{"id":66727,"date":"2019-07-02T02:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=66727"},"modified":"2019-07-02T05:36:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T05:36:34","slug":"hh-catholicos-to-lead-feast-of-st-thomas-at-st-thomas-orthodox-syrian-cathedral-on-july-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=66727","title":{"rendered":"HH Catholicos to lead &#8216;Feast of St Thomas&#8217; at St Thomas Orthodox Syrian Cathedral on July 6, 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46767\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos_3-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos_3-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos_3.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\nSINGAPORE: His Holiness Baselios Mar Paulose II, Catholicose of the East &amp; Supreme Head of the Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church, will be the chief celebrant at the \u00a0&#8216;Feast of St Thomas&#8217; at St Thomas Orthodox Syrian Cathedral, Singapore.<br \/>\nThe Feast of St Thomas (Dukharono of St Thomas) is scheduled to be held for two days on July 6 and July 7.<br \/>\nThis will be the Holy Primate\u2019s maiden visit to the island city-state and His Holiness will also be meeting Oriental Orthodox Church representatives and Inter-Church leaders during the visit.<br \/>\nOn July 6, Saturday, a ceremonial welcome will be held for the visiting Catholicos and HG Dr Yuhanon Mar Diascoros, Chennai Diocese Metropolitan and Malankara Sabha Synod Secretary.<br \/>\nThe reception will be followed by evening prayers, devotional message, harvest festival procession and finally benediction.<br \/>\nOn July 7, Perunal Sunday, the Catholicos will lead the holy liturgy in a trimass. There will be a public meeting followed by festival offering (Nercha). The Cathedral will also honour senior members during the occasion.<br \/>\nOther dignitaries who will take part include Very Rev Fr Philip Thomas, Cor-Episcopa, Vicar of St Mary\u2019s Orthodox Syrian Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur, Fr Aswin Zefrin Fernandis, Executive Secretary, Department of Ecumenical Relations, and Jacob Mathew (Jojo), Sabha Managing Committee Member.<br \/>\nFr Thomas Issac, St Thomas Orthodox Syrian Cathedral Vicar\/President, and the management committee have requested all the members to take part in the harvest festival in large numbers and be blessed.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: His Holiness Baselios Mar Paulose II, Catholicose of the East &amp; Supreme Head of the Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church, will be the chief celebrant at the \u00a0&#8216;Feast of St &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66728,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66727\/revisions\/66728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}