New Jersey Christ The King Knanaya Church Bulletin

Issue 18 - Oct 2021 Monthly Bulletin Christ The King Knanaya Catholic Church New Jersey

Issue 18 - Oct 2021 Christ The King Knanaya Catholic Church, New Jersey Inside this Issue 67 Fitch St, Carteret, NJ 07008 v Pastor's Message v Article – The “Teresa” Effect !പിയെ&' ൈദവമ-േള, v Article – Importance of Holy Rosary ഈേശായുെട െകാ78 െ!ത സ;ായുെട തിരുനാൾ ഒ@ാം തീയതി v Family Bible Quiz ആേഘാഷി7് െകാG് ജപമാല മ!JKൾ ഉയരു@ ഒMേടാബർ v Kids Corner മാസPിേല-് !പേവശി7ിരി-ുകയാQ . അSയിലൂെട v Birthdays & Anniversaries ഈേശായിേല-് ജപമാല വഴി എPിേ7രാൻ െകാJ മാസെP v September Memories ചിJകള8ം !പാർYനകള8ം നെS സഹായി-ണം.ഈ മാസം v Upcoming Events നടPെ&ടു@ കൂടാരേയാഗ !പാർYനകളിൽ ൈദവാലയPിൽ v Announcements നി@ും െകാGുവരു@ മാതാവി^െറ രൂപം എല`ാവരും േചർ@് സaീകരി7് ഒരുമി7് െകാJയർ&ി7് !പാർYി-ു@ു. എല`ാവരും അതിൽ ആbാർYതേയാെട പെcടുP് നSുെട കൂ'ാdമെയ പരീ അS വഴി അനു!ഗഹമാ-ി മാeാം. നSുെട ഇടവകയുെട പുതിയ ശു!ശൂഷ സമിതിെയ !പേത;കം നാം തിരെgടു-ുകയാQ. ഇടവകയുെട നh ആ!ഗഹി-ുകയും അതിനായി തKള8െട സമയവും കഴിവും മാeിെവd-ാൻ തiാറുjവെര പുതിയ പാരിk കൗൺസിൽ അംഗKളായും ൈക-ാരൻ മാരായും തിരെgടുP് നSുെട ഇടവകയുെട വളർ7d-് കൂടുതൽ കരുേPകാൻ നSു-് കഴിയണം. നല` തിരെgടു&ിനായി നSു-് !പാർYി-ാം. മാലാഖ കുgുKള8െട ചുവo െവ&് െകാGും സaരമാധുര;ം െകാGും വിശaാസ പരിശീലന കളരി ഉണർ@ ഒരു മാസമാQ കഴിg് േപായq . ഇടവകയാകു@ മടിP'ിൽ അവർ ചിലവഴി-ു@ ഓേരാ സമയവും വിശaാസ വളർ7യുെട പടവുകൾ ആയി മാറാൻ നSുെട ഇടവകെയ വിശaാസ ൈചതന;Pാൽ നSു-് നിറd-ാം .പരി.അSd-് അവെര !പേത;കമായി സമർ&ി-ാം. On October 9th New York Forane teen and youth ministry is going to conduct hiking program. It is a great time for our youth to know each other and helps to do better things for our parish and community. I really appreciate the parents who take initiative for to sent your children. Oct 22-31 we will have ten days Rosary in our church by St. Thomas koodarayogam and on oct 29,31 we celebrate the feast of St . Jude .Let us pray and work together to build up a strong spiritual community. Binsachan

The “Teresa” Effect T he present situation of the world, with all its challenges and sufferings, carries at least one benefit: many of us have more time for prayer than ever before. “Moments of reflection” are increasingly part of our daily lives, at least for those of us not working on the front lines or caring for dependent family members. To grow in prayer, we need masters of the spiritual life to guide us. The masters of prayer are the saints. When we investigate the lives of the saints, often themes and patterns emerge, as God reveals himself over and over to willing souls through the ages. This is made vividly evident by the lives of three of the most important Catholic women to live in the last five hundred years: each with the same name, each with a different lesson to teach us about prayer. St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), and St. Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) each portray the utter simplicity of what it means to be a disciple of Christ. They all faced tremendous challenges, and they all had their own stretches of spiritual darkness. However, their consistent pledge and foundation was the loving thirst of Jesus and their desire to bring others to his side. St. Teresa of Avila lived as a Carmelite nun in Northern Spain. She was a tireless reformer who spent decades crisscrossing the Spanish countryside to visit Carmelite convents and monasteries, challenging each one to recommit to their promises of prayer, fasting, and sacrificing for souls. St. Teresa met with much resistance in this work, and God blessed her with a dynamic spiritual life to support her difficult mission. St. Teresa is still known and loved today for her writings on prayer which continue to inspire those on the spiritual journey, from the humblest beginner to those who wrestle with large spiritual powers. One of my favorite quotes from St. Teresa is an encouragement for those new to the spiritual life: “Many remain at the bottom of the [mountain of prayer] who could ascend

