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glory. Discovering God in all MISSION: things, writes St. Bonaventure, "deepens the more we feel the working of God’s grace within our “GOD WILLS THE hearts, and the better we learn to INTERDEPENDENCE OF encounter God in creatures outside CREATURES. THE SUN & THE ourselves.” MOON, THE CEDAR & THE LITTLE FLOWER, THE EAGLE & "THEN WE SHALL SEE FACE THE SPARROW: THE TO FACE" (1 COR 13:12) SPECTACLE OF THEIR Standing in wonder before the COUNTLESS DIVERSITIES & Lord's marvels is to be given a INEQUALITIES TELLS US THAT glimpse of His eternal splendors, NO CREATURE IS SELF- and so the contemplation all the SUFFICIENT. CREATURES EXIST more towards Mount Saramati, ONLY IN DEPENDENCE ON 's northeast mountain range EACH OTHER, TO COMPLETE that caresses Pallotti's EACH OTHER, IN THE SERVICE Nagaland OF EACH OTHER”. Mission. CATECHESIS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH In the village of Phuvkiu, St. Vincent's missionaries shepherd Hence there's a "mystical the Yimchunger Tribe, one of the meaning to be found in a leaf, final head-hunting tribes to be in a mountain trail, in a assimilated into mainstream India. dewdrop, in a poor person’s P h o t o s & I n f o r m a t i o n : F r . M a n o j J o s e p h S A C face;" for all manifests God's W r i t t e n : J u l i a n n e C a l z o n e t t i | | AGRARIAN COMMUNITY “Tilling” refers to cultivating, ploughing or working, while “keeping” means caring, protecting, overseeing and preserving. This implies a relationship of mutual responsibility between human beings and nature." (Pope Francis, Laudato Si) "Being an agrarian community," writes missionary Fr. Manoj Joseph SAC, "people are not economically well to do, yet they are very hard-working, as well as enterprising and self- sufficient, in many ways."

L A U D A T O S I Y E A R DISTRCIT Nagaland's , part of the Diocese of , is considered to be one of the more underdeveloped areas of the State.

Shares Fr. Manoj, "this village, as well as the region, once faced great moments of difficulties from insurgencies since the Nation's independence, and most especially in the 1990s. Many men were at the forefront of the National struggle, which continues even today. This has most affected the fabric of the family."

L A U D A T O S I Y E A R # P A L L O T T I N E S ECO- EDUCATION "Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic, reducing water consumption, cooking only what can be consumed, care for others, planting trees, turning off lights, or any number of other practices." (Pope Francis, Laudato Si)

Environmental sustainability begins with an ecological education for our little ones; fulfilled at the Mission's school of Christ the King.

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