O Name of Jesus, key to all gifts, open up for me the great door to your treasurehouse so that I may enter and praise you with the praise that comes from the...
We seize the opportunity of the arrival of the Holy Lent for this year to listen carefully to the voice of God with which He called upon men through His...
Reading: Jonah 1: 8 As the three days lent is in remembrance of the fasting of the natives of Nineveh, the Lent is generally known as Nineveh Lent. This lent...
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Feb 2, 2004 7:03 am
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Dear members We have created a database section in our forum. We would like to update our list of parishes. We request our members to go to the data section...
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Feb 3, 2004 6:43 am
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Dear members In view of the forum poll result, we created a database for our members (Optional) in our database section. You may visit the section and fill the...
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Dear members See what Bar Ebroyo says about the 3 days lent: Bar Ebroyo narrates the history of this fast as follows in his Eccleciastical History: "The people...
Reading : Jonah Chapter 2. Verse for Devotion: Jonah 2:7 Dear and Respected Brethren, In the second chapter of Jonah we could come across a number of...
Jose Kurian Puliyeril
Feb 3, 2004 7:06 am
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HEAR MY CRY I PRAY TO THEE Hear my cry I pray to Thee And to my voice incline your ear. Hold me and have mercy upon me (2x) For You O Lord I'm in great need....
"...glory befits God because of His majesty, while lowliness befits man because it unites us with God. If we realize this, rejoicing in the glory of the Lord, ...
LENT FOR REPENTENCE The Syrian Orthodox church observes the three days lent 18 days prior to the commencement of the great lent of 40 days of our lord. In...
A QUOTE FROM SAINT ISAAC THE SYRIAN Homily 81 And what is a merciful heart? It is the heart's burning for the sake of the entire creation, for men, for birds, ...
According to news received today His Beatitude Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafian, Armenian Patriarch of Isatanbul, was injured in an automobile accident. His...
Reading : Jonah Chapter 3 and 4. Verse for devotion : Jonah 3:10 Dear and Respected Brethren, The third chapter of Jonah starts with our Lord God's call to...
"The greater the pain that you feel, the more you should welcome the person whose reproof makes you feel it. For he is bringing about within you that total...
Dear Moderators/Reji Paul (Dallas) Thanks a lot for your comments. There were real street and church fights during the last 12 months in Kerala. I saw several...
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Feb 4, 2004 3:27 pm
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VATICAN, Jan 31, 03 (CWNews.com) -- After three days of preliminary talks, Vatican officials and representatives of the Oriental Orthodox churches have agreed...
Dear Mr.Philip Oomman, I wish to express my appeciation for your effort to air your personal views on Church and beliefs. But I strongly differ with you when...
Dear Dn, 1)"""One point of clarity I think is that the the IOC recognized that the Patriarch in Antioch was a spiritual leader for the Malankara Church.""" If...
Note: I am not a priest. So I have no right to teach the church doctrine of the chruch. I beg for forgiveness, from the Lord. Dear Philip. I am not so sure...
"A truly merciful person is not one that deliberately gives away superfluous things, but one that forgives those who deprive him of what he needs." Ilias the...
Dear Friends More detailed news and participants list on this subject can be read on the following link http://www.suryoyo-online.org/news/orientcath2004.htm ...
The first bishop for the Syrian orthodox diocese of Australia and New Zealand consecrated SOLNews - On the 7 September 2003, His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius ...
Dear Moderators, There was a recent posting regarding St. Thomas and his conversion of Brahmins of Kerala in the second half of the first century. All modern...
Dear Moderators, I have seen postings in the oriental orthodoxy forum regarding a diocese called the 'Diocese of Cosmopolis' of the Syriac Orthodox Church. The...
A simple thought..... Philp 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure,...
Dear Dn.George Mathew, Please check the meanings of the words 'History','legands','beliefs','customs', 'traditions' and understand the difference. St.Thomas...
V Thomas
Feb 5, 2004 3:15 pm
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Dear Members Photographs of decoration of the 'Decoration of St Aphrem'(commonly referred to as Chevalier) to forum member Adv. Philip is uploaded in our photo...
"He was baptized as Man -- but He remitted sins as God -- not because He needed purificatory rites Himself, but that He might sanctify the element of water. He...
I do not know where a Syriac one will be available. But try the two websites. http://www.peshitta.com/ http://www.peshitta.org/ Hope those people can guide...
To SOCM-Moderators For the matter i publsihed in this forum , one Mr.Thomas P and one Mr.Abu ( both saluted me same way) has been writing letters to my...