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V H-Cp- AS-Bm-Fw- X-Cpw- I-\Yi Vol-6 Issue No. 12 D E C 18 E M B E R 20 ‘Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’’ Isaiah 7.14 A-Xp- -sImïp- I-À-¯m-hv X--t¶ \n-§-Ä-¡v H-cp- A-S-bm-fw- X-cpw- I-\y-I- K-À-`n-Wn-bm-bn- H-cp- a-I--s\ {]-khn-¡pw-; A-h-¶p- C-½m-\q--thev F-¶p- -t]cv hn-fn-¡pw-. -sbi-¿m- 7:14 The meaning of Christmas is “love”, pure and simple! of our heart, mind, soul and body to the presence Unconditional love motivated God the Father to give of the Holy Spirit as it takes effort to integrate the His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ to us as our thoughts and feelings to become temples of His Holy Savior. Jesus Christ did not come into this world to Spirit. Let us therefore open up the depths of our receive, but to give! Indeed, Christ gave His all for soul to receive Christ. Let us close our ears to the us. He gave up His Heavenly Home to be born as a sirens of wickedness and sin, and with humility and helpless infant. He, Whose Throne of Glory in Heaven obedience. Let wait upon Him, that He may grant us cannot be described, gave it up, living in poverty His joy and peace and rekindle our dwindled hopes. without a roof over His head. He gave of Himself in Let us begin a new life, with Christ the Savior as its healing infirmities. He shared His infinite knowledge Lord and Guide, Whose Nativity Christians throughout in His Holy Teachings. He then gave His life on the the world anticipate with gladness and sacred joy. Cross for our salvation. Jesus Christ was not born To Him be glory and dominion and boundless mercy into this world to give us material and perishable for ever. Amen. gifts. His gifts are love, forgiveness, and salvation. May our thoughts, words and deeds become ways to May God Bless Us All carry out His will. We are to engage in the opening Nativity Fast Feast Day: December 1 December 1st Lord, what do you want us to do?” marks the start of As we begin to fast, our confidence in the Lord will the Nativity Fast in help us. Each day His presence will encouraged us the Indian Orthodox to continue. The longer we fast, the more we sense Church. We have to the presence of the Lord. The Holy Spirit refreshes believe the power our soul and spirit, and we experience the joy of of fasting as it re- the Lord as seldom before. Biblical truths leap at lates to prayer is us from the pages of God’s Word. Our faith soars as the spiritual weapon we humble ourselves and cry out to God and rejoice that our Lord has in His presence. Fasting calls on the Holy Spirit and given us to destroy the strongholds of evil and usher brings us to repentance, prayer and almsgiving. in a great revival and spiritual harvest around the world. At first we question the need of fasting and We youths need to revive our commitment to fasting prayer “Is this truly God’s call for me?” But with and prayer and the rest of the church will respond to each passing day, His call will grow stronger and this call. Spent time in reading God’s word and make clearer. Finally, we will be convinced that God has your time with the Lord more spiritually rewarding. called us to fast, and He would not make such a There is no point in fasting and prayer until it equips call without a specific reason or purpose. With this you for spiritual awakening. Hope this Nativity Fast conviction, enter the Nativity fast with excitement will not slip by without having made a genuine effort and expectancy mounting in our hearts, praying, to prepare ourselves for the incarnation of Jesus Christ our Saviour. 2 Sts. Barbara and Juliana The Martyrs Feast Day: December 4 Saint Barbara was St. Barbara had a tender and fragrant soul. Even before born in the 3rd she knew God, she sought Him avidly. At night, when century A.D. in the she could not sleep, she opened the high windows of city of Heliopolis in her tower and gazed at the stars and the moon. Often Phoenicia, which was she would query them: “O stars, O moon, who created then under the rule of you?” But they were silent. “O sun, O beautiful sun, who the Roman Emperor created you?” - she would ask, but the sun only shone Maximian - a vicious radiantly in response. The birds sang in a multitude of persecutor of Chris- voices, glorifying their Creator, and St. Barbara marveled tians. St. Barbara’s at the orchards, the mountains, the quiet streams… father was a wealthy and powerful pagan named Above all she loved God’s wondrous sky. “Whose hand Dioscorus. Her mother died early, and after his wife’s created the beauty of the earth - the fields, the mountain death Dioscorus began to guard his only daughter, peaks, the blue seas, the tranquil lakes?” - she asked her who was a rare beauty. He said: “People are unworthy servants. The servants answered: “Everything that you to look upon my daughter’s face,” and so, in order to see has been created by our gods.” The saint laughed separate her from the surrounding world, he built a high and said: “Our gold and silver gods have been created tower and settled her there, attended by a multitude of by our craftsmen. These gods cannot walk on their feet servants and slaves. and move their arms.” Sts. Behnam, Sarah, and the 40 Martyrs Feast Day: December 10 One day Behnam was When King Sennacherib knew that his daughter was out with 40 of his cured, he called her and asked her how she was cured. slaves hunting in the She told him, “The Lord Jesus Christ granted me the wilderness. He saw a healing at the hands of St. Matthew and not through huge wild beast, so the stars that you worship.” The king became angry he went after it for a and threatened to punish them if they did not change long distance, and he their noble opinion. was separated from his slaves. Night fell During the night, St. Behnam and his sister decided to upon him and he had go together to St. Matthew before their deaths. While to sleep in that place. During his sleep he saw someone on their way secretly to the saint, surrounded by some who told him to go to St. Matthew who dwelt in that of their friends, their father became aware of what they mountain and he would pray for his sister so that the were about to do, and he sent his men after them. They Lord would heal her. His sister was afflicted with an found them on their way to the saint and they slew them. incurable disease, she was leprous. St. Behnam, his sister and their companions received When St. Behnam woke up and was joined by his slaves, the crown of life in the Kingdom of Heaven. they searched for St. Matthew until they found him in When the men that killed St. Behnam and his sister a cave. He knelt between his hands, told him about the went back, they found the king possessed by an evil vision and they asked him to accompany them to the city. spirit, which tormented him painfully. The queen sent Behnam went before him to the city and told his mother for St. Matthew, begging him to come. When he arrived, about the vision and the presence of St. Matthew out of he prayed for the king and the Lord healed him imme- the city. Because of her love and trust in Behnam she diately. The saint preached to them, and the king and allowed his sister to go with him in secret. When they his wife, along with all those in the city, believed. The arrived to where the saint was, he prayed for her and king built a monastery for St. Matthew and placed the the Lord healed her. St. Matthew preached and taught bodies of St. Behnam, and his sister, his children, in it. them the way of life. He prayed also and a spring of water rushed forth and he baptized them in the name St. Matthew dwelt in it for a long while. The Lord worked of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the one God, many signs of healing and wonders through the bodies then he returned to his cave. of Sts. Behnam and Sarah, his sister. 3 St. Philoxenus of Mabbug Feast Day: December 10 St.Philoxenus was the 6th century. In the meantime he continued his born, probably in ecclesiastical activity, working as a bitter opponent the third quarter of of Flavian II, who was patriarch of Antioch from 498 the 5th century, at to 512 and accepted the decrees of the Council of Tahal, a village in Chalcedon. the district of Beth Garmaï east of the With the support of Emperor Anastasius, the Mia- Tigris. He was thus physites ousted Flavian in 512 and replaced him by birth a subject of with their partisan Severus. Of Philoxenus’s part Persia, but all his in the struggle we possess not too trustworthy active life of which accounts by hostile writers, such as Theophanes we have any record the Confessor and Theodorus Lector.
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