By Tom Varkey, Parishioner of Alphonsa Church, Coppell, TX
The actions taken in desperation by whoever called the police when cornered by innocent parishioners of the parish to question the misdeeds and evil actions of the representatives of His Excellency Mar Jacob Angadiath reminded me of something very interesting in the Bible. When Potipher’s wife instigated Joseph whom she tried repeatedly to lie with her failed in her attempts to provoke him to lie with her,
she stripped him off his clothes. When he tried to run away from this malicious and sinful woman because he did not want to commit sin with her against God, she called out to others o hide her embarrassment in utterly failing to seduce him. What happened yesterday at Coppell was very similar. Rev. Fr. Varghese and the representatives who acted so shamelessly in this episode could hardly do anything more shameful than this to cover up their lack of integrity.The actions taken in desperation by whoever called the police when cornered by innocent parishioners of the parish to question the misdeeds and evil actions of the representatives of His Excellency Mar Jacob Angadiath reminded me of something very interesting in the Bible. When Potipher’s wife instigated Joseph whom she tried repeatedly to lie with her failed in her attempts to provoke him to lie with her,
The incident sheds a lot of light into the extent the followers of the Bishop would go to defend their unscrupulous actions. I am very proud of the courage displayed by the followers of the Crucifix in exposing dishonesty and trickery being used rampantly throughout the Syro Malabar Church to cover up their deeds of injustice and evil. Having said this, my word of consolation to the followers of the Crucifix is to tell them that the day will come when the tables will be reversed. Just as Joseph in the Bible became the second highest powerhouse in whole of Egypt, God will some day lift us up. Always remember what we read us in Ph. 1:28: “It is also granted us to suffer” for the glory that will follow later and will be bestowed on us by the Savior who hangs on the cross but watches every move made by the perpetrators of the horrible acts of injustice carried out against innocent victims yesterday in Coppell Church. Let us not hate them but pray for them and sincerely love them even as Satan is having a picnic in their midst as he did yesterday in Coppell. May God love all of you in your continued fight for the Crucifix as well as for justice and rightenousness. Never forget the prayer recited even as he hung there: “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” Let not this prayer depart from our lips as we take our fight into Garland and Chicago.
