Post by Thomas Scaria

When your life's work meets a moment of grace. Sunday, I stood before His Holiness Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews III — Catholicos of the East, spiritual head of the Global Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church — and placed my book, Resilience+Rise, into his hands. No pitch. No agenda. Just a moment I'll carry for the rest of my life. That evening, the Grand Apostolic Reception honoured His Holiness with a civic ceremony here in British Columbia — attended by community leaders and Indian Consul General Masakui Rungsung (#cgivancouver), who acknowledged the strength and unity of our Malankara Orthodox community in BC. What struck me most wasn't the ceremony. It was watching a man of God — revered across continents — move through a room with complete stillness. No performance. No posturing. Just presence. That's the kind of leadership I write about. The kind I coach toward. The kind that doesn't announce itself — it arrives. Grateful to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church community in BC, and to Mekkattil MC Kuriakose Ramban for his extraordinary work in building something lasting here. Faith. Community. Resilience. These aren't soft words. They're load-bearing walls.