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Blood Donation Drive And Health Camp Rani Maria cleared The Bombay Catho- for beatification lic Sabha, Vikhroli unit organised blood donation drive and health camp on 5th March 2017. 52 bottles of blood was collected from the donors. Health camp included eye checkup, den- tal, acupuncture, blood pressure, general physician and random diabe- tes test along with advanced diabetes Vatican City: Sister Rani Maria, Fran- (HbA1C) test. More ciscan Clarist nun who was assassi- than 300 people nated in central India 22 years ago, of all faith took ad- has been cleared for beatification by vantage of this free the Vatican on Mar 23. health camp. Beatification is the penultimate stage in the four-phased canoniza- On this occasion, tion process in the Catholic Church. The Bombay Catho- Rani Maria’s cause of canonization lic Sabha, Vikhroli began in 2003 and she was declared unit felicitated three Corporators who ken of appreciation for their service to a Servant of God four years later. won BMC 2017 election. Ms. Rajesh- the society. Further Mr. Akshay Gaik- Rani Maria was 41 when Saman- wari Redkar Ward No.120 Shiv Sena wad journalist of Marathi newspaper dar Singh stabbed her inside a bus (SS), Ms. Manisha Rahate Ward No. SAKAL was also felicitated who was on February 25, 1995. Singh was 119 National Congress Party (NCP) one blood donor at the camp. hired by some landlords who were and Mr. Upendra Sawant Ward No. upset with the nun’s fighting for just 118 Shiv Sena (SS) with a bouquet. Inputs by wages and other rights of the labor- We also invited them to felicitate all Mario Rodrigues ers. the doctors and their team along with Chairperson BCS vikhroli unit She was attacked while travelling the nurses with a memento as a to- to Indore on her way to her native place in Kerala. The attacker followed her when she ran out of the crowded bus and continued to stab her. She died of 54 stab wounds on the road- side at Nachanbore Hill near Indore. She was buried at Udaingar in Dewas district where she had worked among poor landless agricultural la- borers. As part of her beatification pro- cess, on November 18, 2016 Bish- op Chacko Thottumarikal of Indore supervised the opening of the slain On 18th March, 2017 BCS St.Joseph Vikhroli Unit members met Dr.Kirit Somaiya, Mem- nun’s tomb and shifted the mortal re- ber of Parliament,North East Mumbai when he was at the site to inspect the FOB work mains to a church.The congregation at Vikhroli East Phatak. hails Rani Maria’s martyrdom as “the most glorious event in the history of A flower bouquet appreciating his good work was handed over along with memoran- Udainagar as well as of Amala Prov- dum of issues pertaining Vikhroli to be addressed .He went through the same and a ince.” discussion was initiated by BCS VP Robert Dsouza and Chairperson Mario Rodrigues. Source: Vatican Radio 2 3 April 2017 Advertisement. 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Rs. 2000 for 12 insertions. (1 year The Secular Citizen FREE) Contents LENT 2017 GOSSIPING by Don Aguiar pg. 3 - Lent 2017 Gossiping pg. 5 - Reconciliation - A Stop closer ossips are worse than thieves because they steel another person’s dignity, hon- to God or, reputation and creditability which are impossible to restore. So remember this: when your feet slip, you can always recover your balance but when your pg. 6 - You the Citizens Decide Gtongue slips, you can never recover your words! pg. 8 - Dying to sin ... pg. 9 - From Crow to Hawk This LENT one of the things we can give up is GOSSIPING pg. 12 - Dear parents, stop pres- The Buddha says ‘speak less and silence feels beautiful’ surising your kids For what have I to say? 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Three years (anywhere in India) Rs. 700 Five years (anywhere in India) Rs. 1000 Gossiping becomes evil when it is out of jealousy, meanness, violence, when it is just to pull somebody down, when it comes out of a revengeful mind - but it is not the fault of One year (outside India) Rs. 2500 gossiping. Gossiping can come out of a meditative mind. Gossiping can come out of love, out of peace. Gossiping is an art in itself. Everybody is not capable of gossiping. There are E-paper Edition born gossipers sent anywhere in the world (by email) One year Rs. 600 or US $ 15 Celeste, an accomplished gossip and self-appointed monitor of her Church morals, also Two years Rs. 1000 or US $ 25 had the frequent habit of sticking her self-righteous nose into other’s people business. She was a master of creating something ugly about others from nearly anything she saw – this Cover : Lent 2017 Gossiping: gossip to be shared with anyone who would listen and then pass her ‘tidbits’ on to even more people. (Article on p. 3) (Contd.. on p. 4) 3 April 2017 3 (Contd.. from p. 3) excuses and rationalizations. Rather than and that the habbit of gossipping is an act admit wrongdoing, they blame someone of ‘terrorism’ else or attempt to minimize the seriousness Most of the church did not approve of her of the sin. The mind when idle or jealous or reveng- extracurricular activities, but often her ob- ful tends to discuss the defects of others. servations had a tiny grain of truth, so even Take for instance the Catholic community It helps the ego to feel good. Everybody is those who joined her gossip group feared where you will find many gossipers – at such a sinner; when everybody is such a her enough to maintain their silence – least the market place, before and after Mass or sinner, comparatively one feels like a saint. they become targets of Celeste’s frequent Rosary, and where ever…… and why does When everybody is doing wrong, it feels stories. the Catholic community invest plenty of good that “At least I am not doing that much time and energy in gossip when such time wrong.” One afternoon recently, Celeste spotted and energy could be invested in keeping Raymond’s old pickup parked in front of the the mind active and occupied in productive Hence people talk about others’ defects; town’s only, out of the way rural bar. Ray- work and improving ones life style, financial not only do they talk about them, they go mond was a relatively new member of the status and so on on magnifying them. That’s why there is so community, and she eagerly spread a tale of much joy in gossiping. When the gossip him – being an alcoholic. But there are great moralists whose whole passes from one mouth to another mouth, work is to see who is doing wrong. Their it becomes richer. And when it passes back She emphatically told her neighbor Cheryl whole life is wasted; they are like police again, something will be added to it. By the Anne, herself a champion gossip spreader, dogs sniffing here and there. Their whole evening, if you come to know the gossip that who passed it along to several others who life’s work is to know who is doing wrong. you started in the morning, you will be sur- would willingly (if not eagerly) carry out Ce- prised.