Puthencruz Convension-2008

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The Tabernacle

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Navajeevan Trust Kottayam

Searching for an innovative way of spiritual orientation, St.Mary's MSO Youth Vienna visited Navajeevan Trust at Kottayam, Kerala on............................... and made an interview with P.U.Thomas, the founder, and many of his collegues and volanteers. It provided us a golden chance to part take in their miracullous ministry of the social service following the words of Jesus Christ and helped us to broaden our vision of spirituality itself.

Navajeevan, word means „New Life“, is a place for the destitute and mentally challenged, and provides food, clothing and accomodation for the same and also supports the patients who are too poor to affort their hospital expenses. The Navajeevan Trust has been founded in 1990 and P.U. Thomas, a Class IV attendant of the Kottayam Medical College, is the founder and the main trustee of the trust.

PU Thomas

Thomas is the eldest son of Oani and Annamma and has been working as an attender in the Kottayam Medical College . He understood the pathetic condition of the poor and the helpless in the Medical College when he was admitted there with a severe abdominal pain when he was 18 years old. Later he became an attender in the Medical college and it paved the way for him to serve the poor, needy and sick people. P.U. Thomas himself narrates the origin and development of his ministry as follows: "If I get a job in a medical college, I can do a lot of good things to the poor. This was my prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. From 1970 January onwards I have been going to the hospital to visit and nurse the sick. I experienced the encouragements and help from the medical students as a God-send right to me even from the beginning. Till 1980 my service was only a one-man effort. I got a great inspiration from Dr Kalyani, Pharmacology Professor, and from her prayer-filled life and zeal to help the poor. After confirming my job there in 1980, I began to nurse the sick in Ward II where the biggest number of accident-cases were registered . I did this service not only during my duty time but when I was on off-duty also. When this became a part of my routine, some began to criticise me on the one hand, others started to support my work. And several people came forward offering meals for distributing among the helpless".

Food Ministry Then P.U.Thomas decided to distribute free food-packets in the evening at the Medical college Campus and many were attracted by this great humanitarian act of feeding the helpless and poor patients. Generous helpers came forward offering their service and encouraging his work. A good number of ready youngsters like Anup Panjikaran, Regimon, Saji etc., soon became available and it helped a lot to grow the free feeding project. Instead of collecting food from different quarters, they introduced a cash-pooling-system and began to prepare food for distributing among the patients and their relatives. Today they cooks all the food in the Navajeevan Kichen and feeds about 1600 patients and their relatives at the three major hospitals of Kottayam (the medical college hospital, the TB centre at the Kottayam District Hospital, and the Children's Hospital) at free of cost.

Navajeevan Bhavan Navajeevan Bhavan at Panambalam, (Villunni PO, Kottayam - 686 008) near to Kottayam Town is both the head Office of the Navajeevan Trust and a destitute home for about 500 mantally challenged patients of both genders. They provide food, shelter, clothing, care and medication to these patients. Some of them have to be locked behind bars during most of the day. The transformation of them after becoming the inmates of the Navajeevan is really amazing. Since 1982 more than 500 people have passed through its portals and re-entered the mundane life and world of daily routine after having recovered here. Volenteers It will be a great surprise to all of us to hear that the staff of Navajeen is only five or six and the rest are volunteers coming from different institutions for a week or ten days. This institution needs about 40 volunteers per day to run its daily functions. We can experience there the selfless service of the nurses, doctors, dentists, priests, deacons, and the normal men and women. Navajeevan Culture

The service style of the Navajeevan has inspired many of the people in South India and not fewer than 27 institutions following this „Navajeevan Culture“ were started in Kerala itself. The life and service of the Navajeevan is the way of communicating its mesage to others and the trust do not favour any other methods of publicity. "My desire is that Navjivan should wade through debts, difficulties and the providence of God," says Thomas. That is why, he politely declined to accept the offer of 75 lakhs of a Canadian Professor and proclaimes his firm belief that the Holy Spirit of God and not a bank balance is the greatest treasure in the world.

