Happy New Year to all!!
First January: Today morning our Community
celebrated Eucharist having only two members, the other Brothers had gone to
their homes. For the Mass there were huge number of people as any other days as
well as nine priests who joined for the Mass. Though there were many for
distributing Communion, religious were asked to come forward.
On 4th Sunday there was the joining of
the Brothers in Community. We had a day of Gathering of Religious and Priests
of our Deanery, so on that day in India we all celebrated Three Kings feast
(Magi); our Community was also expecting the “three kings” who went home for
New Year. Around evening our gathering came to an end, we gave some of our
calendars to them so that they may have in their Communities and Schools.
With sudden change and the requirement of
Brothers from the Novitiate, our Superior needed to move to Eluru to undertake the
formation of the novices. It was on 8th; we went to railway station
but the ticket was not yet confirmed, so we bribed the TTE to have a seat at
least for sitting down in the train.
January 10th: This is a “red-letter
day” in the history of the Church of Kurdeg and the Church of Simdega, I hope,
since it was the day of the Ordination of three Priests from the same family
while elder brother already a Jesuit priest and younger one also a seminarian,
doing his theological studies. Three Bishops were present on that day; we
greeted our Bishop and many priests who were present to witness this historical
event. Stools were not sufficient for near
hundred priests were present there.
The following day was Sunday. There was
Thanksgiving Mass in the village of three newly ordained Priests; it was on the
top of a hill, where there was no proper road to reach their house. As we
reached there, we saw many people, even Fr. Raphael, who was the previous
Parish priest of Kurdeg. There were so many people but no helpers, so we, Brothers
and Sisters were helping them in the way we could.
On 14th there was holiday here for
Makar Sankarnti, which is a day to thank the lord Sun, so people decorated the
sky with kites. Mostly it is known as a festival of kites, so we Brothers also
did some but was failure because it was always decorating the earth rather than
the sky. We greeted the Community of Tamil Nadu on this day that celebrated the
festival of Pongal.
0n 16th we started to move to do the
“house visit” especially for family prayer, that was the moment we wished to
share our family spirit with the family members of this Parish. The first house
that we visited was our cook house because we wanted to visit families that we
know better so that it will be easy to communicate and to pray together to the
Holy Family.
This family prayer, we wanted to start early
but because of the other programs we were delayed. Yet we were welcomed in many
houses, but we had not sufficient time and means to reach all the places. In
every house, soon after of the prayer, we had some moments of sharing. During
that time, we had lot of enjoyments because it was about their experience in
life.
On 19th of this month we got the
connection for new gas cylinder after long period of months trying. Every day
our routine was smoothly, going well and good. On 21st was the
Birthday of our Br. Efraim who were supposed to be here, yet he was still in
Eluru Community, and there he celebrated his birthday in that community with
all Brothers, aspirants, postulants and novices. We greeted him through Viber.
On 25th we prayed at the house of the
Catholic Shaba President, that we planned to pray at the beginning, then it was
the last house where we prayed in this month honouring the Holy Family. Each
and every house, as we prayed in these days, it was something new for us as
well as for all whom we met.
In all the Schools of Kurdeg, they started to
prepare for the Republic Day function; for that, every day they had to practice
the march and so on fast. On 26th, we celebrated the Republic Day and
we paid tribute to our national flag, leaders, etc.
On 27th Br. Efra arrived in Rourkela
safe and sound; the train was not late like other times when he came. Again we
are as Community with all the members together. Next day he relaxed in the
house finishing some other peripheral works of our community.
On 29th he had to leave for Ranchi
for land purpose, as he had gone that day was not successful either; God only
knows when all these works are all going to be done. In the evening there was
blessing of a house in Hatta village, so our Community was present there in
sharing our joy as well as accompanying in the Mass and the programs.
We celebrated the month of Holy Family in
different ways in our Community and we finished also this month with same spirit.
Happy Holy Family Feast to all Brothers and candidates.
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