that Roman Pope is not the head of the Church. There are
other better claimants for the throne.
 
Mgk
www.unitedorthodoxy.org
 




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We read in 1 John 5: 2-3, "By this we know that we love the children
of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is
the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments
are not grievous."  His commandments are our delight. We have that
new mental disposition, that new Spirit, that new attitude, that
new heart, and now His commandments are not grievous.

Ye children of men, attend to the Word So solemnly uttered by Jesus
the Lord; And let not his message to your be in vain O ye who would
enter that glorious rest, And sing with the ransomed the song of
the blest; The life everlasting if ye would obtain, "Ye must be
born again."  "Ye must be born again." "Ye must be born again."
I verily, verily say unto thee, "Ye must be born again." ~ Siby

Isn’t it in our nature to hate rules? As children, we fight against the rules
imposed by family, and as adults, we feel that we should be able to make our own
rules according to our own view of right and wrong.

I think that it is important to remember that the Commandments in the Bible were
written by the finger of God. (Exodus 34) These were not man made rules thought
up by Moses or some power hungry patriarch. The 10 Commandments are 10 divine
rules on how to live according to God’s plan. If a person would keep every
commandment, all of the time, he would live a holy life. He would never sin. In
the end, the 10 Commandments serve to show us what a holy life looks like and to
show us that we are in need of a savior. We cannot keep all of the commandments
all of the time. There is no one who is holy and perfect. There is no one who
can follow God’s rules for holy living. (Romans 3:10-12 and 23) Still it is
important to know and understand these rules.
The first 4 commandments tell us how to have a relationship with God. The last 6
commandments show us how to act with other people. Let’s take a look at the
first 4.
Worship the one true God and no other. Remember Who created everything and Who
is in charge of the universe. The Israelites often forgot this one and followed
other gods, thinking that those gods would take better care of them. The
difference between us and the Israelites is that they actually called them gods.
We wouldn’t think of calling our money a god but we will put our complete trust
in it. We wouldn’t think of calling ourselves god but we will often decide that
we know what is best even when it is in opposition to God’s written word.
Worship God as Spirit. We aren’t to make an idol of anything that we have made,
such as a cross or a statue or something that God created such as the stars or
an animal. God wants to be worshipped as He is. Don’t put Him in a box.
Honor His name. We aren’t to use God’s name in a frivolous manner or in
profanity. He is holy, He is the Almighty. His name should be protected and
honored. The Israelites took this commandment very seriously but we seem to have
forgotten it. We often accept adults and even children using His name as
profanity or an exclamation.
Keep the Sabbath day holy. God worked six days to create the universe and He
rested on the seventh day. We are to work six days and devote the seventh day to
worship. We are to devote the day to remembering God. The Israelite’s Sabbath
was on Saturday. Christians devote Sunday to God in remembrance of Jesus’
resurrection. For many, work interferes with a Sunday day of rest. The command
is to devote one day out of seven to worshipping God. We need to break out of
our personal schedule for one day. We need the rest and we need to worship.
These 4 commands seem to be easy enough, but we can’t and don’t keep them all of
the time. Praise God that He sent Jesus to pay the price for our failures and
the Holy Spirit to remind us of His plan.

"In what way, then, was this just man [St. John the Baptist] harmed by this
demise, this violent death, these chains, this imprisonment? Who are those he
did not set back on their feet - provided they had a penitent disposition -
because of what he spoke, because of what he suffered, because of what he still
proclaims in our own day - the same message he preached while he was living.
Therefore, do not say: 'Why was John allowed to die?' For what occurred was not
a death, but a crown, not an end, but the beginning of a greater life. Learn to
think and live like a Christian. You will not only remain unharmed by these
events, but will reap the greatest benefits."

St. John Chrysostom.

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"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the
kingdom of heaven."  Matthew 5:10

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Prayer Requests:
If you have an update on a prayer request, please let me know.

Please remember the following in your prayers:

Emad. Cancer. very urgent.
Theresa - Cancer.
Scott - Crones Disease
M. Askandar - In the hospital suffering from a stroke.
J. Shapiro - Cancer.
C.L. - Complete recovery after a tragic car accident.
David - a little boy that will be having surgery next month.
T.M. - Imprisoned in Abu Dhabi
K. Abdelmessih - Recovering from surgery
M. Ragheb - Out of the ICU but he is still under critical care
M. Fleming - Multiple brain and spinal cord diseases.
Fr. Wissa Bessada - In the hospital.
G. Roubil - Out of ICU
The Boulos family, that the Lord may comfort them on the repose of their son and
brother Timothy Boulos.
Elizabeth - Liver cancer.
The Coptic mission trip to Mexico.
Camilo, Julio Renaldo, Diego and family, Hong and Pablo - Accept the faith and
get baptized.
H.H. Pope Shenouda III
David - rectal and liver cancer.
The congregation of St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Delaware and the family
of Malak M.
The family of Larry W. - May the Lord grant them peace.
H.M - Hardship.
William H. - Cancer
Makram G. - Liver Cirrhosis in the last stages
Emad - Lung cancer.
Albert - Operation
Abanoub
Eva S - Breast Cancer
M.B.- Breast Cancer
Mark - brain tumor
Fr. Anthony H.
Luka-- May God unite him with his family.
F.Z. may God help him in his service.
Tasony Esther, May God heal her and comfort her.
Akmal T. - Major heart surgery.
Amal M - Lymphoma Cancer.
Shery - Tumor near her spinal chord.
E.Salamah - Breast Cancer.
Mena - Displaced mandibular joint.
Esme - Severe lupus with heart & brain function involvement.
Yvone Y. - Serious Eye Surgery. The doctors now feel she might not need the
surgery at all.
Anthony - PTSD from Iraq
Elisha Mary - return to Communion
E. - Brain tumor, 22 yrs old with 2 kids.
M. Chouinard and her family and students.

Marianne and her family
E. Farag's family
F.F. to find his way back to God and to reunit him with his familly.
Fr. Leonidas - Brain tumor
Joseph W. - Prostate cancer
DS and family - cancer, stroke and paralysis
Iris S - Kidney Surgery - June 11th,2008
Nader S - Hardship
Hanaa S - Breast Cancer
Zakia A. - Cancer
Nasr H. - Emphysema - Doing better.
Lucy B. - Breast cancer
Amira C - severe and chronic Lyme Disease
N M- God's will in her testing for cancer; and His GREAT support for her if it
is positive. Thank God, the testing result turns out to be negative.
Susan - mental illness, marital problems and neglect of children.
Dina - Spiritual healing and wisdom
Carol - Rare autoimmune disease that's left her immobile.
Karim
Hayam R. - Cancer in her ovaries.
Susu G. - Breast Cancer.
MH - Major heart problems and in dire need of spiritual guidance.
Tony H. - Colon cancer, kidney and heart problem.
Ramy M - Insomnia and mental problem.
Ghassan A. - Cancer. He has 3 kids.
Maria B. - Lymphoma Cancer - away from God.
Neveen S. - Brain Damage.
N.S. - Breast cancer.
Veronia - Newly born baby girl in intensive care with brain damage.
Walter O. - Was operated on to have cancerous growths removed from inside his
right lung.
Celeste D. - Cancer.
Nasr N. - Cancer.
Angelita - Severe Insomia and Depression.
Fr. Abraam.
Susan - depression and spiritual healing.
M.H. - Lymphoma
Hoda - Depression and suicidal thoughts
Ibrahim - Renounced his faith due to failures and hardships
Steve, Paul, Victor, Frances, Foad - To experience and love Christ
The family of Olympia.
Greg - throat cancer
Marian and Paul - Marian recently had a miscarriage
Sophie - multiple health issues
Fathia - dementia
Family of HW who committed suicide
Mark H - MS
F. Saad - Heart Attack.
Angel N. - Lymph Node Cancer - recovered, Pray it won't return
Marina - A Highschool freshman with Leukemia
R.T. - A 14 years old girl with Leukemia.
S.Henin - Autoimmune Disease.
Mike - recovering alcoholic, who lost his son to alcohol & drug addiction &
suicide.
Matt - May God have mercy on his soul
Mark N - 20 years old with cancer and just started chemeotherapy.
Berna, Raouf and Alex Halim - Serious car accident, Raouf is in the ICU.
Wahid Girgus - MS
Andrew and his parents - 10 days old infant with the Lymphatic nodes not working
and other medical consequences.
John and his parents - unborn baby with kidney damage.
S. Magda - Health problems.
M & O - Family problems
Ariana - 3 1/2yrs, inoperable brain tumor
Noussa B. - Heal her.
Magdy B - Cancer.
Megan - Hodgkins Lyphoma - Thank God, her Hodgkins Lymphoma is now in remission
Abouna A - Prostate Cancer - unforuntately, now has brain cancer as well.
Judi & John - Son with Severe Developmental Disabilities
Anthony - Autism
Christina - Chronic Pain
Karen & Tony - Infertility - Thank God, They, had a Baby Boy (Garrett)
Steve - Cancer (fighting it for 10 years +)
Samiha - Dementia
Adly - Parkinson's Disease
The Christian Minority in Noshara, Pakistan.
Nancy - Glass went into her right eye.
L. Waters - Heart surgery. Mr. Waters is recovering nicely.
K. Hood - Cancer. Kerri had a successful surgery.
D. Arteaga - Surgery
Fadia - Breast Cancer.
Tara - Systematic Lupus and financial and family problems
J.David - Depression,School,Drug problems, needs God's Guidance.
George k - Cancer
Frances - Brain Tumor
Alber - Cancer
K - Depression, anxiety, addiction, pride and spiritual estrangement
E. Tawadros - Guide her to the right path and grant her wish.
E. Sidhom - Cancer.
Adel Gendy - 10 years old with kidney failure, needs a kidney transplant.
Joseph - Prostrate Cancer
Mary - Breast cancer
A.K Matthew - Colon Cancer
Enyat - severe diabetes.
Samy - Bone cancer.
MS - Mercy, Comfort, Strength, Healing and Protection
AAM -- Love, Healing, Comfort, Strength, Support and Guidance
MM -- Love, Healing, Comfort, Strength, Support and Guidance
SE -- Love, Healing
GE -- Love, Comfort, Strength, Support, Guidance
Helen - severe epileptic seizures.
Stephan - 48 years old, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, stroke.
Scott - 4 months old baby desperately in need of a bone marrow donor.
Douglas McLead - Cancer and kidney failure.
Mrs. McLead - Parkinson disease.
Fr Benjamin, Photini, Marina, Miriam, Moses.
Nicholas - constant back pain.
Michael - 9 years old boy with a progressive brain tumor.
Sarah - Back problems and might need an operation soon.
Mayrvat and her 3 kids. She has been separated from her kids.
Elizabeth - bi-polar disease and other problems.
Fr. Constantine S. Palassis - suffers from symptoms of dementia.
Heidy - Depression and other problems.
Esther - Intestinal problems.
Nick - chemotherapy.
Sue S. - Advanced Cancer.
Helen P. - severe depression and diabetes.
Pamela P. - chronic depression and financial difficulties.
Shafika - kidney failure.
Mary Beth - Obesity & Diabetes.
Jean - Neurological back problems.
Therese - Emotional problems.
Reggie - Cancer.
Detra - Stress related health problems.
Walter Sr. - Depression.
Denise I. - Breast Cancer.
Cuba Plain - cancer that is high up in the breast.
Zouhair - stomach cancer.
Magdy - brain tumor.
John Rittel - cancer of the lymph node and voice box.
H. Adel - finish the immigration papers and preparation successfully.
E.Tawadros - Guide her to the right ways and complete IT to the best it will be.
Shareen - Stays out of trouble, gets closer to God, and Leads a pure life.
Mark H - MS
Mamdooh, Nahed, Marina and Cyril - May the will of The Lord be done.
M. Michael, C. Michael, M. Michael, R. Michael and family and friends.
M. M. Fayez.
R. Farouk's Family
Kristen and her brother
David - To be close to a Church
George - pass the final interview for a Job,to survive extreme debts.
Kristina may God heal her and help Ed in school, and help Joan with her finance
problems.
Bassem - bare the severe circumstances he is passing through and give him peace.
Alfred - needs  guidance and acknowledgement of the right way.
Hala - give her peace.
Evette - let her find the right way and have satisfaction.
Heba - give her the right decision.
Mona - take care of her cause she's alone.
William E. and Family
Fr. Heinen and family.
Norma, Laura and Ibrahim.
Stephanie - autism, and for her family
Dina's salvation
Marie Y -  Rheumatoid arthitis
MMH: For guidance, strength, and wisdom
Heidi - work problems, May God give her the right choice
Luka - Autism and to relief his family
Shery - in her school and Master preperation.
Jarcie - legal and financial difficulties, and return her to Christ.
Gabriel & family - May they find a suitable Orthodox Church to be catechized and
baptized in.
S.H. - Needs God's guidance to make the right career choice
Mario F. - Grant solitude to his family and to repair all damaged relationships.
STMCOC of DC mission trip to Africa and India this fall.
The mission of the Coptic Church in Africa and throughout the world.
ERA: The mission of the EgyptiansRelief.org in Egypt may God prosper all the
work done everywhere the service is.
Yvone - Dizziness and a bleeding mouth and nose.
Widad - Cancer.
Nour - God would reunite his broken family.
Jimmy, Fady, Shady - To experience and love Christ.
PM, EM, CM and JM - Salvation and to be brought to Christ.
Fr. Wade+ and family - protection and support
St. Andrews Mission, Lakeland, FL - new mission plant
E and L - Solution to their problems according to God's will.
Hani - To experience the love of Christ through salvation.
Safwat - Away from God.
A.S. - Find the right path.
E.F. - Spiritual guidance from God to find his way back to Him.
RMG & Family - Comfort & Peace in time of grief.
Clara M -  (3 years old) has Lukemia.
F.Tawfik - High sugar level.
Baby H.M.Hany - May God heal her.
E.Tawadros - Difficult times, in need of God's guidance.
Kamal G.
Samir A.
Hazem
Shady S. - Guidance and support.
Richard - Heart condition, sorrow and despair.
Give peace and prosper to St Bishoy church - stouffville.
Mariam - Show her compassion after being so broken hearted
M&M: Family problems
The Christians in Iraq, and those who have fled from there and are living
destitute as refugees.
A.S. - Gets closer to God
Hala - God lead her to stability and peace
AnaSimone, may God unite her with her father.
Kathy, May God unite her with her husband.
Mina, may God unite hime with his wife and daughter.
Mina's family, may God grant them love and peace.
Carla Jean, Tessa, James.
The unity of the Churches and all Christians.

