Fr. Kulndairaj S.J. Passed away ( St.Xavier's College Ahemadabad)

Fr.Kulandairaj Maria Arul S.J. who was the director of St. Xavier's Institute Of Computer Application(XICA) in St.Xavier's College campus in Ahemadabad passed away yesterday morning (31-08-2010.

He was born on 03-Sep-1961(Next month was his birthday). He was ordained on 25-Nov-1995 in The Society Of Jesus for Gujarat province.

Please note that the Funeral will be at St.Xavier's College Church, Ahemadabad in Gujarat, today (01-09-2010) at 4:30 p.m.

May God rest his soul in peace.

-Vijay Macwan

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Blessed Mother Teresa On Indian Currency

Our immense joy to have Mother Teresa and Saint Alphonsa on Indian currency. Please read the below given news. This post also has a small video of Blessed Mother Teresa.Commemorative Coins – India – Mother TeresaFinance Minister of India Mr P Mukherjee released a Five Rupee Coin on 28 Aug 2010 on Mother Teresa . The First Coin was presented to the President of India HE Mrs Pratibha Patil.The Coins ( Rs 100 +Rs 5 ) were released to Mark the Centenary of Mother Teresa
Courtesy:Indian Stamp Ghar
We also have India 5 rupees 2009 - Saint Alphonsa coin "Saint Alphonsa Centenary" Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu is a Catholic Saint, Indian origin canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Oriental-rite Catholic Church.
Courtesy:World coins blog (image and information by Pabitra Saha)

Please click the video of Blessed Mother Teresa

Video Courtesy:Gurjarvani,Ahemadabad.

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Photo Exhibition

WAVES team intiated by Gujarat Jesuit Youth Movement (GJYM)and Gurjarvani organized five photography workshops in deferent parts of Gujarat (at Vidhayanagar,Vadtal and Ahemadabad for central Gujarat, at Zhankhvav for South Gujarat and at Bhiloda for North Gujarat) More than two hundred participants, mostly students from rural areas in Gujarat participated in the photo workshops conducted during the period of June-2010 to August-2010.

The exhibition is the culmination of an empowring process. The photo exhibition photos have been taken either by during the workshops or sent as entries.

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Mother Teresa Biography in English And In Gujarati

Mother Teresa Biography can read In Gujarati and in English.

મધર ટેરેસા

મધર ટેરેસાનો જન્મ ૨૬મી ઓગસ્ટ, ૧૯૧૦ માં થયો હતો. તેમનું નામ આગ્નેશ હતું. તેમને નાનપણથીજ સારા સંસ્કાર મળ્યા હતા. તેમને પોતાનું જીવન પ્રભુ ઈસુના ચિંધેલા માર્ગે જીવવું હતું. અઢાર વર્ષની ઉમરે તે લોરેટો મંડળમાં દાખલ થયા ત્યારે તેમને લોરેક્ષના સંત ટેરેસાનું નામ પસંદ કર્યું. તેમને ડબ્લીનમાં તાલીમ પૂરી કરી અને ૧૯૨૮માં તે ભારત આવ્યા. કોલકતાની કોન્વેન્ટ સ્કુલમાં તે છોકરીયોને ભણાવતા. પરંતુ કોલકતાના ગરીબ, માંદા લોકોની પરિસ્થિતિથી તે પુરેપુરા વાકેફ હતા. તેમની સેવા કરવાની તેમને અદમ્ય ઈચ્છા હતી. ૧૯૪૬માં તે રિટ્રીટ-પ્રાથના માટે દાર્જીલિંગ જતા હતા ત્યારે તેમને અંતરાત્મા નો સાદ સંભળાયો, 'મારે આ દુખીજનોની, ગરીબોના ગરીબની સેવા કરવી જોઈએ. ત્યારથી મિશનરીઝ ઓફ ચેરિટી શરૂઆત થઇ. તેમને કાળી માતા ના જુના મંદિરના પટાંગણમાં માંદા અને તરછોડાયેલા લોકોને આશરો આપવનું શરુ કર્યું.
તે ભીખ માંગીને ખોરાક અને દવા લાવતા.એક વાર એક વેપારીએ મધર ટેરેસાને પૈસા કે મદદ આપવાને બદલે તેમના હાથ પર થુંકયા પરંતુ મધર ટેરેસાએ તેમને કહ્યું,'આ થૂક તો મારા માટે આપ્યું હવે આ બીમાર લોકો માટે કંઈક આપો.' અને પેલા વેપારીનું મન બદલાઈ ગયું. આમ, મધર ટેરેસા સર્વે કાઈ બીજા માટે કરતા.બીજા એક પ્રસંગે તેમને એમના એક મિત્રે કહ્યું, 'મને તમે પુષ્કળ પૈસા આપો તો પણ હું આ સળી ગયેલા, રક્તપિતથી પીડાતા માણસને ન અડું.' મધર ટેરેસાએ કહ્યું 'હું પણ ના અડું, પણ હું આ બધું ઈસુના પ્રેમને લીધે કરું છું, અને કરીશ.' મધર ટેરેસા દરેકમાં પ્રભુ ઈસુને જોતા અને તેમની સેવા કરતા. તેમને ૫ મી સપ્ટેમ્બર,૧૯૯૭માં ચીરવિદાય લીધી. આજે પણ તેમનું જીવન ઘણાને પ્રેરણા આપે છે, હાલ એમના મંડળમાં ઘણા સીસ્ટરો ઘણા દેશોમાં તેમનું સેવાકાર્ય આગળ ધપાવવા પોતાનું સર્વસ્વ અર્પણ કરી રહ્યા છે.

