Father Placid J Podipara
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Father Placid J Podipara or Placidachan (Malayalam: പ്ലാസിഡച്ചന്
He worked hard to remove the rampant liturgical latinisation
of Syro Malabar Church and also was instrumental in bringing the Syro Malankara Church
to the Catholic
fold.
He has authored more than thirty seven books and numerous articles on Saint Thomas Christians
in many languages such as English, Malayalam, German and Latin.
Some of the important offices which he held include Member of the Pontifical commission for codifying Canon Law, Syriac Language examiner of Kerala University
, Consultant to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
, Member of Pontifical commission for restoring the Holy Qurbana
of Syro Malabar Church, Professor of Pontifical Oriental Institute
and Pontifical Urbaniana University
, Rome, Consultant for preparing the agenda of Second Vatican Council
. He also had doctorates in Philosophy
, Theology
and Canon Law
which he acquired during his first stint in Rome
.
, near Kottayam
in the Southern India
n state of Kerala
. He lost his mother at the age of four and his father at the age of seven. He completed his schooling from St. Ephrem's High School, Mannanam which was run by Syrian Carmelite fathers which would later become CMI
. Inspired by the lifestyle of the monks he entered the novitiate in 1918 and was given a new name, Placid of St. Joseph. Later he was sent to St. Joseph's Seminary, Mangalore run by the Italian Jesuits, for his ecclesiastical studies where he did two years of Philosophy and four years of Theology course. He was ordained priest on the 3rd of December 1927 at Mangalore and celebrated his first Holy Qurbana
in St. Joseph's Monastery chapel, Mannanam. As his superiors needed someone highly qualified to teach in the major seminary, he was sent to Rome for further studies. During his first stint in Rome, which lasted only two years, he acquired multiple doctorates in the field of Philosophy, Theology and Canon Law.
in Changanacherry. He turned out to be an erudite professor and spiritual teacher during the years that followed.
During the same year the movement to reunite the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church was started under the leadership of Mar Ivanios
. This movement was staunchly supported by Placid and he traveled the length and breadth of Kerala to give support by giving lectures, holding debates, giving pastoral and intellectual advices to the clergy and laypeople and confronting those who were opposed to the ecumenical movement. He was also deputed by the Bishop of Changanacherry Diocese with the task of examining all the Syriac liturgical texts of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church before and after the reunion. This enabled him to realize that their liturgical books contained passages which support the Catholic Dogmas like the infallibility of the Pope and Immaculate Conception.
The fame of Placid's scholarship, his deep grasp of spiritual and ecclesiastical matters, his simplicity of manners and easy accessibility and availability won him many friends and admirers among all ranks of people right from the bishops, scholars, to the simple, ordinary folk.
Placid was again called to Rome by the insistence of Cardinal Tisserant who was very fond of Syro Malabar Church. Placid was asked to be readily available to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in its deliberations and projects for the development of the Syro Malabar Church. His Roman days (1954–1980) were a period of boost and expansion for the Syro Malabar Church and these 26 years of Placid's life in Rome were as passionately devoted to the service of the Church as were his first 25 years in Kerala.
in Culture, Christian
in Religion and Oriental in Worship" has been quoted by orators even today. Mar Joseph Powathil
referred to Placid in his funeral oration as one worthy to be counted among the Great Fathers of the Church. Without Placid's influence and support for Cardinal Tisserrant, the Syro Malabar Church might not have re-emerged from the Latinized oblivion. The pivotal role he played in giving shape to important decrees of Second Vatican Council, especially those dealing with Eastern Churches and the oriental code of canon law, his capacity for hard work and his intellectual acumen and his prodigious memory, the numerous scholarly books and articles he has published, his deep devotion to the Church and to the See of Peter, his love for his Church of the St. Thomas Christians of India, the truly human and transcendent values he always cherished at the cost of heroic personal sacrifices, above all his life of prayer and asceticism as a humble CMI religious, have left to posterity a record of achievements which very few in any age or country have bequeathed. It was said about him, "He is punctual like morning, serene as night, innocent as a child, harmless as a meadow lark, frank as a mirror, fresh as the dawn, calm as an iceberg, modest as a violet and happy as day light."