The Christians in Egypt. "Blessed is Egypt My people." Isaiah 19:25

Please remember me in your prayers.

Please pray for the peace of the world.

"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

In The Wilderness With Animals and Angels

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the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him."

This is a sermon on the reasons for fasting in preparation for the Great
Fast of Lent - the Gospel of Mark 1:12-20. This sermon is another lesson in
Orthodox Christian Spirituality using the readings of the Malankara - Syrian
Orthodox lectionary.

This sermon lesson given on Sunday, February 8, 2009 by Fr John Brian
Paprock at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.



Recent sermons:

All For One: hand-head-heart
This is a sermon continuing the theme of living with others in God's love -
especially 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 - "There is one body." Also discusses the
gospel reading: Mark 6:1-6.This sermon is another lesson in Orthodox
Christian Spirituality using the readings of the Malankara - Syrian Orthodox
lectionary. This sermon lesson given on Sunday, February 1, 2009 by Fr John
Brian Paprock at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison,
Wisconsin.
LISTEN ONLINE HERE:
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2009/02/all-for-one-hand-head-heart.html

Dirty Snow Judgment - Insides by The Outside?
This is a sermon continuing the theme of living with others in God's love -
focusing especially on 1 Corinthians 4:5 - "Therefore do not judge before
the time, until the Lord comes and brings to light the hidden things of
darkness and reveals the thoughts of the hearts; then shall every man have
praise from God." This sermon is another lesson in Orthodox Christian
Spirituality using the readings of the Malankara - Syrian Orthodox
lectionary.  This sermon lesson was live and extemporaneously given on
Sunday, January 25, 2009 by Fr John Brian Paprock at Holy Transfiguration
Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.
LISTEN ONLINE HERE:
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2009/01/dirty-snow-judgment.html

Human Harmony - Spiritual Blessing - "To this end we follow Christ"
This is a homiletic sermon of 1 Peter 3:8-15 including the meaning of Ticket
(the Ethiopian Orthodox Holy Day honoring the Ark of the Covenant at
Epiphany) and living with others in God's love. This sermon is another
lesson in Orthodox Christian Spirituality using the readings by the
Malankara - Syrian Orthodox lectionary. This sermon lesson in Orthodox
Christian Spirituality given on Sunday January 18, 2009 by Fr John Brian
Paprock at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Dear believers of the Orthodox Church,
Yet knowing that it is a losing battle, I write for the sake of the
believers who sit on the fence because they will be forced to the
other side by the recalcitrant clergy and their misled and ambitious
laity that is waging a raging war in convincing the hierarchy to give
the voting rights to women. Some of us have been trying to impart the
readers with the chaste teaching on this topic, but is in vain because
many of the militant cronies are under the influence of the spirit of
this world which only help to propagate the profanity and sacrilege.
There has been no trace of equal participation of women in any
religious venues of the Judeo-Christian community since the days of
Eden tragedy that stipulated the rule by God that she bring forth
children in great pain and he shall rule over her. All other religions
followed this as a basic tenet of their teaching. The radical work-
culture proponents who are not conversant with the religious laws
pushed for the equal wage for both sexes, and later were accepted by
the political and secular system that used it as vote-catching bait
for the party and the Governments. All the religions and institutions
and family are under the thrust of this political force that doesn't
care about God or theology.
1. The main objection of this irreligious, yet sentimental and
nerve-breaking Pandora's Box is the sex that is the direct product of
the forbidden fruit. Knowing that sex is alien to the celestial plane,
sex impulse that God blessed after the great fall is an ingredient of
the share of the devil in the poisonous fruit. The reason for the Son
of Man in taking the Incarnate birth without the wedlock process was
to show that the demons are His enemies. If the church is the body of
Christ, there is no room for any sex stimulus in the second Heaven,
the church. Not only the conjugal roles, but also the biological
monthly cycle, pre and post-natal roles also are an abomination in the
religious places. The rules in this connection are given in the Mosaic
creed. In order to avoid any sex impulse in the commingling places of
man and woman in church, the argument to hand over the clergy
positions to women and let men follow the present role of the woman is
absurd. It is impossible because God hasn't changed the role of man,
nor of woman's conception and suckling, since the days of Eden. If man
can conceive children naturally, the roles can definitely be changed.
If anyone claims, except some high profile old yogis, that he or she
is alien to sex impulses in commingling places always, every one will
certainly label him/her as a hypocrite of the first order. How many of
church bishops and clergy and laity members are locked up in jails.
Looking with lust is sin.  The abomination of desolation, Mt.24: 15,
is nothing other than the sexual impurities that are displayed in the
sacramental places. Sexual immorality in the holy place is like the
writing off of the Holy Spirit from the worshipping places that then
will be haunted by vultures that represent the devil, Mt.24: 28. The
body without spirit is a carcass. When the Holy Spirit desolates the
Body, Qurbana, it remains as bread that becomes the medium of the
infernal one. This is how the prince of perdition comes to the altar
of the worshipping table.
3. So far the pulse of the secular system was religion that dictated
by the religious and social laws. In the days of the `fair is fowl and
fowl is fair; the secular system conquered the religious territory and
deposited all their filths there. This is why I said in my last week's
posting that allowing women as observers in our meeting is not a
decision by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Alas! We are subdued by
the spirits of the underworld.
Pragmatic dilemmas
I know of a parish that enshrines the equality of both sexes for about
the last 3 decades. People don't fear and tremble during the Qurbana
times, but they shudder and tremble to go for the parish meetings
because both husband and his wife, also adult children, in most cases
join together to add fuel for the scenes of pandemonium there. Or the
family members will fight against themselves by washing their dirty
family linen in public. That parish never had the quorum to hold the
meetings on the first scheduled day, except during the formative years
that had a membership of less than half a dozen families, but they
have the provision of having the meeting next time without counting
the heads of the members. Our Fathers have been very wise and
practical while making the rules that constrains within the doctrines.
One family shouldn't be allowed to prowl over the weak or vulnerable
families that are either poor or having no higher social status.
Holy Worshipping
Sexual impulse that is a sacrilege to celestial culture has no place
in the second Heaven, church, where Christ is the head. This is the
reason for the cardinal rule that totally disallows women to
participate in the decision-making bodies. Moreover, as Christ is the
head and church the body, man is the head of the family that is a
miniature heaven.
The biblical proofs authenticate that we are at the garden of
Gethsemane where Christ said that "it is your time and the hour of
darkness", Lk.22. Moreover, women are not allowed to touch the fruit,
Holy Qurbana, from the tree of Life, as she plucked the fruit from the
tree of knowledge. Follow the prophets and apostles who have given us
warnings for the last 6000 years of a detrimental dimension that
suffocate this world and its life at the close of the age by the
prince of Darkness. Try to understand the scriptures and prophesies
that portray about the apocalyptic and humanitarian crises in epic
proportions. "First of all you must understand this, that no prophesy
of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no
prophesy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God", 2.Pet.1: 20-21; Mt.24: 33-39. But nothing can
quell the ego-thrilled motivation of "it is better to reign in hell
than serve in Heaven" because bringing God down to His knee is the war
cry of the Devil.
Biblical misquoting
Some pedestrian believers, including some misguided clergy that has no
theological wisdom, dare to quote the scriptures in the wrong places
which dump their followers in the underworld darkness. For example,
these ignorant people say that Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene.
So what. This is a glaring example of how Jesus loves the sinners.
Does He love a woman who was haunted by 7 legions of the devil than
His mother who was handed over to St.John for looking after her
because both had the golden blessings of witnessing the first live
Qurtbana at Golgotha, the mother representing the church, including
the womenfolk and St.John representing the male clergy and males?  He
didn't assign any ecclesiastical role to His beloved mother. Instead
of handing over His mother to St.John at the last moment of His
departure from this world, He could have invited her to Last Supper
and give her the vital role of ecclesiastical apostleship. Jesus is
not a selfish man like some clergy that is eclipsed by the power games
of the Almighty dollar. I challenge any religious minister or
theologian to list their biblical references that validate women's
equality in decision-making venue that pave the way for female
priesthood , and I can answer them one by one either in this site or
face to face. We shouldn't allow the blind to lead the blind.
The equality in decision-making bodies
Before making the secular system as a venue of equal opportunity
place, they sought opinions from grass root level, Trade Unions, to
the Managerial and Government levels in all possible and available
ways the pros and cons of changing the centuries-old system. Have our
religious hierarchy come to a verdict of changing the oldest doctrine
that never reconciled with the modern secular system, after consulting
with the Church Managing Committee, Malankara Association, Priests'
Association, and Managing Committees of each parish and General bodies
in all the Dioceses of the Indian Orthodox church? Are we not throwing
mud onto the Builders, apostles, of the church and subsequent Fathers?
75% of clergy and believers, especially women, are not in favour of
this decision that is made without any consultation whatsoever. Just
as Jesus was illegally sentenced to death during the night that was
against the Roman law, this decision of inviting women to the
religious venues is an unholy one. Just like Jesus was crucified, we
give consent to crucify the Spirit of God who eventually may desolate
the holy place.
If we had taken any disciplinary measures against a couple of bishops
and some of their priests who were taking girls to the altar after
baptism about 4 decades ago when it was illegal, we may not have faced
a next stage scenario now because the radicals know that by creating
commotion among the crowd they can do anything what they want and grab
the power cauldron. Soon after such unauthorized sacramental
infringements certain sacraments like baptism and wedding and the
house warming ceremony have become the strongholds of Shepherds who
encouraged the faithful to give money and adulation that became the
language of the hierarchy and the laity for corrupting the entire
church administration and spiritual arenas. As the money culture has
become the ganglia of the church nervous system, we have now come to a
stage that the end does not know the beginning. Believers, gird up and
come forward and show your strength not in court case implementations
and gang war terrorisms, but in defending the chaste faith of the
antique church that is at its vanishing point.
   Similarly, this verdict now definitely will lead to the ordination
of women in our church in five years' time. What logic is there to
give equal status to women on accounts of her money contribution,
while her husband, the head of the family, has the right to take
decision on her behalf? If you want to give wife the equal right and
representation in the religious venue, you are proving that the wife,
a hermaphrodite version, is not submissive to her husband in
validating the scriptural warning of `one body doctrine', lord of her
life here on earth, 1.Pet.3: 6. "Two swords cannot be put in the same
sheath".

