Mid-Lent Service (Paaathi noyambu)

10th March 2026, we are celebrating the Mid-Lent at 5 PM

The Great Lent commenced with the Sign at the Wedding Feast at Cana, where Jesus has asked us to fill six stone jars water, so that He can transform the ordinary, tasteless, colourless, bland water to extraordinary, tasty, blessed, best, sweet lives. The six stone jars represent the six weeks of lent. The Church with great theological anticipation and interpretation explicitly urges the faithful community to transform our six weeks, triumphantly and victoriously enter Jerusalem and continue the journey with Him to Calvary and join with Him in His Glorious Resurrection.

The 25th day of the Great Lent which always falls on a Wednesday is known as Mid Lent (Paathi Nombu). Holy Qurbana is celebrated on this day, even though it is a weekday of the Great Lent. There is a procession around the Church carrying the Holy Cross followed by an Exaltation of the Cross (Sleeba Aaghosham) facing the four Cardinal directions: East, West, North and South. Then the Cross is placed on a big, decorated Cross, in the middle of the Church like stand covered with a red cloth called Gogultha (Mnortho), with lit candles and Marbhasa (Sacramental fans) on both sides.