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Personally im averse to such race-culture mapping by laymen to forge emotional unities among its people. A common faith and liturgy should be greater unifiers of people, than a common race or culture.

Though the Church in India received a West Syriac(Orthodox) heritage after 1665, we have still many remnants of the old East Syriac(Assyrian/Nestorian) past. Mostly in our language and some traditions. Many words we use in malayalam are derived from East Syriac. eg: malaakha (angel)...

Thanks brother for the detailed and interesting info. The Saint Thomas Christians(over 4 million scattered in various denominations) in Kerala are aware that they had a Nestorian past before 16th century(portuguese arrival) and that the church here reported to the Patriarch of Babylon once...

Indian Orthodox had Christmas on 25th, but it was in January until 1950s. We celebrate Danaha Feast on January 6th. Wishing a blessed Christmas to all christians who celebrate the birth of Christ next week...

Thank you very much Anglian. Please pray for me as im looking forward to attending confession tomorrow evening.

Yes, as someone posted earlier in the thread, there seems to be a lot of closeness nowadays between the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Church, especially among the lay people. There has been an explosion of "ARAMEAN" activism on the internet of recent. They say both the SOC and ACE...

Praying for you...

God bless your brother James...keeping him in prayers..

:thumbsup:God is great!!:bow:

I think the Patriarch of Rome is considered the first among equals. But as they are in schism, the post must be taken to be vacant as of now.(?) The Indian Church had a bad history with the Roman Catholics. Our ancestors had pledged in 1653 AD thus, "Neither us nor our descendants will...

Thank you all very much, i see merit in this confession. Im planning to confess tomorrow evening(New Year's eve) with an older priest whom i have confessed with before. I don't know if i can go through it, but please pray for me to have some strength, humility and true repentance, so that i...

Yes, Fr. Zakarias Boutros's sermons are superb. I do not know much about him, but have heard his sermons online. He is no longer part of the Church? Maybe he is just not in charge of any church, but i think he is still continuing his good work. Some of his sermons can be found in youtube...

Thank you everyone for your replies. Yes Dorothea, i see what you mean. --Katherine Okay. Im sighing right now because i know i cannot confess a particular sin to any priest as of right now, im not ready enough. Or tell him that im withholding it, as then he may ask me to tell it and im...

May God bless you dear sister.....praying for you..

thanks for all replies.. Proscribe are you saying confession of specific sins is only a Roman Catholic tradition, and not required of the EO? I would like to know what is the Eastern Orthodox tradition on Confession. I accept the authority of the priesthood, but i do not trust them...

:) Thank you so much for replying, prodormos. But what do you mean when you say "spiritual father", do you mean a priest or episcopa with whom one is familiar for a long time, or the vicar of ones own church? We have a priest, but right now we have a new one, as every 3 years the priests are...

praying for the child....

Hi, I wanted to ask a doubt on confession and the Eucharist which has been confusing me for a long time. I attend the Eucharist regularly, but very rarely eat the Bread and drink the wine. I like to have it only on days after confession or when i feel right enough to take it. But my...

Hi, I wanted to ask a doubt on confession and the Eucharist which has been confusing me for a long time.:confused: I attend the Eucharist regularly, but very rarely eat the Bread and drink the wine. I like to have it only on days after confession or when i feel right enough to take it...

May God Almighty bless her. Praying...