December 2018

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts”, says Henri Fredrick Amiel. We as a community decided to celebrate Provincial Gratitude day with following ideas: Put up the beautiful theme in the chapel. Pray for the communities each day by mentioning the name of the sisters, thus reaching out in prayers to the entire province.

On the 3rd of December 2018, an HIV/AIDS awareness programme was conducted at Ashish Bhavan, Kune by Akkar NGO. Around 30 women and a few men were present for the programme.  Valuable information was given by  Mr. Animesh Nayak and Mr. Chandrakant Sangle and it lasted for an hour. During the talk, they also stressed how and why to be careful.  

The long-awaited day dawned with the bubbling joy of our children on Nov. 25, 2018. The Auxilium Girls Promotion Center celebrated it at Pokhran, Zilla Parishad School No. 1. Children were anxiously waiting for this day. They were welcomed by the sisters and volunteers with the theme “Children of today Our Keepers Tomorrow.” The celebration was planned for the whole day. The event began with a short prayer service, seeking

On 18th November evening at 6:30 pm in the Maria Kripa Madanthyar with our hostel girls we had interfaith prayer moment in honour of Provincial Gratitude Day, with passages from different religious scriptures. The theme for the Gratitude day is Serve the Lord in holiness”, it was conducted by Sr. Mary Lobo. We invoked the Holy Spirit to be with us during the prayer moment, and we started the prayer.

Today on 25 November 2018 the Maria Niwas, Kalathur celebrated the 80th birthday of Sr. Beatrice Monteiro. A meaningful Eucharist was celebrated by Rev. Fr.  Cyril Menezes OCD. He spoke about the importance of life lived fully up to 80 years. We were glad to have this celebration on the feast of Christ the King. To add to the joy we had the privilege of having Sr. Rita Dora for

On 28th November we celebrated our Community Gratitude day on the theme: “Spread Peace of Christ”. PEACE was spelt out as Patience, Encouragement, Appreciation, Compassion, and Enthusiasm, and these virtues were the practice for five days, with the intentions for helpers, ADMA, women, children, Parish priests, and parishioners. Each day was made special by praying for the various groups. We could truly feel God’s divine presence as we kept giving

Resource persons from ‘Manshakti Research Centre, dealing with Education, from Lonavala was also invited on the first day of school to motivate the students of Auxilium Ahmednagar so that they could study well. The students of the secondary and higher secondary sections were given some valuable tips and were enlightened with handy techniques to retain and remember all that they have studied during the exams. The session was highly motivating, inspiring