The Wonderful Words of St. John Chrysostom

I stumbled upon this website recently.


What a wonderful treasure of faith!!

We from Malankara get to hear and learn so less of the words of St. John Chrysostom.(Mar Ivanios). No wonder we seem to often feel like a rudderless ship floating aimlessly in the sea.

What a great gift Mar Ivanios had about explaining Bible passages, about using simple examples to teach hard to grasp ideas of the Scriptures. What a blessed saint - how much we from Malankara miss by ignoring him. For us, St. John Chrysostom seems to be someone confined only to the Seminaries and theologies. The common people does not seem to have heard too much about him or his words. There in
lies our tragedy.

Today technology has helped in the work of the Holy Spirit to inspire some faithful to compile this great saints words into this beautiful website. Now I wish some one who has passion to work for the Holy Church can put efforts for the following:

1) If someone can translate these into contemporary spoken English which is more easily understood (after taking due permissions) and make these readily available as handouts, newsletters, emails etc for our people.

2) Since everyone are not prone to reading, someone gifted with a good voice can give voice to these words of the saint and make these available in CDs, online, as mp3s etc.

3)Some one gifted can translate these into Malayalam and also give voice to the Malayalam words and translate into audio casettes, CDs, mp3s for podcasts etc.

4) Nothing stirs the souls of us Malankara Nazaranees as the heart-rendering songs. If some one can make good songs out of these wonderful words of Mar Ivanios, it will help understand the faith for the common folk.

Once the words of Mar Ivanios reaches the common folk of Malankara, I am sure these gems of wisdom from this Early Church Father's mouth, referred to the Greatest Preacher of the Early Church, the one called the "golden mouthed" will create a wave of revival in the shores of Malankara. No more will we need to worry about wolves stealing the sheep. Confronted with the truly gifted Father's Holy words, no more will the likes of KP or MY Yohannans be able to misuse their gift of oratory to wreck havoc dividing the Holy Church.

May the Lord raise workers among us to bring the words of this Church Father back into the Church.

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