What is the greatness in the creation of Human beings?
There are many things in common to our life, still we are unique.
Each person has his/ her own characteristic and uniqueness.
It starts from the details of our hair cells to our finger print; our sound to internal mechanism…
We can go to the deeper areas of a person by analysing his words and actions. This uniqueness helps Psychology and criminology in modern times a lot.
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The feast of this day marks one of the most important celebrations of the Catholic Church. It is the celebration of the Blessed Sacrament and the real presence of Jesus.
The second reading from first Corinthians 11, 23- 26 is the so called oldest text on the institution of the Holy Eucharist. It describes the celebration of the “first Eucharist” by Jesus. St Paul was not there as a disciple but he might have heard about it from others.
But we hear from St Paul some actions of Jesus at the Eucharistic Table:
He took bread, he gave thanks, broke it and distributed the bread as his own Body - a series of simple but great and meaningful actions, which we follow even after 2000 years. This central action of the Eucharist has not changed, because Jesus told us “to do this in remembrance of me.”
Read more...--Thomas Kalathil
Many of us know the following story:
St. Augustine, the great father of the church and theologian wanted to compose a book on the Trinity, but that did not make progress.
It is said that once he walked by the sea at that time and watched a little boy there. The child had dug a hole in the sand and ran with a shell in his hand again and again to the water, scooped his shell, ran back and poured the water into the hole. He repeated this again and again.
After some time, St Augustine asked him, "What are you doing?"
And the child replied, "I draw the sea into this hole!"
Augustine shook his head and said:
"You know, that's quite impossible. You can’t fill the big, wide sea in this hole!"
"But you think you can," replied the child, looking at the great scholar, "you think you can capture the great mystery of the Trinity with your intelligence?"
This incident gave Augustine the important realization:
God is so great and bigger than we can imagine ourselves.
There was another saint named Patrick.
During his missionary works in Ireland, he noticed that the faithful had the greatest difficulty in understanding the mystery of read more...--
Thomas Kalathil
On the day of Pentecost, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit.
The spirit of God should unite and strengthen us more in our faith.
But is Pentecost really a celebration of unity or division?
Can the Spirit of God act differently? Can God bring division?
The Apostles of Jesus spoke no common language but different languages... Can it still be a celebration of unity?
Such questions may disturb us today because of the readings.
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Certain questions come together with the feast of the Ascension of our Lord:
Where is heaven? Is it up in the clouds?
Is that above the earth’s atmosphere?
Actually, there are no concrete answers regarding it.
But most theologians believe that it is not a place, as some imagine.
It is rather a condition.
It is also interesting that one of the handbooks of dogmatic theology uses the term “exaltation” of Jesus rather than "Ascension".
I think it makes sense and gives deeper meaning to the feast.
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There are some people with great Photographic Memory. They can grasp things and recall things with in a least time. But such people are not in majority. The majority is like me and many of you:
we need repetition to understand some thing.
It is not only regarding our study matters, but even for daily handlings.
Jesus Christ is a good example of repeated teaching. Gospels prove it.
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Thomas Kalathil
ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫിക് ഓര്മ്മശക്തിയുള്ള ചില വ്യക്തികളെക്കുറിച്ച് നാം കേട്ടിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഒരു വായനകൊണ്ടോ, കേള്വികൊണ്ടോ ഒക്കെ കാര്യങ്ങള് ഹൃദിസ്ഥമാക്കാന് അവര്ക്കാകും. എന്നാല് അങ്ങനെയുള്ളവര് വളരെ ചുരുക്കം മാത്രം. ഭൂരിപക്ഷം മനുഷ്യരും സാധാരണ ബുദ്ധിയും ഓര്മ്മശക്തിയും ഉള്ളവരാണല്ലോ. ഞാനും, നിങ്ങളില് പലരും ഉള്പ്പെടുന്ന ഈ ഭൂരിഭാഗംപേരും കാര്യങ്ങള് ഓര്മ്മിച്ചു വയ്ക്കുന്നത് ആവര്ത്തനത്തിലൂടെയാണ്. ഇതില് പഠനവിഷയങ്ങള് മുതല് അനുദിന ജീവിതത്തില് ആവശ്യമായ കാര്യങ്ങള് വരെ വരും.
ക്രിസ്തു, ആവര്ത്തന പഠനത്തിന്റെ വക്താവാണെന്ന് സുവിശേഷം നമ്മെ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. അതിനു പ്രധാനകാരണം അവിടുത്തെ ശിഷ്യന്മാര് സാധാരണ മനുഷ്യര് ആയിരുന്നുവെന്നതായിരുന്നു. ഒരേ ചിന്തതന്നെ പല ആവര്ത്തി പഠിപ്പിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് യേശു തന്റെ സുവിശേഷത്തിന്റെ പ്രാധാന്യം അവരെ മനസ്സിലാക്കി. അപ്രസക്തമായ വസ്തുതകള് നാം ആവര്ത്തിക്കാറില്ലല്ലോ.
ഉയിര്പ്പുകാലം 6-)o ഞായര് – Acts 15, 1-2.22-29; Jn 14, 23-29