ફા. અલ્પેશ એસ.જે
હિલનગર, ડ્રાઈવ ઇન-રોડ,અમદાવાદ.

Can also read in English,

Mother Teresa Biography

Born: August 26, 1910
Died: September 5, 1997
Achievements: Started Missionaries of Charity in 1950; received Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979; received Bharat Ratna in 1980.

Mother Teresa was one of the great servants of humanity. She was an Albanian Catholic nun who came to India and founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Later on Mother Teresa attained Indian citizenship. Her selfless work among the poverty-stricken people of Kolkata (Calcutta) is an inspiration for people all over the world and she was honored with Nobel Prize for her work.

Mother Teresa's original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born on August 27, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her father was a successful merchant and she was youngest of the three siblings. At the age of 12, she decided that she wanted to be a missionary and spread the love of Christ. At the age of 18 she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.

.After a few months of training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin Mother Teresa came to India. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught geography and catechism at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta. However, the prevailing poverty in Calcutta had a deep impact on Mother Teresa's mind and in 1948, she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

After a short course with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She started an open-air school for homeless children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorities.

On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican to start her own order. Vatican originally labeled the order as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, and it later came to known as the "Missionaries of Charity". The primary task of the Missionaries of Charity was to take care of those persons who nobody was prepared to look after.

The Missionaries of Charity, which began as a small Order with 12 members in Calcutta, today has more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Poland, and Australia. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa permission to expand her order to other countries. The order's first house outside India was in Venezuela. Presently, the "Missionaries of Charity" has presence in more than 100 countries.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions. These include the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace & Understanding (1972), Balzan Prize (1978), Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna (1980).

On March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997,just 9 days after her 87th birthday. Following Mother Teresa's death, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa.In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Mother Teresa was formally beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003 with the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. A second miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization.

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iloveindia.com

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"તારણહાર ઇસુ" (Taranhar Issu)

માનનીય ફાધર અન્તોન મેકવાન દ્વારા સંપાદિત કરેલ પુસ્તક "તારણહાર ઇસુ" (સમાંતર શુભ સંદેશ) નો લોકાર્પણવિધિનો કાર્યક્રમ નડીઆદના ક્રાઈસ્ટ ધ કિંગ દેવાલયમાં ૨ ઓગસ્ટના દિવસે યોજવામાં આવ્યો હતો. આ પુસ્તક બર્તોન એચ થ્રોક્મોર્તોન, jr. રચિત Gospel paralles નો ગુજરાતી અનુવાદ છે.દરેક ખ્રિસ્તી કુટુંબમાં તારણહાર પ્રભુ ઈસુનું જીવન અને તેમનો પ્રેમ ઝગમગતો રહે અને સર્વ ઘરમાં પ્રભુમય જીવન જીવવા માટે મદદરૂપ થાય તે હેતુસર આ સુંદર પુસ્તક ફાધર અન્તોન મેકવાને આપણા માટે પ્રસિદ્ધ કર્યું છે. ફાધર અન્તોને આપણા સમાજમાં પ્રભુભક્તિ અને આધ્યાત્મિકતા વધે તે માટે ભજનો માટેની કેસેટોનું પણ યોગદાન આપ્યું છે.