Cost Structure

This trust is running neither on donation from Govt, nor religious bodies, nor with foreign aid, but on the contribution of the general public. Navajeevan needs about 63000 Rs per day to meet its expenses

In Navjeevan office , the donors for a month are mentioned on a simple blackboard in separate columns for breakfast ( Rs 1500), lunch (Rs 1500), for dinner at Medical college hospital (Rs 2000), dinner at children hospital ( Rs 1000), dinner at district hospital (Rs 1000) dinner at Navjeevan Bhavan (Rs 1000) . Expenses on food is Rs 8000/- per day, the rest are expenses on medicines etc.

Prayer is power

In Navjivan Bhavan, we will experience no anxiety about the morrow. Today's prayer for tomorrow's needs is its accepted life-style. The throbbing nerve-centre of Navjivan is nothing but the spacious prayer hall and the regular prayer service and in which people ranging from three-year-olds to the aged support the house and its services through their intercessory prayers.

Thomas firmly believes that it is the Spiritual Renewal sweeping the state that has been instrumental for the change in society and for infusing the spirit of service in the people. Navjivan gives more importance to service than to organisation of committees. The workers of Navjivan consider works of mercy as a prayer service not as social service. Conclusion As our society comprises of the poor and the needy people, who deserve our help in every walks of life, the mission perspectives of the Navajeevan trust is greatly valid and a need of the time. To know their great service, to encourage such activities and to follow their examples in our life is nothing but obeying the commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ „ to love your neighbour as yourself“.(St.Mark 12:31)

ചോദ്യോത്തരം

മറ്ത്ത്യനെ തേടി വന്ന അത്യുന്നത പുത്രാ,

നീ മോഹിച്ച പാരിടപ്പരപ്പില് അവതാരം ചെയ്തിട്ടും,

നിന്റ്റെ ഛായയില് നീ സൃഷ്ടിച്ച മനുഷ്യനെ കണ്ടുമുട്ടിയിട്ടും,

ഭാവിഭൂതവറ്ത്തമാനങ്ങള് നിന്നാജ്ഞാനു വറ്ത്തികളായിരിന്നിട്ടും

ഒന്നു പുഞ്ചിരക്കുകപോലും ചെയ്യാതിരന്നതെന്തേ?

നീ സറ്വ്വശക്തനായ ദൈവപുത്രനായിരുന്നിട്ടും

നീ നിത്യതയുടെ നിതാന്തശോഭയെ നീ അറിഞ്ഞിരുന്നിട്ടും

സറ്വ്വജ്ഞാനത്തിന്റ്റെ സമൃദ്ധിയില്  പിതൃസവിധമൊന്നായിരുന്നിട്ടും

നീ നിത്യം ദുഃഖം ശീലച്ചിരുന്നതുമെന്തേ?

നീ വാക്കുകളുടെ വാക്കായി നിറഞ്ഞു നിന്നിട്ടും

മൂകനും പ്രത്യശപകരുന്ന ശംബ്ദമായി മുഴങ്ങിനിന്നിട്ടും

ഹൃദയം നിറയെ ദിവ്യാശയങ്ങളാല് തുടിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരുന്നിട്ടും

നിന്നെ നിശംബ്ദനായി കാണപ്പെട്ടതുമെന്തേ?

മുള്കിരീടം പേറിയ മുഖമുയറ്ത്തി

ശോണിതമണിഞ്ഞ മേനിയോടെ

പ്രാണവേദന കടിച്ചമറ്ത്തി അവന് എന്നെ നോക്കിയപ്പോള്

ആ കണ്ണുകള് എന്നോടു മന്ത്രിച്ചു: "നിന്നെ പ്രതി....."

ആ നോട്ടമാണ് ദുഖത്തിലും ചിരിക്കാനും

സന്താപത്തിലും സുഖിക്കാനും

വാക്കുകളുടെ പെരുമയിലും നിശബ്ദനാകുവാനും

പിന്നെ ഇവയെല്ലാം ഒന്നാണന്നു തിരച്ചറിയുവാനും 
എന്നെ ഇന്നും പഠിപ്പിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നത്....

