September 2017

  With great joy and happiness we the sisters of Pushpanjali began our Marian month on 14th July 2017 with the theme: ‘Mary, the cradle of all families’. . With joyful hymns we welcomed Mary from the gate to our ‘Pushpanjali’ home to the boarding, ITI sector and to the Sister’s quarters. After placing Mary’s statue in the decorated places, we then danced on the beat of Timbli (Gujarati Folk

On September 8, 2017, Auxilium Convent, Ahmednagar ,the boys and the male staff, teaching and non- teaching celebrated the Girl Child Day.  In the opening prayer service, intentions were put forth before the Lord to bless all girl-children and to uphold their rights in every sector and sphere of the society in which we live. Later they animated a fun-filled programme with great enthusiasm, love and respect in honour of

On 10th September 2017, the boarders of Mornese Vihar, Sulcorna celebrated Teachers’ Day. With a lot of joy and enthusiasm our children staged a programme for the Sisters to express their deep sentiments of gratitude for guiding them, helping them and for molding their lives  to be good and honest citizens .It was a beautiful performance which consisted of dances, skits, jokes and songs. Sr. Rosy Mascarenhas, the animator spoke

To mark 140 years of the first missionary expedition, at Mornese Vihar, Sulcorna, we the Sisters, along with our boarders celebrated a Missionary Week. It commenced from 11th September to 17th September 2017. Remembering our first Sisters, we started with the Holy Eucharist and thanked God for their generosity in offering their lives at the service of poor and the marginalized. We implored God’s grace on all the missionaries toiling

The teacher’s day was celebrated with much joy and splendour  by our little ones at Aux- Carona. The theme:  “You nurture and transform our lives”. The celebration began with the Holy Eucharist, where the teachers came in procession carrying seeds in her hands and burying them in the mud pot which was placed on the Altar.  Fr. Franco Rodriguez SFX from Pilar celebrated the Holy Mass.  In his homily he

 Today’s Youth are tomorrow’s future. It was a great event to all our youth of Immaculate Conception Parish, Nandgad. On 2nd September at 2.30 pm, the 24 of them gathered in the Auxilium Convent hall for the celebration of Marian evening.  We began the evening with the Rosary animated by Sr. Antonette Horta. It was then followed by thanking the office Bearers of 2016 and welcoming the new elected office

In India, a Girl Child is the goddess to be respected. She is in the form of Laxmi (goddess of wealth), Saraswati (goddess of knowledge), and Sita (ideal consort of Lord Sri Ram). She is presented also in the form of Durga (destroyer of evil). But what is the reality in real life? It is quite different. It is said that, ‘God created mothers because He could not be present

In the family, Mother’s birthday is very dear to the children. For it reminds us of her tender motherly love, care and concern. In her we see the source of life. Our hearts are filled with joy to celebrate the birthday of our Blessed Mother Mary. We also celebrated the girl child day. In morning our school children had a rally in the village, they were heard shouting slogans,’Save the

Don Bosco asked us to increase our devotion to our Lady and we will see wonders in our life and so we believe that through her we see many wonders and miracles in our life and in our families. With joy and love for our beloved Mother, we began the Marian month on 9th August 2017. Through many spiritual practices, animated ‘Goodnights’ devotion like Good night on Mary, daily Rosary