2. The Church of Seleucia and its Catholic Roman Communion
3. The South Indian Apostolate of St. Thomas
4. The Efforts for Reunion in Malankara, South India
5. Portuguese Religious Conquests in Malabar under the Diocese of Cochin during the Sixteenth Century.
6. A Short History of the Malabar Church
7. The Malabarians
8. The Malankarians
9. The Thomas Christians
10. The Varthamanappusthakam (Translation)
11. The Malabar Christians
12. The Hierarchy of the Syro-Malabar Church
13. Four Essays on the Pre-Seventeenth Century Church of St. Thomas Christians of India
14. The Rise and Decline of the Indian Church of the St. Thomas Christians
15. The Latin Rite Christians of Malabar
16. De Fontibus Iuris Ecclesiastici Syro-Malankarensium (Latin)
17. Fontes Iuris Canonici Syro-Malankarensium (Latin)
18. The Social and Socio-Ecclesiastical Customs of the Syrian Christians of India
19. The Catholic Syrians of Malabar and the Motu Proprio Crebrae Allatae
20. Oriental Marriage Legislation
21. The Syro-Malabarians, their life and their Activities
22. Hindu in Culture, Christian in Religion, Oriental in Worship
23. The Thomas Christians and Adaptation
24. The Individuality of the Malabar Church
25. The Canonical Sources of the Syro-Malabar Church.
26. Memorandum to His Eminence Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
27. The Present Syro-Malabar Liturgy: Menezian or Rozian?
28. Notes on some Clerical and Liturgical Matters
29. Further Extension of the Malabar Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in India
30. The Thomas Christians and their Syriac Treasures
31. The Thomas Christians of Malabar and the Chaldean Liturgy
32. Reflections on Liturgy
33. The Christology of Babai the Great and the Non-Catholic East Syrians or Nestorians
34. Mariology of the Church of the East
35. Malayalam and Syriac and the Syro-Malabarians
36. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant - Reminiscences
37. നവംബർ മാസത്തിലും തോമ്മാശ്ലീഹാ (The Remembrance of Apostle St. Thomas in November too)
38. മാർത്തോമ്മാശ്ലീഹായും പാലയൂർ പള്ളിയും (Mar Toma Sliha and the Church at Palayoor)
39. കേരള നസ്രാണികളും ദേശസഞ്ചാരികളും (Kerala Nazranees and the World Travellers)
40. ഉദയമ്പേരൂർ സൂനഹദോസ് (Synod of Diamper)
41. മൈലാപ്പൂർ (Mylapore)
42. കേരളത്തിലെ മാർത്തോമ്മാ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികൾ (St. Thomas Christians of Kerala)
43. മാർത്തോമ്മാ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികളുടെ വളർച്ചയും തളർച്ചയും (The Rise and Decline of the Indian Church of the St. Thomas Christians)
44. മാർത്തോമ്മാ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികളും അനുരൂപണവും (St. Thomas Christians and Adaptation)
45. കേരളസഭയുടെ വ്യക്തിത്വം (The Individuality of the Church of Kerala)
46. നമ്മുടെ റീത്ത് (Our Rite)
47. പുരാതനമായ ഒരു കൈയെഴുത്തു പുസ്തകം (An Ancient Manuscript in Syriac dated 1708)
48. അന്ത്യോക്യാ പാത്രിയർക്കീസ് (The Patriarch of Antioch)
49. ദൈവമാതാവും യാക്കോബായ വിശ്വാസവും (The Mother of God and the Jacobite Faith)
50. പൗരസ്ത്യസഭകൾ (Oriental Churches)
51. അകത്തോലിക്കു വാദങ്ങൾക്ക് കത്തോലിക്കു പ്രത്യുത്തരം (Catholic Responses to the arguments of non-Catholics)
52. യാക്കോബായക്കാരുടെ പുനരൈക്യം (The Reunion of the Jacobites)
53. എഫേസൂസ് സൂനഹദോസും റോമാമാർപ്പാപ്പായും (The Council of Ephesus and the Roman Pontiff)
54. ഏകസ്വഭാവവാദം (Monophysitism)
55. മാർപ്പാപ്പായുടെ പരമാധികാരവും അപ്രമാദിത്വവും (The Primacy and the Infallibility of Pope)
56. തിരുസഭയും മാർപ്പാപ്പായും (The Church and Pope)
57. ഓർത്തഡോക്സ് സഭയും പരമാധികാരവും (The Orthodox Church and Primacy)
58. കൂനൻ കുരിശിനു മുൻപ് (Before Coonan Cross)
59. നമ്മുടെ കണ്ണുകൾ ഭാഗ്യമുള്ളവ (Blessed are Our Eyes!)
