{"id":57415,"date":"2017-11-23T05:36:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T05:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=57415"},"modified":"2017-11-23T05:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T05:36:27","slug":"fr-philip-idichandy-leads-holy-qurbana-for-senior-citizens-of-st-gregorios-orthodox-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=57415","title":{"rendered":"Fr Philip Idichandy leads Holy Qurbana for senior citizens of St Gregorios Orthodox Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\":kf\" class=\"ii gt adP adO\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\":ke\" class=\"a3s aXjCH m15fe4d2fd8606f62\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HOLY-QURBANA-FOR-SENIOR-CITIZENS-AT-ST-GREGORIOS-ORTHODOX-CHURCH-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57416\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HOLY-QURBANA-FOR-SENIOR-CITIZENS-AT-ST-GREGORIOS-ORTHODOX-CHURCH-2-300x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HOLY-QURBANA-FOR-SENIOR-CITIZENS-AT-ST-GREGORIOS-ORTHODOX-CHURCH-2-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HOLY-QURBANA-FOR-SENIOR-CITIZENS-AT-ST-GREGORIOS-ORTHODOX-CHURCH-2-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HOLY-QURBANA-FOR-SENIOR-CITIZENS-AT-ST-GREGORIOS-ORTHODOX-CHURCH-2-1024x287.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BENGALURU: \u00a0Rev\u00a0Fr Varghese Philip Idichandy, Vicar\/President, St Gregorios Orthodox Church, Mathikere, Bengaluru, marked yet another milestone in his illustrious career as a clergyman.\u00a0On November 22, Wednesday, for the first time in the history of Bengaluru Diocese, Fr Idichandy led a special holy Eucharist exclusively for the ailing elders and senior citizens of the church.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Over 30 senior members attended the early morning service at the new Mathikere church in the name of St Gregorios, the patron saint of the Parish and the first canonised saint of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.<br \/>\nThe vicar expressed his sincere thanks to Mr Jacob Oommen (Saju),\u00a0the long-serving sexton who worked hard to channelise and transport the ailing from their home to the church and back. He also did not fail to mention the able support received from the young altar boys for their work.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Says Fr Idichandy, \u201cIt was an overwhelming experience and a blessing to be with the elders at the church who received the Holy Qurbana. Some of the elders who had been ailing for long time attended the service. They were really glad and expressed their gratitude to the Almighty and the Church.\u201d<br \/>\nAt the end of the Eucharist, Fr Idichandy thanked God for providing him with such a thought and the willingness to serve Him in all possible ways.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It is hoped the example set by Fr Idichandy will be followed by all other churches in Bengaluru Diocese so that the weak and the ailing will be able to attend the mass in church conveniently.<br \/>\nFrom December the special Holy Qurbana for elders will be held during second Saturdays with the next one scheduled for December 9.\u00a0<b>The new church is located at #\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=264,+10th+Main+Road,+Mathikere+Extension,+Mathikere,+Bengaluru,+Karnataka&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">264, 10th Main Road, Mathikere Extension, Mathikere, Bengaluru, Karnataka<\/a>\u00a0560 054. <\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>~ LC\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\":ll\" class=\"hq gt\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: \u00a0Rev\u00a0Fr Varghese Philip Idichandy, Vicar\/President, St Gregorios Orthodox Church, Mathikere, Bengaluru, marked yet another milestone in his illustrious career as a clergyman.\u00a0On November 22, Wednesday, for the first time &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diocesan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57417,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57415\/revisions\/57417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}