E.S.John, Australia

H.G. Mathews Mar Eppiphanios, The Bishop of Quilon Diocese of our
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is entered in to the heavenly life at
the age of 81 on Monday 11.15 a.m. (Indian time) at Benzinger Hospital
in Quilon.

Thirumeny was admitted in Benzinger Hospital in Quilon before 2 weeks.
It is a great loss to our Church, but we got one more spiritual father
in heaven to pray for us.

Praying for Thirumeny's eternal life and expressing our heartfelt
condolences and deep sorrow in H.G.'s departure.

Charly V. Padanilam,  Houston, TX.

Dear believers of the Orthodox Church,
Yet knowing that it is a losing battle, I write for the sake of the
believers who sit on the fence because they will be forced to the
other side by the recalcitrant clergy and their misled and ambitious
laity that is waging a raging war in convincing the hierarchy to give
the voting rights to women. Some of us have been trying to impart the
readers with the chaste teaching on this topic, but is in vain because
many of the militant cronies are under the influence of the spirit of
this world which only help to propagate the profanity and sacrilege.
There has been no trace of equal participation of women in any
religious venues of the Judeo-Christian community since the days of
Eden tragedy that stipulated the rule by God that she bring forth
children in great pain and he shall rule over her. All other religions
followed this as a basic tenet of their teaching. The radical work-
culture proponents who are not conversant with the religious laws
pushed for the equal wage for both sexes, and later were accepted by
the political and secular system that used it as vote-catching bait
for the party and the Governments. All the religions and institutions
and family are under the thrust of this political force that doesn't
care about God or theology.
1. The main objection of this irreligious, yet sentimental and
nerve-breaking Pandora's Box is the sex that is the direct product of
the forbidden fruit. Knowing that sex is alien to the celestial plane,
sex impulse that God blessed after the great fall is an ingredient of
the share of the devil in the poisonous fruit. The reason for the Son
of Man in taking the Incarnate birth without the wedlock process was
to show that the demons are His enemies. If the church is the body of
Christ, there is no room for any sex stimulus in the second Heaven,
the church. Not only the conjugal roles, but also the biological
monthly cycle, pre and post-natal roles also are an abomination in the
religious places. The rules in this connection are given in the Mosaic
creed. In order to avoid any sex impulse in the commingling places of
man and woman in church, the argument to hand over the clergy
positions to women and let men follow the present role of the woman is
absurd. It is impossible because God hasn't changed the role of man,
nor of woman's conception and suckling, since the days of Eden. If man
can conceive children naturally, the roles can definitely be changed.
If anyone claims, except some high profile old yogis, that he or she
is alien to sex impulses in commingling places always, every one will
certainly label him/her as a hypocrite of the first order. How many of
church bishops and clergy and laity members are locked up in jails.
Looking with lust is sin.  The abomination of desolation, Mt.24: 15,
is nothing other than the sexual impurities that are displayed in the
sacramental places. Sexual immorality in the holy place is like the
writing off of the Holy Spirit from the worshipping places that then
will be haunted by vultures that represent the devil, Mt.24: 28. The
body without spirit is a carcass. When the Holy Spirit desolates the
Body, Qurbana, it remains as bread that becomes the medium of the
infernal one. This is how the prince of perdition comes to the altar
of the worshipping table.
3. So far the pulse of the secular system was religion that dictated
by the religious and social laws. In the days of the `fair is fowl and
fowl is fair; the secular system conquered the religious territory and
deposited all their filths there. This is why I said in my last week's
posting that allowing women as observers in our meeting is not a
decision by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Alas! We are subdued by
the spirits of the underworld.
Pragmatic dilemmas
I know of a parish that enshrines the equality of both sexes for about
the last 3 decades. People don't fear and tremble during the Qurbana
times, but they shudder and tremble to go for the parish meetings
because both husband and his wife, also adult children, in most cases
join together to add fuel for the scenes of pandemonium there. Or the
family members will fight against themselves by washing their dirty
family linen in public. That parish never had the quorum to hold the
meetings on the first scheduled day, except during the formative years
that had a membership of less than half a dozen families, but they
have the provision of having the meeting next time without counting
the heads of the members. Our Fathers have been very wise and
practical while making the rules that constrains within the doctrines.
One family shouldn't be allowed to prowl over the weak or vulnerable
families that are either poor or having no higher social status.
Holy Worshipping
Sexual impulse that is a sacrilege to celestial culture has no place
in the second Heaven, church, where Christ is the head. This is the
reason for the cardinal rule that totally disallows women to
participate in the decision-making bodies. Moreover, as Christ is the
head and church the body, man is the head of the family that is a
miniature heaven.
The biblical proofs authenticate that we are at the garden of
Gethsemane where Christ said that "it is your time and the hour of
darkness", Lk.22. Moreover, women are not allowed to touch the fruit,
Holy Qurbana, from the tree of Life, as she plucked the fruit from the
tree of knowledge. Follow the prophets and apostles who have given us
warnings for the last 6000 years of a detrimental dimension that
suffocate this world and its life at the close of the age by the
prince of Darkness. Try to understand the scriptures and prophesies
that portray about the apocalyptic and humanitarian crises in epic
proportions. "First of all you must understand this, that no prophesy
of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no
prophesy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God", 2.Pet.1: 20-21; Mt.24: 33-39. But nothing can
quell the ego-thrilled motivation of "it is better to reign in hell
than serve in Heaven" because bringing God down to His knee is the war
cry of the Devil.
Biblical misquoting
Some pedestrian believers, including some misguided clergy that has no
theological wisdom, dare to quote the scriptures in the wrong places
which dump their followers in the underworld darkness. For example,
these ignorant people say that Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene.
So what. This is a glaring example of how Jesus loves the sinners.
Does He love a woman who was haunted by 7 legions of the devil than
His mother who was handed over to St.John for looking after her
because both had the golden blessings of witnessing the first live
Qurtbana at Golgotha, the mother representing the church, including
the womenfolk and St.John representing the male clergy and males?  He
didn't assign any ecclesiastical role to His beloved mother. Instead
of handing over His mother to St.John at the last moment of His
departure from this world, He could have invited her to Last Supper
and give her the vital role of ecclesiastical apostleship. Jesus is
not a selfish man like some clergy that is eclipsed by the power games
of the Almighty dollar. I challenge any religious minister or
theologian to list their biblical references that validate women's
equality in decision-making venue that pave the way for female
priesthood , and I can answer them one by one either in this site or
face to face. We shouldn't allow the blind to lead the blind.
The equality in decision-making bodies
Before making the secular system as a venue of equal opportunity
place, they sought opinions from grass root level, Trade Unions, to
the Managerial and Government levels in all possible and available
ways the pros and cons of changing the centuries-old system. Have our
religious hierarchy come to a verdict of changing the oldest doctrine
that never reconciled with the modern secular system, after consulting
with the Church Managing Committee, Malankara Association, Priests'
Association, and Managing Committees of each parish and General bodies
in all the Dioceses of the Indian Orthodox church? Are we not throwing
mud onto the Builders, apostles, of the church and subsequent Fathers?
75% of clergy and believers, especially women, are not in favour of
this decision that is made without any consultation whatsoever. Just
as Jesus was illegally sentenced to death during the night that was
against the Roman law, this decision of inviting women to the
religious venues is an unholy one. Just like Jesus was crucified, we
give consent to crucify the Spirit of God who eventually may desolate
the holy place.
If we had taken any disciplinary measures against a couple of bishops
and some of their priests who were taking girls to the altar after
baptism about 4 decades ago when it was illegal, we may not have faced
a next stage scenario now because the radicals know that by creating
commotion among the crowd they can do anything what they want and grab
the power cauldron. Soon after such unauthorized sacramental
infringements certain sacraments like baptism and wedding and the
house warming ceremony have become the strongholds of Shepherds who
encouraged the faithful to give money and adulation that became the
language of the hierarchy and the laity for corrupting the entire
church administration and spiritual arenas. As the money culture has
become the ganglia of the church nervous system, we have now come to a
stage that the end does not know the beginning. Believers, gird up and
come forward and show your strength not in court case implementations
and gang war terrorisms, but in defending the chaste faith of the
antique church that is at its vanishing point.
   Similarly, this verdict now definitely will lead to the ordination
of women in our church in five years' time. What logic is there to
give equal status to women on accounts of her money contribution,
while her husband, the head of the family, has the right to take
decision on her behalf? If you want to give wife the equal right and
representation in the religious venue, you are proving that the wife,
a hermaphrodite version, is not submissive to her husband in
validating the scriptural warning of `one body doctrine', lord of her
life here on earth, 1.Pet.3: 6. "Two swords cannot be put in the same
sheath".

E.S.John, Australia

Dear Believers,
Women's ecclesiastical role is a theological one, not a social issue.
Today's voting right is tomorrow's ordination and consecration agenda.
In Heavenly heights, we don't have a chance to rule, but only to obey
silently, so also in the abysmal depths. Serve, not rule over the
church is the commandment given by Jesus to His disciples. Man-made
rules and policies are certainly subject to changes from time to time
because "rules are made for men and men are not made for rules." This
is true when you speak of secular or social rules. But the church
doctrines and canons are the outcome of covenants, statues,
revelations and promises given by God and His messengers directly, the
reasons for not only the church but also the society was governed by
the Mosaic laws till yesterday. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday
and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange
teachings…", Heb.13: 8-9. Everything is here that is given for all
times, so also the natural imperatives like sucking and suckling,
sleeping and waking up and similar other natural phenomena. Prophesies
will come to cease. "Till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not
a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished", Mt.5: 18,
but loose ideas and selfish arguments and motives will pass away
because God is just and Eternal. If one is electrified by the fire of
the infernal culture, no way we can escape from its grip, unless one
tries whole-heartedly. I have written enough on this topic by now, I
don't like to add more fuels for a conflagration.
I am giving a translated portion  from the 6th volume, p.182, of
`Heretical churches' of my Malayalam book series, altogether 12
volumes, that I published in 1994 under the heading `Abomination of
Desolation' (series), `Shunnyamakkunna Mlechatha'. "While I was
cerebrating upon the necessity of writing books in Malayalam also due
to the compulsion of my close friends, I saw the departed K.C.Mammen
Mappilla clad in white garments standing before me without touching
his feet on the ground….He was one of the pivotal warriors of our
church that was led through the tumultuous storms over a century and
found its victorious and safe destination on the other bank by his
selfless sacrifices through his writings in his daily, Malayala
Manorama, despite he was plucked out, by his bishop, from his plum job
of Head Master position from M.D. School that provided him to earn the
bread and butter for his children. The bishop who appointed the Head
Master K.C. Mappilla replaced him with Dn. P.T. Ghevarughese who later
joined the Roman church by founding the `Reeth Movement (Prasthanam')
and became an Archbishop under the name Mar Ivanios of that sect . I
write about my vision just to inform the readers that my books may
eventually help the church, just like K.C's Daily helped the church
once, at its future violent and catastrophic crises that can make
irreparable damage to the very foundation of the Bride of the Groom.
Yes, here we are facing the tempestuous crises, The `Abomination of
desolations' that prophet Daniel prophesied and quoted by Jesus,
Dan.11: 31; 12: 11; Rev. 17: 4, Mt.24: 15. In the light of Daniel's
prophesy, Antochius Eppippanus conquered the Jerusalem Temple and
defiled the Altar by spilling it with the blood of pigs. Then what
sort of impurity that can desecrate the Altar of the Groom at Jesus'
second coming is referred to by the Incarnate word? The blood that it
sanctified the Altar and human race by the blood of Jesus will be
adulterated at His next coming. What sort of contaminated blood that
Jesus cited and sighed about at His coming? The Mercy Seat that Jesus
sits on the Holy Altar and its vicinity, Heb.9: 1-5, should be free
from all sorts of uncleanness. I leave it to the readers to ponder
over the uncleanness referred to. "So when you the desolating
sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy
place…", Mt.24: 15. "Standing in the holy place" seemingly refers to
the celebration of the holy Qurbana by female clergy while standing
because the liturgy is done while standing.  It could ultimately mean
that the conquest of the Altar by the prince of perdition when the
holy Spirit leaves it when the liturgy is celebrated by the female
priest.  "He who has an ear, let him hear, what the Spirit says to the
churches", Rev.2: 29.
Thanks God for His blessing in prompting me in publishing these
volumes under the heading "Abomination of Desolation". This desolation
of the Spirit of God from the Altar is a great and pernicious
avalanche that will pollute and devastate the true church and its
duplicates, `The Family', and will install the man of the false
countenance that desolates anything pure from the Holy Temple on the
Altar. Anything that is related to conception and maternity is a
sacrilege to the celestial culture and to its true image, Heb.8: 5,
the church that spiritually sustain the earthlings. If the church
hierarchy doesn't handle this robust and poisonous heresy, it may
scatter the Bride and a remnant will remain somewhere under the
protection of Heavenly hosts on this earth, when the Lord comes down
from the east to gather His faithful.

