ST. MARY’S GEYZING celebrated the feast of Laura Vicuna with great joy. The seven young girls of class X who remained during winter holidays for their coaching had the joy of celebrating the joyous feast of Laura. The celebration was consisted of the vigil service, watching the movie on Laura and the Eucharistic celebration. The young girls were inspired to imitate and to take her as their model and guide to live a good life. May Laura teach us to know the ugliness of sin and beauty of virtues.   

PALAM GAON – New Delhi:The feast of Bl. Laura Vicuna was celebrated with much preparation and excitement. Celebration created much joy and enthusiasm among the children. The day’s festivity began with the vigil service around the beautifully decorated statue of Bl. Laura. Well animated Morning Prayer, Holy Eucharist and quiz competition were programme of the day. The girls decided to imitate some of the qualities of Laura such as sacrifice, hard work, obedience and dutifulness. The day ended with singing hymns to Blessed Laura Vicuna.

AUXILIUM BARASAT: The boarders of Barasat observed the feast of Blessed Laura Vicuna as boarding day on 22^nd January 2014. They had well animated Rosary in the morning praying for the intentions of the boarders. The meaningful and solemn Holy Eucharistic celebration was at 5.00 pm, solemnized by Rev. Fr. Aloysius Carvhalo SJ. In his introduction to the Mass and homily he emphasized much about the joyful living of Laura Vicuna. Her sacrificing life for the conversion of her mother should be an inspiration for all of us to imitate. It is our vocation to bear witness to the Gospel by living a joyful life. He invited all the boarders to make use of the opportunities provided by the sisters for their education and formation in faith. The entrance dance, introduction to the Mass and prayer of the faithful and meaningful singing led all the participants to take active part in the Eucharist.

After the Holy Mass the boarders and aspirants put up a short stage programme on the life of Blessed Laura Vicuna. The jokes, riddles and cultural programme were part of evening programme. At the end there was prize distribution ceremony for all the events and competitions held during the year. Rev. Sr. Teresa Adampakallel, the animator read out the overall result of the activities of the year. Sacred Heart group stood first by scoring highest points followed by Don Bosco and Our Lady groups.  All the groups were given small gifts. At the end of the programme Sr. Teresa gave a picture of Blessed Laura Vicuna to everyone. She congratulated boarders and aspirants for putting up a lovely programme and invited to recite the prayer written on the picture. The feast of Blessed Laura Vicuna’s was celebrated meaningfully.

AUXILIUM ASPIRANTATE: “Death rather than offend God” the motto of Blessed Laura Vicuna exhorted us to live a pure life as we celebrated the feast of Blessed Laura Vicuna on 22^nd January 2014 at Aspirantate, Barasat. It does not matter how many years we live, but how we live is the more important. Blessed Laura Vicuna lived a short and sweet life without much difficulty and today she stands as a model for all the youth how to live pure and holy life. To celebrate this day we had an intense preparation of three days with different activities, namely- movies on the life of Laura Vicuna and the quiz which helped us to know Laura in a deeper way drawing from her the spirit of sacrifice and mortification which were her most outstanding virtues.  We had a meaningful Eucharistic celebration presided over by Fr. Aloysius Caravalho SJ. During his homily he encouraged us to cultivate a deeper love for Jesus and Mary as Laura had and to have the courage to fight against evils and to remain pure in heart and mind.  

We ended the beautiful day with a cultural programme, praising her name through a short play on Laura’ life, her maxims, song and dance which reminded us to follow the example of Blessed Laura Vicuna and to live a life of love, of mortification and of sacrifice for Jesus.