Here is some history (again) in the form of a short story - We (Syros, Knas, Kanas) were all peacefully going to our neighborhood CATHOLIC CHURCHES and living the life of peaceful practising Christians. Occasionally we were enjoining our communal (knanaya) matters within the confines of our community centers and within the privacy of our homes.
Then came a band of priests in different aeroplanes across the seven seas into this land of freedom. Then they established many churches and told us to become members of "our" church and then they told us we cannot go to the "other" churches. Then they names "Our" church as SYRO MALABAR KNANAYA CATHOLIC CHURCHES. Does this story sound familiar so far?
The story then gets interesting - Then they brought out a piece of paper from Rome named 'rescript'. This piece of paper is being treated like the Tablet on which Mosses scribed the 10 commandments that the almighty lord gave him. It is indisputable, it is absolute, it is final! This new tablet has only 1 commandment - No endogamy. We were angry, combative, protesting but learned to live with it this far.
Then came the twisted chapters - They named "our" churches as KNANAYA, attempted to REDEFINE THE DEFINITION of Knanaya, took our money, took our pledges and promised to build us a big KNANAYA mansion. We all looked on like eager children with great anticipation during the building/construction phase. By the time the mansion got completed, we realized that there were only Two bedrooms in the mansion. ONE bedroom for our Syro Malabar brothers. The SECOND bedroom for our KANA brothers. When we asked for our bedroom, we were shown the name board near the main gate and told to be satisfied with it. Was the foundation of this mansion build on solid Rock as St. Peter was told too or is this mansion build on foundation of deception using bricks of lies, half-truths dear Sir?
Wah! Wah! what a great epic 10 year story that was. Worthy to put the shrewdest Wall street broker or the smartest used car salesman to shame.
May i ask my dear brother why did these priests who came in aeroplanes approach our Kna 'community' to build the Kna 'community' a church, used our Kna 'communities' name on the boards, hired our 'community' priests to serve us, took our 'communities' money and now you are sitting on a moral high horse and preaching to us not to bring the 'community' into church. Do you see the funny but shrewd hypocrisy in this story Sir? Do you see the fallacy of your righteousness? I keep wondering why our 'Pithavu' decided to name the churches after our 'community'. Can you answer me sir!
The story came full circle when we realized that we lose our peace and we take away others peace when we attend mass at "our" church and have to go to the "other" Church for me and my grown up children to quietly practice our ROMAN CATHOLIC faith.
Pocket is now empty. Heart is very heavy. Faith is disturbed. Trust is lost. So nothing much to do but silently waiting for the Climax.
(This was received as an anonymous comment for a post, “BREAKING NEWS - ചികാഗോയ്ക്ക് ക്നാനായ സഹായമെത്രാന്?”)
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