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Seminar

Jun4

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From 1st – 3rd June 2015, 34 sisters of the Province assembled at Auxilium, Kurseong for the Seminar on the Education Policy of the Province.  It was organized and animated by Sr. Elizabeth Makil and Sr. Stella Potteparambil, the coordinators of the Education Sector of the Province.

On the first day   Sr. Stella dwelt the topic ‘Educator extraordinary’ and Sr. Elizabeth Makil stressed on the integral education of the young people and the fulfillment of our mission in the manner of Good Shepherd. The two days were enriched with input sessions given by both the sisters on personal policy, management Administration, service rules and condition.  Ample opportunities were given for deepening the contents in connection with the school and its administration.

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We remain grateful to Provincial Maria Pettayil, Sr. Elizabeth and Sr. Stella for updating the sisters, to be well prepared and efficacious educators in our educative mission.

Sr.Regi

National CRI meet

Nov28

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The National CRI meet was held on 21st – 23rd November 2014 at St. Anne Generalate, Ranchi. It was conducted by the CRI team, on the theme “ The Consecrated life”. 254 participants from different congregations were present for the Seminar. It was inaugurated with a short prayer, animated by Fr. Joe Mannath SDB, the National Secretary of the CRI. The Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi Rt. Rev. Theodor Mascarenus declared opened the seminar with his short message on the theme of the day. He exhorted us to be people of prayer.

Fr. Joe, the resource person of the day, dealt on the topic ‘Psycho-Sexual Integration’. He highlighted the different stages of Psycho, Sexual development and the types of abuses.

The second day began with the celebration of the solemn Holy Eucharist, presided over by the National CRI President, Rev Fr. V.M. Thomas SDB, the Provincial of Guwahati Province. In the homily, he quoted the message of Pope Francis, “Spirit filled evangelizers with the fragrance of the Gospel. He urged us to be the smell of the sheep, the living of the Gospel in words and actions, the living memorial of Jesus and to be seekers of God.”

In his sessions Fr. V.M. Thomas mentioned that the consecrated life is a gift to the Church and to the world. He gave us some practical tips, how to be effective in our mission, likewise: creative fidelity, net working, reflection, taking risks, daring, determination, faith and will power.

On the last day the session was on celibacy by Fr. Joe, who led us into a deeper understanding of the topic. At the end of the session there was a short thanksgiving for all the resourceful persons. Sr. Linda Mary, the Mother General of the daughters of St. Anne was highly appreciated for her hospitality. She encouraged us to live our consecrated life to the full.

Since it was the feast of Christ the King, we had a thanksgiving Mass solemnized by Rt. Rev.Theodor Mascarenus, the auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi. In the afternoon we participated in the solemn Eucharistic procession in honour of Christ the King. During Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament, the year of the consecrated life was officially declared opened, by Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi Rt. Rev. Telesphor Bilung, in the name of his eminence cardinal Telesphor Toppo.

It was a memorable day for all especially for us 20 Salesian sisters from 3 provinces, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai who participated for the first time. It was really an amazing and eye opening sessions on how to live our consecrated life.

We are grateful to our dear Sr. Provincial Sr. Maria Pettayil for giving us the opportunity to attend this course and supporting us with her prayers.

2nd Novitiate sisters

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Work shop on Campaign against Child Abuse

Nov10

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Seminar on “Campaign against Child Abuse” was conducted for the teaching staff of Kolkata Zone on 01 November 2014 at Auxilium Convent School, Kalyani by the KSSDS Team. The participants were 27 teachers and 4 Sisters. The presence of Mrs. Shonta Sarkar, the Panchayat President of Kalyani, for inauguration added joy to the occasion. In her speech she highlighted the work of the Sisters for the poor and the marginalised and expressed her gratitude and appreciation. The resource persons of the seminar were Sr. Leelamma Pallipparambil and Mr.Debarshi Bhowmic. The topics they dealt were Concept of Child and their stages of growth, the attitude of the children and the students of today, Developmental stages of a child and the types of abuse.

