Everyone Ann and I are on an outing, one sight that stops us is a renovated church building!
Since we began living in Kerala for three years now, we have noticed many church structures getting renewed! They are architecturally imposing and aesthetically magnificent!
A bishop recently commenting about this new spell of building renewals taking place, called the community of believers, as to whether we are carried away by an affluent culture! He wondered whether churches needed such edifices for their meetings!
I have a suspicion that the structures get more attention than they deserve because it is linked to the identity of our existence!
Mother Teresa is going to be canonised on September 4th, 2016. Her identity was 'serving the poorest of the poor! Bishop Nair writing about her in the recent issue of The New Leader referred to her confining to the 'creature comfort' of living with three sets of clothes, which she washed herself!
It is good to have good buildings, it is even more important to have a focus on our mission which Jesus of Nazareth came to announce, '.. not to be ministered not but to minister..'!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)!
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