PONGAL CELEBRATION

PONGAL CELEBRATION

                            The community of Nirmala Nivas celebrated the festival of Pongal. It is a harvest festival “Thamizhar Thirunaal”. This festival is celebrated in Tamil Nadu the southern state of India. It is to say that farmers cultivate the land and venerates the first fruit of the cultivation by saying thanks to god the creator of the nature for the flourishing season of the harvest. On this day we specially prayed for the farmers and also we had small celebration in the community.

JUNIOR'S ENCOUNTER

                      

                    We the juniors from India and Sri Lanka had participated in Junior’s encounter from 27^th to 31^st of December. First of all I thank God and our congregation for giving us the opportunity of this encounter. We had gathered to discuss and deepen about our consecrated life. We also shared about the challenges and experiences in the consecrated life. The sessions were really enriching and helped us to deepen about our identity, the consecrated life and the necessity to do the examination of the conscience every day of our life. At the end we had concluded the session with recollection day. It was really good, where we recollected the whole year of our ups and downs and God’s hand in it. And we were grateful to God.

    

On 1^st of January, 2017 the foundation stone is blessed and laid in Kottapitiya, Chilaw, Sri Lanka for the Mission House. We kindly request your prayers and support for this Mission.

Mary Elasta Francis' First Religious Profession, Kotapitiya, Srilanka

THE ECONOMY ENCOUNTER

FRATERNITY ,SHARING OF GOODS,SOLIDARITY............

                      The encounter of the economy of the Claretian Missionary Sisters began on Friday, September 24th – 29^th in Mysore India. Participating are 10 sisters and Mr. Oscar who come from Argentina, Roma, India and Sri Lanka.

                                  

With  our reality and with the desire to respond to the challenges of the world we  gathered have shared and explained some norms of the project-manual of the administration in the Entities and for the good  of the communities and  work of the apostolic mission in the Congregation.

The most important elements that we have learned in economy are ones that we will be continuing to learn in our communities for the good of the congregation and for the good of the each sister.

We've talked about several topics of the administrations and the fraternal life and actually passing this space where we can share the experience and realities of our mission in our communities and our congregation. We have studied the manual and plan ways to improve the administration of goods in the Congregation.

We motivated to learn and to be witness of our life watching everyday life in the communities and appreciation of living the present with love and hope, with profound faith. Thank you for all this information made us feel easy.

It was great help for us to start each day with more encouragement and interior delight. We also had the opportunity to see some places in Mysore to enjoy the days. And we learned a lot. We thank the Government sisters and especially Sister Cristina and Mr. Oscar for their help in the economy process, both material and spiritual.  Thanks for the dedication of the time and knowledge for the mission.

Resilda Edwin

Padrithana was the pioneer mission place of central India back from 1865 . Here in the top of the hill a huge Cross was erected in the year 1933. On the day of feast of the exaltation of the Cross on September 14th, there is a pilgrim walk organised from Butibori to Padrithana church. it is 12 kms distance. The parishners from near and farplaces joined together to make a prayerful pilgrimage. All the way we were praying the Way of the Cross and Rosary. From our Butibori community, we too participated and received graces from the Lord. It was a good faith experience and as well  witness. In the afternoon the Archbishop of Nagpur Rev. Dr. Abraham  presided over the Eucharist. Long live Cross of Christ our Saviour!!!

ONAM CELEBRATION

 THE COMMUNITY OF ANTONIA PARIS NILAYA

T

he community of Antonia Paris Nilaya, Novitiate celebrated the carnival of ONAM. As a community we prayed for all and enjoyed the day with different activities which brought lot of happiness and enrichment to know about the tradition and the culture of the other state and to feel oneness. We prepared intricately designed flower mats called, Pookalam in the entrance of the house  and  the impressive part of Onam celebration was Onasadya is served on banana leaves and we sat on a mat laid on the floor  and had the delicious meal as a community . May the color and lights of Onam fill our home with happiness and joy. Our heartfelt wishes to you, on this Onam 2016!!