{"id":57753,"date":"2017-12-18T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=57753"},"modified":"2017-12-18T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T05:48:10","slug":"giant-christmas-star-with-icons-of-birth-of-jesus-erected-at-st-gregorios-orthodox-church-mathikere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=57753","title":{"rendered":"Giant Christmas star with icons of birth of Jesus erected\u00a0at St Gregorios\u00a0 Orthodox Church, Mathikere\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHRISTMAS-STAR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57754\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHRISTMAS-STAR-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHRISTMAS-STAR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHRISTMAS-STAR.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: large;\">BENGALURU: The MGOCSM &amp; Youth Movement of St Gregorious Orthodox Church, Mathikere, Bengaluru, have come out with a giant and unique Christmas star, installed at the entrance gate of the parish.<br \/>\nVicar\/President Fr Varghese Philip Idichandy, has named the Christmas star as the &#8216;Lighted Bethlehem star,&#8217; and is perhaps the only one among all Malankara Orthodox Syrian churches in Bengaluru.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fourteen MGOCYM members of the parish toiled hard for over 25 hours to create the giant star of 23&#215;17 feet made from 22 aluminium channels. About\u00a0<\/span>10 LED tube lights have been used to illuminate with icons which relate to the birth of Jesus Christ embossed\u00a0on the star.<br \/>\nThe Vicar joyously shares the experience of the Christmas-star making process, by the youth movement of his parish as part of their preparation to receive the birth of saviour Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nFr Idichandy has extended his sincere thanks to all the youth members, who toiled to make the giant &#8216;star&#8217; light up the church for the Christmas and New Year festivities.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Special mention must be made of John Kutty K, Yohannan K,\u00a0 Lince Daniel, Sumodh Johnson who were behind the creation of the giant star.\u00a0<\/span>OCYM members Shenoy Mathai, Jacob Oommen, Nithin, Amal, Sandeep, Jayson, Justin, and Ponnachan also contributed.<br \/>\nThe Vicar wishes all the members seasons greetings and a blessed Merry Christmas and a joyous Happy New Year.\u00a0 ~\u00a0<b>LC<\/b><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The MGOCSM &amp; Youth Movement of St Gregorious Orthodox Church, Mathikere, Bengaluru, have come out with a giant and unique Christmas star, installed at the entrance gate of the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57753","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=57753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57755,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57753\/revisions\/57755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}