to the top…I repeat and ask that you may always have courageous thoughts. As a result of these, the Lord will grant you the grace for courageous deeds.” The key to being a saint is to understand that God is calling us closer to him, which means he wants to bring us up to himself. When we allow him to do that, we are given the virtue of courage because nothing makes us fearful or drowns our faith. Teresa knew and experienced the words of Christ: he thirsts for her to be with him, and she never lost sight of this truth. Our second spiritual master shared both a name and a religious order with St. Teresa of Avila: St. Therese of Lisieux was born in France in the late 1800s, and she became a Carmelite nun as a teenager just like her namesake. While St. Teresa of Avila had had a mediocre prayer life until encountering the Lord powerfully in middle age, St. Therese of Lisieux died at the tender age of 24, but nonetheless was declared a Doctor of the Church just like her fellow Carmelite, also because of her dynamic writings about prayer. To explain the love of God the Father for his children, St. Therese used the evocative image of an infant on his hands and knees at the bottom of a staircase, with his father standing at the top of the landing. The baby desires intimacy and proximity with his father, so he desperately attempts to climb the first step. However, the baby is barely able to crawl, so climbing the stairs fails no matter how hard he tries or how badly he wants to reach the top. The loving father sees his beloved child struggling, and quickly runs toward the baby, scoops him up, and brings the child close to his side. St. Therese explains that this is the central dynamic of the spiritual life: we do not win God’s love or “earn” a better relationship with him by doing “more” or trying harder. Faith is not a contest to see what we can do for God; it is a relationship initiated by a loving Father who sees his children trying to find him, and eagerly runs to lift them up and bring them close to his heart. Our third spiritual master was named after the “Little Flower” of Lisieux, and embodied the same spirit of childlike trust in her Heavenly Father. Mother Teresa, a religious sister like her namesake, began her life of service as a teacher at an all-girls Catholic school in India. During this time, she received a mysterious “call within a call” to serve Chris in the destitute poor. She was traveling to Darjeeling, India when Christ appeared to her with a special mission. He spoke to her heart simply and earnestly, saying: “I thirst.” Jesus revealed that he wanted her to help quench his thirst for souls in a unique way: by going to serve and love the most vulnerable, sick, and lost. Shortly thereafter, Mother Teresa founded the “Missionaries of Charity,” who would make it their life’s work to live with the poorest of the poor, the lost, and the destitute.

Later in life, Mother Teresa wrote a letter to all the members of her order that revealed the key to their mission: Jesus’ thirst. As Mother Teresa wrote in her famous Varanasi Letter: Jesus wants you each to hear Him – speaking in the silence of your heart…Not only He loves you, even more – He longs for you. He misses you when you don’t come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don’t feel worthy. Even if you are not accepted by others, even by yourself sometimes – He is the one who always accepts you… Mother Teresa teaches us that Jesus’ thirst is not equivalent to saying, as countless people do, simply that “Jesus loves you.” This phrase is not false, but it does not encapsulate the strength of his words as he hangs on the cross, dying for love of us. On the cross, and still today, Mother Teresa teaches us that Jesus thirsts for us. We must experience these words as spoken to us personally, in order to feel the force with which they were said on the Cross on that first Good Friday. Our three spiritual masters, each sharing the same name and burning with the same love for the Lord, are thus speaking to us of the same thing: the soul’s journey to God in prayer. St. Teresa of Avila encourages us at the beginning of our journey: “be courageous! Ask the Lord for great graces!” St. Therese of Lisieux reminds us that, even as we ask for great graces, God himself is running towards us, doing the “work” to come and meet us in our littleness and our need. And when we are finally united to him, Mother Teresa teaches us that the heart of this mysterious union is his burning “thirst” for us: a divine desire that calls us towards God on earth and will only be fully quenched when we are united with him for all eternity in Heaven. Once we hear and experience these words as meant for us, we will come to realize that God stops at nothing in order to get close to us. He is thirsting, in fact, he is dying to be in a deeper relationship with us. Amidst all of the challenges and difficulties of these “unprecedented times,” let us also commit to “unprecedented prayer.” Let us look to God’s thirst for each of us, and be moved to pray like never before. By Thomas Griffin

