The month of October dedicated to the missions and to the devotion of the Holy Rosary, reminds us to proclaim the Good News as Christians to those who do not know Christ. Mary the queen of Evangelization and to whom we honor as our Lady of the Rosary who being the first disciple of Jesus did God’s will, went in haste to help her cousin Elizabeth and shared in the mission of Jesus the Messiah.
We began this month with zeal and enthusiasm for the mission combined with 140th anniversary of the first missionary expedition to Uruguay. The activities were: animation of prayer, Rosary, spiritual reading on the lives of the pioneers of the first missionary expedition, study on the message of Mother General’s L. No. 972 and message of Pope Francis for the mission Sunday 2014, and giving Goodnights on different missionaries and sending wishes to the sisters of Mumbai Province missionaries working in different parts of the world. We also celebrated the missionary month in the villages, praying missionary Rosary in the Dakor society, Manjipura, Agarva viewing the movie on St. Teresa of Child Jesus the patron of missions. These activities were like a flame in our hearts to bear the light of Christ and His good News to the people around us.
The celebration of 140th anniversary of the first missionary expedition began with the triduum. The animation during the Morning Prayer was well done in the evening we had spiritual reading. We began our solemn celebration with a meaningful animated vigil service. The well animated Morning Prayer set the tone of the day in which a brief history of the first missionary expedition was read out. It was followed by the solemn Eucharistic celebration. Day was spent in thanksgiving to God for the gift of our missionaries past and present who made Christ known far and wide. We also felt a strong missionary impulse within ourselves to be missionaries wherever we are whether in the world or in our land itself. At 10.00 am, we had a celebration with the VEP staff, Educating Community and ITI students. We began with prayer followed by creative games and distributed snacks for them. In the evening at 7.00 pm we also had a celebration with the boarding children. We had prayer service followed by quiz where they had to answer the questions regarding the first missionary expedition.
After the dinner Sr. Elphina a local coordinator for missions conducted some games provided by the province and some more creative and interesting games on missions. This day was kept as day of praise and thanksgiving to God for the great spiritual achievements of the institution that spread its wings to South America reflecting on being missionaries in our work place and mission so as to make known Christ and his unconditional love to the entire world.