કવાટ અને છોટાઉદેપુરમાં માતા મારિયાની ભક્તિ

કવાટ

ચોમાસાની ઋતુંની શરૂઆત દક્ષીણ ગુજરાતમાં થઇ ગઈ છે ત્યારે સમગ્ર પ્રદેશ જાણે લીલી ચાદર પહેરીને ઈશ્વરના ગુણગાન ગાતો હોય તેવું સુંદર કુદરતી સૌંદર્ય જોવા મળી રહ્યું છે.

 ખેતરમાં આદિવાસી ભાઈઓ વાવણી અને રોપણી કરતા જોવા મળે છે તો વળી, બહેનો નિંદણ અને પશુઓને લીલો ચારો આપતા જોવા મળે છે. હરેકના ચહેરા ઉપર આનંદ સમાતો નથી ત્યારે આ સુંદર ઋતુમાં ઈશ્વરનો આભાર માનવા કવાટ અને છોટાઉદેપુરમાં માતા મારિયાની ભક્તિ અને ઉજવણી કરવામાં આવી રહી છે. બાળકોથી માંડી વડીલો પણ આ ઉજવણીમાં જોડાય છે.

 ડોન  બોસ્કો ફાધર્સ દ્વારા આ મહિનો માતા મારિયા માટે ઉજવવામાં આવે છે.  માતા મારિયા દરેકની વિનંતી પ્રભુ પાસે લઈ જાય અને તેમના દ્વારા ઈશ્વરની અસીમ કૃપા પ્રદેશ અને સમગ્ર માનવજાત ઉપર અમી છાંટા વરસાવે તેવી અરજ આ ઉજવણી દ્વારા કરવામાં આવે છે.

છોટાઉદેપુર

આ ઉજવણી નિમિત્તે અલગ-અલગ હેતુઓ સ્કુલ અને બોર્ડીંગ ના બાળકો દ્વારા રજુ કરી દરરોજ ગુલાબમાળાની ભક્તિ કરવામાં આવે છે

સમગ્ર ખેડૂત વર્ગ ભક્તિની સાથે આ સમયે ખેતી કરવામાં રચ્યો પચ્યો જોવા મળે છે.

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Last Journey Of Late Fr. Anil Lucas Macwan S.J.

ફા અનીલ લુકાસ મેકવાનનું નિધન તા 22-07-2012 ની  રાત્રે 9:30 વાગે નડિયાદમાં આવેલ હાર્ટ  હોસ્પીટલમાં થયું. તેમની દફનવિધિ  ગઈ કાલે તા 23-07-2012 બપોરે 4 વાગે ગામડી-આણંદમાં રાખવામાં આવેલ તે સમયનો વીડિઓ જોવા માટે નીચે ક્લિક કરશો .

   

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 Late Fr. Anil Lucas Macwan S.J. passed away on 22-07-2012 by a massive heart attack. His funeral was at Gamdi-Anand  Church yesterday  23-07-2012. A lot of his friends, clergy and Rt. Bishop Thomas Macwan (Ahmedabad Dio.) Rt. Bishop Godfrey Rosario (Baroda Dio.) Rt. Arch Bishop Stany (Ghandhinagar Dio.) and Rev Fr.Jose Changanachery S.J.  (Provincial Of The Society Of Jesus, Gujarat Province) celebrated the funeral Mass and paid the last visit.

 The St.Xavier's school Gamdi-Anand, Anand Press, Guarat Sahitya Prakash and Vimal Miriyam School were closed down in the afternoon. The staff of the institutions, friends, relatives and family of Late Fr. Anil Lucas Macwan S.J. paid last visit. 

Late Father was buried at Gamdi graveyard. May his soul rest in peace.  

Important details of Late Fr. Anil Lucas Macwan S.J.

He was born on 05- 01 1958

Entrance in the Society: 30 -07- 1978

Final Vows: 31- 01-1999

Priesthood: 29-04-1989

Died : 22-07-2012

Late Fr. Anil Lucas Macwan S.J. at Divine mercy Church, Salun in April 2012

Pastoral Year: Dediapada& Bharuch -1986

Teacher: Gandhinagar- 1990-1991

Teacher, &Principal: Zankhvav- 1991-1997

Principal: St.Joseph, Baroda: 1997-2000

Principal : Dhandhuka 2000- 2002

Principal: St.Xavier’s Khambhat- 2002-2009

Principal: Sagbara- 2009- 2012

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Passed Away_Fr. Anil Lucas SJ

Rev.Fr. Anil Lucas S.J.

