Lead Us Onward Link DIOCESE OF AGARTALA SEPTEMBER 2012 Agartala Diocesan NewsVleOL.t t16e Nor.09 Pastor’s Corner Teachers as Leaders and Learners India celebrates it’s Teachers Day on September 5 since 1962, the one has good hands. The first H and second TAN SRI Dr Yahaya Ibrahim, 82, retired birth anniversary of Dr Sarvapalli H have to work together if we are to be Govt. teacher, says "I believe that you need Radhakrishnan, a prominent successful in life… In UK, that's where I to keep learning and developing yourself no thinker, philosopher and an educator. l e a r n e d a b o u t e a r l y matter what your age. Because when Teachers Day is celebrated as a tribute to the childhood education and you stop learning, you become old. valuable contribution made by teachers to the started asking the question But I don't only preach lifelong society by imparting knowledge and everywhere I went.” learning, but lifelong contributing. enlightening and shaping the career of Ibrahim was first posted to Your knowledge can only make a students. Malacca where he took up difference if you use it to help others Teaching has long been considered an his first teaching post. `One in the area you love most and which isolated profession with little opportunity for thing I always emphasized you are best at." collaboration. Teachers are a valuable was discipline. If I ask you to I like to end by wishing all our resource and each one possesses expertise bring your homework, your Teachers a Happy Teachers Day, at in strategies and methodologies that can be a job is to bring your the same time reminding them of the benefit to others. homework . I am not powerful metaphor of the teacher as a bridge But teachers are also learners. Yahaya interested in whether you have finished it or by Nikos Kazantzakis who says, “Ideal Ibrahim of Singapore, who studied at the not. You could finish it tomorrow. But if you teachers are those who use themselves as famous teacher's training college in Kirkby, didn't bring it, I would make you stand on the bridges over which they invite their students UK asks: “How do you use your hands? chair. Today, I have many of my former to cross; then having facilitated their Whether you're a cook, a tailor or a surgeon, students who are now in high positions crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging you need good hands. Sometimes, I ask a coming up to me and saying they are what them to create bridges of their own.” mother, which of your daughters can cook they are because of the way I treated them. +Lumen, CSC well, and she will point to one and say, that They thank me for it,' he says. About ten days Ediagotor I ialwas Kokborok Liturgy Matters! part of a workshop that into Kokborok lexicon. t r i e d t o f i n e - t u n e How absence of such key concepts supremely befits liturgy. liturgical expressions in impacts the belief of Because liturgy is more than Kokborok language. The worshippers, and thereby a set of well-dressed words, program, attended by a society itself, could be an their search for adequate section of clergy and some Kokborok exciting study in itself. linguistic vehicles must be experts, was in many ways unique. It did Such a state of affairs also c o m p l e m e n t e d b y bring to light quite a few linguistic and places a new responsibility uncompromising adherence liturgical insights although it did not on the young shoulders of to truths of faith. Kokborok always succeed in coining new words believers who constitute ears and hearts have the right, and expressions that might have o n l y a m i c r o s c o p i c like other tongues of the engendered use of some hitherto s e g m e n t o f n a t i v e world, to enjoy and benefit uncelebrated concepts in Kokborok speakers. Rather than from the indescribable liturgy. continuing to lament the loss of real wealth the Word of God and If Wittgenstein's claim “the limits of my and unreal worlds (Koloma et al) of the Sacraments provide. language are the limits of my world” yesteryears, they must take up the task The workshop I attended ten days ago (Tractatus) is true, the Kokborok of uplifting an emaciated liturgy, by was a beginning, merely. One liturgist, indeed, has reasons to worry. identifying words that resonate, and devoutly wishes that more such efforts Many concepts, including some connotations that satisfy; they would would soon make the 'impoverished rudimentary ones like 'worship', 'adore', thereby be lending the skeletal form Kokborok liturgy', a thing of the past. and even 'celebrate' are yet to find entry with a depth and character that J. Pulinthanath, sdb 2 [2] Bodhjungnagar Parish Mandwi Parish News from the Parishes New P.P. at St. Andre Mandwi Thrice Blessed success. After the Mass, lunch was St. Andre Parish community is grateful t h to God for having given them yet 1 5 A u g u s t 2 0 1 2 served to all. It was the another Parish Priest. Amidst a large opened with the flag parishioners who donated community of faithful gathered, Most hoisting in the Don the rice. This was prepared Rev. Lumen B o s c o S c h o o l in advance the same compound at 8.30am to morning, by the parish M o n t e i r o , t h CSC, Bishop m a r k t h e 6 6 council members, so that o f A g a r t a l a Independence day of they could all be present at installed Fr. our country. Major the Eucharistic celebration. Mariaraj, CSC Abishek Singhal of Truly it was a day that was as the new Assam Rifles was the Chief Guest thrice blessed, with celebrations that Parish Priest. All the village leaders on the occasion. Soon after at 10.30 were international, national and local and representatives from different am the Catholic faithful gathered and a day that will be remembered villages were present on the occasion. together in the Church to honour the for long! At the felicitation program after the Assumption of Mother Mary. Dn. Luke, SDB Holy Eucharist the Parish community The day was special for the faithful thanked Fr. K.J. Abraham, CSC, who in Mandwi as it was the day that the Bishop Lumen Monteiro csc, would tirelessly served the Parish for the past Depacherra Parish eight months, before being elected install Fr. George Rodrigues sdb, as Provincial of Holy Cross. Though the the new Parish Priest. Priests and time he spent at the parish was short, Sisters from the nearby parishes as Pastors day with the Bishop the community gratefully remembered well as brother Salesians joined in Bishop Lumen was here in our the great contribution he made to the the celebration. Fr. P. Joseph sdb of parish for his pastoral visit from 3-5 parish through his ever living spirit, Nandan nagar in his homily August, 2012. On the first day he enthusiasm and spirituality. reminded the congregation of the had Mass for Burburia mondoli and The community warmly welcomed Fr. humility of Mary which earned her had a good Mariaraj as their new pastor and the title of being called blessed by discussion all generations. He drew attention assured him their support, cooperation w i t h t h e to God's choice of Mary who and prayers. Fr. Mariaraj has done his m o n d o l i praises God, for raising the lowly to Licentiate in Sacred Theology of p e o p l e , great heights, and called upon the Consecrated Life and Masters in even though Spirituality at the Claretian Institute for people to pray for their newly appointed parish priest. it was late in Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA), the night. Manila, and prior to this appointment The 250 people who had gathered th On 4 August, he went to Isachari he was the Rector of the Holy Cross stayed in silence and in awe right Seminary at Pune. through the installation ceremony. and had Mass with the people there. Fr. Jilson Tom, CSC The silence was profoundly felt, but After a sumptuous lunch there, he went to Bhagavantila and met a Mandwi Parish in it was also serenity that filled Bagbasa Parish one's soul. The usual movement of small portion of the faithful who had children moving around or crying a discussion on the mondoli Youth Seminar at Panisagar was absent today as though some development. A Youth Seminar was power was moving and soothing The grand finale was on the th organized on 8 July, 2012 them to understand the purpose of following day, Sunday, when the for all the youth of the moment. Many came out parish community celebrated Bagbassa Parish. The expressing this fact, frankly pastors day (Vianney Day) at the Seminar focused on acknowledging that the service to Parish centre. Bishop offered Mass Leadership and Career. them was very beautiful. There was for the people in the morning and Ms. Sara Pangchopi, from nothing that was extraordinarily reflected on the life of the holy man Diphu animated the done, yet, the power of the moment John Mary Vianney, inviting the session.