E.S.John, Australia





--- In MalankaraOrthodoxSyrianChristian@yahoogroups.com,
"john_aliceau" <john_aliceau@...> wrote:
>
> Dear believers,
>  I have skimmed over the agitated and angry postings that try to
> validate, somehow, the militant group's stand of snatching the voting
> rights for women in our parishes, without knowing that humanity is now
> at the crossroads as once happened in Gethsemane garden. The apostles
> were under the vexation of a leadership fight, the ominous signs of
> Jesus' alleged departure and the heaviness of the Passover food, just
> as the present generation is under the obesity of Epicureanism and the
> vicious greed for power and money that derail our life from its normal
> path. There it was Jesus under the threat, now here we are facing the
> betrayal of God's Spirit who brood over the church. God the Father's
> temporary defeat in Eden, Son's by the Jerusalem hierarchy and the God
> the Spirit's by the steward of the church are the naked realities
> which grieve the Triune God. The apparent defeat of God the Father for
> an apple in Eden, as no money coin was a transaction medium, Son's
> sacrifice for 30 silver coins and the Holy Spirit's crucifixion for
> tons of fossil money and power positions for the unfittest at the end
> of the days are the real foul games in the battle that began between
> good and evil in Eden.
>
> Bible is a compendium of prophesies and their fulfillments in course
> of time. "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the
> prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should
> suffer these things and enter into his glory?", said Christ,Lk.24:
> 25-26; Mt.24: 33-39. Jesus suffered and entered into glory by the
> heinous betrayal of His own disciple from the inner sanctum, so also
> the Spirit of God will have to grieve over the tortures inflicted by
> the religious hierarchy of the Bride, the Orthodox Church.  There is
> only one Bride, not two for the Groom. Jesus explained the truth to
> the spiritually blind people about the prophets and about their
> prophesies, and   made them aware of the prophesies about the
> Incarnate Word. Who is there to explain about the human history's
> darkest age that befalls on the Bride that is betrayed from within at
> the accomplishment of time? Prophets, particularly Daniel and minor
> prophets of the OT times have meticulously forewarned what should
> happen at the close of the age that envelopes gloom and cataclysmic
> disasters and humanitarian crises in an epic proportion to the whole
> world. Jesus also delineates in brief about the impending dilemma
> about the end of the time, Mt.24. The fossil money has blinded the
> spiritual hierarchy that ends up already in power and money games. The
> apostles, especially St.Paul, St.John, st.Jude and St.Peter have
> portrayed a clear picture of the society at the culmination of time.
> The Orthodox Church was so far to an extent within the perimeter of
> their teachings and doctrines, but is being eclipsed now by the money
> spirituality, consumerism and recycled materialism. As the inner
> instincts are dictated by the secular sensibility, the church and many
> of its ministers have gone astray; having about 2,500 denominations
> and countless number of cults outside of it, and it is seemingly in
> the wasteland of Satan's fortress.  Now let us come to some of the
> salient aspects that don't allow women to take part in the
> decision-making bodies of the parish/church.
> Theological side
> The question of women's involvement in the decision-making venues is a
> product of the Women's Liberation Movement that is an outcome of a
> genuine claim of `same job, same wage concept', the brain child of
> Labour Unions that is an amalgam of all sections of workers, hailing
> from atheists, agnostics and moral imbeciles and many fair-thinking
> mobs. Thus feminism, a byproduct of social anarchy became a strong
> force that encroached into every arena of our life, including
> religions that are now controlled by political and commercial
> spirituality. As it happened in other churches, the stage by stage
> step of controlling the church /spiritual hierarchy is the game of
> today's religious aims of a majority section in the Orthodox Church.
> As Eve fell to the prey of Satan in Eden, no woman till now is allowed
> to touch the Holy Mystery or recite the worship and play the role of
> the celebrant in the Orthodox churches. Moreover, as sex is the
> outcome of the forbidden fruit and sex impulse is only the instrument
> for the propagation of the species on this earth, femininity is meant
> only for this planet. As there is only manhood in the celestial
> sphere, no woman is allowed to be a worker or co-associate in the
> religious vistas of our parishes, the second Heaven, and church
> hierarchy. Since sex is the outcome of the forbidden fruit, church,
> the second Heaven, should be untouched in all levels by its influence.
> Experiences have revealed that the choir and such places have become
> the places of match making, even the clergy seduces and marries girls
> from the choir. Hence women's any role in the church is a forbidden
> fruit. Allowing women to sit in the decision-making venues is an
> infringement of ethical code.
>
> The abomination of desolation that prophet Daniel prophesied and
> quoted by Christ, mt.24: 15, is about female and gay clergy, the last
> sign that invites unbearable cataclysmic disasters which uproot
> societies and will be gulped by antichrist. Most of our present clergy
> and laity that are the products of once the K.S.U or Marxist Unions
> don't have a clue about Orthodox mysticism, the reasons for some
> clergy members and a section of men folk supporting such moves of
> women's participation in all levels of our religious venues. As the
> church hierarchy can't fight against this combined militant group,
> they seemingly try to yield to such pressures, first sit as observers,
> then giving voting rights that pave the way for grabbing the
> hierarchical clerical roles step by step. Whoever stand against will
> be destroyed because profanity should reign at the end of the day, as
> all the prophesies will have to be fulfilled before the Lord's coming.
> Just like the Jerusalem hierarchy of religion and secular and
> political spectrums of Christ's time was corrupt to the core, the
> religious hierarchy that has no idea about the time of the coming of
> the Lord is fighting within for grabbing the best position that bring
> honour and money. The high-tech era is a curse for the church and a
> blessing for some laity and clergy in indulging in money and power
> spirituality. Woe unto the clerics who betray the Bride for the sake
> of political and religious spirituality, a crossbreed product for the
> period of abomination of desolation. This abomination of desolation
> refers to the desolation of the Holy Spirit from the vicinity of
> spiritual or religious places which will be haunted by the vulture
> means the legions of the devil.
> Practical problems
> I know of a parish that enshrines the equality of both sexes for about
> the last 3 decades. People don't fear and tremble during the Qurbana
> times, but they shudder and tremble to go for the parish meetings
> because both husband and his wife, also adult children, in most cases
> join together to add fuel for the scenes of pandemonium there. Or the
> family members will fight against themselves by washing their dirty
> family linen in public. That parish never had the quorum to hold the
> meetings on the first scheduled day, except during the formative years
> that had a membership of less than half a dozen families, but they
> have the provision of having the meeting next time without counting
> the heads of the members. Our Fathers have been very wise and
> practical while making the rules that constrains within the doctrines.
> One family shouldn't be allowed to prowl over the weak or vulnerable
> families that are either poor or having no higher social status.
> Purity of Worship
> Sexual impulse that is a sacrilege to celestial culture has no place
> in the second Heaven, church, where Christ is the head. This is the
> reason for the cardinal rule that totally disallows women to
> participate in the decision-making bodies. Moreover, as Christ is the
> head and church the body, man is the head of the family that is a
> miniature heaven.
> The biblical proofs authenticate that we are at the garden of
> Gethsemane where Christ said that "it is your time and the hour of
> darkness", Lk.22. I can't understand why the religious hierarchy that
> is the steward of the House of the Lord is having a long slumber of
> Rip Van Winkles, despite there is millions of signs that this
> high-tech, high-flying life is the last flicker of the candle, earth
> that is dying out. Time is running out, my dear sisters and brothers,
> the time the wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept due to the
> delay in the coming of the Lord, Mt.25: 1-13.
> Follow the prophets and apostles who have given us warnings for the
> last 6000 years of a detrimental dimension that suffocate this world
> and its life at the close of the age by Anti-christ. Try to understand
> the scriptures and prophesies that portray about the apocalyptic
> sufferings in epic proportions. "First of all you must understand
> this, that no prophesy of scripture is a matter of one's own
> interpretation, because no prophesy ever came by the impulse of man,
> but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God", 2.Pet.1: 20-21;
> Mt.24: 33-39. But nothing can quell the ego-thrilled motivation of "it
> is better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" because bringing God
> down to His knee is the war cry of the Devil.
>
>
> E.S.John, Australia
>

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stripping the Father and the Holy Spirit of might: and the words 'Holy and
Immortal' we attribute to the Holy Spirit, without depriving the Father and the
Son of immortality."

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Dear Sir,
Womens rights within the church is justice. Women who are wifes of
achayans are going to women representing our church. God help us.
However all noise will be within the church 4 walls. Indian Orthodox
Church has no future either today or tomorrow. Sad facts but true
facts.

I hope the youth will arise and lead the church. The old people are a
burden on themselves and the church.

