UNITY OCTAVE FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLY - A BRIEF REPORT

‘The Mystical, The Trinitarian, The Christological and The Suffering aspect are the 4 elements of our faith’ said the main speaker at Unity Octave Prayer Assembly Meet at Trinity Church.

‘As fish needs to be in the water for life, we need to be in God for our life and this is a mystical experience’ Fr.Sebastian Periannan said during his talk here in Bangalore.

‘Our Faith consists in our conviction in God who is Trinitarian in nature and He is revealed in Christ who brought salvation to mankind in and through his suffering and therefore our Christian commitment to faith rests in our own suffering’ he explained to the audience at Trinity Church, MG Road during the Ecumenical Meet in view of Unity Octave that fall between 18 to 25 January every year.

Presenting a well prepared talk on “Walking towards true faith in Christ” on the Ecumenism Sunday 20.1.2013, the speaker of the evening program, held at Trinity Church near MG Road in Bangalore, Fr.Sebastian Periannan led the delegates of various Churches to the challenges what he termed as confusions hidden beneath our Christian life today.

False preaching, Liberal thinking, Media, Scandals, Property (wealth), Commercializing religion are some of the confusions that we, Christians face these days as opponents of true faith, asserted Fr.Periannan, a professor of Communication at St.Peter’s Pontifical Institute of Theoplgy and Seminary, Malleshwaram, Bangalore.

Insisting on giving connectivity to Christ like mobile phones having connectivity to satellite, the speaker enlisted ‘Internal disposition, Hospitality, Teaching of Truth and Creative service’ as convictions of our Christian life.

In midst of diversity of harmony, we must hold on to certain values such as individual and communitarian prayer, abiding in Christ through meditation, hospitality, family prayer, reading of the Scripture, in order to overcome those confusions against the growth of our faith in Christ, judged Fr.Periannan.

He helped the ecumenical audience with few guidelines for our life of faith in Christ as Communication of our faith, Growth in true faith, Personal meditation (sitting with Jesus), Family and individual Prayer, Being ready to suffer with Jesus, witnessing, Waiting and Obeying.

True Faith in Christ will remove the darkness of sin, doubt, divisive attitude, tendency of criticism among all Christian denominations that he numbered over 30,000 in the world.

Over 200 delegates including Rev.Frs.S.Jayanathan, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Bangalore, Ronie Prabhu, Karnataka Regional Secretary for ]Karnataka Regional United Christian Forum for Human RightsJ.Arokianathan, Secretary of Bangalore Zonal United Christian Forum for Human Rights, Rev.Pastors Paul Dhanashekar of Trinity Church, Mohan Raj of St.Barnabas Church, Arokiasamy, retired pastor, M.C.Prasad, President of Bangalore Zonal United Christian Forum for Human Rights, Daniel Jesudass Vice President of the Bangalore Forum, Sagayanathan & Adrian Mascarenhas the parish priest and assistant parish priest of St.Patrick’s Church, Irudayam, parish priest of St.Antony’s Church, and large number of nuns were present in the Trinity church, one of the oldest churches of Church of South India.

Earlier welcoming the participants of the prayer for Christian unity, Rev.M.C.Prasad read the gist of the points prepared by the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity and World Council of Churches.

Animating the gathering in the spiritual richness through their melodious and vibrant singing in English, Kannada and Thamizh, the choir members of Sts.Peter and Paul Church brought sweetness to the evening spiritual exercise meant for Christian unity.

Fr.Jayanathan, representing the archbishop Most Rev.Bernard Moras the president of Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights, appreciated the work and effort of the Bangalore Zonal United Christian Forum for Human Rights led by Fr.J.Arokianathan, Rev.M.C Prasad and Rev.Daniel Prasad the executive members of the Forum.

The highlight of the evening prayer service for Christian Unity in the Bangalore Zone was the candle light pledge for unity guided by the Vicar General.

The whole program was initiated and organized by Bangalore Zonal United Christian Forum for Human Rights under the responsibility of Fr.J.Arokianathan, the Forum’s secretary who thanked everyone that assisted him in organizing the event especially Rev.Paul Dhanashekar and Rev.Rodrigues the senior pastors of Trinity CSI Church for the venue and other support. In fine a fellowship tea was served to everyone.


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