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Holy Qurbana Malayalam

Worship Service

Sunday
March 10, 2024

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10:00

Holy Qurbana Malayalam

10:00

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Lectionary Theme: Jesus Christ who liberates (5th Sunday of Lent);

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    1. Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

    2. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.

    3. Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.”

    4. When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

    5. Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

    6. He said further, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

    7. Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

    8. and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

    9. The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.

    10. So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

    11. But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

    12. He said, “I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God on this mountain.” The Divine Name Revealed

    13. But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”

    14. God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

    15. God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’: This is my name forever, and this my title for all generations.

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    9. Since much time had been lost and sailing was now dangerous, because even the Fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,

    10. saying, “Sirs, I can see that the voyage will be with danger and much heavy loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

    11. But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.

    12. Since the harbor was not suitable for spending the winter, the majority was in favor of putting to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, where they could spend the winter. It was a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest. The Storm at Sea

    13. When a moderate south wind began to blow, they thought they could achieve their purpose; so they weighed anchor and began to sail past Crete, close to the shore.

    14. But soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete.

    15. Since the ship was caught and could not be turned head-on into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven.

    16. By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control.

    17. After hoisting it up they took measures to undergird the ship; then, fearing that they would run on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven.

    18. We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard,

    19. and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship’s tackle overboard.

    20. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest raged, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

    21. Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul then stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and thereby avoided this damage and loss.

    22. I urge you now to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

    23. For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,

    24. and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before the emperor; and indeed, God has granted safety to all those who are sailing with you.’

    25. So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

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    12. I want you to know, beloved, that what has happened to me has actually helped to spread the gospel,

    13. so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that my imprisonment is for Christ;

    14. and most of the brothers and sisters, having been made confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, dare to speak the word with greater boldness and without fear.

    15. Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

    16. These proclaim Christ out of love, knowing that I have been put here for the defense of the gospel;

    17. the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but intending to increase my suffering in my imprisonment.

    18. What does it matter? Just this, that Christ is proclaimed in every way, whether out of false motives or true; and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

    19. for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance.

    20. It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in any way, but that by my speaking with all boldness, Christ will be exalted now as always in my body, whether by life or by death.

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    10. Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

    11. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight.

    12. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.”

    13. When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

    14. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.”

    15. But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water?

    16. And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?”

    17. When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing. The Parable of the Mustard Seed