Yrs
Bindu Scaria,IRS
Group Moderator: MOSC

--- In MalankaraOrthodoxSyrianChristian@yahoogroups.com,
"john_aliceau" <john_aliceau@...> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Believers,
> Women's ecclesiastical role is a theological one, not a social
issue.
> Today's voting right is tomorrow's ordination and consecration
agenda.
> In Heavenly heights, we don't have a chance to rule, but only to
obey
> silently, so also in the abysmal depths. Serve, not rule over the
> church is the commandment given by Jesus to His disciples. Man-made
> rules and policies are certainly subject to changes from time to
time
> because "rules are made for men and men are not made for rules."
This
> is true when you speak of secular or social rules. But the church
> doctrines and canons are the outcome of covenants, statues,
> revelations and promises given by God and His messengers directly,
the
> reasons for not only the church but also the society was governed by
> the Mosaic laws till yesterday. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday
> and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange
> teachings…", Heb.13: 8-9. Everything is here that is given for all
> times, so also the natural imperatives like sucking and suckling,
> sleeping and waking up and similar other natural phenomena.
Prophesies
> will come to cease. "Till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota,
not
> a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished", Mt.5: 18,
> but loose ideas and selfish arguments and motives will pass away
> because God is just and Eternal. If one is electrified by the fire
of
> the infernal culture, no way we can escape from its grip, unless one
> tries whole-heartedly. I have written enough on this topic by now, I
> don't like to add more fuels for a conflagration.
> I am giving a translated portion  from the 6th volume, p.182, of
> `Heretical churches' of my Malayalam book series, altogether 12
> volumes, that I published in 1994 under the heading `Abomination of
> Desolation' (series), `Shunnyamakkunna Mlechatha'. "While I was
> cerebrating upon the necessity of writing books in Malayalam also
due
> to the compulsion of my close friends, I saw the departed K.C.Mammen
> Mappilla clad in white garments standing before me without touching
> his feet on the ground….He was one of the pivotal warriors of our
> church that was led through the tumultuous storms over a century and
> found its victorious and safe destination on the other bank by his
> selfless sacrifices through his writings in his daily, Malayala
> Manorama, despite he was plucked out, by his bishop, from his plum
job
> of Head Master position from M.D. School that provided him to earn
the
> bread and butter for his children. The bishop who appointed the Head
> Master K.C. Mappilla replaced him with Dn. P.T. Ghevarughese who
later
> joined the Roman church by founding the `Reeth Movement
(Prasthanam')
> and became an Archbishop under the name Mar Ivanios of that sect . I
> write about my vision just to inform the readers that my books may
> eventually help the church, just like K.C's Daily helped the church
> once, at its future violent and catastrophic crises that can make
> irreparable damage to the very foundation of the Bride of the Groom.
> Yes, here we are facing the tempestuous crises, The `Abomination of
> desolations' that prophet Daniel prophesied and quoted by Jesus,
> Dan.11: 31; 12: 11; Rev. 17: 4, Mt.24: 15. In the light of Daniel's
> prophesy, Antochius Eppippanus conquered the Jerusalem Temple and
> defiled the Altar by spilling it with the blood of pigs. Then what
> sort of impurity that can desecrate the Altar of the Groom at Jesus'
> second coming is referred to by the Incarnate word? The blood that
it
> sanctified the Altar and human race by the blood of Jesus will be
> adulterated at His next coming. What sort of contaminated blood that
> Jesus cited and sighed about at His coming? The Mercy Seat that
Jesus
> sits on the Holy Altar and its vicinity, Heb.9: 1-5, should be free
> from all sorts of uncleanness. I leave it to the readers to ponder
> over the uncleanness referred to. "So when you the desolating
> sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy
> place…", Mt.24: 15. "Standing in the holy place" seemingly refers to
> the celebration of the holy Qurbana by female clergy while standing
> because the liturgy is done while standing.  It could ultimately
mean
> that the conquest of the Altar by the prince of perdition when the
> holy Spirit leaves it when the liturgy is celebrated by the female
> priest.  "He who has an ear, let him hear, what the Spirit says to
the
> churches", Rev.2: 29.
> Thanks God for His blessing in prompting me in publishing these
> volumes under the heading "Abomination of Desolation". This
desolation
> of the Spirit of God from the Altar is a great and pernicious
> avalanche that will pollute and devastate the true church and its
> duplicates, `The Family', and will install the man of the false
> countenance that desolates anything pure from the Holy Temple on the
> Altar. Anything that is related to conception and maternity is a
> sacrilege to the celestial culture and to its true image, Heb.8: 5,
> the church that spiritually sustain the earthlings. If the church
> hierarchy doesn't handle this robust and poisonous heresy, it may
> scatter the Bride and a remnant will remain somewhere under the
> protection of Heavenly hosts on this earth, when the Lord comes down
> from the east to gather His faithful.
>
> E.S.John, Australia
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In MalankaraOrthodoxSyrianChristian@yahoogroups.com,
> "john_aliceau" <john_aliceau@> wrote:
> >
> > Dear believers,
> >  I have skimmed over the agitated and angry postings that try to
> > validate, somehow, the militant group's stand of snatching the
voting
> > rights for women in our parishes, without knowing that humanity is
now
> > at the crossroads as once happened in Gethsemane garden. The
apostles
> > were under the vexation of a leadership fight, the ominous signs
of
> > Jesus' alleged departure and the heaviness of the Passover food,
just
> > as the present generation is under the obesity of Epicureanism and
the
> > vicious greed for power and money that derail our life from its
normal
> > path. There it was Jesus under the threat, now here we are facing
the
> > betrayal of God's Spirit who brood over the church. God the
Father's
> > temporary defeat in Eden, Son's by the Jerusalem hierarchy and the
God
> > the Spirit's by the steward of the church are the naked realities
> > which grieve the Triune God. The apparent defeat of God the Father
for
> > an apple in Eden, as no money coin was a transaction medium, Son's
> > sacrifice for 30 silver coins and the Holy Spirit's crucifixion
for
> > tons of fossil money and power positions for the unfittest at the
end
> > of the days are the real foul games in the battle that began
between
> > good and evil in Eden.
> >
> > Bible is a compendium of prophesies and their fulfillments in
course
> > of time. "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the
> > prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should
> > suffer these things and enter into his glory?", said Christ,Lk.24:
> > 25-26; Mt.24: 33-39. Jesus suffered and entered into glory by the
> > heinous betrayal of His own disciple from the inner sanctum, so
also
> > the Spirit of God will have to grieve over the tortures inflicted
by
> > the religious hierarchy of the Bride, the Orthodox Church.  There
is
> > only one Bride, not two for the Groom. Jesus explained the truth
to
> > the spiritually blind people about the prophets and about their
> > prophesies, and   made them aware of the prophesies about the
> > Incarnate Word. Who is there to explain about the human history's
> > darkest age that befalls on the Bride that is betrayed from within
at
> > the accomplishment of time? Prophets, particularly Daniel and
minor
> > prophets of the OT times have meticulously forewarned what should
> > happen at the close of the age that envelopes gloom and
cataclysmic
> > disasters and humanitarian crises in an epic proportion to the
whole
> > world. Jesus also delineates in brief about the impending dilemma
> > about the end of the time, Mt.24. The fossil money has blinded the
> > spiritual hierarchy that ends up already in power and money games.
The
> > apostles, especially St.Paul, St.John, st.Jude and St.Peter have
> > portrayed a clear picture of the society at the culmination of
time.
> > The Orthodox Church was so far to an extent within the perimeter
of
> > their teachings and doctrines, but is being eclipsed now by the
money
> > spirituality, consumerism and recycled materialism. As the inner
> > instincts are dictated by the secular sensibility, the church and
many
> > of its ministers have gone astray; having about 2,500
denominations
> > and countless number of cults outside of it, and it is seemingly
in
> > the wasteland of Satan's fortress.  Now let us come to some of the
> > salient aspects that don't allow women to take part in the
> > decision-making bodies of the parish/church.
> > Theological side
> > The question of women's involvement in the decision-making venues
is a
> > product of the Women's Liberation Movement that is an outcome of a
> > genuine claim of `same job, same wage concept', the brain child of
> > Labour Unions that is an amalgam of all sections of workers,
hailing
> > from atheists, agnostics and moral imbeciles and many fair-
thinking
> > mobs. Thus feminism, a byproduct of social anarchy became a strong
> > force that encroached into every arena of our life, including
> > religions that are now controlled by political and commercial
> > spirituality. As it happened in other churches, the stage by stage
> > step of controlling the church /spiritual hierarchy is the game of
> > today's religious aims of a majority section in the Orthodox
Church.
> > As Eve fell to the prey of Satan in Eden, no woman till now is
allowed
> > to touch the Holy Mystery or recite the worship and play the role
of
> > the celebrant in the Orthodox churches. Moreover, as sex is the
> > outcome of the forbidden fruit and sex impulse is only the
instrument
> > for the propagation of the species on this earth, femininity is
meant
> > only for this planet. As there is only manhood in the celestial
> > sphere, no woman is allowed to be a worker or co-associate in the
> > religious vistas of our parishes, the second Heaven, and church
> > hierarchy. Since sex is the outcome of the forbidden fruit,
church,
> > the second Heaven, should be untouched in all levels by its
influence.
> > Experiences have revealed that the choir and such places have
become
> > the places of match making, even the clergy seduces and marries
girls
> > from the choir. Hence women's any role in the church is a
forbidden
> > fruit. Allowing women to sit in the decision-making venues is an
> > infringement of ethical code.
> >
> > The abomination of desolation that prophet Daniel prophesied and
> > quoted by Christ, mt.24: 15, is about female and gay clergy, the
last
> > sign that invites unbearable cataclysmic disasters which uproot
> > societies and will be gulped by antichrist. Most of our present
clergy
> > and laity that are the products of once the K.S.U or Marxist
Unions
> > don't have a clue about Orthodox mysticism, the reasons for some
> > clergy members and a section of men folk supporting such moves of
> > women's participation in all levels of our religious venues. As
the
> > church hierarchy can't fight against this combined militant group,
> > they seemingly try to yield to such pressures, first sit as
observers,
> > then giving voting rights that pave the way for grabbing the
> > hierarchical clerical roles step by step. Whoever stand against
will
> > be destroyed because profanity should reign at the end of the day,
as
> > all the prophesies will have to be fulfilled before the Lord's
coming.
> > Just like the Jerusalem hierarchy of religion and secular and
> > political spectrums of Christ's time was corrupt to the core, the
> > religious hierarchy that has no idea about the time of the coming
of
> > the Lord is fighting within for grabbing the best position that
bring
> > honour and money. The high-tech era is a curse for the church and
a
> > blessing for some laity and clergy in indulging in money and power
> > spirituality. Woe unto the clerics who betray the Bride for the
sake
> > of political and religious spirituality, a crossbreed product for
the
> > period of abomination of desolation. This abomination of
desolation
> > refers to the desolation of the Holy Spirit from the vicinity of
> > spiritual or religious places which will be haunted by the vulture
> > means the legions of the devil.
> > Practical problems
> > I know of a parish that enshrines the equality of both sexes for
about
> > the last 3 decades. People don't fear and tremble during the
Qurbana
> > times, but they shudder and tremble to go for the parish meetings
> > because both husband and his wife, also adult children, in most
cases
> > join together to add fuel for the scenes of pandemonium there. Or
the
> > family members will fight against themselves by washing their
dirty
> > family linen in public. That parish never had the quorum to hold
the
> > meetings on the first scheduled day, except during the formative
years
> > that had a membership of less than half a dozen families, but they
> > have the provision of having the meeting next time without
counting
> > the heads of the members. Our Fathers have been very wise and
> > practical while making the rules that constrains within the
doctrines.
> > One family shouldn't be allowed to prowl over the weak or
vulnerable
> > families that are either poor or having no higher social status.
> > Purity of Worship
> > Sexual impulse that is a sacrilege to celestial culture has no
place
> > in the second Heaven, church, where Christ is the head. This is
the
> > reason for the cardinal rule that totally disallows women to
> > participate in the decision-making bodies. Moreover, as Christ is
the
> > head and church the body, man is the head of the family that is a
> > miniature heaven.
> > The biblical proofs authenticate that we are at the garden of
> > Gethsemane where Christ said that "it is your time and the hour of
> > darkness", Lk.22. I can't understand why the religious hierarchy
that
> > is the steward of the House of the Lord is having a long slumber
of
> > Rip Van Winkles, despite there is millions of signs that this
> > high-tech, high-flying life is the last flicker of the candle,
earth
> > that is dying out. Time is running out, my dear sisters and
brothers,
> > the time the wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept due to
the
> > delay in the coming of the Lord, Mt.25: 1-13.
> > Follow the prophets and apostles who have given us warnings for
the
> > last 6000 years of a detrimental dimension that suffocate this
world
> > and its life at the close of the age by Anti-christ. Try to
understand
> > the scriptures and prophesies that portray about the apocalyptic
> > sufferings in epic proportions. "First of all you must understand
> > this, that no prophesy of scripture is a matter of one's own
> > interpretation, because no prophesy ever came by the impulse of
man,
> > but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God", 2.Pet.1: 20-21;
> > Mt.24: 33-39. But nothing can quell the ego-thrilled motivation of
"it
> > is better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" because bringing
God
> > down to His knee is the war cry of the Devil.
> >
> >
> > E.S.John, Australia
> >
>

Dear Mrs.Bindu Scariah,
My previous mails clearly speaks out the truth and my stand. Don't you know that
'old is gold'? Age is widom, particularly in theological wisdom. You sound like
speaking like King Rehoboam who paved the division of the Israelite Kingdom into
two, the false one took the real name as Israelite and the real one under the
name Judea. I don't blame the young generation; they are the true torch bearers
of the church and its faith that they bequeathed from the older generations. You
said it correctly that the Indian orthodox church, the only Bride of the Groom
has no future because when the Son of Man comes, He won't find faith on earth,
Lk.18: 8. The time is ripe for His coming, the reason for the thrust of feminism
that wants to grab power and position in the church. My message proves that
Mt.24: 15 is the abomination of desolation that is nothing but the female priest
standing at the holy place and celebrating the Holy qurbana. The next few verses
proves
  that this is the last sign of the Lord's coming. As I know very well that there
is no 'tomorrow' for any one of us, we have to do all the spde works today for a
better tomorrow that is in a celestial galaxy. If you are still doubtful about
this, read my 17 books and all other articles and understand the signs of His
2nd coming whcih the Lord, His apostles and the Church Fathers have forewarned
us beforehand. we have a duty to live beyond our physical senses. Wide open our
inner eyes and see what is in the horizon.
I don't have a grudge towards women, the youth or any other religions or church
denominations. Know that my mother who brought me forth into this world is a
woman. I am speaking from my inner most heart that shed tears for the
inhabitants of the apocalyptic times that has biblical proportions of sufferings
caused by plagues, pestilences, cataclysmic occurrances, bloodshed and above all
the blasphemes against the lining God in epic proportions. Shed tears for the
suffering humanity who are engulfed by the humanitarian crises that eclipse the
coming of the Lord from the religious mediocre. man has no rights, but only
needs. Cry for your own sisters, mothers and the young ones who are caught up by
the turbulance of apocalyptic calamities, instead of bargaining for the myths of
rights for women and the youth who wade through the ominous wailings of
Kaliyuga. Don't you know that what you stand is for a perverted theory that has
never heard in the history of
  mankind or in the annals of of the writing of the Fathers or the in teachings
of any religion till today. Know that the epic sufferings of womenfolk is due to
the flowering of a Kaliyuga that our Indian seers had forwarned, so also the
traces of this age is found in every religious teachings and most of literatures
of aniquity. Hence don't try to dump the old ones in the grave and wait for an
age of anarchy of the unfittest.