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Seminar on “Formation of Formators”

Sep28

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The National CRI organized a week long seminar on “Formation of Formators” from 15–21 September 2014 at Proggoloy, Barasat, Kolkata. Fifty seven participants, including Srs Teresa Adampakallel and Sr. Lily Perumpettikunnel, from thirty two congregations benefited from this seminar. There were also Sisters from Myanmar and Thailand.
Fr Joe Mannath, SDB, was the main resource person of this entire program. Three local Religious stepped in: Sr. Ruth BS, Fr. Jeyaraj Veluswamy SJ, and Fr Mathew George SDB to team up with him.

All the resource persons shared from their life experiences and inspired the participants with practical suggestions and valuable insights into the basics of formation.

They covered the following areas: aspects and atmosphere of formation houses, human formation and assessment, Discernment, sexuality and celibacy, gender and cultural issues and counseling and spiritual direction. The focus of the sessions was practical tips rather than mere theoretical information.

Fr Joe Mannath convincingly emphasized that we should not recruit young people to religious life so as to staff our institutions. Desire to be closely united with Jesus and moved by His values is what characterizes a genuine religious vocation. The call to celibacy is marked by prayer, effective love, inclusive love without “walls” and healthy boundaries.

Sr. Ruth BS, focused on “Formation of women Religious” She also spoke of formation as a mission and for a mission. Formation is to draw out the potentialities of the formee.

Fr Jeyaraj Veluswamy systematically explained the importance and process of discernment. It would certainly be a helpful tool in the hands of the formators as they strive to seek, find and do the will of God in their mission of accompanying formees in their vocational journey.

Fr. Mathew George who had been a formator for fifteen years, enlightened us on the topic “Human Formation.” He shared with us some helpful points regarding assessment of formees.

After attending the sessions by different resource persons, we began to feel that the formators’ role is something like that of parenting, rather than a master’s or a lecturer’s role. A formator not only leads or guides, but sees to the all around growth of formees whom he takes care of.

When a formator is truly interested in the growth of the formees, the formees are able to sense it and will be more open and will easily approach for help. Formees can be helped anywhere, not only in the classroom. Therefore, formators’ availability and formees’ learning cannot be restricted only to the classroom. The atmosphere in formation houses without “Fear Complex” is the sole responsibility of the formator.

Exemplary life also has a great influence on formees. A formator is not required to teach everything. Most of the learning can be achieved by formees by seeing and observing the formators’ exemplary life: her/his way of living religious life, carrying out responsibility, ways of dealing and interacting with other religious and people outside.

All the resource persons drew our attention to religious life and formation in a multicultural set up, its richness and challenges.

The participants departed from Proggaloy convinced that formators are called to be loving, joyful, God- centered and inspiring models to our formees.

Campaign against Child Abuse   

Sep27

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Srs. Leelamma Palliparambil, Anand Tirkey and Debarshi Bhowmick participated in the training programme on campaign against CHILD ABUSE from 22- 24 September 2014 at Coimbatore. There were 25 participants from 6 provinces. It was conducted by Mr. Tom Jose and Fr. Edward Thomas SDB, at Karl Kubel Institute Coimbatore. The objective of the training was to create leaders to campaign against Child Abuse.

Mr. Tom and Fr. Edward made the participants aware of the rights of the child, different acts and legal framework for child protection and briefly described the Acts on child protection Act, Juvenile justice Act 2000, Child Welfare Committee with all its laws and policies of the government of India and UNCRC of 1989.He also mentioned about the various government department related to child and our responsibilities towards it. The third day of the training was given by Mrs. Girijakumarbabu, a social worker and specialist in the field of child protection at Coimbatore. She gave an input session on POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. Fr. Edward in the last sitting focused on the plan of action. What can we do to save the child?

Sr. Leelamma P.

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