60. അന്ത്യോക്യായിൽ എന്തുണ്ട് ? (What is there in Antioch ?)
61. കേരളസഭയൂം ഇതരസഭകളും (Church of Kerala and other Churches)
62. ചെങ്കടലിലെ സ്മരണകൾ (Reminiscences of Read Sea)
63. ഗുരുപ്പട്ട സുവർണ്ണ ജൂബിലി (Sacerdotal Golden Jubilee of His Holiness Pope Pius XI in 1929)
64. ഇന്നത്തെ ബേസ്ലഹം (Bethlehem today)
65. ലൂതറിനു മുമ്പുണ്ടായിരുന്ന വേദപുസ്തകം (Holy Bible before Luther)
66. തത്വപ്രകാശിക (An Aid to Reasonable Thinking)
67. മിശിഹായുടെ രാജത്വം (Kingship of Christ)
68. കത്തോലിക്കാ മതപഠനം (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
69. പരിശുദ്ധ ത്രിത്വം (Holy Trinity)
70. കത്തോലിക്കാ വിദ്യാലയങ്ങളിലെ പണിമുടക്ക് (Problem of Strike by Catholic Students of Catholic Educational Institutions)
71. രണ്ട് അവിഭാജ്യ ഘടകങ്ങൾ (Two Inseparable Factors: Clergy and Laity)
72. പ്രാർത്ഥന (Prayer)
73. വി. ഫ്രാൻസിസ്കോസിന്റെ മൂന്നാം സഭ (Franciscan Third order)
74. പ. കന്യാമറിയത്തിന്റെ സ്വർഗ്ഗാരോഹണം (The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
75. മരിയഭക്തിയും കേരള സുറിയാനി കത്തോലിക്കരും (Marian Devotion and the Syrian Catholics of Kerala)
76. സ്വകാര്യസ്വത്ത് (Private Property)
77. കാല്പാടുകൾ (Footprints (of St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Francis Xavier))
78. കുടമാളൂർ ചരിത്രത്തിലൂടെ (Kudamaloor through history)
79. കുർബാന: ബലിയും ദിവ്യഭോജനവും (Qurbana: Sacrifice and Divine Meal)
80. Die Thomas-Christen (German)
- ; October 3, 1899-April 27, 1985) is considered to be one of the greatest ecclesiastical luminaries of the 20th century in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. He was a member of the Syro Malabar Church and was ordained a priest from the Eastern Catholic religious order- Carmelites of Mary ImmaculateCarmelites of Mary ImmaculateThe Carmelites of Mary Immaculate is an religious order for men in the Syro-Malabar Church. It is the first Catholic religious congregation founded in India. The first monastery of the order was established on 11 May 1831 at Mannanam, Kerala, India...
. He was an eminent theologian, liturgist, orator, professor, ecumenist, prolific author and a caring pastor
He worked hard to remove the rampant liturgical latinisation
Liturgical Latinisation
Liturgical Latinisation, also known as Latinisation, is the process by which liturgical and other aspects of the Churches of Eastern Christianity were altered to resemble more closely the practices of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church...
of Syro Malabar Church and also was instrumental in bringing the Syro Malankara Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See...
to the Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
fold.
He has authored more than thirty seven books and numerous articles on Saint Thomas Christians
Saint Thomas Christians
The Saint Thomas Christians are an ancient body of Christians from Kerala, India, who trace their origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. They are also known as "Nasranis" because they are followers of "Jesus of Nazareth". The term "Nasrani" is still used by St...
in many languages such as English, Malayalam, German and Latin.
Some of the important offices which he held include Member of the Pontifical commission for codifying Canon Law, Syriac Language examiner of Kerala University
Kerala University
The University of Kerala, formerly the University of Travancore, is an affiliating university located in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. It was established in 1937, long before the birth of the state of Kerala in India...
, Consultant to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
The Congregation for the Oriental Churches is the dicastery of the Roman Curia responsible for contact with the Eastern Catholic Churches for the sake of assisting their development, protecting their rights and also maintaining whole and entire in the one Catholic Church, alongside the liturgical,...