Ask your readers the scriptural eveidences for women in the decision-making
bodies that lead for the female ordination, i shall give answers to all their
evidences one by one.

Only a st.Paul who wanted to kill Christians can be converted to a Christian.
Those who bargain for women's rights will have to be converted, so that the
Lord's mission may be continued through thick and thin. I am waiting for a
similar conversion that took place at the road of Damascus.

E.s.John, Australia

"It is not the clever, the noble, the polished speakers, or the rich who win,
but whoever is insulted and forbears, whoever is wronged and forgives, whoever
is slandered and endures, whoever becomes a sponge and mops up whatever they
might say to him. Such a person is cleansed and polished even more. He reaches
great heights. He delights in the theoria of mysteries. And finally, it is he
who is already inside paradise, while still in this life."

Elder Joseph the Hesychast.

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"We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be
present with the Lord."  2 Corinthians 5:8

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Prayer Requests:
If you have an update on a prayer request, please let me know.

Please remember the following in your prayers:

Emad. Cancer. very urgent.
Theresa - Cancer.
Scott - Crones Disease
M. Askandar - In the hospital suffering from a stroke.
J. Shapiro - Cancer.
C.L. - Complete recovery after a tragic car accident.
David - a little boy that will be having surgery next month.
T.M. - Imprisoned in Abu Dhabi
K. Abdelmessih - Recovering from surgery
M. Ragheb - Out of the ICU but he is still under critical care
M. Fleming - Multiple brain and spinal cord diseases.
Fr. Wissa Bessada - In the hospital.
G. Roubil - Out of ICU
The Boulos family, that the Lord may comfort them on the repose of their son and
brother Timothy Boulos.
Elizabeth - Liver cancer.
The Coptic mission trip to Mexico.
Camilo, Julio Renaldo, Diego and family, Hong and Pablo - Accept the faith and
get baptized.
H.H. Pope Shenouda III
David - rectal and liver cancer.
The congregation of St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Delaware and the family
of Malak M.
The family of Larry W. - May the Lord grant them peace.
H.M - Hardship.
William H. - Cancer
Makram G. - Liver Cirrhosis in the last stages
Emad - Lung cancer.
Albert - Operation
Abanoub
Eva S - Breast Cancer
M.B.- Breast Cancer
Mark - brain tumor
Fr. Anthony H.
Luka-- May God unite him with his family.
F.Z. may God help him in his service.
Tasony Esther, May God heal her and comfort her.
Akmal T. - Major heart surgery.
Amal M - Lymphoma Cancer.
Shery - Tumor near her spinal chord.
E.Salamah - Breast Cancer.
Mena - Displaced mandibular joint.
Esme - Severe lupus with heart & brain function involvement.
Yvone Y. - Serious Eye Surgery. The doctors now feel she might not need the
surgery at all.
Anthony - PTSD from Iraq
Elisha Mary - return to Communion
E. - Brain tumor, 22 yrs old with 2 kids.
M. Chouinard and her family and students.

Marianne and her family
E. Farag's family
F.F. to find his way back to God and to reunit him with his familly.
Fr. Leonidas - Brain tumor
Joseph W. - Prostate cancer
DS and family - cancer, stroke and paralysis
Iris S - Kidney Surgery - June 11th,2008
Nader S - Hardship
Hanaa S - Breast Cancer
Zakia A. - Cancer
Nasr H. - Emphysema - Doing better.
Lucy B. - Breast cancer
Amira C - severe and chronic Lyme Disease
N M- God's will in her testing for cancer; and His GREAT support for her if it
is positive. Thank God, the testing result turns out to be negative.
Susan - mental illness, marital problems and neglect of children.
Dina - Spiritual healing and wisdom
Carol - Rare autoimmune disease that's left her immobile.
Karim
Hayam R. - Cancer in her ovaries.
Susu G. - Breast Cancer.
MH - Major heart problems and in dire need of spiritual guidance.
Tony H. - Colon cancer, kidney and heart problem.
Ramy M - Insomnia and mental problem.
Ghassan A. - Cancer. He has 3 kids.
Maria B. - Lymphoma Cancer - away from God.
Neveen S. - Brain Damage.
N.S. - Breast cancer.
Veronia - Newly born baby girl in intensive care with brain damage.
Walter O. - Was operated on to have cancerous growths removed from inside his
right lung.
Celeste D. - Cancer.
Nasr N. - Cancer.
Angelita - Severe Insomia and Depression.
Fr. Abraam.
Susan - depression and spiritual healing.
M.H. - Lymphoma
Hoda - Depression and suicidal thoughts
Ibrahim - Renounced his faith due to failures and hardships
Steve, Paul, Victor, Frances, Foad - To experience and love Christ
The family of Olympia.
Greg - throat cancer
Marian and Paul - Marian recently had a miscarriage
Sophie - multiple health issues
Fathia - dementia
Family of HW who committed suicide
Mark H - MS
F. Saad - Heart Attack.
Angel N. - Lymph Node Cancer - recovered, Pray it won't return
Marina - A Highschool freshman with Leukemia
R.T. - A 14 years old girl with Leukemia.
S.Henin - Autoimmune Disease.
Mike - recovering alcoholic, who lost his son to alcohol & drug addiction &
suicide.
Matt - May God have mercy on his soul
Mark N - 20 years old with cancer and just started chemeotherapy.
Berna, Raouf and Alex Halim - Serious car accident, Raouf is in the ICU.
Wahid Girgus - MS
Andrew and his parents - 10 days old infant with the Lymphatic nodes not working
and other medical consequences.
John and his parents - unborn baby with kidney damage.
S. Magda - Health problems.
M & O - Family problems
Ariana - 3 1/2yrs, inoperable brain tumor
Noussa B. - Heal her.
Magdy B - Cancer.
Megan - Hodgkins Lyphoma - Thank God, her Hodgkins Lymphoma is now in remission
Abouna A - Prostate Cancer - unforuntately, now has brain cancer as well.
Judi & John - Son with Severe Developmental Disabilities
Anthony - Autism
Christina - Chronic Pain
Karen & Tony - Infertility - Thank God, They, had a Baby Boy (Garrett)
Steve - Cancer (fighting it for 10 years +)
Samiha - Dementia
Adly - Parkinson's Disease
The Christian Minority in Noshara, Pakistan.
Nancy - Glass went into her right eye.
L. Waters - Heart surgery. Mr. Waters is recovering nicely.
K. Hood - Cancer. Kerri had a successful surgery.
D. Arteaga - Surgery
Fadia - Breast Cancer.
Tara - Systematic Lupus and financial and family problems
J.David - Depression,School,Drug problems, needs God's Guidance.
George k - Cancer
Frances - Brain Tumor
Alber - Cancer
K - Depression, anxiety, addiction, pride and spiritual estrangement
E. Tawadros - Guide her to the right path and grant her wish.
E. Sidhom - Cancer.
Adel Gendy - 10 years old with kidney failure, needs a kidney transplant.
Joseph - Prostrate Cancer
Mary - Breast cancer
A.K Matthew - Colon Cancer
Enyat - severe diabetes.
Samy - Bone cancer.
MS - Mercy, Comfort, Strength, Healing and Protection
AAM -- Love, Healing, Comfort, Strength, Support and Guidance
MM -- Love, Healing, Comfort, Strength, Support and Guidance
SE -- Love, Healing
GE -- Love, Comfort, Strength, Support, Guidance
Helen - severe epileptic seizures.
Stephan - 48 years old, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, stroke.
Scott - 4 months old baby desperately in need of a bone marrow donor.
Douglas McLead - Cancer and kidney failure.
Mrs. McLead - Parkinson disease.
Fr Benjamin, Photini, Marina, Miriam, Moses.
Nicholas - constant back pain.
Michael - 9 years old boy with a progressive brain tumor.
Sarah - Back problems and might need an operation soon.
Mayrvat and her 3 kids. She has been separated from her kids.
Elizabeth - bi-polar disease and other problems.
Fr. Constantine S. Palassis - suffers from symptoms of dementia.
Heidy - Depression and other problems.
Esther - Intestinal problems.
Nick - chemotherapy.
Sue S. - Advanced Cancer.
Helen P. - severe depression and diabetes.
Pamela P. - chronic depression and financial difficulties.
Shafika - kidney failure.
Mary Beth - Obesity & Diabetes.
Jean - Neurological back problems.
Therese - Emotional problems.
Reggie - Cancer.
Detra - Stress related health problems.
Walter Sr. - Depression.
Denise I. - Breast Cancer.
Cuba Plain - cancer that is high up in the breast.
Zouhair - stomach cancer.
Magdy - brain tumor.
John Rittel - cancer of the lymph node and voice box.
H. Adel - finish the immigration papers and preparation successfully.
E.Tawadros - Guide her to the right ways and complete IT to the best it will be.
Shareen - Stays out of trouble, gets closer to God, and Leads a pure life.
Mark H - MS
Mamdooh, Nahed, Marina and Cyril - May the will of The Lord be done.
M. Michael, C. Michael, M. Michael, R. Michael and family and friends.
M. M. Fayez.
R. Farouk's Family
Kristen and her brother
David - To be close to a Church
George - pass the final interview for a Job,to survive extreme debts.
Kristina may God heal her and help Ed in school, and help Joan with her finance
problems.
Bassem - bare the severe circumstances he is passing through and give him peace.
Alfred - needs  guidance and acknowledgement of the right way.
Hala - give her peace.
Evette - let her find the right way and have satisfaction.
Heba - give her the right decision.
Mona - take care of her cause she's alone.
William E. and Family
Fr. Heinen and family.
Norma, Laura and Ibrahim.
Stephanie - autism, and for her family
Dina's salvation
Marie Y -  Rheumatoid arthitis
MMH: For guidance, strength, and wisdom
Heidi - work problems, May God give her the right choice
Luka - Autism and to relief his family
Shery - in her school and Master preperation.
Jarcie - legal and financial difficulties, and return her to Christ.
Gabriel & family - May they find a suitable Orthodox Church to be catechized and
baptized in.
S.H. - Needs God's guidance to make the right career choice
Mario F. - Grant solitude to his family and to repair all damaged relationships.
STMCOC of DC mission trip to Africa and India this fall.
The mission of the Coptic Church in Africa and throughout the world.
ERA: The mission of the EgyptiansRelief.org in Egypt may God prosper all the
work done everywhere the service is.
Yvone - Dizziness and a bleeding mouth and nose.
Widad - Cancer.
Nour - God would reunite his broken family.
Jimmy, Fady, Shady - To experience and love Christ.
PM, EM, CM and JM - Salvation and to be brought to Christ.
Fr. Wade+ and family - protection and support
St. Andrews Mission, Lakeland, FL - new mission plant
E and L - Solution to their problems according to God's will.
Hani - To experience the love of Christ through salvation.
Safwat - Away from God.
A.S. - Find the right path.
E.F. - Spiritual guidance from God to find his way back to Him.
RMG & Family - Comfort & Peace in time of grief.
Clara M -  (3 years old) has Lukemia.
F.Tawfik - High sugar level.
Baby H.M.Hany - May God heal her.
E.Tawadros - Difficult times, in need of God's guidance.
Kamal G.
Samir A.
Hazem
Shady S. - Guidance and support.
Richard - Heart condition, sorrow and despair.
Give peace and prosper to St Bishoy church - stouffville.
Mariam - Show her compassion after being so broken hearted
M&M: Family problems
The Christians in Iraq, and those who have fled from there and are living
destitute as refugees.
A.S. - Gets closer to God
Hala - God lead her to stability and peace
AnaSimone, may God unite her with her father.
Kathy, May God unite her with her husband.
Mina, may God unite hime with his wife and daughter.
Mina's family, may God grant them love and peace.
Carla Jean, Tessa, James.
The unity of the Churches and all Christians.

