" Prepare to meet your God "

We all should start preparing to stand before God. Our death and Judgement are inevitable. When we take our last breath, our fate is sealed. In the judgement day we have to stand before the Lord and be judged. " So then each of us shall give account of himself to God" (Romans 14:12).
       The vast majority of the world is living as though thinking there is no God. People, who are not prepared to meet God in judgement, do not realize how fearful this will be because the majority of people have not prepared to meet God.

   But what about the few who are prepared to meet God as they " Enter into the joy of your Lord" ( Mathew 25:21) In Heaven " God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, there shall be no more death. nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away" (Revelation 21:4). Let's be prepared to meet God so we can go to Heaven.


- Fr Jacob George

Stop: Learn from Parables

                    "Hurry! " " Grasp & Run" , " Use & Throw" these are few of the mechanical soundings seems that go to make like stressful and prevent modern man and women from exploring their full potential and thus living comfortably.
                  Here, I am not looking into the cause of these shadows, though that would be useful. I will just try to offer a therapy so that all may enjoy serenity, calmness and health, both physical and psychic.
                   Every area of our life calls for a varied degree of self control, of which, ofcourse, we are not much concerned really. For we fall to recognize the need to slow down, take it easy, reflect and control our emotions and our moods. Lack of self control is the root of our problems.


A 'Step' is a must.


To Stop is the first need so as to:


* Discover self knowledge and self reliance. " No man has any conscience except the man who      
    pauses to reflect"
   (Johann Von Goethe ).
* Discover wounder, inwardness, spontaneity;
* Have a break;
* Realize the sense of time and refresh your life;
* Keep yourself going;
* Keep your energies alive;


To start is the next need so as to:


* Be in touch with people;
* Be in touch with nature;
* Relenish your spirit with a prayer;


Reflection is both a stopping and starting point.

Let us therefore stop and start a life which as the John the evangelist stated when he set about to write the story of Jesus " I write about Jesus like from the very beginning: what i have heard , what i have seen with my eyes and what my hands felt when this life was intelligible, visible and experienced, so I write of it".




-  Fr Jacob George

Four Things To Remember.

1 .Why Fast? What Kind of Fast?

Fasting opens the door to a deeper, more intimate, more powerful relationship with God. Denying your appetite for God’s purpose focuses you beyond yourself and highlights your hunger for God and your dependence on Him.
"I sought the Lord and He delivered me. Taste and see that the Lord is good." (Psalm 34:4,8) "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.: Matthew 5:6 Jesus taught us to prayer and fast, saying, “that this kind does not go but by prayer and fasting”. (Matthew 17:21) Fasting accompanied prayer in the critical breakthroughs throughout the Bible.
I ask you to consider doing without something you love during this 40 days of prayer and fasting from 22 February – 1 April, which is the period of Lent. The decision as to what you fast from is up to you! Why not ask God his invitation for you and let God lead you in a life enhancing season, “unto the Lord.”
1.Some people will give up caffeine, sweets, a meal a day, or food on 1-3 days each week, or food for 40 days ingesting just water, juice and broth.
2.Some will fast from TV / Facebook etc and spend this time in prayer.
3. Some will do a Daniel Fast which basically means going vegetarian! Your food choices might include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and oil, and exclude animal products and processed foods, such as flour products, preservatives, additives, sweeteners, flavourings, caffeine or alcohol. Daniel 1:12, 10:3 "Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink... I ate no pleasant food (bread), no meat or wine came into my mouth nor did I anoint myself at all...”

2. Purification ( Purity of Heart, Soul and Mind )

What is Purity?

In a physical sense, purity is the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates or pollutes. In an emotional and mental sense, purity is freedom from guilt, shame and evil tendencies. In a spiritual sense, purity is using the Spiritual Light (called in esoteric teachings the "Mother" Light because all of the physical plane is said to be the Mother, while the Father is said to be all of Spirit) in accordance with God’s Will, i.e. not for selfish purposes but for raising the All.

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

(Matthew 22:36-37)

Purity is a quality of God and it is our basic quality, when we are aligned with God - when we are being our True Self. Purity starts in the heart, with the intention to follow the will of God, which is our Higher Will. Like the blessed Mother said when Archangel Gabriel announced that she would conceive the future Messiah:

Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. (Luke 1:38)

Purity implies unselfishness, loving our brothers and sisters, and willingness to serve a greater good. It also implies honesty - being willing to see where we may have impure motives, impure thoughts and deeds, and then to gradually purify ourselves from them.

The moment of coming back to God and saying "God, I've been impure, I've followed the ego and false desires. But now I am back and I am ready to walk the true path. Please guide me". This is the moment of baptism by water - the moment of repentance for our sins, of seeing all that is impure in us, and choosing a different course of action: I want Life, I want Purity, I want my True Self!

This decision starts in the heart, with a sincere remorse for the impurity that we lived so far, and with the decision that we wouldn't hide from God any more. Whatever weakness and imperfection surfaces, we are willing to face it and surrender it. Maybe it will take days, maybe months or even years, but we are willing, for we know it is not the part of who we are in God.

Jesus said "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." (Matthew 5:8).

3.How to let go of impurities?

We are not required to be perfect before we face God. We are required to have a pure heart and willingness to surrender our attachments. And how do we do it? By loving God more than the things of this world. When we say "please God, take this false desire away from me, I don't need it any more". Or "take these thoughts away, I don't need them", or whatever attachment or impurity we are dealing with. But letting go of impurities can be tricky because we think we need them.so be careful.

4. Surrender: Loving God more ....

Once we return to God and start walking with Him, we will turn to Him whenever we are faced with a challenge. Whenever we feel there is an attachment or impurity, we will pray and ask for it to be taken away. Each of us will have one issue that is the major stumbling block keeping us from Being the Christ. For some it will be fear of the unknown, for some self-condemnation, for some the need to be accepted by others. This could very well be the original reason of our fall, which we are faced with again and again over more lifetimes. And now is the time to deal with it - to decide to love God more and to simply let go ........

all the very best.......

-  Kiran Babykutty

Fasting and Prayer

                True fasting brings humility and alignment with God so that we are able to do amazing things that he wants us to do. Jesus Christ fasted for forty days in the desert before he started his Public Ministry. The Lent calls each one of us to be like Jesus and inspires us to undertake fasting like Jesus to focus entirely on God for some time amidst our bust lives. When we are faced with the worldly challenges, where does our strength come from it is through the grace of God. So in order to overcome the challenges, we need to fast and receive the much needed grace required to lead our lives peacefully. Through fasting and prayer we humble ourselves before God so that the Holy Spirit stirs our souls and strengthens us.
                 We should understand during this season it is a time  to learn how to live. Please join me in seeking God and we can pray for each other that God will strengthen us in our resolve to let Him teach us to wait upon Him with fasting, prayer and the world. I conclude from a verse in the Book of Joel - God made it clear through the prophet Joel that the last days outpouring of the spirit will be in proportion to our fasting and crying out to God in humility, hunger and repentance.

-Fr. Jacob George