September 2017

SHG women in Ahmednagar move forward!

Workshop for the SHG women on Govt. facilities! On   September 15, 19 and 20th Sept 2017, we had a special meeting for our SHG women with regards to the registration and their norms and conditions.   Mr. Gavahane who helps the women to get all the Govt. schemes and facilities from the Panchayat Samithi was present as the resource person.  He made them realize the importance of weekly meetings, savings and

The SHG Women and the Social Workers’ of Ahmednagar say ‘THANK YOU’ !

  The Community of Laura Vicuna Niwas, Ahmednagar had the Community Gratitude Day on 17th September 2017.  The SHG women and the social workers conveyed their ‘Thanks’ to Sr. Teresa Plathara, the animator and to all the sisters of the community. It was a good and homely experience for the women.  Through word and gestures they expressed their gratitude for all that the sisters do for them and how they

News from Auxilium Centre-Velim!

Marian Month The community of Velim celebrated the Marian Month from 15th August to 15th September. Every day the community prayed the rosary with the children of NIOS and of the evening school. It was beautiful to see the children praying with child-like confidence to Mary our Mother. On 14th September we had the conclusion of the Marian month along with the students of NIOS and evening school. The sisters

Community Gratitude Day at Maria Bhavan, Bableshwar!

On 21, September 2017, we celebrated our Community Gratitude Day, our theme was ‘Be a blessing.’  During the nine day preparation for the feast, we prayed for each sister and the various sectors of the house.  Each day was made special by our prayers and by honouring the sister or the group concerned.  e could truly feel God’s divine presence as we kept blessing each other.On 20 evening we had

Senior Citizens honoured at Maria Bhavan, Bableshwar!

24 September 2017, a day to honour and appreciate our senior citizens in honour of World Elder’s day which is on 1st October.  This is a special day for the Senior Citizens and they look forward to this occasion. We invited the senior parishioners and 26 of them responded. The programme was held soon after the Sunday Eucharist, they were welcomed by Sr. Catherine Pereira, the animator of the community and she

St. Joseph’s celebrates Onam!

On 23rd September a grand celebration of the Onam festival was organised by the Keralite students at St Joseph Engineering College. It began in the academic block around the huge pookolam with the lighting of the lamp, prayer moment and a dance which was at 9.00 am. At 11.45 there was the flash mob followed in the evening at 6.00 pm with an entertainment programme which concluded with Onam special dinner of 15

Salesian Regional Superior visits Aux-Caranzalem!

Fr. Maria Arokiam Kanaga SDB,the Salesian Regional Superior for South Asia visited us at Auxilium, Caranzalem on 26th September 2017. We were indeed blessed and privileged by his visit to us, sisters and the Salesian Co-operators of the Caranzalem unit. Fr. Maria Arokiam celebrated the Eucharist for us in the morning and the chapel was full with Co-operators and our other lay friends who join us for the Eucharist every

MARIAN MONTH AT PANSORA!

On 15th August 2017, we the sisters and the boarders of Jag Prakash  Kanya Chatralay, Pansora began our Marian month to honour Our Blessed Mother. The theme for the month was ‘Mary is the mother of our family’. The statue of Our Blessed Mother was well decorated. We began this month with a prayer service. During this month we animated various activities with our boarders like composing songs on Mary,

Navratri celebrations at Jag Prakash,Pansora!

On 23rd September along with the village children who belong to six diffenrt villages, we had the celebration of Navartri with the village tuitions children of six villages. They arrived with full of gusto to play the Garba. Garba is one of the popular festivals in Gujarat, where women dance to their hearts’ content. We had the Garba competitions according to their villages and at the end played the Garba

‘Kishori mela’ at Pushpanjali,Dakor!

On Friday, the 8th of September, Pushpanjali, Dakor Friday celebrated the Girl Child day. Nearly 340 adolescent girls from 10 villages participated in this ‘Kishori mela’.  Sr. Sunita Shah brought 30 girls from Pansora. We were happy to have the TDO of the Thasara Taluka, Arjunsingh Kant news reporter, Kantilal Christian, Sr. Pratiksha, Miss. Salmaben (Sarpanch of Kalsar village), Chaganbhai Christian (who provided us with breakfast) as our Guest of