The Christians in Egypt. "Blessed is Egypt My people." Isaiah 19:25

Please remember me in your prayers.

Please pray for the peace of the world.

"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

I would like to know the authenticity of the white plastic piece in
the collar of our clergies and how did it come in our traditions.  Is
it because of the convenience or our clergies are facing any problem
in identifying as the clergy of the Orthodox Church? How did we start
to adopt some one's fashion?

Our clergies are serving in the Middle East, the Islamic countries.
But all of them are wearing the Orthodox traditional dress and I
don't know any problem in that for them in there.  But in America and
Europe all our clergies are wearing the plastic collar same as the
protestant except very few.

It is not at all a problem in wearing our traditional "Kuppayam" in
America or Europe as it is the nations allows freedom and also all of
them are Christian dominated countries. Our clergies in North India
are wearing the traditional dress even if there are chances of threat
in identifying them as Christian clergies.  It will be highly
appreciable if someone can explain about this.  It is not necessary
to wear a plastic collar if a clergy does his work in a company or
Hospital or in any Govt. sector.  But it is not nice to show his
identity if a clergy works in any place other than the Church because
if someone who is against the Christianity may harass them when they
come to know he is a priest and also have the chance to get more
respect in some places. So the plastic collar is not necessary in
work place. Then what is preventing our clergies from wearing
our "Kuppayam" instead of that plastic stripe?

Charly V. Padanilam, Houston, TX.

Since 2006 sermons and talks at Hoy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission in
Madison, Wisconsin have been offered on-line. Starting with an initial
request for recorded sermons from a member who moved from Wisconsin to
California, this has evolved from cumbersome attempts at cassette tape
recording to audio podcasting and on-line listening. With close to 200
on-line audio sermons and talks (and over 10,000 downloads worldwide), Holy
Transfiguration Orthodox Mission ministry is shared regularly from its small
chapel in Madison, Wisconsin USA around the world. The archives are searched
almost daily for spiritual teachings that the Mission has been honored to
provide freely.  We are grateful to God for this privilege and ask for your
prayers and support to continue this local, national and international
ministry.

Here are some sermons from the past few years on spiritual work of fasting
and healing in Orthodox Christianity, especially gathered for Lent:

PODCAST OR DOWNLOAD: feeds.feedburner.com/frjohnbrian or
frjohnbrian.hipcast.com/rss/spiritual_reflections_or_fr_john_brian.xml

In The Wilderness With Animals and Angels
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-wilderness-with-animals-and-angels.html

More Than Animal Nature
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-than-animal-nature.html

Better Than A Donkey
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/better-than-donkey-march-2007.html

Nineveh - Christian Refuge?
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/02/nineveh-christian-refuge.html

Our Divine Purpose in Lent
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/02/our-divine-purpose-in-lent-february.html

Necessary Weakness
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/necessary-weakness.html

When Light Increases Fast
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/when-light-increases-growth-fast.html

Giving Giving Up Giving Away
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/04/sermon-giving-giving-up-giving-away.html

Healing in Community
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/healing-community-sermonhomily-march_17.html

Further Healing in Community
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/further-healing-in-community.html

Insanity?
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/insanity-sermonhomily-march-2006.html

Carried and Forgiven
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/carried-and-forgiven-march-2007.html

Blind Generosity
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/blind-generosity-march-2007.html

Birthright Salvation
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/birthright-salvation-march-2007.html

Living Through Death On Both Sides
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-through-death-on-both-sides.html

Living Limitless Life
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-limitless-life.html

Born Again and Again
frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/born-again-and-again-sermonhomily.html


May the Lord bless and increase all good things to you and all your loved
ones!
Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission
P. O. Box 5207, Madison, Wisconsin 53705
1-608-242-4244 ~ transfiguration@...
maruroopa.blogspot.com

[apologies - apparently the previous version was text only without
hyperlinks - thank you Saji for your help]

Since 2006 sermons and talks at Hoy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission in
Madison, Wisconsin have been offered on-line. Starting with an initial
request for recorded sermons from a member who moved from Wisconsin to
California, this has evolved from cumbersome attempts at cassette tape
recording to audio podcasting and on-line listening. With close to 200
on-line audio sermons and talks (and over 10,000 downloads worldwide), Holy
Transfiguration Orthodox Mission ministry is shared regularly from its small
chapel in Madison, Wisconsin USA around the world. The archives are searched
almost daily for spiritual teachings that the Mission has been honored to
provide freely.  We are grateful to God for this privilege and ask for your
prayers and support to continue this local, national and international
ministry.

Here are some sermons from the past few years on spiritual work of fasting
and healing in Orthodox Christianity, especially gathered for Lent:

PODCAST OR DOWNLOAD: http://feeds.feedburner.com/frjohnbrian or
http://frjohnbrian.hipcast.com/rss/spiritual_reflections_or_fr_john_brian.xm
l

In The Wilderness With Animals and Angels
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-wilderness-with-animals-and-angels
.html

More Than Animal Nature
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-than-animal-nature.html

Better Than A Donkey
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/better-than-donkey-march-2007.html

Nineveh - Christian Refuge?
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/02/nineveh-christian-refuge.html

Our Divine Purpose in Lent
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/02/our-divine-purpose-in-lent-february.h
tml

Necessary Weakness
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/necessary-weakness.html

When Light Increases Fast
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/when-light-increases-growth-fast.html

Giving Giving Up Giving Away
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/04/sermon-giving-giving-up-giving-away.h
tml

Healing in Community
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/healing-community-sermonhomily-march_
17.html

Further Healing in Community
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/further-healing-in-community.html

Insanity?
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/insanity-sermonhomily-march-2006.html


Carried and Forgiven
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/carried-and-forgiven-march-2007.html

Blind Generosity
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/blind-generosity-march-2007.html

Birthright Salvation
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2007/03/birthright-salvation-march-2007.html

Living Through Death On Both Sides
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-through-death-on-both-sides.ht
ml

Living Limitless Life
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-limitless-life.html

Born Again and Again
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2006/03/born-again-and-again-sermonhomily.htm
l


May the Lord bless and increase all good things to you and all your loved
ones!
Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission
P. O. Box 5207, Madison, Wisconsin 53705
1-608-242-4244 ~ transfiguration@...
http://maruroopa.blogspot.com

dear charly,
Wearing clergy collar is not a tradition; it is a condition of
anonymity that allows us to be a spiritual philathropist who is ready
to acclematise mentally and physically in all situations. Their
religion is the theology of convenience in a materialistic society
that gives honour and position to one who has an omnivorous taste
which helps to degenerate faith and morality. Where there is freedom
of choice, materialism only can triumph, whereas spirituality grows
only if there are obstacles and hindrances of various types.St.Paul
says that 'we have become a spectacle to the world', 1.Cor.4: 9, but
our religious ministers don't want to become a spectacle because they
hessitate to carry the yoke of sufferings that was the daily food of
the Lord. This is the reason for the multiplications of denominations
and cults that live a life of extravaganza.

Because our priests become a spectacle of not wearing their clerical
dress and appear in casual dress, the believers play tit for tat by
coming into the church in t-shirts and jeans or shots. Everything will
have an equal and opposite reactions. Our clergy is afraid of
demanding their believers come in decent dress because they don't
become an example in the public place. The Altar assistants wear
t-shirt that advertises Satan and his emblem of No.666 in the church.
Anarchy everywhere, sponsored by the clergy and the laity equally. We
don't honour the name of the Lord in our mental and physical attitude.
Idealism and discipline that trains a man is a rare commodity that is
not seen or felt anywhere in this high-flying community of high-tech
consumerism.

Es John, Australia


--- In MalankaraOrthodoxSyrianChristian@yahoogroups.com, "padanayakan"
<padanayakan@...> wrote:
>
> I would like to know the authenticity of the white plastic piece in
> the collar of our clergies and how did it come in our traditions.  Is
> it because of the convenience or our clergies are facing any problem
> in identifying as the clergy of the Orthodox Church? How did we start
> to adopt some one's fashion?
>
> Our clergies are serving in the Middle East, the Islamic countries.
> But all of them are wearing the Orthodox traditional dress and I
> don't know any problem in that for them in there.  But in America and
> Europe all our clergies are wearing the plastic collar same as the
> protestant except very few.
>
> It is not at all a problem in wearing our traditional "Kuppayam" in
> America or Europe as it is the nations allows freedom and also all of
> them are Christian dominated countries. Our clergies in North India
> are wearing the traditional dress even if there are chances of threat
> in identifying them as Christian clergies.  It will be highly
> appreciable if someone can explain about this.  It is not necessary
> to wear a plastic collar if a clergy does his work in a company or
> Hospital or in any Govt. sector.  But it is not nice to show his
> identity if a clergy works in any place other than the Church because
> if someone who is against the Christianity may harass them when they
> come to know he is a priest and also have the chance to get more
> respect in some places. So the plastic collar is not necessary in
> work place. Then what is preventing our clergies from wearing
> our "Kuppayam" instead of that plastic stripe?
>
> Charly V. Padanilam, Houston, TX.
>

Dear Charly,
Time and Again MOSC has been declaring that the clergy in US is not
behaving like one. The church in US is a sham. it is not in control
and everyone does what he wants to do.

1)The Clergy in US wants to work in secular jobs. They claim they HAVE To: To
keep the pot burning.

2) The Clergy in US wants nurse wifes only. They claim they HAVE To: To keep the
pot burning.

3) The Clergy in US don't want to wear kupayams .They claim they HAVE To: To
keep in line with the modern world they live in.

4) The Clergy in US want to attend church on Sundays and important days only
like the laity. They claim they HAVE To: They have no time , so busy they are.


5)The Clergy in US don't want to be FATHER neither does their congregation want
a FATHER figure. They claim they HAVE To: In land of opportunity , so many
fathers and mothers are available.

What is the need to tie and keep the Plastic Collar street dog within
the fence, loosen the string and let them go!

Yrs
Bindu Scaria
Group Moderator: MOSC


--- In MalankaraOrthodoxSyrianChristian@yahoogroups.com, "padanayakan"
<padanayakan@...> wrote:
>
> I would like to know the authenticity of the white plastic piece in
> the collar of our clergies and how did it come in our traditions.
Is
> it because of the convenience or our clergies are facing any problem
> in identifying as the clergy of the Orthodox Church? How did we
start
> to adopt some one's fashion?
>
> Our clergies are serving in the Middle East, the Islamic countries.
> But all of them are wearing the Orthodox traditional dress and I
> don't know any problem in that for them in there.  But in America
and
> Europe all our clergies are wearing the plastic collar same as the
> protestant except very few.
>
> It is not at all a problem in wearing our traditional "Kuppayam" in
> America or Europe as it is the nations allows freedom and also all
of
> them are Christian dominated countries. Our clergies in North India
> are wearing the traditional dress even if there are chances of
threat
> in identifying them as Christian clergies.  It will be highly
> appreciable if someone can explain about this.  It is not necessary
> to wear a plastic collar if a clergy does his work in a company or
> Hospital or in any Govt. sector.  But it is not nice to show his
> identity if a clergy works in any place other than the Church
because
> if someone who is against the Christianity may harass them when they
> come to know he is a priest and also have the chance to get more
> respect in some places. So the plastic collar is not necessary in
> work place. Then what is preventing our clergies from wearing
> our "Kuppayam" instead of that plastic stripe?
>
> Charly V. Padanilam, Houston, TX.
>

"Let the remembrance of Jesus be present with your every breath. Then indeed you
will appreciate the value of stillness."