Rev. Fr. Anil Lucas SJ had heart attack yesterday (21-07-2012). He was admitted in hospital at Bharuch yesterday. Due to his critical health today (22-07-2012) he was brought to the Heart Hospital, Nadiad where he passed away this evening. RIP

Fr. Anil Lucas was the principal in Sagbara school.


The funeral will be in Anand at 4 PM tomorrow (on 23-07-2012) .  Stay tuned for more details and funeral mass on BBN.

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In month of April, he attended a silver Jubilee program at Salun 

This video was prepared today just before his death to pray for him but unfortunately before we update you we had bad news that he is now no more with us.

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Feast Of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel

 Today 16-07-2012, is the Feast Of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel .

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Mount Carmel is commemorated is Scripture for its beauty and it was there the prophet Elijah defended the purity of Israel's faith in the living God. towards the end of the 12th century near a spring, a group of hermits established themselves on Mount Carmel and built an oratory in honor of our Lady whom they chosen as their patroness.They regarded the Blessed Virgin as their Mother and model in leading the contemplative life and then in sharing the fruits of their contemplation to others. According to traditional accounts, the blessed Virgin Mary appeared at Cambridge to Simon Stock who was Prior General of the Carmelite Order in the middle of the 13th Century. Simon was an Englishman, a man of  great holiness and devotion, who always in his prayers asked the Virgin to favor his Order with some singular privilege. The Virgin appeared to him holding the Scapular in her hand saying, 'This is for you and yours privilege ;the one who dies in it will be saved.'

 The feast of our Lady of Mount Carmel in mid July is for all a symbol because Mary is the Centre who polarize the life of every Carmelite. Her presence gives us human warmth,nearness and simplicity that are something of our own. the steps of Mary are the steps of a person with absolute  availability to the plan of God.

 The three elements of prayers, community and ministry are today's ways of living out the Charism of the Order of Carmel.

 The Celebration of the Feast is an invitation to deepen our love and devotion to Mary who impels us to imitate her virtues. She welcomed the Word of God, listened and kept pondering in her heart. she did not reject The Word Of God as she did....to be prayerful, contemplative, generous and unselfish. Let her maternal blessing and graces enable us to renew our Yes day by day and with a total commitment.

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THE NEW EVANGELIZATION

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (B) 15 July 2012 

Mark 6, 7-13 

 Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.”

 They went out and preached that people should repent. They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.(NIV)

THE NEW EVANGELIZATION 

José Antonio Pagola 

Rev. Fr. Valentine de Souza S.J.

 The Church today feels the need of a new evangelization. In what would it consist? How would it be new? What do we need to change? What was Jesus’ intention in sending his disciples to continue his evangelizing task?

 The account of Mark makes it clear that Jesus alone is the source, the inspirer and the model of the evangelizing activity of his followers. They will act on his authority. They will do nothing in their own name. They are “sent” by Jesus. They will not preach their own message: they will only proclaim his Gospel. They will not engage in other pursuits: they will devote themselves to opening paths to the kingdom of God.

 The only way to promote a “new evangelization” is to purify and intensify this relationship with Jesus. There will be no new evangelization if there are no new evangelizers and there will be no new evangelizers if there isn’t a more lively, clear and passionate contact with Jesus. Without him we will do everything except bring his Spirit into the world.

 On sending them, Jesus does not leave his disciples to their own resources. He gives them his “authority”, which is not a power to control, rule or dominate others, but his power to drive out unclean spirits, freeing people from what enslaves, oppresses and dehumanizes them and society.

 The disciples know very well what it is Jesus charges them with. They have never seen him ruling anybody. They have always known him to heal wounds, alleviate suffering, regenerate lives, free from fears, transmit trust in God. To “heal” and to “free” are priority tasks in the activity of Jesus. It will give a radically different image to our evangelization.

Jesus sends them with all that’s needed for the journey. According to Mark, they will carry “a staff, sandals and a tunic”. They will not need anything more to be witnesses of what’s essential. Jesus wants to see them free and without attachments: always available, not tied down with prosperity; relying on the strength of the Gospel.

There will be no new evangelization without recovering this model of evangelization. The important thing is not to undertake new activities and programs, but to free ourselves of customs, structures and obligations that prevent us being free to transmit the essence of the Gospel with truth and simplicity.

The Church has lost the itinerant style suggested by Jesus. It moves slowly and heavily. It does not succeed in keeping pace with humanity. We do not have the ability to move easily between cultures. We hold on to the power we’ve had. We are entangled in affairs incompatible with the kingdom of God. We need conversion.

Promote an evangelization faithful to Jesus 

Jose Antonio Pagola, vgentza@euskalnet.net , San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, Spain. 