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അപേക്ഷ

ഇനിയും നീ സ്നേഹം അന്ധമാണെന്നു പറയരുതേ.....

സ്നേഹം നിന്നെക്കാള് നിന്നെ അറിയുകയും മനസിലാക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നുവെന്നു നീ അറിഞ്ഞിട്ടും,

അവളുടെ കണ്ണുകളില് നിനക്കു നിന്നെ മറ്റെവിടെക്കാളും വ്യക്തമായി വായിച്ചെടുക്കാന് കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ടും,

നിന്റ്റെ ഭയത്തിന്റ്റെ കൂരിരുട്ടിനെ അവള് ഒരു നിലാവായി അകറ്റിയിട്ടും,

നിന്റ്റെ ഏകാന്തദുഖത്തില് അവള് ഒരു സ്വാന്ത്വനഗാനമായി ഒഴികിയെത്തിയിട്ടും

ഇനിയും നീ സ്നേഹം അന്ധമാണെന്നു പറയരുതേ.......

സ്നേഹത്തിനു ആറ്ക്കും കടക്കാനാവാത്ത അഗാധങ്ങളിലേക്കു ഊളിയിട്ടിറങ്ങാനും                               ഭൂതക്കണ്ണാടിക്കും കഴിയാത്തവ ദറ്ശിച്ച് ഇഴതിരിക്കാനും, ഹൃദയത്തിന്റ്റെ വിസ്താരവും കരളിന്റ്റെ ദൂരങ്ങളും ഉള്ക്കൊളളാനും,

ആത്മഗൃഹത്തിന്റ്റെയും നിലവറകള് തുറന്നു നോക്കാനും ശക്തിയുണ്ട്ന്നു നീ അറിഞ്ഞിരിക്കെ.

ഇനിയും നീ സ്നേഹം അന്ധമാണന്നു പറയരുതേ......

U-Turn

GIVEUP REVENGE TO SERVE POOR..

Constable Ittiyaveera died from the bullets of Dhanashekaran, leaving behind his wife and three children. It was the first incident in Kerala police station where a policeman was shot by the culprit. “ I will kill Dhanashekaran” was the only diary note of victim’s son. Today the son is not Zakharia but Fr. Zakharia. He demonstrated the path of goodness to the world instead of the unholy path of revenge.

The life of Fr. Zakharia Therambil, the vicar of Mar. Gregorios Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church Thiruvanchiyoor, has turned to spirituality after having gone through the path of communist ideology and the thoughts of revenge. As a teenager and later as an young man his mind was full of communism and theories of Evolutions. The thoughts of revenge to kill his fathers murderer followed. Soon Zakharias visualized the crucified figure of the Christ, the most merciful lord, enlightened Zakhria’s mind.

Reckless Teenage

Zakharia, the youngest son of Ittiyaveera and Thankamma wasn’t a believer to start with. Ittiyaveera, a head constable, was a man of principles and was against bribery and dishonesty. Zakharia was taken to communism in his schooldays. Later he joined St.Marys college, Manarkad. For the pre-degree course. He was forced to leave the college due to his rebellious attitude. Zakharia says that it happened as a result of misunderstanding by the college authorities. His father didn’t persuade his son to apologise and go back to college. He continued his education privately.

The Day Life Changed.

Zakharia was at his home when he heard that his father was shot, on 8 January 1989.
Dhanashekaren shot Ittiyaveera four times and one bullet hit his forehead. While he was doing body-check to pull out the fake currency notes. Ittiyaveera died at Kottayam medical college after a six hour long surgery at 11 pm, leaving behind his innocent wife and school going children. It was the first incident of shooting a police man in Kerala police station. The incident has shocked Zakharia.

Today fr. Zakharia laughs while reading his diary note, “I will kill Dhanashekaran”.
It was his intention to find and kill him who escaped jail soon after the arrest.