, Member of Pontifical commission for restoring the Holy Qurbana
Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari
The Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari belongs to the East Syrian liturgical family and is in regular use in the Assyrian Church of the East, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Chaldean Catholic Church. Saint Addai and Saint Mari are credited with having written it...
of Syro Malabar Church, Professor of Pontifical Oriental Institute
Pontifical Oriental Institute
The Pontifical Oriental Institute is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy....
and Pontifical Urbaniana University
Pontifical Urbaniana University
The Pontifical Urbaniana University or Pontifical Urban University is a pontifical university under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.-History:...
, Rome, Consultant for preparing the agenda of Second Vatican Council
Second Vatican Council
The Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...
. He also had doctorates in Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, Theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
and Canon Law
Canon law
Canon law is the body of laws & regulations made or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Catholic Church , the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Anglican Communion of...
which he acquired during his first stint in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
.
Early life
Placid was born Joseph(Kochauseppachan) into the Podipara family as the fifth and last child of Chacko and Rosamma in the village, ArpookaraArpookara
Arpookara is a village in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.The Kottayam Medical College is situated in Arpookara.The main attraction is the backwaters in Arpookara.- Demographics :...
, near Kottayam
Kottayam
Kottayam is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 55.40 km2. It is the administrative capital of the Kottayam district. Kottayam Kottayam (Malayalam: കോട്ടയം) is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 55.40 km2. It is the administrative...
in the Southern India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
. He lost his mother at the age of four and his father at the age of seven. He completed his schooling from St. Ephrem's High School, Mannanam which was run by Syrian Carmelite fathers which would later become CMI
Carmelites of Mary Immaculate
The Carmelites of Mary Immaculate is an religious order for men in the Syro-Malabar Church. It is the first Catholic religious congregation founded in India. The first monastery of the order was established on 11 May 1831 at Mannanam, Kerala, India...
. Inspired by the lifestyle of the monks he entered the novitiate in 1918 and was given a new name, Placid of St. Joseph. Later he was sent to St. Joseph's Seminary, Mangalore run by the Italian Jesuits, for his ecclesiastical studies where he did two years of Philosophy and four years of Theology course. He was ordained priest on the 3rd of December 1927 at Mangalore and celebrated his first Holy Qurbana
Holy Qurbana
Holy Qurbana or Qurbana Qadisha , the "Holy Offering" or "Holy Sacrifice", refers to the Eucharist as celebrated according to the East Syrian and West Syrian traditions of Syriac Christianity...
in St. Joseph's Monastery chapel, Mannanam. As his superiors needed someone highly qualified to teach in the major seminary, he was sent to Rome for further studies. During his first stint in Rome, which lasted only two years, he acquired multiple doctorates in the field of Philosophy, Theology and Canon Law.
Active Ministry
After his return from Rome in 1930, he was appointed to teach Dogmatic Theology and Canon Law in the Congregation's Study House which was at ChethipuzhaChethipuzha
Chethipuzha is a village in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.-Demographics: India census, Chethipuzha had a population of 24842 with 12197 males and 12645 females....
in Changanacherry. He turned out to be an erudite professor and spiritual teacher during the years that followed.
During the same year the movement to reunite the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church was started under the leadership of Mar Ivanios
Geevarghese Mar Ivanios
Geevarghese Giovanni Giorgio Tommaso Panickerveetil aka Archbishop Aboon Geevarghese Mor Ivanios, Servant of God, OIC , born as Geevarghese Panickeruveetil, was a Christian bishop and the founder of the Bethany Ashram order of monks.- Childhood :Geevarghese Panicker was born in Mavelikkara, India,...
. This movement was staunchly supported by Placid and he traveled the length and breadth of Kerala to give support by giving lectures, holding debates, giving pastoral and intellectual advices to the clergy and laypeople and confronting those who were opposed to the ecumenical movement. He was also deputed by the Bishop of Changanacherry Diocese with the task of examining all the Syriac liturgical texts of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church before and after the reunion. This enabled him to realize that their liturgical books contained passages which support the Catholic Dogmas like the infallibility of the Pope and Immaculate Conception.
The fame of Placid's scholarship, his deep grasp of spiritual and ecclesiastical matters, his simplicity of manners and easy accessibility and availability won him many friends and admirers among all ranks of people right from the bishops, scholars, to the simple, ordinary folk.
