TOGETHER AS ONE FAMILY

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is noble and generous but to live gratitude is to touch the heavens”. On 25^th November 2015 our novitiate community became the altar of gratitude as we celebrated our community gratitude day. ‘Journeying towards holiness through joyful community communion’ was our theme. To build a structure we need strong foundation and firm pillars to hold the structure; in this one month spiritual preparation for our community gratitude day we strove to make Jesus our strong foundation and cheerfulness, understanding, knowing each other personally and being nourished by the Eucharist were our strong four pillars on which we built our community. This time of preparation helped each one of us to appreciate each other for our presence and for the unique role each plays to complete our community.

The Eucharist was solemnly celebrated by Fr. Felix Fernandes sdb. He enriched us with his homily wherein stressed that each community is the house of the Holy Trinity. Though the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are different yet they are one so also each community is called to build this divine bond. We are called to be blessings to our community. Though we are from different parts of our country this difference should bring us together to each other in love.

Our evening celebration was solemnized by the presence of S.T.I Fathers, brothers, Maria Vihar sisters, boarders and our helpers as we put up a semi-musical on the life of our saintly mother Mary Domenica Mazzarello. The play highlighted her as treasure of virtues, fountain of grace and embroidery of God’s love to the people. She is indeed a woman for all times. We thank God for this day which brought us together as one family may we continue to bear witness like the early Christian community and spread the love of Jesus to the ends of the earth.