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News Bulletin MAY • Volume : XXVII • No. : 11, May 2019 GABRIELITES - RANCHI RANCHI PROVINCE Monthly News Bulletin of the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel * For Private Circulation only THE NEWLY PROFESSED BROTHERS GABRIELITES - RANCHI Message St. Louis de Montfort said, Mary is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul, without reserve in order to belong entirely to Jesus. ... The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother. We know that St. Montfort is known for his particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the practice of praying the Rosary. He is considered as one of the early writers in the field of Mariology. His most notable works regarding Marian devotions are contained in The Secret of Mary and the True Devotion to Mary. Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is deeply rooted in scripture. If we want Christ to live His life in us and through us, if we want to be imitators of Christ, we must have a filial love for the Virgin Mary. By honouring His mother on earth, Jesus gave honour to His father in heaven. And Jesus himself, while hanging from the cross in John's gospel, entrusted Mary to John, and John to Mary. By this very act, Mary became the mother of all believers. As true Montfortians, devotion to Mary should be natural for us as we look to her as a mother. When we honour Mary, we honour Christ. As a Mother, she cares for her children and makes intercession for them. She asks the Father to bestow blessing upon them, which in turn has earned her the reward of being a mediatrix or distributrix of grace. God has accorded many privileges to Mary which have been made known through the teaching authority of the Church. During the month of May, the children of Mary flock to her intercession. Since May is Mary's month, let us take up the practice of the daily Rosary, add a few extra Marian prayers like the Memorare, read the books written by St. Montfort - The Secret of Mary, True Devotion to Mary, The secret of the Rosary etc. As the children of Mary, our Marian devotion is the ways in which we tell Mary we love her. During this month, let us give Mary our love. Ave Maria! Bro. Herman B. Lakra Provincial Superior ************************************ Programme of Provincial for May 2019 4th - 5th May : Provincial Council Meeting at Provincial House, Kanke 6th - 18th May : At Provincial House 19th - May : With Junior Brothers at Konbir- Noatoli 20th May : Nawatanr Community 21st May : Renewal of Vows of Junior Brothers at Noatoli 22nd - 23rd May : At Provincial House 24th - 25th May : At Lachragarh - Final Profession of Bro. Jenerius 26th - 31 May : At Provincial House 2 GABRIELITES - RANCHI MONTFORT VIDYA DEEP, RANCHI On 9th February Bro. Pradeep Horo, Bro. Jashwant along with Bro. Jaypaul Reddy went to Montfort Niketan, Noatoli to celebrate the birthdays of Bro. Xavier Tete and Bro. George Tirkey. Brothers from different communities were present to share the joy of Brotherhood. We went to Nawatanr community to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Bro. Subodh Kachhap. A meaningful short prayer was organized and followed by sumptuous fellowship meal. On 22nd February we went to celebrate the birthday of Bro. Cyril Lakra in St. Aloysius Community. I would like to give more information of the activities that are taking place at Montfort Vidya Deep. Bro. Placy kandulna and Bro. Jashwant are as busy as the honey bees in finishing the requirements of academic year. Two Candidates finished the Intermediate Exams. It seems they worked very hard and would pass in flying colors. Bro. Pradeep with Montfort Nagar led the choir on Easter Vigil Mass. Bro. Jashwant for the first time with full confidence tried his hands as a Choir Master for the group. He proved his mettle as good organizer. Bettiah parish appreciated for the good singing and creating a prayerful atmosphere. Bro. Jashwant went for vocation promotion from 23rd April to 26th April at different places. He was inspired by the Montfort's quote “If you don't take risk for God, you will do nothing for God.” So he too walked miles like Montfort in the scorching sun to search for the new generation Montfortians. On 27th April we anticipated the feast day celebration in order to celebrate in a grand manner. Montfort School celebrated the Investiture Ceremony and Montfort Feast in a grand way. Fr. Chinaya of Salvatorian Priest was the chief guest for the day. First we had the Eucharistic celebration then students took the oath to be faithful leaders and be loyal to school. A short cultural program was beautifully performed by students. At the end we had fellowship meals with the staff. Montfort Nagar as usually took the