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30.12.2014 ANNA

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GOSPEL READING: LUKE 2:36-40

Anna was a prophetess. She has also spent all her life in the Temple. We know well the status of a woman in the Jewish religion and also in the Temple. Every male Jew would pray and thank God for not creating him a woman. Yet Anna was considered a prophetess and her prophecy is included in the scriptures. Scriptures give importance to her because she was also waiting for the arrival of the Messiah. She was also observant of the laws and spent her time in prayer and fasting.

Her prophecy was to thank God and speak about the child. Yes the prophet or the prophecy should always acknowledge God and his activities in the world and then also acknowledge the presence of God in what is happening in the world at his/her times. Acknowledgement of God’s existence and God’s presence in the world at one’s own time compels one to prophecy.

மெசியாவுக்காக காத்திருந்தார். அவர் ஜெபத்தோடும் தபத்தோடும் காத்திருந்தார். இந்த வாழ்வு அவரை இறைவாக்கினராக (பெண்) மாற்றுகிறது. இறைவாக்கு கூறுவது என்பது இறைவனை ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளுதல் இறைபிரசன்னத்தை அறிக்கையிடுதல் இறைப்பiணியை முன்வைத்து செயல்படுதல்.

29.12.2014 BELIEF

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GOSPEL READING: LUKE 2:22-35

Anyone who believes in the Bible and has a faith based on the Word of God found in the bible knows well that everything in the universe was created by God (All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be). Since everything came from God and since everything belongs to God, it was the belief of the biblical people that everything should go back to God.

This was not only at the end of times but also during their existence, here on earth, everything belongs to God and they should be offered to God. This belief was the basis of the theory of sacrifice o God. They also offered substitutive sacrifices to preserve certain things or let certain things to continue to exist.

படைப்பனைத்தும் இறைவனிடமிருந்து வருகின்றன. இறைவனைச் சென்றடைய வேண்டும். இதுதான் விவிலிய நம்பிக்கை. எனவே அனைத்தும் இறைவனுக்குச் சொந்தமானவை. இறைவனுக்கு அர்ப்பணிக்கப்பட வேண்டியவை.

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