On 26th April 2017, H.C. Auxilium celebrated the ‘World Gratitude Day’ feast of Mother General Yvonne Reungoat. The stage programme began with an opening Prayer for the gift of Mother General and for FMA world. It was followed by songs and a skit to highlight the theme ‘With an Oratorian heart in the educating community, with daring we bring the Joy of the Gospel to the young’.

Then with the help of PPT, the students briefed the audience about the culture of Benin in Africa, where the Mother General is celebrating her feast this year. The students also expressed that the celebration will certainly help them grow more and more in their love for the Institute and appreciate values the Sisters and Staff inculcate in them in the Salesian style. In the concluding message, Sr. Maria, Superior shared with the students that young people are joyful, trustworthy, have hearts rich in love, able to be messengers of God’s love etc. which are the sentiments of Mother General with regard to young people and she requested them to keep praying for Mother and every Sister in the Institute.

 The little Auxilians of Kalyani celebrated World gratitude day of our beloved Mother General, Mother Yvonne Reungoat in a simple yet profound way. They believed that the best gift given to her is our gift of prayer and trying to be good and obedient and to be of service to their needy friends which they showed in action this month of preparation of our dear Mother.

It was a joyful moment gathered around the portrait of our Mother General offering her our prayers and praying especially for the needs of our Institute, the young in our care and for all the students. Sr. Margaret Barla briefed the assembly about Mother General and the meaning of this feast celebrated Worldwide, after which was a brain storming as to who would then be able to say something on this special day. A show of enthusiastic hands soon came forward and expressed words of gratitude to Mother General. We made the day special too in the Prize Distribution for those who bagged off prizes in various competitions, both for the Bengali and English medium for the Scholastic year 2016-17. About 40 students received small gifts which made them proud and happy on this special day dedicated to our dear Mother General, concluding it with slogans: LONG LIVE OUR MOTHER GENERAL.

The community of Sacred Heart Novitiate Ranchi celebrated the World feast of Gratitude uniting ourselves with the AFO Province. The morning prayer was animated by the Second Novitiate sisters thanking God for the gift of Mother  Reungoat Yvonne  center of unity and communion among each of her Daughters. The Eucharistic celebration together with the young people was made meaningful as the icon was carried to the altar which invited all FMA from around the world: “With an Oratorian heart in the Educating Community, with daring we bring the joy of the Gospel to the young.” We accompanied our beloved mother General throughout the day with the chain of Rosaries and concluded with the adoration. The day came to a fitting close with a short programme in remembrance of our Mother General in which the Second Novitiate sisters brought out vividly the theme enthusing one and all present to reach out to the peripheries with an Oratorian Heart like Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello.

Second Novitiate Sisters

St. Anthony’s Convent School, Jaigaon celebrated the feast day of our Mother General Rev. Mother Yvonne Reungoat on 25 April 201. The four house captains with their flags fluttering in the air brought in the portrait of Mother General with slow march and placed it in the centre of the assembly ground.

Class  X B then took over. They conducted a short prayer service enabling the whole assembly to pray for her, the Institute and all the Salesian Sisters. Life sketch of Mother General was highlighted. It was followed by a composed festal song.

To mark this festivity in our school a solo dance competition was organized by Dance Club. It was concluded by a short speech by the  Principal Sr.Margaret F. and Superior Sr. Lily D.

Class – XII B

Nisha Chhetri

On 26^th April 2017, the community of Auxilium Aspirantate joined the entire Institute especially the AFO Province, the host province of this year’s feast in thanking and praising God for the gift of our Mother General Mother Yvonne Reungoat with the theme:“With an Oratorian heart in the educating community, with daring we bring the Joy of the Gospel to the young”. The Holy Eucharist was solemnized by Fr. Saviour, the Parish Priest.  The Introduction was read and a bouquet of flowers was placed on the Altar as a thanksgiving offering to the Lord.The blessing of our house and the visit of the Pre-Novitiate Jesuit brothers add colour to this celebration. In gratitude to our Mother General the aspirants presented a short programme and each one of us offered flower to our Mother General as a sign of our love and gratitude. We concluded our day with a thanksgiving evening prayer through power point presentation.

On 18^th April 2016 together with the parish’s youth and children the sisters expressed their love and gratitude to Mother General Yvonne Reungoat.  At the beginning of the Holy Eucharistic celebration Sr. Shanti Tirkey beautifully made known the history of the gratitude day and gave a brief explanation of the logo as it was being carried towards the altar.  The community spent the day in prayer for the various intentions of Mother General and for the sisters of Thailand province.

The children, staff and students of Auxilium, Kalyani expressed their love and gratitude this day to our beloved Mother General- Mother Yvonne Reungoat through song, dance, welcome address and an Inter House Singing competition, with the Green House bagging off the 1st place. The day concluded with an hour of adoration spent before the Eucharistic Lord along with boarders praying the rosary and for the intentions of our dear Mother General. It was followed by viewing of the video clippings from the previous celebrations. The day took a note of joy, happiness and gratitude being with our dear Mother in the spirit of love, prayer and togetherness.

The community of R.K. Puram joined the entire Institute especially the province of Thailand, the host province of this year’s feast in thanking and praising God for the gift of our Mother General Mother Yvonne Reungoat with the theme: A harmonious weaving together to say thank you. We offered the whole month’s Rosary for the intentions of Mother General. The sisters, children and workers joined in offering the garland of Rosary as a sign of their love and gratitude to Mother. Besides prayers, the community also performed some acts of mercy in order to be messengers of joy and hope to the poor and the needy.  Morning prayer and the holy Mass were solemnized with introduction on the theme of the feast and thanksgiving hymns and prayers in honour of Mother. After the holy Mass sweets were distributed to the people who came to attend the Mass. At the school assembly, the children celebrated the feast with prayers, greetings, songs, poems and dances. The decorated photo of Mother General on the stage gave a pleasant reminder of Mother’s presence among them, thanking them for the expressions of their love and gratitude. Sr. Lily in her concluding words appreciated the students for their lovely performance and spoke to them on the feast of Gratitude celebrated in the whole Institute.