െകാ$നമ'കാര)ിൻെറ -പധാന0ം ൈ\"ക$തവസഭയിൽ Rosaries are very \"പേത.കി/് special symbol കേ1ാലി4സഭയിൽ and prayer guide മാതാവി6െറ for Catholics. We $തുതി4ായു: pray to Mother െകാ;നമ$കാരം വളെര Mary through \"പധാനെAB ഒരു rosary. Rosary is \"പാർEനാ\"കമമാF. the most powerful weapon. മാതാG വഴിയായി പല അനു\"ഗKൾ ലഭി4ുMതിനായി സഭയിെല Once Saint Padre Pio said that Rosary പല പ:ിയിലും െകാ;പ1് ആേഘഷമായി is a chain that links Heaven and Earth െകാQാടുMു. ഫാ1ിമായിൽ മൂM് ആBിടയ with one end in our hands and the കുBികൾ4് മാതാG \"പത.UെAB് other in the hands of our holy െകാ;നമ$കാര1ിൻെറ \"പധാന.ം mother. Every year the month of വിവരി4ുകയും മുട4ം കൂടാെത ഈ October is dedicated to rosary. The \"പാർEന െചലYണം എM് നിർേ\\ശി4ുകയും main function of the rosary bead is to െച^തു.െകാ; മുറുെക പിടി4ുMവേര count Hail Mary. അ_ ൈകവിടിലY എM ഉറ/ വിശaാസം നേ_ാെടാAം ന_ിൽ വളരണം. By Alyssa Anil Veluthedathuparambil െകാ;മാസ1ിൽ ഇടവക പ:ിയിൽ നട1ുM െകാ;പ1ിൽ ആദ.ം പെdടു4ാൻ അതിരാവിെല ഓടിയതും പെdടു4ാനു: കുBി4ാലെ1 ഓർ_യും ഇMും മനfിലുQ്. അവസാനം ന_ു4് മുറുെക പിടി4ാനും ന_ുെട മരവി/ ൈകgിൽ പിടിAി4ുMതും െകാ;യാF ,കാരണംഏതു യാ\"തയിലും രU^4ു: ന_ുെട ആയുധമാF െകാ;. ഈ െകാ;മാസം നെ_ കൂടുതൽ അ_$േനഹികൾ ആ4ി മാjെB. By KC Chacko Kuttathuparambil

Family Bible Quiz - Gospel of Luke Chapters 19 - 20 Across 3 Who was the tax collector that decided to see Jesus? 5 Whose image was on the penny? 7 The stone which the builders rejected has become the________ 9 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenant farmers to receive some of the produce of the vineyard. But they _____ the servant and sent him away empty-handed. 10 What tree did the tax collector climb to see Jesus? Down 1 Sadducees denied ______ 2 Which old testament book did Jesus refer to and say this - 'The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”’ 4 As Jesus rode the donkey, the people were spreading their ______ on the road 6 When Jesus saw Jerusalem he _____ over it saying, “If this day you only knew what makes for peace but now it is hidden from your eye. 8 Jesus said, it is written 'My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of ____' 11 At the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples to get the ___ Read Gospel of Luke chapters 19 - 20 as a family and send in your answers to [email protected] by 25Oct21. Families that submit the correct answers for the 12months ( from Jan2021 - Dec2021 ) will be awarded.

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Upcoming Events Mass Schedule - Friday • Feast of St. Teresa of Child Jesus – Oct 01 Confessions @ 7:00 PM Mal Mass @ 7:30 PM • YAStoSAl.luicMMmcthoaionurMynins’itstnAnrKiyatsotntMroutydem2aHe0rta2iiaknl0yiiglongg–aPOmrco–tg0rOa3cmt – Oct 09 - Sunday • 09 • Mal Mass @ 11:00 AM • Mission Sunday – Oct 17 Season of Elijah Cross Moses • St. Joseph Koodarayogam – Oct 17 First Readings • All Ministry Meeting – Oct 03 03 Oct - Deut 9:13-24 10 Oct - Deut 11:1-9 • Ten Days Rosary – Oct 21– 31 17 Oct - Deut 11:26-32 24 Oct - Deut 9:1-6 • St. Jude Koodarayogam – Oct 24 31 Oct - Ex 40:17-29 • St. Thomas Koodarayogam – Oct 30 Second Readings 03 Oct - Phil 4:4-9 • St. Jude Feast– Oct 31 10 Oct - 2 Cor 2:12-17 17 Oct - Gal 5:16-26 On behalf of Christ the King Knanaya Catholic Church, 24 Oct - Gal 6:1-10 we would like to extend our sincere thanks and 31 Oct - 1Cor 13:1-13 appreciation to Fini Manthuruthil for your successful contribution as DRE over the years. Gospel Readings 03 Oct - Mt 15:21-28 10 Oct - Mt 20:1-16 17 Oct - Lk 8:41b-56 24 Oct - Mt 8:23-34 31 Oct - Mt 16:13-19 Bible Quote Isaiah 41:10 “Do not fear: I am with you; do not be anxious: I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. ~ September 2021 - Collections $3,428 Trustees Josekunju Chamakalayil @ +1 732 512 7964 Lumon Manthuruthil @ +1 779 771 1550 For feedback, email us @[email protected] Bulletin Editorial Board - Fr. Bins Chethalil - Alex Nedumthuruthil - Fini Manthuruthil - Joby Thadathil - Jaimy Valiyanilam - Jomy Chembanpara