આ કાર્યક્રમમાં આપણા લાડીલા માનનીય બીશપ શ્રી થોમસ મેકવાને હાજરી આપી આ પુસ્તકનું વિમોચન કર્યું હતું.આ પ્રસંગે બીજા ઘણા જાણીતા ને લોકલાડીલા ફાધરો અને સીસ્ટરોએ હાજરી આપી પુસ્તકને આવકાર્યું હતું. અંતે નડીઆદના ધર્મજનો તથા આગેવાનોના સાથ સહકારથી આ કાર્યક્રમ સફળ રહયો હતો

આવો, ફાધરના આ ઉમદા કાર્યને સૌં સાથે મળીને વેગ આપીએ.

આ પ્રસંગની યાદગારી સુંદર ભજન સાથે જોવા માટે નીચેના વિડીઓ ઉપર ક્લિક કરો.
Fr. Anton Macwan has published a book called "Taranhar Issu" (Saviour Jesus). To bring love and live life of Christ Fr.Anton has translated this book from "Gospel Paralles" by Burton H.Throcmorton. Rev. Bishop Thomas Macwan gave an introduction about how this book can help once life and then gave it to church for their reflection and daily prayers. There were many well known priests and nuns and the people of Nadiad gathered to be the part of the programme

Let us all come together and share the love of Christ by "તારણહાર ઇસુ" (Taranhar Issu)

વિડીયો અને ફોટાનું સૌજન્ય
-પરેશ આર્ટ,નડીયાદ.

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A Beautiful Video

This is a very beautiful video with a Gujarati bhajan "A Few Moments O Lord" to meditate and give a few seconds to God. Please click to watch

Have a nice day.

Courtesy: Fr. Devasia S.J., Gurjarvani.

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Mother Teresa_100 Years Celebration

The Birthday Of Mother Teresa will be celebrated at Petlad In Gujarat on August 29,2010. The celebration program will be published after the celebration. Please click the image to view in larger size

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“Indian Christian Martyrs’ Day”

Ecumenical Commission Appeals to Commemorate Last Sunday of August as “Indian Christian Martyrs’ Day”


The above is the photo of a christian who was burnt alive in Orissa. Let us all pray for those martyrs and for their families on 29th August,Last Sunday of this month.

Bhopal : Ecumenical Commission of the Catholic Conference of Bishops of India,(CCBI),has appealed to all Christian community members to remember the Indian Christian Martyrs on 29th August,(Last Sunday of the month).

Ecumenical Commission, CCBI has send letters to all its regional, diocesan secretaries and heads of various denominations and ecclesial communities to celebrate the last Sunday as the Christian Martyrs’ Day. Commission in its Annual meeting, (11-13 January 2009), held at Jhansi had endorsed the proposal put by the Madhya Pradesh Region on behalf of the Isai Mahasangh which had started this movement in 2008.

Bishop Dr. Anil Cuto , (Bishop of Jalandhar), the Ecumenism Commission Chairman, said, “ we request all Christians belonging to all denomination to remember those died for the sake of their faith. The Catholic Church has a very dignified procedure to declare martyrs, saints etc. but what we expect is to remember the sacrifice made by people. It is not declaring somebody a saint but an effort to preserve their suffering and sacrifice as a heritage of the Christians. It can inspire many generations.”

Fr. Anbu svd, National Secretary to the Ecumenical Commission, told, “the Church is standing on the Blood of the Martyrs, we Want to honour them, the Christians who sacrificed their lives are from different denominations and ecclesial communities so it could be an ecumenical effort to unite the Christians towards their great sacrifice.”

Mr. Kurishinkal Josy , President, Isai Mahasangh (IMS) said , “the great sacrifice done by the Christians of Orissa has to be remembered by the people of India . So we started to celebrate Indian Christian Martyrs’ Day. We are happy that August month is chosen for the same because it is in this month most of the Christians scarified their life in Orissa. we will remember it as a day to recall all those Christians since St. Thomas , the apostle, who were killed while serving the Lord.”

In Madhya Pradesh, Isai Mahasangh has already started preparations for the celebrations across the state. Richard D’Silva , Media In-charge, said ,We have started and E-mail campaign to appeal all the Church leaders and people of good will to celebrate it with prayer, fasting, blood donation camps etc. He also said that Archbishop Dr. Leo Cornelio, Fr. Anand Muttungal and many Christian leaders have been constantly supporting our efforts. We express whole hearted gratitude to them and to Commission for Ecumenism, CCBI for taking up this cause of the people.”

