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Parish Bulletin RTHODOX CATHED AS O RAL OM - DU . TH BA ST RISH BULLET I PA IN Wishing You All a Blessed Holy Week Vol-6 Issue No.4 APRIL 2017 for members only P.O. Box : 2563, Dubai - UAE, Tel : 04 337 1122, Fax : 04 335 2252, Email : [email protected] www.stthomascathedraldubai.org PARISH BULLETIN Fr. Saju Thomas Asst. Vicar “He Rode The Donkey For Our Sake He Gave Himself As Bread And Wine For Our Sake He Was Mocked For Our Sake He Took The Cross For Our Sake He Crucified Death And Resurrected Life For Our Sake And Asked Only One Thing In Return ‘Can We Simply……..Live For His Sake?’” To come down from the glory that He received them all…but He was patient, teaching us the above, must not have been easy for Him. He is the lesson of patience. It is believed that the cross that one who heard the praises of the angels 24X 7, but He carried weighed 300lbs (a normal weighed for the prophecy to come true and above all human weighs nearly around 180lbs), we can because of His love for the mankind, He gave up purely imagine what pain the Prince of the all His royalties only to be born in a family of a poor Universe must have gone through!!! Crucifixion is carpenter in a stable, lived a life humbling Himself the worst of all punishments till date because the and taught us the way of life, He entered Jerusa- person lying in the cross doesn’t die all of a lem knowing what its future would be, He chose sudden, he dies gradually when one by one all the donkey to travel along, again setting up an organs of His body give up as all the weight of his example of humility for us, He heard their praises body is dependent only on the nails of his hand shouting out, ‘Hosanna in the Highest…..Blessed and feet. This kind of death was chosen by is the One who comes in the name of Lord’, Him……why did He ever have to undergo such a knowing at heart that these praises would turn pain….have we ever thought? To show us that into the most bitter words of, ‘Crucify Him’ in a few death is not the answer but if we lead a life in days. Lord knew everything, yet He gave up Christ we have a new world where no death can everything for sinners like us. Lord experienced defeat us and that is Eternity. the extreme mental and physical pressures which He never deserved…all for our sake. When they mocked Him, He patiently embraced the pole and took all their lashes one after the other which pierced His flesh and gave deep wounds, probably a look of His eye would have been enough to burn 2 PARISH BULLETIN CATHOLICATE DAY (Sabha Dinam) Catholicate day is observed as ‘Day of the Church’ (Sabha Dinam) to reaffirm our loyalty and dedication to the Church, to the Throne of St. Thomas, to the Catholicate of the East and to the Catholicose and all the members of Holy Episcopal Synod. It is also a day to commemorate the re-establishment of ancient Catholicate of Seleucia in Malankara. Catholicate day is a day for prayer and dedication for the Church, the Catholicose, Bishops, Priests and for all activities of the Church. It is the duty of each faithful to pray for the church and to serve the church the way God desires. The day of the Church means the day on which we will have to examine our own relation with our Lord God and His Church ultimately the body of our Savior. Our Lord compares the life in Church as that of a branch of a vine plant which remains in the main stem and brings out fruits. In St. John 15: 1-2 we read about this in our Lord’s words. 15:1- “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman”. 15:2. “Every branch in me that bear not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bear fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.’ Let us make sure that we do bear fruits in our lives, the fruits of the Holy Spirit. (Galatians 5:22 . But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law). Let us make sure that we bear all these rather than the by products of selfishness like enmity, hatred, etc. Our Lord has established the sacraments as a means for our abideness with Him. Are we particular to make use of those sacraments meaningfully? During the Lenten season we all are supposed to repent more and to obtain forgiveness for our sins through the Holy Confession.Let us earnestly pray for the Holy Church, her spiritual leaders, entire clergy and the entire faithful. 40TH FRIDAY (Jesus' Triumph Over Satan) Jesus fasted for forty days and at the end of the fast he was tempted by the devil. On the 40th day of the Great Lent which is always a Friday, the church commemorates the tempting of Jesus and his triumph over Satan. In the Gospel we see that after his baptism, Jesus was led up into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil (St. Matthew 4: 1). We who are baptized into the Lord should not be surprised if we are also tempted like him. We should not be defeated when temptations come, but triumph over Satan; like Jesus we are also aided by the Spirit. We also see that Jesus fasted to overcome temptation, giving us an example of our own power and limitations. There is also another important lesson for us from the Gospel reading for the 40th Friday. In Matthew 4: 6 we can see satan quoting the Holy Scripture (especially from Psalm 91: 11 - 12). You can also see that the satan is mis-interpreting the Scripture. This should be a fair warning to us, who have received the true faith and the correct interpretation of the Scripture, not to fall into the trap, of someone quoting the Scripture and challenging the true faith of Orthodoxy. After all even the Satan quotes from the Scripture. 3 PARISH BULLETIN LAZARUS SATURDAY (Feast Day: April 8) St. Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary, the friends of the Lord Jesus, had given Him hospitality and served Him many times (Luke 10:38-4z; John 12:2-3). They were from Bethany, a village of Judea. This village is situated in the eastern parts by the foothills of the Mount of Olives, about two Roman miles from Jerusalem. When Lazarus - whose name is a Hellenized form of "Eleazar," which means "God has helped," became ill some days before the saving Passion, his sisters had this report taken to our Savior, Who was then in Galilee. Nonetheless, He tarried yet two more days until Lazarus died; then He said to His disciples, "Let us go into Judea that I might awake My friend who sleepeth." By this, of course, He meant the deep sleep of death. On arriving at Bethany, He consoled the sisters of Lazarus, who was already four days dead. Jesus groaned in spirit and was troubled at the death of His beloved friend. He asked, "Where have ye laid his body?" and He wept over him. When He drew nigh to the tomb, He commanded that they remove the stone, and He lifted up His eyes, and giving thanks to God the Father, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." And he that had been dead four days came forth immediately, bound hand and foot with the grave clothes, and Jesus said to those standing there, "Loose him, and let him go." This is the supernatural wonder wrought by the Savior that we celebrate on this day. According to an ancient tradition, it is said that Lazarus was thirty years old when the Lord raised him; then he lived another thirty years on Cyprus and there reposed in the Lord. It is further- more related that after he was raised from the dead, he never laughed till the end of his life, but that once only, when he saw someone stealing a clay vessel, he smiled and said, "Clay stealing clay." His grave is situated in the city of Kition, having the inscription: "Lazarus the four days dead and friend of Christ." In 890 his sacred relics were transferred to Constantinople by Emperor Leo the Wise. IMPORTANCE OF HOLY WEEK USHA`NE Palm Sunday (Feast Day: April 9) On Sunday, five days before the Passover of the Law, the Lord came from Bethany to Jerusalem. Sending two of His disciples to bring Him a foal of an ass, He sat thereon and entered into the city. When the multitude there heard that Jesus was coming, they straightway took up the branches of palm trees in their hands, and went forth to meet Him. Others spread their garments on the ground, and yet others cut branches from the trees and strewed them in the way that Jesus was to pass; and all of them together, especially the children, went before and after Him, crying out: "Hosanna: Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord, the King of Israel" (John 12:13). This is the radiant and glorious festival of our Lord's entry into Jerusalem that we celebrate today.
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