initiative to celebrate the feast in the campus. At 6 pm Bro. Placy gave introductory talk on Montfort's life and his spirituality at the statue of Montfort followed by Eucharist celebration and felicitation program. Montfort Unit prepared a tasty meal which was enjoyed by all. On 28th, we went to Montfort Niketan to celebrate the feast along with other Religious invitees. Bro. Jashwant Ekka 3 GABRIELITES - RANCHI ST. MONTFORT'S SCHOOL, KOLKATA The foundation day of the school was celebrated on 4th April, 2019. Every class put up beautiful programmes and remembered all those who contributed to the development of the school. On 12th April, we celebrated the birthday of Bro. Albinus Tigga. There was cake cutting and later lunch was provided to all the staff. Feast of St. Louis de Montfort was celebrated in the school with much pageantry and pomp. Every class had come up with programme and wished the Brothers during the programme. On 13th April Bro. Johnson left for Vijayawada to write the semester end exam of Master in Education (M Ed). He celebrated the Easter with the Brothers of Hyderabad Province. Newly furnished computer lab with laptops for the senior students and an activity room for the Montessori kids were inaugurated recently. 4 GABRIELITES - RANCHI On 27th April we invited the local Priests, Sisters, Staff and friends for the Eucharist celebration and lunch. As usual there was a good participation of local Religious for the programme. We received few summer rains in the middle and end of April, therefore the temperature has come down a little. We are hoping to get few more rains due to the cyclonic development in the Bay of Bengal. The classes will continue till 10th of May and the summer vacation will start from 11th May 2019. Bro. Johnson V. George ************************************ 5 GABRIELITES - RANCHI MONTFORT NIKETAN, KONBIR Fraternal Greetings from Montfort Niketan Konbir they came up with their colorful cultural events. Noatoli. Here I would like to pen down some of the past All the programmes were colorful and attractive. Soon events of our campus. We had already began our New after the cultural programme we had sumptuous meal session of this academic year with the new spirit and with the teachers in the school. On 28 April we had We are moving on with our new schedules. We had celebration with the local communities, many Priests given three days of Easter holyday to the students and and Nuns came to join us in our celebration. We started re-opened on 23 April. ourEaster celebration was in our celebration at 6:30 pm with a short prayer service simple way. We were all for the Easter celebration. followed by cultural programme. Hostel children came The Month of April is a very special for us to up with their thrilling performance and made the day commemorate the feast our founder St. Montfort. To memorable one. We are grateful to God for all the make this day a memorable one, our house leaders bountiful blessings, we hope it will continue in coming had taken great responsibility to practice for cultural generations too. programme. From all the houses many students came Bro. Zephrenius forward to take part in the practice, and on 27th April 6 GABRIELITES - RANCHI ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL, KANKE New Academic Year 2019-20, began on 01/04/19. Election awareness programme week was organized Children came back with much enthusiasm and by the school from 4th April to 10th April. During this energy. Both the headmasters; middle and high school period of time we had 'Prabhat Pheri' to encourage welcomed the students and staff warmly and wished voters to cast their valuable vote. Then we had them all the best for the new academic year. discussion session on the topic on 'why we should vote'. We also had painting competition on the topic 'how to cast vote'. Quiz competition also was conducted on the topic 'Importance of Election in Democracy' and also we had Rangoli making competition on 'Jago Matdata Jago'. Thus we the Josephites tried to make aware the voters of our parents and elders to cast their valuable vote to maintain the democratic setup of our beautiful country through different activities. 7 GABRIELITES - RANCHI Montfort Diwas was celebrated on 27th April. We began the day with Holy Mass in Christ the King Church, Kanke. Mass was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Elias Kullu, the Parish priest. In the Holy Mass Christian teachers and students of St. Maria girls' Middle school, Anita Girls' High school, Anita Intermediate College participated. Then we had colorful cultural program in the school premise followed by fellowship meal for the staff of all the institutions; St. Anne's School and St.
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