Isai Mahasangh organizers say that Kandamal martyrdom and suffering is a symbol of Christian heroism so it must be made known to all through a very unique way.

Courtesy:
Richard D’Silva
In charge of Media
Isai Mahasangh ,Madhya Pradesh
mp.christian@yahoo.com

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Making Of Green Earth

Yesterday the youth and children and the elders of Bhumel about 25 people gathered to raise a voice against global warming, a voice for freedom from global warming on the feast of Mother Mary and the Independence Day of India. They all planted trees in Church and graveyard. It was a different way of celebrating both the feast of Mother Mary and Independence Day. Please click the below given video to be a part of it. Let us all plant trees and send a message to all "Making Of Green Earth"



ગઈ કાલે ૧૫મી ઓગસ્ત અને પવિત્ર મારિયાના તહેવારના પ્રસંગ નિમિતે ભુમેલના બાળકો, યુવાનો અને વડીલો દ્વારા દેવળમાં અને કબ્રસ્તાનમાં વૃક્ષારોપણ કર્યું. આ પ્રવૃત્તિથી ગ્લોબલ વોર્મિંગ દુર કરવા માટે એક પ્રયાસ કરવામાં આવ્યો.ધરતી માતાને ફરીથી રળીયામણી બનાવવાના ધ્યેય સાથે આશરે ૨૫ લોકો સાથે ભેગા મળીને વૃક્ષારોપણ કર્યું હતું.આ પ્રવૃત્તિનો મુખ્ય ધ્યેય ધરતી માતાને ગ્લોબલ વોર્મિંગથી મુક્તિ આપવાનો છે.

આ સુંદર પ્રવૃત્તિનો શ્રેય શ્રી કાન્તીભાઈ આર. મેકવાન (જેમને આ વર્ષે રક્ષિત ખેડૂત નો અવોર્ડ ગુજરાત સરકાર દ્વારા આપવામાં આવ્યો હતો) અને શ્રી કાન્તીભાઈ એ પરમાર (પેરીશ કાઉનસીલના સભ્ય)તથા શ્રી હસમુખભાઈ વી મેકવાન (પેરીશ કાઉનસીલના સભ્ય) તથા ભૂમેલના બાળકો અને આગળ પડતા યુવાનોને જાય છે.

આવો ધરતી માતાને ફરીથી સુંદર બનાવવાના આ સુંદર અભિયાનને આપણે સહુ ભેગા મળી આગળ વધારીએ.

માતા મારિયાના તહેવારની શુભકામના અને જય હિન્દ.
Happy Feast And Jay Hind

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Happy Feast_Maria Assumpta

Maria Assumpta, is the hope of our heavenly destination after life's sojourn.

Happy Feast and Jay hind

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How to Live Life YOU Desire

This is a beautiful motivation clip to share with each one of us. Please click the below given link to watch

"How to Live Life YOU Desire"

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Courtesy:Earl Nightangle
Thanks to Fr.Irudayaraj for sharing with us

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Do you love Him ?

Do you love Him?

In our day to day life we just forget to thank God for the beautiful life he has given us. He loves us and even for our love He sent his Son Jesus who died for us. For our faith formation let us ask ourselves Do we really love Him?

Do You Love Him ?

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The Beauty On Earth

Gujarat had a very good rain in last 3 days. It has changed the earth into a beautiful green heaven around us.The green grass and the beautiful flowers look like ornaments the mother earth is wearing.

Please click the below given slides to view some of the beauty of the earth.

The Beauty On Earth

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Called To Serve_The Society Of Jesus

Please click to view St Ignace life - Gujarat province, Glimpses of the life of St Ignatius of Loyola. This video has a beautiful Gujarati song of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Everyone is called to praise, reverence and serve God. One of the ways to do so is to be a priest and serve God’s people. Any young man who dares to serve the people of God in Gujarat and be a priest like St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier were, can join the Society of Jesus. (Isu Sanghi)

Watch Talk by Fr. Shekhar S.J. on St.Ignatius of Loyola in English,
Courtesy: Gurjarvani,Ahemdabad.


Dare to be a Jesuit priest ?

Contact : Vocation Promoter, Gujarat Province for the Society Of Jesus,
Fr. Sudhir Chettiar. S.J.
Sughadpanth, Gurukul,Ahemadabad.
Cell : +9194265 78258
Email : sudhirchettiar@jesuits.net

-Video courtesy
Fr. Sudhir Chettiar. S.J.

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