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MercurysBall2 ago

Here's another coincidence with this thread. Just breaking: At least 14 dead, including both pilots, and 123 injured as Air India flight from Dubai with 191 people onboard splits in two as it crash-lands on runway in Kerala

Kerala has a number of links with Mother Teresa - https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/keralas-mother-teresa-a-mother-to-homeless

It's called Bethlehem. It's a home for the homeless, a refuge for those rejected elsewhere, and it started, well, not in a manger, but in a poultry shed.

The Bethlehem Abhaya Bhavan was set up 20 years ago by Ms Mary Esthappan, a mother of three who lives in a quiet rural area that is a half-hour drive from Kochi airport in Kerala. Now that her daughter and twin sons are grown up, she devotes all her time to the home, where, over the years, she has cared for more than 1,000 people.

Catholics in Kerala upbeat over Mother Teresa's canonisation - https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/catholics-in-kerala-upbeat-over-teresa-canonisation-sept-4.html

Thiruvananthapuram: The Catholic community in Kerala was in upbeat mood after hearing the news that Mother Teresa would be canonised on September 4.... Dr. Joshua Mar Ignathios, the Metropolitan Bishop of the Eparchy of Mavelikkara of the Syro-Malankar told IANS that according to him Mother Teresa was a saint even when she was alive.... Speaking to IANS, Paul Thelekkat, spokesperson of the Syro Malabar Church, said that being the chaplain of Mother Teresa's convent in Ernakulum for 30 years, he was very happy to hear this news....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ignathios

Joshua Mar Ignathios (born 24 May 1950) is the Metropolitan Bishop of the Eparchy of Mavelikkara of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the state of Kerala, India.

Metropolitan Mar Ignathios was an active member of the Nilackal Ecumenical Trust. Along with the Bishops of the Episcopal Churches, He made several ecumenical journeys and visited many international pilgrim centres. He also visited the World Council of Churches centre at Geneva and attended an international conference organized by that group, and has attended other international conferences organized by the CBCI and the Holy See.

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Malankara_Catholic_Church

The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, also known as the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic, autonomous (in Latin, sui iuris), particular church, in full communion with the Holy See and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It is part of the Major Archiepiscopal Churches of the Catholic Church that are not distinguished with a patriarchal title. It is headed by Major Archbishop Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Maphrian of the Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum based in Kerala, India.

...On Geevarghese's return from Calcutta a friend, E. John Vakeel, donated 100 acres (400,000 m2) of land at Mundanmala, Ranni-Perunadu, Kerala, at the meeting place of the rivers Pampa and Kakkatt for an ashram. Geevarghese and his followers built a small thatched hut at what became the first Ashram in Malankara on 15 August 1919, named "Bethany".[15] Along with the Ashram, Geevarghese started a house for orphans.

..On 20 September 1930 Ivanios, Bishop Jacob Theophilos, Fr. John Kuzhinapurath OIC, Dn. Alexander OIC, and Chacko Kilileth embraced and united with the Catholic Church. The Union Movement under the leadership of Ivanios gave rise to Malankara Catholic Church. This took place in the Quilon bishop’s chapel. The members of the Jacobite Church were received by his Lordship Bishop Aloysius Maria Benziger (Bishop of Quilon) to whom Ivanios approached for help and whom the Holy See deputed to perform the reception.

MercurysBall2 ago

Mother Teresa: The humble sophisticate By David Willey, BBC Vatican correspondent - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37258156

She constantly jetted around the world, visiting her Missionaries of Charity, the religious order she had founded in 1950, so I suppose it was appropriate that we should meet, not in her motherhouse near the Coliseum in Rome, or in one of her hospices for the dying in India, but amid the bustle of an airport. We sat together in the arrivals section and she quickly had me laughing as she proudly showed off her Air India travel pass, which entitled her to a lifetime of free worldwide air travel - a gift of the Indian government.

.Before tackling more weighty metaphysical and theological matters and hearing how she devoted her life to the poorest of the poor, I decided to try to find out more about how a living saint organises her travels. I was intrigued by her Air India free travel pass.

"How do you plan ahead?" I asked, in the pre-mobile phone era.

"Well I usually ring up, from a coin box at the airport, the head of state or the prime minister or Pope John Paul at the Vatican if I am in Rome - and they send a car to the airport to meet me," she said.

..In her own words: "Our mission was to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to society and are shunned by everyone."