Sunday

Another Sunday in OUR life is going to say bye in couple of hours. It's been a calm day. Started by participating in the Holy Mass. Then visited Bamboo Festival that happened at Kaloor JN Stadium. Followed by a sound nap in the afternoon. Now reading about The 2012 Phenomenon. Planing to catch sleep in few hours. Hope you all had a wonderful December Sunday! Night & God Bless! :)

Until death do us part

"Thank you my honey bunch for everything that you have poured on me. Especially for your unconditional love and care, for trusting me, for helping me take good decisions, for being my shore during the tough times, and the list goes on... Don't know what to scribble down honey...
I do promise to be true. I would like to be with you to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. I LOVE YOU!"

Watching everybody else live theirs

Scribbling down my life here in this blog, where once I used to visit often, seems difficult these days. Nowadays everything has been narrowed down to 160 characters. But I don't want to miss my blog, so I will try to be here whenever it is possible and put all those life events in this magic box. So that we could came back at a later stage of life and revisit those footprints of us.
Days went by when I felt so happy and content, and confident that my life would be okay, and then as quickly as the feeling came it would disappear and I would feel sadness coming in again. I tried to find a routine that I could fit in to, so that I felt as through I belonged in my body and my body in line with this life. I want to stop wandering like a zombie, watching everybody else live theirs. Would like to spend remainder of April trying to get my life into some order. God Bless!

Holy God. Holy God. Holy Mighty One. Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.

Its Good Friday! am trying to understand at what cost Christ has won our redemption. Just returned from my parish church after all the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the 'Reproaches', the reading of the Passion. Also received the pre-consecrated Host. Today we should unite ourselves to our Savior, and must contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord.

PARISH FIESTA 2012

“Oh, Kaprassery, gem of the region,
We will stand with pride and dignity,
We will watch your fragile beauty,
With much love and care . . . ”

It’s fiesta days in Kaprassery once more.… It brings to us in a hundred and one memories; some happy and some sad. It reminds me of the well decorated and illuminated face of our parish church, old and familiar faces of parishioners and people in the distant beyond, some lost and half forgotten, but most of all those that I love and long to be with.

Kaprassery is my home village, nestled in between the two major towns of the Indian state Kerala, i.e. Aluva and Angamaly. Parish was established in the year 1976. It is named Little Flower Church after the Saint Therese of Lisieux (LittleFlower)… How does a Kaprasserian celebrate a Parish fiesta?

Kaprassery celebrates its parish fiesta every first weekend of February in honour of her patroness Saint Therese of Lisieux (Little Flower) and of St. Sebastian. This most awaited weekend is preceded by nine days evening novena and holy mass. These days, you will find the pious and devoted Kaprasserians offering their prayers, thanks giving for the blessings granted upon their family and nation by the loving God with the intercession of our Lady.

The celebration is doubly blessed and become more significant in the parish church which has been the center of the life of a Kaprasserian. By the end of ninth day, folks decorate their frontage of house and village roads with tender coconut leaves and with the plantain trunk. Soon the much awaited weekend arrives and celebration begins by hosting papal flag in front of the church and holy mass follows. Later in the evening parishioners comes up with a bunch of beautiful cultural programs and the real celebration begins as each and every devotee and guest is welcomed in the heart and homes of my village folks in the unique charm and Kaprassery hospitality. Saturday procession, after celebrating the holy mass, is something everyone participates with lot of devotion and pride…

The sharing of laughters, all the eating and the drinking! What a weekend! But by Sunday evening, the host smiles with pride and joy for another merry making that had soon come to pass. Once again memories are made in the hearts of each Kaprasserians.

 As the village of Kaprassery celebrates its annual parish church fiesta this year the activities are set through the leadership of our parish priest and parish fest committee…

Happy Fiesta to all!