Placid was again called to Rome by the insistence of Cardinal Tisserant who was very fond of Syro Malabar Church. Placid was asked to be readily available to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in its deliberations and projects for the development of the Syro Malabar Church. His Roman days (1954–1980) were a period of boost and expansion for the Syro Malabar Church and these 26 years of Placid's life in Rome were as passionately devoted to the service of the Church as were his first 25 years in Kerala.
Final Years
He met with an accident in 1960 which left him with a limping leg till the end of his life. He came back from Rome in 1980 and continued his studies from Chethipuzha. Towards the last days he was fully bed-ridden by partial paralysis which affected his power of speech. He breathed his last on April 27, 1985.Legacy
Father Placid's formulation of the St. Thomas Christians as "HinduHindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
in Culture, Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
in Religion and Oriental in Worship" has been quoted by orators even today. Mar Joseph Powathil
Mar Joseph Powathil
Mar Joseph Powathil is a Roman Catholic archbishop representing the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He is the archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Changanassery...
referred to Placid in his funeral oration as one worthy to be counted among the Great Fathers of the Church. Without Placid's influence and support for Cardinal Tisserrant, the Syro Malabar Church might not have re-emerged from the Latinized oblivion. The pivotal role he played in giving shape to important decrees of Second Vatican Council, especially those dealing with Eastern Churches and the oriental code of canon law, his capacity for hard work and his intellectual acumen and his prodigious memory, the numerous scholarly books and articles he has published, his deep devotion to the Church and to the See of Peter, his love for his Church of the St. Thomas Christians of India, the truly human and transcendent values he always cherished at the cost of heroic personal sacrifices, above all his life of prayer and asceticism as a humble CMI religious, have left to posterity a record of achievements which very few in any age or country have bequeathed. It was said about him, "He is punctual like morning, serene as night, innocent as a child, harmless as a meadow lark, frank as a mirror, fresh as the dawn, calm as an iceberg, modest as a violet and happy as day light."
