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This page contains personal writings of Jijo Punnoose.
Some of which are sensitive and may not be palatable to every reader.
Other articles by this author, a reader would find, technical and scientific in nature.
But not so here.
The author has written the articles by what is termed as 'discernment'.
Hence sections within may not sound politically correct.
It is cautioned that unless the reader has had some spiritual foundation,
some of these articles would seem absurd.
Because, spirituality is of a domain beyond the rational mind.
... a flaming chariot and flaming horses came ... ,
and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 2 Kings 2 : 11
Sirach 48
04. How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to yours?
09. You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses.
10. You are destined, it is written, in time to come ...
before the day of the LORD.
11. Blessed is the one who shall have seen you before he dies!
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During the making of the Bible TV Serial (1991-93), one of the recurring discussions between this author and his colleagues was on the topic – characteristics of a prophet.
We carried the never-ending discussions with Christian theologians at the great seminaries of India and Europe. With Jewish writers and poets at Haifa, Beer Sheva, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. At the digs of Ashkelon … the heights of Masada … the caves of Qumran.
What is it that makes somebody a prophet?
Given the personalities of the ones in the Bible – starting with Moses, Samuel … down to John the Baptist (and many a false ones in between) and also that of the Koran, questions were raised about the charisma of the individual and its resonance on the society?
The above questions had to be thematically addressed so as the nuances of a prophet could be visually portrayed in a film.
There was never any conclusion. It always ended in undefinable mysticism at best.
This author found the answer … only when he himself became one! In fact, on becoming
*‘The Messenger of Covenant’. (Oh, not just that … also the one beloved to ‘the beloved one of the Creator’).
This happened in the year 1998.
Maybe it was to make the author realize ‘what makes a prophet?’ the Joan of Arc discourse below was dictated to him.
*Messenger of the Covenant. Joan.Arc.I
yet to be formatted joan.arc.II(pre)
Now, why was it that all those intellectual discussions (1991-93) inconclusive?
Well, they were all devoid of The Principal Agency from whom the prophets received their call.
Rev. SISTER CELINE
LIFE HISTORY
Mariamma Maliampurackal was born the fourth child of Manichacko and Eliyamma Manichacko, Pulincunoo at Maliampurackal House, Kuttanad, Kerala on 4th April 1920. She had preliminary education at Little Flower Convent School, Pulincunoo, which was followed by T.T.C. course at Adoration Convent School Athirampuza in 1939.
She joined her elder sister, also a nun, at the Sisters of Charity and took perpetual vow in 1941 at Mangalore.
From her superiors she got the first assignment to work among the poor people in a remote village in Hyderabad called Saifabad. She was there for a decade and with the help of UNICEF, Textile mills, Paper mills and many benefactors in the locality, she made a school called Holy Mary's School. The institution educated thousands of poor children. The School was eventually retitled as Santhiniketan by Sister Celine.
In 1954 she was deputed to work in another town in Hyderabad – Bhoiguda, where in six years’ time the present St.Philominas School was completed as a high school. She held a position as its Principal.
In 1970 sister Celine was assigned to work in the coal mining area of Kothagudam where she was given 16 acres of forest land in which she made a School called St. Mary's School for the education of the children of coal miners. She fell into prolonged ill-health at this place where, devoid of rains, the temperatures peaked to 50 degrees during summer.
Sister Celine is a gold medalist in English literature from Osmania University.
She passed B.A, B.Ed., an Audio visual course and also obtained Montessori training.
She raised funds in all her endeavor by organising benefit shows in theatres with movies produced by her brothers who were film producers.
In the 60s and the 70s, Sister Celine was so familiar a figure in the corridors of the Hyderabad State Secretariat, she could walk into ministerial offices (a la Mother Theresa of Calcutta) to have sanctions for her institutions done without delay.
As a teacher her hobby was to teach the children of the slums. She helped the needy by raising funds from benefactors. Hence from Kothagudam she was transferred to Calicut by the Mother General. There she organized a School – St. Vincent’s Home for the poor.
In the year 2005. The Generalite forced her to take retirement and settled her in Prathiksha Bhavan, Ernakulam. There she kept hrselves busy with painting, gardening and other cultural activities. She joined the Lord on 6th April 2008 in Ernakulam without giving old age troubles to anybody.
The parting words of her elder Sister Emerenziana on the day of her funeral.
"MARIAMMA YOU ARE GOING AHEAD OF ME TO OUR LORD PRAISE THE LORD, I SHALL FOLLOW YOU" R.I.P
Monsignor Reynolds Purackal
was saintly preist who radiated Christ in every action of his. In his life time he was considered by many as a lving saint.
The entire fifty golden years of his priesthood have been spent within the four walls of St.Antony's Orphanage Alappuzha, which during the last half a century grew up from a tiny little shelter for twenty or so orphans into gigantic structure incorporating an orphanage, a printing press, an I.T.C., a workshop and carpentry. The institution blossomed the lives of hundreds of boys who today occupy places of importance in all the five continents of the world - from the highest Indian lay official in the Vatican to the officers at the embassies and consulates in many cities around the globe.Counting among his children are bishops and esteemed priests.