Welcoming guests
to the auditorium
My
dear friends the chief guests and the dignitaries have reached here. In two
minutes of time they will walk in. Therefore I request you to be silent.
Please
stand up and welcome the dignitaries with a rhythmic applause.
Introduction
A
warm good morning to each and everyone and hearty welcome to twenty second
Venerable Fr. Zacharias memorial Lectures.
I
wish you that today and tomorrow be an expedition to the spiritual richness and
valuable contributions of Venerable Fr. Zacharias OCD and an exploration of the
Indian Christian theology and Philosophy.
Prayer
Once
a Wiseman asked why we have so many churches if God is everywhere?
An
ordinary man replied air is everywhere but we still need a fan to feel it.
Hearts
lifted up ears tuned to the sacred melody, let us stand for the prayer. May I
invite the Mangalappuzha choir to lead us in prayer.
Thank
you dear friends for awakening in us the sense of the sacred.
Welcome
The
presence of eminent personalities makes the auditorium shine like a galaxy. The
PIA acknowledges and value your esteemed presence. May I invite V. Rev.
Dr………….to deliver welcome address.
Thank
you dear Father for your sweet and well knit words of welcome.
Inauguration
For
His Beatitude Mar George Cardinal Alenchery each visit to this campus would be
a homecoming. We are privileged to have His Beatitude amidst us. May I invite
with due respect you Beatitude to light the lamp and to declare the lectures
open by delivering inaugural address.
Our
thanks are due to you Your Beatitude for the beautiful and detailed portrait of
Venerable Fr. Zacharias OCD’s life and his contributions and making a clarion
call to be different in the era of New Evangelisation.
Book Release
It
has become customary that each function in PIA offers to the faithful good
books and for a faithful Christian life. May I have the pleasure to invite Rev.
Dr. Chacko Puthenpurackal to introduce the books.
Thanks
“If
only prayer you said in your whole life
“thank you” that would suffice.” said Meister Eckhart. Realising that no duty
is more urgent than that of returning thanks. May I invite Rev. Dr. Martin
Kallungal to propose vote of thanks.
Angelus
The
Christian say the most beautiful, theologically dense and small “angelus”
thrice a day to sanctify the temporal time remembering the incarnation,
passion, death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ. Kindly stand to recite the Angelus.