Major Works
1. The Syrian Church of Malabar: Its Catholic Communion2. The Church of Seleucia and its Catholic Roman Communion
3. The South Indian Apostolate of St. Thomas
4. The Efforts for Reunion in Malankara, South India
5. Portuguese Religious Conquests in Malabar under the Diocese of Cochin during the Sixteenth Century.
6. A Short History of the Malabar Church
7. The Malabarians
8. The Malankarians
9. The Thomas Christians
10. The Varthamanappusthakam (Translation)
11. The Malabar Christians
12. The Hierarchy of the Syro-Malabar Church
13. Four Essays on the Pre-Seventeenth Century Church of St. Thomas Christians of India
14. The Rise and Decline of the Indian Church of the St. Thomas Christians
15. The Latin Rite Christians of Malabar
16. De Fontibus Iuris Ecclesiastici Syro-Malankarensium (Latin)
17. Fontes Iuris Canonici Syro-Malankarensium (Latin)
18. The Social and Socio-Ecclesiastical Customs of the Syrian Christians of India
19. The Catholic Syrians of Malabar and the Motu Proprio Crebrae Allatae
20. Oriental Marriage Legislation
21. The Syro-Malabarians, their life and their Activities
22. Hindu in Culture, Christian in Religion, Oriental in Worship
23. The Thomas Christians and Adaptation
24. The Individuality of the Malabar Church
25. The Canonical Sources of the Syro-Malabar Church.
26. Memorandum to His Eminence Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
27. The Present Syro-Malabar Liturgy: Menezian or Rozian?
28. Notes on some Clerical and Liturgical Matters
29. Further Extension of the Malabar Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in India
30. The Thomas Christians and their Syriac Treasures
31. The Thomas Christians of Malabar and the Chaldean Liturgy
32. Reflections on Liturgy
33. The Christology of Babai the Great and the Non-Catholic East Syrians or Nestorians
34. Mariology of the Church of the East
35. Malayalam and Syriac and the Syro-Malabarians
36. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant - Reminiscences
37. നവംബർ മാസത്തിലും തോമ്മാശ്ലീഹാ (The Remembrance of Apostle St. Thomas in November too)
38. മാർത്തോമ്മാശ്ലീഹായും പാലയൂർ പള്ളിയും (Mar Toma Sliha and the Church at Palayoor)
39. കേരള നസ്രാണികളും ദേശസഞ്ചാരികളും (Kerala Nazranees and the World Travellers)
40. ഉദയമ്പേരൂർ സൂനഹദോസ് (Synod of Diamper)
41. മൈലാപ്പൂർ (Mylapore)
42. കേരളത്തിലെ മാർത്തോമ്മാ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികൾ (St. Thomas Christians of Kerala)
43. മാർത്തോമ്മാ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികളുടെ വളർച്ചയും തളർച്ചയും (The Rise and Decline of the Indian Church of the St. Thomas Christians)
44. മാർത്തോമ്മാ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികളും അനുരൂപണവും (St. Thomas Christians and Adaptation)
45. കേരളസഭയുടെ വ്യക്തിത്വം (The Individuality of the Church of Kerala)
46. നമ്മുടെ റീത്ത് (Our Rite)
47. പുരാതനമായ ഒരു കൈയെഴുത്തു പുസ്തകം (An Ancient Manuscript in Syriac dated 1708)
48. അന്ത്യോക്യാ പാത്രിയർക്കീസ് (The Patriarch of Antioch)
49. ദൈവമാതാവും യാക്കോബായ വിശ്വാസവും (The Mother of God and the Jacobite Faith)
50. പൗരസ്ത്യസഭകൾ (Oriental Churches)
51. അകത്തോലിക്കു വാദങ്ങൾക്ക് കത്തോലിക്കു പ്രത്യുത്തരം (Catholic Responses to the arguments of non-Catholics)
52. യാക്കോബായക്കാരുടെ പുനരൈക്യം (The Reunion of the Jacobites)
53. എഫേസൂസ് സൂനഹദോസും റോമാമാർപ്പാപ്പായും (The Council of Ephesus and the Roman Pontiff)
54. ഏകസ്വഭാവവാദം (Monophysitism)
55. മാർപ്പാപ്പായുടെ പരമാധികാരവും അപ്രമാദിത്വവും (The Primacy and the Infallibility of Pope)
56. തിരുസഭയും മാർപ്പാപ്പായും (The Church and Pope)
57. ഓർത്തഡോക്സ് സഭയും പരമാധികാരവും (The Orthodox Church and Primacy)
58. കൂനൻ കുരിശിനു മുൻപ് (Before Coonan Cross)
59. നമ്മുടെ കണ്ണുകൾ ഭാഗ്യമുള്ളവ (Blessed are Our Eyes!)
60. അന്ത്യോക്യായിൽ എന്തുണ്ട് ? (What is there in Antioch ?)
61. കേരളസഭയൂം ഇതരസഭകളും (Church of Kerala and other Churches)
62. ചെങ്കടലിലെ സ്മരണകൾ (Reminiscences of Read Sea)
63. ഗുരുപ്പട്ട സുവർണ്ണ ജൂബിലി (Sacerdotal Golden Jubilee of His Holiness Pope Pius XI in 1929)
64. ഇന്നത്തെ ബേസ്ലഹം (Bethlehem today)
65. ലൂതറിനു മുമ്പുണ്ടായിരുന്ന വേദപുസ്തകം (Holy Bible before Luther)
66. തത്വപ്രകാശിക (An Aid to Reasonable Thinking)
67. മിശിഹായുടെ രാജത്വം (Kingship of Christ)
68. കത്തോലിക്കാ മതപഠനം (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
69. പരിശുദ്ധ ത്രിത്വം (Holy Trinity)
70. കത്തോലിക്കാ വിദ്യാലയങ്ങളിലെ പണിമുടക്ക് (Problem of Strike by Catholic Students of Catholic Educational Institutions)
71. രണ്ട് അവിഭാജ്യ ഘടകങ്ങൾ (Two Inseparable Factors: Clergy and Laity)
72. പ്രാർത്ഥന (Prayer)
73. വി. ഫ്രാൻസിസ്കോസിന്റെ മൂന്നാം സഭ (Franciscan Third order)
74. പ. കന്യാമറിയത്തിന്റെ സ്വർഗ്ഗാരോഹണം (The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
75. മരിയഭക്തിയും കേരള സുറിയാനി കത്തോലിക്കരും (Marian Devotion and the Syrian Catholics of Kerala)
76. സ്വകാര്യസ്വത്ത് (Private Property)
77. കാല്പാടുകൾ (Footprints (of St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Francis Xavier))
78. കുടമാളൂർ ചരിത്രത്തിലൂടെ (Kudamaloor through history)
79. കുർബാന: ബലിയും ദിവ്യഭോജനവും (Qurbana: Sacrifice and Divine Meal)
80. Die Thomas-Christen (German)