A lot of well wishers came forward to help the family, that shattered mentally and financially. The colleagues of Ittiyaveera- V R Rajeevan [S.P], ASP Sreelekha, Alphonse Kannanthanam [ District collector], sympathetically helped the family of their respectable and principle minded Ittiyaveera. Still the thoughts of revenge didn’t subside in Zakharia’s mind. While at the Baselios college his mind gradually changed. Zacharia believes that it was by the intervention of God. It started during a short stay on the street, on his way back home fro college. He listened to Rev. Fr. Mathew Naickamparambil who was conducting a camp at Nagambalam, sponsored by Muringoor retreat centre. It was incredible to believe the change of Zakharia towards spirituality that he refused to accept before.

The condition of his family worsened because of the falling rubber prices and difficulty in paying home loan. By God’s grace his elder brother Kurian managed to secure a job in village office soon relieving the family burden. Zakharia doesn’t remember the time he thought of priesthood. Anxiety and difficulty in decsision making followed regarding future course in life. By this time he completed his degree at the university. He wrote a long letter describing the situation to Prof. of Economics- P C Elias. It was the reply of this letter that initiated Zakharia to become Fr. Zakharia. The reply said “I expect my students of the batch will reach great heights. Zakharia is one among them. I pray that you become a priest showering the light of divinity to many”.

With The Poor And Needy

Zakharia started visiting the patients of medical college Kottayam after joining the Navajeevan trust. He continued his sympathy and compassion to them after becoming the priest as well. His vicariate started at the St. George church at Valayadi in the high range. He reached there at a time when the factories where closed and people were jobless and starving. He started collection of food from Kottayam and distributing to them.

It was liquor addiction of the villagers that made him to start a retreat centre there. He could liberate many from alchoholism and drugs. In 2003 he reached Thoothutty Mar Gregorios church. He started a retreat centre here also. Selecting a hundred poverty striken family in the area he arranged to provide three kilogram rice every week to them. It was his brain behind the construction of ten houses to the homeless in this area.
His compassion and sympathy to the sick made him to join Pain and Palliative Care Unit. Centered at the church, 25 volunteers and over hundred patients seek advice and treatment. He drove for the first time an ambulance to Kottayam medical college and saved the life of person who met with accident at Thoothutty. Fr. Zakhariah, opting celibacy, destined to serve the poor until death. Like Pope John Paul II he too has no personal bank account.

  His Holiness the Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas approved the recommendation of the Holy Synod of Malankara, the name of Rev. Fr. Zacharia T. I, Mor Gregorian Centre Thoothootty, Kottayam as the bishop for Malabar Diocese. He was ordained as Rabban (Monks) on 2nd January, 2010 at Kyomtha Seminary Chapel, Thiruvankulam at 2.00 PM. Metropolitan of Kottayam Diocese, His Grace Dr. Mor Themotheos Thomas ordained Very Rev. Sabor Ramban (Fr. Zacharia Therambil) {and Metropolitan of Kochi Diocese and Secretary to the Holy Episcopal Synod in Malankara, His Grace Dr. Mor Gregorios Joseph ordained Very Rev. Afroth Ramban (Fr. Saji Thomas)} . H.B Catholicos Baselios Thomas I, Metropolitans Their Graces Dr. Mor Ivanios Mathews (Kandanad), Mor Dioscorus Kuriakose (Malecuriz Dayaro & Bangalore), Mor Athanasius Geevarghese (Simhasana Churches) and Dr. Mor Clemis Kuriakose (Idukki), Veery Rev. Binyamin Mulayirikkal Ramban, Cor Episcopus, Preists assisted. 

On 4th January 2009,  the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church  consecrated him at a pious but auspicious ceremony held at the St. Athanasius Cathedral in the Malankara Syrian Church headquarters, Puthencuriz. The Catholicos His Beatitude Mor Baselios Thomas I was the chief celebrant, assisted by all bishops from Malankara.

He prays God to help him to live poor and die poor..

Report by : Thankachan Samuel 

 

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