St. John Climacus.

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"Be a father to orphans, and be like a husband to their mother; you will then be
like a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than does your mother." 
Sirach 4:10

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Prayer Requests:
If you have an update on a prayer request, please let me know.

Please remember the following in your prayers:

Emad. Cancer. very urgent.
Theresa - Cancer.
Scott - Crones Disease
M. Askandar - In the hospital suffering from a stroke.
J. Shapiro - Cancer.
C.L. - Complete recovery after a tragic car accident.
David - a little boy that will be having surgery next month.
T.M. - Imprisoned in Abu Dhabi
K. Abdelmessih - Recovering from surgery
M. Ragheb - Out of the ICU but he is still under critical care
M. Fleming - Multiple brain and spinal cord diseases.
Fr. Wissa Bessada - In the hospital.
G. Roubil - Out of ICU
The Boulos family, that the Lord may comfort them on the repose of their son and
brother Timothy Boulos.
Elizabeth - Liver cancer.
The Coptic mission trip to Mexico.
Camilo, Julio Renaldo, Diego and family, Hong and Pablo - Accept the faith and
get baptized.
H.H. Pope Shenouda III
David - rectal and liver cancer.
The congregation of St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Delaware and the family
of Malak M.
The family of Larry W. - May the Lord grant them peace.
H.M - Hardship.
William H. - Cancer
Makram G. - Liver Cirrhosis in the last stages
Emad - Lung cancer.
Albert - Operation
Abanoub
Eva S - Breast Cancer
M.B.- Breast Cancer
Mark - brain tumor
Fr. Anthony H.
Luka-- May God unite him with his family.
F.Z. may God help him in his service.
Tasony Esther, May God heal her and comfort her.
Akmal T. - Major heart surgery.
Amal M - Lymphoma Cancer.
Shery - Tumor near her spinal chord.
E.Salamah - Breast Cancer.
Mena - Displaced mandibular joint.
Esme - Severe lupus with heart & brain function involvement.
Yvone Y. - Serious Eye Surgery. The doctors now feel she might not need the
surgery at all.
Anthony - PTSD from Iraq
Elisha Mary - return to Communion
E. - Brain tumor, 22 yrs old with 2 kids.
M. Chouinard and her family and students.
Sharon P - Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, PTSD
Jan P - pancreatic cancer
Becky Cox D - bone marrow cancer
Eric G - throat cancer
Samantha M - Type 1 diabetes

Marianne and her family
E. Farag's family
F.F. to find his way back to God and to reunit him with his familly.
Fr. Leonidas - Brain tumor
Joseph W. - Prostate cancer
DS and family - cancer, stroke and paralysis
Iris S - Kidney Surgery - June 11th,2008
Nader S - Hardship
Hanaa S - Breast Cancer
Zakia A. - Cancer
Nasr H. - Emphysema - Doing better.
Lucy B. - Breast cancer
Amira C - severe and chronic Lyme Disease
N M- God's will in her testing for cancer; and His GREAT support for her if it
is positive. Thank God, the testing result turns out to be negative.
Susan - mental illness, marital problems and neglect of children.
Dina - Spiritual healing and wisdom
Carol - Rare autoimmune disease that's left her immobile.
Karim
Hayam R. - Cancer in her ovaries.
Susu G. - Breast Cancer.
MH - Major heart problems and in dire need of spiritual guidance.
Tony H. - Colon cancer, kidney and heart problem.
Ramy M - Insomnia and mental problem.
Ghassan A. - Cancer. He has 3 kids.
Maria B. - Lymphoma Cancer - away from God.
Neveen S. - Brain Damage.
N.S. - Breast cancer.
Veronia - Newly born baby girl in intensive care with brain damage.
Walter O. - Was operated on to have cancerous growths removed from inside his
right lung.
Celeste D. - Cancer.
Nasr N. - Cancer.
Angelita - Severe Insomia and Depression.
Fr. Abraam.
Susan - depression and spiritual healing.
M.H. - Lymphoma
Hoda - Depression and suicidal thoughts
Ibrahim - Renounced his faith due to failures and hardships
Steve, Paul, Victor, Frances, Foad - To experience and love Christ
The family of Olympia.
Greg - throat cancer
Marian and Paul - Marian recently had a miscarriage
Sophie - multiple health issues
Fathia - dementia
Family of HW who committed suicide
Mark H - MS
F. Saad - Heart Attack.
Angel N. - Lymph Node Cancer - recovered, Pray it won't return
Marina - A Highschool freshman with Leukemia
R.T. - A 14 years old girl with Leukemia.
S.Henin - Autoimmune Disease.
Mike - recovering alcoholic, who lost his son to alcohol & drug addiction &
suicide.
Matt - May God have mercy on his soul
Mark N - 20 years old with cancer and just started chemeotherapy.
Berna, Raouf and Alex Halim - Serious car accident, Raouf is in the ICU.
Wahid Girgus - MS
Andrew and his parents - 10 days old infant with the Lymphatic nodes not working
and other medical consequences.
John and his parents - unborn baby with kidney damage.
S. Magda - Health problems.
M & O - Family problems
Ariana - 3 1/2yrs, inoperable brain tumor
Noussa B. - Heal her.
Magdy B - Cancer.
Megan - Hodgkins Lyphoma - Thank God, her Hodgkins Lymphoma is now in remission
Abouna A - Prostate Cancer - unforuntately, now has brain cancer as well.
Judi & John - Son with Severe Developmental Disabilities
Anthony - Autism
Christina - Chronic Pain
Karen & Tony - Infertility - Thank God, They, had a Baby Boy (Garrett)
Steve - Cancer (fighting it for 10 years +)
Samiha - Dementia
Adly - Parkinson's Disease
The Christian Minority in Noshara, Pakistan.
Nancy - Glass went into her right eye.
L. Waters - Heart surgery. Mr. Waters is recovering nicely.
K. Hood - Cancer. Kerri had a successful surgery.
D. Arteaga - Surgery
Fadia - Breast Cancer.
Tara - Systematic Lupus and financial and family problems
J.David - Depression,School,Drug problems, needs God's Guidance.
George k - Cancer
Frances - Brain Tumor
Alber - Cancer
K - Depression, anxiety, addiction, pride and spiritual estrangement
E. Tawadros - Guide her to the right path and grant her wish.
E. Sidhom - Cancer.
Adel Gendy - 10 years old with kidney failure, needs a kidney transplant.
Joseph - Prostrate Cancer
Mary - Breast cancer
A.K Matthew - Colon Cancer
Enyat - severe diabetes.
Samy - Bone cancer.
MS - Mercy, Comfort, Strength, Healing and Protection
AAM -- Love, Healing, Comfort, Strength, Support and Guidance
MM -- Love, Healing, Comfort, Strength, Support and Guidance
SE -- Love, Healing
GE -- Love, Comfort, Strength, Support, Guidance
Helen - severe epileptic seizures.
Stephan - 48 years old, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, stroke.
Scott - 4 months old baby desperately in need of a bone marrow donor.
Douglas McLead - Cancer and kidney failure.
Mrs. McLead - Parkinson disease.
Fr Benjamin, Photini, Marina, Miriam, Moses.
Nicholas - constant back pain.
Michael - 9 years old boy with a progressive brain tumor.
Sarah - Back problems and might need an operation soon.
Mayrvat and her 3 kids. She has been separated from her kids.
Elizabeth - bi-polar disease and other problems.
Fr. Constantine S. Palassis - suffers from symptoms of dementia.
Heidy - Depression and other problems.
Esther - Intestinal problems.
Nick - chemotherapy.
Sue S. - Advanced Cancer.
Helen P. - severe depression and diabetes.
Pamela P. - chronic depression and financial difficulties.
Shafika - kidney failure.
Mary Beth - Obesity & Diabetes.
Jean - Neurological back problems.
Therese - Emotional problems.
Reggie - Cancer.
Detra - Stress related health problems.
Walter Sr. - Depression.
Denise I. - Breast Cancer.
Cuba Plain - cancer that is high up in the breast.
Zouhair - stomach cancer.
Magdy - brain tumor.
John Rittel - cancer of the lymph node and voice box.
H. Adel - finish the immigration papers and preparation successfully.
E.Tawadros - Guide her to the right ways and complete IT to the best it will be.
Shareen - Stays out of trouble, gets closer to God, and Leads a pure life.
Mark H - MS
Mamdooh, Nahed, Marina and Cyril - May the will of The Lord be done.
M. Michael, C. Michael, M. Michael, R. Michael and family and friends.
M. M. Fayez.
R. Farouk's Family
Kristen and her brother
David - To be close to a Church
George - pass the final interview for a Job,to survive extreme debts.
Kristina may God heal her and help Ed in school, and help Joan with her finance
problems.
Bassem - bare the severe circumstances he is passing through and give him peace.
Alfred - needs  guidance and acknowledgement of the right way.
Hala - give her peace.
Evette - let her find the right way and have satisfaction.
Heba - give her the right decision.
Mona - take care of her cause she's alone.
William E. and Family
Fr. Heinen and family.
Norma, Laura and Ibrahim.
Stephanie - autism, and for her family
Dina's salvation
Marie Y -  Rheumatoid arthitis
MMH: For guidance, strength, and wisdom
Heidi - work problems, May God give her the right choice
Luka - Autism and to relief his family
Shery - in her school and Master preperation.
Jarcie - legal and financial difficulties, and return her to Christ.
Gabriel & family - May they find a suitable Orthodox Church to be catechized and
baptized in.
S.H. - Needs God's guidance to make the right career choice
Mario F. - Grant solitude to his family and to repair all damaged relationships.
STMCOC of DC mission trip to Africa and India this fall.
The mission of the Coptic Church in Africa and throughout the world.
ERA: The mission of the EgyptiansRelief.org in Egypt may God prosper all the
work done everywhere the service is.
Yvone - Dizziness and a bleeding mouth and nose.
Widad - Cancer.
Nour - God would reunite his broken family.
Jimmy, Fady, Shady - To experience and love Christ.
PM, EM, CM and JM - Salvation and to be brought to Christ.
Fr. Wade+ and family - protection and support
St. Andrews Mission, Lakeland, FL - new mission plant
E and L - Solution to their problems according to God's will.
Hani - To experience the love of Christ through salvation.
Safwat - Away from God.
A.S. - Find the right path.
E.F. - Spiritual guidance from God to find his way back to Him.
RMG & Family - Comfort & Peace in time of grief.
Clara M -  (3 years old) has Lukemia.
F.Tawfik - High sugar level.
Baby H.M.Hany - May God heal her.
E.Tawadros - Difficult times, in need of God's guidance.
Kamal G.
Samir A.
Hazem
Shady S. - Guidance and support.
Richard - Heart condition, sorrow and despair.
Give peace and prosper to St Bishoy church - stouffville.
Mariam - Show her compassion after being so broken hearted
M&M: Family problems
The Christians in Iraq, and those who have fled from there and are living
destitute as refugees.
A.S. - Gets closer to God
Hala - God lead her to stability and peace
AnaSimone, may God unite her with her father.
Kathy, May God unite her with her husband.
Mina, may God unite hime with his wife and daughter.
Mina's family, may God grant them love and peace.
Carla Jean, Tessa, James.
The unity of the Churches and all Christians.

The Christians in Egypt. "Blessed is Egypt My people." Isaiah 19:25

Please remember me in your prayers.

Please pray for the peace of the world.

"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes
refuge in him! Psalm 34:8