Anchoring script for a Religious Seminar

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.

"Love"ly Thoughts

Tomorrow valentine's day. The day boys and girls long awaited. what makes the lovers this day so special? Answer is love alone. I am reading the hit novel I too had a love story these days as this is a cute time to read a romantic story. While going through the pages of this novel i really fall in the spell of the love that attracts two souls that they have not even met each other.Love is charming, challenging, fascinating and risk taking. The risk each lover takes for his or her beloved is more than that the MNCs taking in finance. Love makes us blind. We disown all that we had till that day just for the sake of him or her whom we love more that anybody in the world.
Recently i heard a girl who is just 17 years old eloped with a young man of 20 years old!!! See she is not matured enough to marry a person legally or ecclesiastically.yet she went with him.This is love.Love does not listen to head.It listens to heart.In this conflict of Head Versus Heart, Heart always wins.Love is so. Love makes us to see everything as rubbish when we find a person in whom we see all that we desire.
Love is so precious.I too think in one point of our time we fall in love with someone.As we say a lover can never ever forget his or her first beloved. Human heart will always think, "if i had not missed him."But this love feeling is a sign of our growth.We must fall in love.But i think we need not disown everything like that young girl.Now what happened to her?She is facing the dark side of love.
Love pains.Love pierces a sword that the flesh can withstand in the burning agonies of life.Yet in love pain becomes a gain.That i gained for my beloved.That pain remains as more intoxicating than any wine in the world.That is why In The Song of Songs we read your love is sweeter than wine.
Seeing some lovers we sometimes ask ourselves or to others, "Didnt he or she get a better looking person?"Our questions remains unanswered.Because for him or her That person is the most sexiest person in the world.
Love is blind
Love is deaf
Love is dumb
Love is a surrender
Love is a thirst Unquenched
All these significations may not solve the mystery that surrounds love
One thing is sure
Love is as strong as death.
Love is Love.

Hail Dr.K.S.Manjoj:A Reincarnation of A True Christian

I still remember the last parliament election campaign in Allappuzha that was at the time of Holy Week. Then one of the left party officials who came for the campaign of K.S.Manoj said that he looked like Jesus.On the next day Malayalamanorama Kunchukurup wrote like this" it is time to crucify Him". In the election KS Manoj failed against K.C. Venugopal.After that onwards i was waiting when CPM is going to crucify him.It happened. As the leader told they told "we don't know this man" I think CPM has become more modern propagators of the "use and throw culture"Before they threw him out of the party he Quitted the party.It is really true that a devoted Christian Can not serve two masters.Either Belief or atheism.Belief always wins.

All that happens in Dr.KS Manoj's life has a significance of ecclesiastical calender.Last election was at the time of Holy Week.This resignation is at the time when entire Church celebrates the feast of Jesus' Baptism.As he rightly said in the Media conference "It was a time of God's call".Yes it was really a time for vocation.

One more incident that is fresh in my mind is his visit to Sacred Heart Minor Seminary of Diocese of Alleppey after becoming M.P. to address the aspirants attended the Vocation Promotion camp.He exhorted all those who were there to follow the path of Jesus and serve the Humanity.Even though he became a member of the CPM party,he was present in the Thumboly church for every feast of Our Lady and all Sundays.He would sit at the front row on the floor. He was an exemplary Christian who never made any compromise in his belief.

Once a philosopher wrote "Politics is the last resort of scoundrel". You are doctor who is to heal others just like your role model,Jesus. A true Christian can not be a politician especially being a member of CPM.

I expected this resignation.Dr.K.S.Manoj. I salute you. You are really an inspiration for me to follow the path of Christ.I add your photo at the right side of blog because now you are right.

New year Resolution

Every new year people take big big resolutions like "i won't drink this year" and "i won't smoke this year". And within a few weeks they will go back to their old habits. It is not so easy to get rid of from habits. The old proverb about habit well depict how difficult it is to free ourselves from habits.

Therefore never make such strange pledge like above mentioned. It will give you only pain when you fail to keep that. In that case what we can do in this new year? We must do something.

Take some soft and easy -to -keep-resolutions.This will give you some satisfaction of keeping the word and self confidence. That will boost up your energy to go forward. Some Examples of easy resolutions

i will be happy always

i will smile at someone everyday.

i will not tell lie

i will study one new word every day not five.

i will read a holy book verse everyday.

Wishing U all a peaceful and Grace filled New Year

Fr Lionel Mascarenhas SJ passed away

Fr Lionel Mascarenhas SJ passed away this morning at Papal seminary.He was suffering from old age diseases.Before two weeks he was hospitalized for three days at Ruby Hall clinic.His funeral is on 30th Wednesday at 10.00am in Papal Seminary chapel.He was a living saint.Even he was suffering from illness he used to cater to the needs of the seminarians in different ways.He is famous for his revolutionary phrase"freedom with responsibility."

How to sign out from outlook 2007

Oh I think you may be cursing the Microsoft and Bill Gates for preparing such a program like Outlook 2007 when you met with an unexpected problem like this. But the solution for this problem is as simple as Outlook itself. I too had the same problem and I was also cursing. There is no need to log on to www.microsoft.com/support for solving this. Either you need not to log on to www.yahoo.com or www.google.com. If you log on to these sites for solution you will be led astray. Therefore I come to the solution.

The remedy for this is to just close the application. As soon as you close the application Outlook you will be automatically signed out. But you have to do one more thing in order to ensure that nobody send email from your account. Go Tools and take account settings then remove the tick from remember your password option. Then you can believe that nobody can access your account without entering the password. Once closed again if you want to send email you will have to enter the password. If you don't enter the password you will not even find the send button in the Outlook.

Then enjoy the Outlook and make merry.

Why people tell lie?

Some people tell lie in order to survive. Some tell because it is their part and parcel of their life. But why does a friend tell lie when there is no need to tell one. This is what troubles me in this Holy Season of Christmas and New Year. I don't really understand this behavior of certain people. It constantly provokes me to react. Then I thought of writing about this habit on blog. I think this is a positive reaction from me.

This incident took place today morning. I sent a Christmas greetings to one of my friends. When I met him today he told that was a nice email. Then I asked him why he did not send me a one. He told me he did not send to anyone. After sometime I met another friend who also congratulated me. Then he told he mentioned that the above mentioned friend also sent him. To tell frankly I was alarmed to hear that. But I did not express my feelings. I personally consider that I am not the one to be omitted even by mistake. So it really hurt me.

I was thinking whole day why did he behave so? Why should I even think of such things? Actually it really taught me a good lesson to follow in the next year. Never consider him even as a friend because he was pretending all these years. I know him for more than 15 years. Still…… yes we should be prudent enough to identify the people, their nature, their family background and ultimately this kind of "third rate behavior".

I think this decision may not be a right one to take in this time of greatest love.

But …..

The sole consolation may be a thought like this "why do you expect people to be the-way-you-think-sort"?

Happy christmas