Matters India Reporter
Jharsuguda: The most sought-after Catholic monthly of Odisha, Eastern India, resurrected with a new name.
The Catholic monthly— news and views of All Odisha Christians which was well known by the name, “Satya Alok” is coming to you with a new name “Satya Nirjhoro” (The True Spring), said its founding editor Divine Word Father Joseph Amalan.
“Satya Alok” was published and sent to all the six dioceses of Odisha since December 2013 every month without any fail till May 2016. Then the publisher had to stop it since the title “Satya Alok” was not approved by the RNI (Registrar of Newspapers, India).
“We got this new title “Satya Nirjhoro” approved only by August 2017. Henceforth you will be getting “Satya Nirjhoro” every month in a new form as you have it in your hand as a bi-lingual monthly magazine, in Odia and English,” Father Amalan wrote in his editorial in the newly christened issue of “Satya Nirjhoro”, October 2017 issue.
Taking a cue from Revelation 22:1-2 in which the Apostle St. John saw a “river of life, clear as crystal, gushing from the throne of God and of the Lamb…on both sides of the river are the trees of life producing fruit twelve times, once each month, the leaves of which are for healing the nations.” This is the purpose for which this magazine is sent to readers.
“We wish that ‘Satya Nirjhoro’ should flow like a river of life carrying the Word of God and the teaching and blessings of the Lamb (Christ) to each and every Christian family in Odisha,” he said.
Wherever this magazine goes, this will produce persons of good Christian life producing the fruits of the
Holy Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, fidelity, gentleness and self-control (Gal.5:22-23), every month. These good fruits that they produce will certainly become a source of spiritual, social and physical healing for the people in their neighbourhood.
On the top left corner of the front cover page the picture of Jesus of the Divine Mercy is printed to indicate that ‘Satya Nirjhoro’, the true Spring indeed gushes from the heart of Jesus and flows into the whole of humanity as the river of the love and life of God, as the river of the grace, peace and compassion of Jesus and as the river of the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
In Jn. 19:34 it is said, “One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a lance and immediately there came out blood and water.” In Ezekiel 47:1b and v.12 it reads, “… the water flowed from the south side of the Temple and from the south side of the altar. (v.1b) … Near the river, on both banks, there will be all kinds of fruit trees with foliage that will not wither and fruit that will never fail.
Each month they will bear a fresh crop because the water comes from the Temple. The fruit will be good to eat and the leaves will be used for healing.” It is our sincere wish that “Satya Nirjhoro” should reach its readers like a river flowing from the heart of Christ, never drying but always overflowing with life in abundance, as Jesus himself says in Jn.10:10, ‘I have come that they may have life, life in all its fullness.’
All those who receive “Satya Nirjhoro” will be like the trees that prophet Jeremiah speaks about in Jer. 17: 7-8: “Blessed is the man who puts his trust in Yahweh. He is like a tree planted by the river bank, sending out its roots towards the stream.’ So we hope that all our readers will be blessed by “Satya Nirjhoro”, so that you will bring many more to the banks of the river of “Satya Nirjhoro”, Father Amalan said.