Oct25
Sevika Sangham Sunday
9:00 AM · Nave
The women of the parish lead the whole service, and the offering goes to the hostels in Kerala.
Week of 11 Octoberഒക്ടോബർ 11 മുതലുള്ള ആഴ്ച
Qurbana on Sunday morning, evening prayer on Zoom most weeknights at nine, and six living rooms open for prayer on Friday. Every one of these is open to visitors.ഞായർ രാവിലെ കുർബ്ബാന, രാത്രി 9 മണിക്ക് Zoom-ൽ സന്ധ്യാ പ്രാർത്ഥന, വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച ആറ് വീടുകളിൽ പ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗം. എല്ലാവർക്കും സ്വാഗതം.
Sunഞായർ11
Monതിങ്കൾ12
Tueചൊവ്വ13
Wedബുധൻ14
Thuവ്യാഴം15
Friവെള്ളി16
Satശനി17

Sunday, 10:20 AM
Achen lifts the cup before Communion. The choir sings the Hasho in Malayalam while the families come forward.
Holy Qurbanaവിശുദ്ധ കുർബ്ബാന
Our Sunday service is the Holy Qurbana, the Communion liturgy the Mar Thoma Church has prayed in Malayalam since the reformation of the 1830s. It begins at nine and runs about an hour and forty minutes, with the sermon after the Gospel reading.
The words go up on the screens in Malayalam script, in Manglish for those who speak it but can't read it, and in English. Spouses who married into the parish follow along fine, and so do the grandchildren.
Parish fellowshipsഇടവകയിലെ സംഘടനകൾ
Bible study, prayer and the Christmas sale of achappam and kuzhalappam. The Sangham also sponsors two girls' hostels in Kerala.
Get connectedSupper, a talk and a lot of volleyball in season. They run the carol rounds every December.
Get connectedAn hour after Sunday School with pizza, questions and the occasional debate. Mostly in English.
Get connectedPrayer, a short reading and lunch in Hall A. Volunteers will pick you up if you no longer drive.
Get connectedPrays for and funds the Mar Thoma mission centers in north India. Gives about $38,000 a year.
Get connectedLeads the Qurbana and sings the Christmas cantata. No audition. You do need to read Malayalam or Manglish.
Get connectedReading and writing the alphabet, then the Lord's Prayer and a few kristheeya keerthanangal by spring.
Get connected
The name on our doorഞങ്ങളുടെ പേര്
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
Coming upവരാനിരിക്കുന്നവ
Oct25
9:00 AM · Nave
The women of the parish lead the whole service, and the offering goes to the hostels in Kerala.
Nov7
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM · Hall and parking lot
Food stalls, the lelam auction of donated goods, and a tug-of-war the Yuvajana Sakhyam never wins.
Nov26
8:30 AM · Nave
A short service of thanks before the turkey, or the duck curry.
Dec12
6:00 PM nightly · Members' homes
Nine nights, about thirty homes a night. Tell the Sakhyam if you would like a visit.
Dec24
10:00 PM · Nave
Holy Qurbana in Malayalam, then cake and coffee in the hall after midnight.
Dec31
11:00 PM · Nave
We pray the old year out and the new one in, as every Kerala church does.
Nothing in that category this month.
Photographsചിത്രങ്ങൾ
Taken by members, always with permission. Most of them were taken in the hall.





Want a photo taken down, or a copy for yourself? Write to the secretary.
Tell us which parish you are coming from. Achen will visit your home within the month, and the prayer group nearest you will call before Friday.
Design notes
A site for a Malayalam-speaking Mar Thoma parish whose members live all over the Metroplex and see each other in two places: the Sunday Qurbana on Plano Road and a living room on Friday night. The home page is the week itself, because the first thing a member checks is what's on, and the second-most-important page is a map of the prayer groups.
Yrsa was drawn by Rosetta as part of a multi-script project for Indian publishing, so its Latin was designed to sit beside Indic text. The body face is Anek Latin with Anek Malayalam for the translation, both from Ek Type in Mumbai, so a heading and its Malayalam line carry the same weight. The type ratio stays a modest 1.22 because grandparents read this site too.
The green is the color of the backwaters and coconut palms in central Travancore, deepened until white text passes contrast on it. The brass accent comes from the nilavilakku, the standing oil lamp in every Kerala home and church. The double rules between sections are a nod to the gold border on a kasavu sari or mundu.
A slim icon rail keeps all seven pages in reach without a crowded header, and the labels switch to Malayalam with everything else. On phones it folds into a single menu button. Pages are named the way members talk about parish life: Qurbana, prayer groups, Sunday School, offering.
The home page opens with the week itself: seven columns from Sunday Qurbana to Saturday choir, with today highlighted and a countdown to the next gathering. For a parish where most people come to several things a week, that's more useful than any welcome photo.
The standing action is 'Transfer your membership', because new families arriving in Dallas want to belong properly, and the transfer letter is the step they're unsure about. The other actions are concrete: find your prayer group, enroll for Sunday School, your first Qurbana.
We used photographs of South Asian families, elders and young people wherever the library had them, and otherwise chose close-ups of the chalice, the lamps and the food that don't misrepresent who is in the room. There are no stock crowd shots of a different congregation.
Every heading, button, schedule entry and page name has a natural Malayalam version. Longer paragraphs stay in English, which is how the parish's own notices are written, so second-generation members aren't left out. The liturgy table explains exactly which Sundays are in which language.
Body text is 17px with generous leading, every color pairing passes WCAG AA in both themes, and the language switch sets the lang attribute so screen readers pronounce Malayalam correctly. The map page lists every group in plain text beside the drawing.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.81:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 16.07:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.84:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 7.2:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.14:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 4.64:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.81:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.86:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.14:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.39:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.43:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.83:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.8:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 10.01:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 10.13:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 9.51:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.26:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.13:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 10.13:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.89:1 | AA |
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