English Translation by Valentine de Souza S.J. Mandal, Gujarat , India.394650 

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The New Evangelization by Ronald Rolheiser OMI (CNUA)

The New Evangelization by Ronald Rolheiser OMI (CNUA) 

Recently a new expression has made its way into our theological and ecclesial vocabulary. There's a lot of talk today about the New Evangelization. Indeed the Pope has called for a Synod to meet this year for a month in Rome to try to articulate a vision and strategy for such an endeavor.

What is meant by New Evangelization? In simple terms: Millions of people, particularly in the Western world, are Christian in name, come from Christian backgrounds, are familiar with Christianity, believe that they know and understand Christianity, but no longer practice that faith in a meaningful way. They've heard of Christ and the Gospel, even though they may be overrating themselves in their belief that they know and understand what these mean. No matter. Whatever their shortcomings in understanding a faith they no longer practice, they believe that they've already been evangelized and that their non-practice is an examined decision. Their attitude toward Christianity, in essence, is: I know what it is. I've tried it. And it's not for me!

And so it no longer makes sense to speak of trying to evangelize such persons in the same way as we intend that term when we are speaking of taking the Gospel to someone for the first time. It's more accurate precisely to speak of a new evangelization, of an attempt to take the Gospel to individuals and to a culture that have already largely been shaped by it, are in a sense over-familiar with it, but haven't really in fact examined it. The new evangelization tries to take the Gospel to persons who are already Christian but are no longer practicing as Christians.

How to do that? How do we make the Gospel fresh for those for whom it has become stale? How do we, as G. K. Chesterton put it, help people to look at the familiar until it looks unfamiliar again? How do we try to Christianize someone who is already Christian?

There are no simple answers. It's not as if we haven't already been trying to do that for more than a generation. Anxious parents have been trying to do this with their children. Anxious pastors have been trying to do that with their parishioners. Anxious bishops have been trying to do that with their dioceses. Anxious spiritual writers, including this one, have been trying to do that with their readership. And an anxious church as a whole has been trying to do that with the world. What more might we be doing?

My own view is that we are in for a long, uphill struggle, one that demands faith in the power and truth of what we believe in and a long, difficult patience. Christ, the faith, and the church will survive. They always do. The stone always eventually rolls away from the tomb and Christ always eventually re-emerges, but we too must do our parts. What are those parts?

The vision we need as we try to reach out to evangelize the already evangelized will, I believe, need to include these principles:

· 1. We need to clearly name this task, recognize its urgency, and center ourselves in Jesus' final mandate: Go out to the whole world and make disciples.

· 2. We need work at trying to re-inflame the romantic imagination of our faith. We have been better recently at fanning the flames of our theological imagination, but we've struggled mightily to get people to fall in love with the faith.

· 3. We need to emphasize both catechesis and theology. We need to focus both on those who are trying to learn the essentials of their faith and those who are trying to make intellectual sense of their faith.

· 4. We need a multiplicity of approaches. No one approach reaches everyone. People go where they are fed.

· 5. We need to appeal to the idealism of people, particularly that of the young. We need to win people over by linking the Gospel to all that's best inside them, to let the beauty of the Gospel speak to the beauty inside of people.

· 6. We need to evangelize beyond any ideology of the right or the left. We need to move beyond the categories of liberal and conservative to the categories of love, beauty, and truth.

· 7. We need to remain widely "Catholic" in our approach. We are not trying to get people to join some small, lean, purist, sectarian group, but to enter a house with many rooms.

· 8. We need to preach both the freedom of the Gospel and its call for an adult maturity. We need to resist preaching a Gospel that threatens or belittles, even as we preach a Gospel that asks for free and mature obedience.

· 9. We need today, in an age of instability and too-frequent betrayal, to give a special witness to fidelity.

· 10. We need, today more than ever, to bear down on the essentials of respect, charity, and graciousness. Cause never justifies disrespect.

We need to work at winning over hearts, not hardening them.

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પીઢ મિશનરી સી. મારિયા માયાનું નડીયાદના ધર્મજનો દ્વારા સન્માન

મમ્મી મારિયાના નામે ઓળખાતા એવા પીઢ મિશનરી સિ.મારિયા માયાનું નડીયાદના ધર્મજનો દ્વારા, રવિવારે સવારે સેન્ટ મેરીસ ચર્ચ ખાતે સન્માન કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું.

