2
June
2007
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Isaiah 49:16
Engraving is a way of creating memories and making memories last a longtime. Depending on what is engraved and where it is engraved the nature and power of engraved names or figures will change. Engraving is a way of giving freedom. It is a way of making the potential and beauty of the other permanent.
Imagine this, every time God extended God’s hand to create and transform, we were part of that whole process as we were, our names, figures and our hearts were on that Palm that was extended to bring about newness and life. Never once you were away from the whole process of creation. Never will you be not part of it in the future whether you become aware of it and do not want it. Imagine this, each creation came into being it came through the power of God and through the figure of you, with you watching it with a smile and a wonder. You came alive through the palms of God every time and everywhere God intended life.
The whole creation is a fulfillment of the potential that God saw in you and me. Even through the damaged moments of our life sometimes depress us, God brings out the best as God can not and will not create without you and best of it, God lets you join him/her and have fun with him/her everyday and for a lifetime. As I said earlier, depending on what is engraved and where it is, your power and your potential changes. For you are engraved on the best that lasts for eternity - GOD.
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26
May
2007
Abide with me Lord this night as I need you more than anything in life.
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1
May
2007
When you go through tough times in life, when struggling with fear, anxiety and sickness, when you feel alone and no one is around, when everything else around you is darkening, sing this song and pray along with me as this will help you to walk with Christ in the most vulnerable time of your life. It is a very simple melody and easy to remember. Send someone you know to this place when they need strength and healing and Let us together walk with the Lord.
Stay with me Lord
- Stay with me Lord, that I don’t forget You
- Or else I may abandon you
- Stay with me Lord, Because I am weak
- Stay with me Lord for You are my life.
- Stay with me Lord and show me your will
- Stay with me Lord I may eat of your bread
- Stay with me Lord I may drink from Your Cup
- And fill my heart with Thy Love
- And fill my soul with Thy peace
- And hold me close to Thy heart
- Stay with me Lord For my soul needs your love
- I need your consolation for night
- Stay with me Lord for This night is dark
- I fear the dryness, sorrows and cross.
- Stay with me Lord for it is you alone
- I look for day and night in my life
- Your love, your Grace, your Will and Your Heart
- Those are things that I long in my life.
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1
May
2007
When you are suffering from sickness and pain, ask the Soul of Christ to be near you and sanctify your body, your soul and your spirit. Ask the Body of Christ, the Eucharistic presence of Jesus to bring healing and redemption that strengthen your whole being. Ask the water and blood of Christ who died for you on the cross to soak you and wash you with his healing love that will redeem your body and soul giving you peace and healing.
Please sing the song along with me, please feel free to substitute the “me” with the name of the person you are praying for. Do it consistently so that he/she will experience the healing Christ gives.
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Soul of Christ Sanctify me
Body of Christ Save me
Blood of Christ inebriate me
Water from side of Christ wash me
Passion of Christ Strengthen me
O good Jesus hear my cry
Hide me O lord in the wound of thy heart
Let me not be separated from your love
Defend me Lord against enemies
Be my side when I am near death
Take me to thee, with all thy saints
That I may love and praise thy name.
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27
April
2007
Resurrection is the result of forgiveness. Listen to it more here.
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25
April
2007
Lord help us walk in the way of the righteous….. Listen and pray with me.
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25
April
2007
Lord make me an instrument of your peace
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24
April
2007
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Genesis: 1: 26
The sixth day must have been the proudest day in creation when God decided finally to create mankind in his/her own image, in his/her own character, and likeness and most of all love.
I am still ecstatic of the day and will be forever when I saw my daughter’s face as she was taken out of the womb of my wife and her mother. She looked like me, am sure and she will all her life. My wife proudly says she looks like her and all her life she is going to. When all the doctors and government officials were busy looking for an identifying mark for my daughter, I did not care a whole lot about it. For I knew without a shadow of doubt she is mine and she looks like mine and will be forever and different enough to spot her in any crowd. I want her to be able to love and care for the world like me, but better than me and greater than me at the least. I can go on and on, and my wife will too.
If this is what I feel it must have been the proudest feeling for God after we were born through God. For God knew in his or her heart that we looked just like him or her and that too for ages to come requiring no identifying marks to distinguish one from another. I am also sure God must have certainly hoped that we love and care for the world as much as God did. For we were created in the image and likeness of God and God alone! and all others who claim it are really faking it to claim what is God’s. So, rejoice you have the greatest inheritance you can ever imagine. Let us also behave like we are the children of God!
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23
April
2007
If you love me keep my commandments - John 14:15
What are the commandments that the Lord is asking us to keep? Just two. There is no greater commandment than this that love the Lord you God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind, and the second love your neighbor as yourself. Let us go further and say may be just one. Love your neighbor as yourself! And the other will emerge as a result!
Before we start loving others let us start with ourselves. This coming week, take a few minutes of each day and thank God for the wonderful blessings you are given in your life. Take a few minutes to rest and treat yourself with a cup of hot chocoloate, an ice cream, a nice restful drive, forgive yourself for some of the things of the past that still seem unforgiven, respect and care for yourself and your needs, and do those things that you would really like for yourself.
Let us apply the commandments first to ourselves so that we can effectively and lovingly apply it on others. If only I know how painful it will be when people reject me, hurt me, love me, care for me, and understand me I can probably understand the pain or joy other’s might go through when I do the same to them. How can I keep the commandments if I don’t know what it does to me when I keep them? So, today let us make a decision that we shall look deep into our own pains and joys so that may be we could show our love better for others. We could think twice before we say things to others we won’t say to ourselves or we won’t someone else to say to us.
May you blessed today and coming days to keep His commands starting with yourself.
Fr. Jos
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22
April
2007
God had been kind and generous in many ways than I can imagine. Here is another example of the same. Our ever growing and chaning technology makes it easier for me to publish my reflections, sermons and prayers to be online for your listening. I pray that as you listens to this reflections, prayers or sermons, your life is changed as mine is constantly changed as a result of doing this for the benefit of my friends, visitors and family. God be with you.
We are so blessed to be part to be Children of God for in God’s kingdom all are welcome and all are God’s children. Enjoy this time without judging, without fear or concern as what someone else will think but rather how can you be better.
Blessings be yours today.
Fr. Jos Tharakan
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