આ પ્રસંગે સિ.મારિયા માયાને માતૃછાયા-1 ના બાળકો દ્વારા સુંદર નૃત્ય કરી વેદી આગળ લાવવામાં આવ્યા હતા, તેમને ધર્મજનો દ્વારા ફૂલહાર અને તાળીઓથી અને હાજર પુરોહિતો દ્વારા સન્માન પત્ર અને પારિતોષિક આપી વધાવી લેવામાં આવ્યા હતા. આ સુંદર પ્રસંગે ફા. અન્તોન મેકવાન અને સંદીપભાઈ પરમારના સહયોગથી સિ. મારિયા માયાની જીવનગાથા રજુ કરતી પુસ્તિકાનું  વિમોચન કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું.  

સેવા અને પ્રેમના પ્રતિક સમા મમ્મી મારિયા પોતાની આગળ બેઠેલા બાળકોને નિહાળતા આ પ્રસંગે પોતાનો મહિમા નહિ પરંતુ પ્રભુનો મહિમા થાય તે માટે પોતાનું મસ્તક પ્રભુ આગળ ઝૂકાવી દીધું હતું.

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Fr. Goras S.J. Passed Away

ફા. ગોરસનુ  અવસાન ત્રીજી જુનના રોજ રાધનપુરમાં હાર્ટ એટેકથી થયું. તેમની દફનવિધિ ધંધુકામાં ચોથી તારીખે  રાખવામાં આવી હતી. આ પ્રસંગે ધંધુકા પંથકમાંથી અને પેટલાદ મરિયમપુરામાંથી અને દુર દુરથી લોકો ફાધરને અંતિમ વિદાઈ  આપવા આવ્યા હતા. દફનવિધિનો પ્રસંગ જોવા માટે વીડિઓ નિહાળશો.     

Please click the video for funeral mass and few interviews of student, friend and laity.

Information Of Late Fr. Goras S.J

Date of Birth: 18- 06 1934

Entrance in the Society: 07 -09- 1952

Final Vows: 15- 08-1979

Priesthood: 25-03-1965

Died : 03-07-2-12 at Radhanpur 

Funeral at Dhandhuka, Gujarat on 04-06-2012

Known to the places as 

Asst.PP : Mariampura _ Petlad 1967

Parish Priest (Acting from Mariampura) 1968

Parish Priest- Mariampura –Petlad: 1969

Parish Priest: Dhandhuka 1976 – 2004

Superior : Dhandhuka – Sanand 2004- 2010

Asst PP: Dhandhuka 2004- 2012

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Late Fr. Goras ( GOROSQUIETA JOSE LUIS) S.J. Passed Away

Fr. Goras (GOROSQUIETA JOSE LUIS) S.J. Passed Away today evening. The Funeral will be tomorrow at 4:00 pm at Dhandhuka
More details and funeral mass will be available as soon as possible on BBN. Stay connected

Late Fr. Goras ( GOROSQUIETA JOSE LUIS) S.J.

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A Journey Of 50 Years_Bro.Paul Macwan S.J.

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 Right from his schooling he was inspired by Jesuits and joined the novitiate at Vinayalaya, Mumbai after his studies, (on 30-July-1961).  Soon after his novitiate he was sent to De Nobili College, Pune where for 15 long years he held several  offices including the job of minister. to serve the Refugees of Cambodia and Vietnam was his next mission. Bro. Paul Macwan SJ received a letter of merit from the UN High Commission and Fr. Aruppe, General Of The Society Of Jesus for his laudable work.

After coming back to his province Gujarat, India, For seven years he worked as treasurer, farm minister, in-charge of social work and secretary of the Adivasi Samajik Kendra Dediapada,Relva and Nani Sigloti in South Gujarat,India.

He collaborated with Rev.Fr. Berethi Sj in starting the first educational project in South Gujarat. He also helped out in the management of the milk cooperative society in Dediapada.   

  
Bro. Paul was also sent to Ethopia as Field Director Of JRS. He also received a letter of appreciation from the Ministry Of  Health of the Ethopian Government.. After coming back he did he tertianship he was in Khambhat as administrator and treasure and the director of Agriculture projects. Bro. Paul also constructed schools. hostels, residences and churches in several mission stations. He was called to Premal Jyoti, Ahmedabad. to work in the Province Curia.

Bro. Paul is person for everybody.He makes friends easily and his friendships last long. He is good at accounts. He is creative

Bro. Paul is also known for writing Gujarati Plays. Before Joining the Society he had written a Play which was staged at the Town Hall in Baroda City, Gujarat.  

Take a chance to meet him here. Please click the above video.

Report Source:
The Letter Of The Superior General Of the Society Of Jesus, 
Adolfo  Nicolas S.J. 


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A Spiritual Talk By Rev. Bro. Agnelo S.J.

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