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PROVINCIALS’ DESK

The Incarnation of God took place in the world through

the Virginity of Mother Mary.

The Apostolic Exhortation on the Consecrated life in no 28 tells us that “Mary is the one who, from the moment of her Immaculate Conception, most perfectly reflects the divine beauty. “All beautiful” is the title with which the Church invokes her”.

Mary in fact is the sublime example of perfect consecration, since she belongs completely to God and is totally devoted to him. Chosen by the Lord, who wished to accomplish in her the Mystery of the Incarnation, she reminds consecrated persons of the primacy of God’s initiative.

Consecrated life looks in her as the sublime model of consecration to the Father, union with the Son, and openness to the Spirit, in the knowledge that acceptance of the “virginal and humble life” of Christ also means imitation of Mary’s way of life.

Our Constitutions presents Mary to us “as the faithful Virgin, the one who says Yes to God and embraces His will in obedience by a faith. In accomplishing the Incarnation, God requires from her to receive the Word and to give it to the world. For ourselves, the dynamism of the spiritual ought St. Pedro De San Jose Betancur Province | News Bulletin - 02

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to be expressed in a continual response of love and fidelity like that of Mary. Let us plead her Motherly intercession as ‘Our Lady of Bethlehem in all our invocations.

Date Activities08-09thJanuary Provincial Superior Rev. Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi had

Meeting with our Juniors sisters who are preparing for final vows. She dealt with them about the Religious life is a Radical Love and a path of light.Also instructed them with the 10 tips through which our Pope Francis invites every religious to be a happy religious.

14-16th January Meeting with the Procurators. Sister accompanied them and encouraged them to learn the new methods in the accounting system.

SR. MICHAEL MAZARELLA PUDHOTA - Advisor of Formation

08 – 10th January in Porur. Meeting with the three of our Junior sisters Sr. Alangara Mary Anthony, Sr. Baby Mary Buela Maria Louis, Sr. Roselien Sudha Anthony Raj who are preparing for the final vows. She deepened the aims and expectations of Consecrated life. And had the evaluation of the plan.

Visited the Juniors Sisters of the Community of Pondicherry and guided them with the reflections on formation.

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Activities of the

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Visited the community of Thaiyur to accompany our Novices who are doing their apostolic experience.

SR. MARIA AUXILIA ATHIMALA – Advisor of Apostolate

06th – o8th January Visited the community of Nellimarathupatti for some official matters.

23 – 26th January Educational Meeting and the visit in the community of Hyderabad.

SR. MARY HILDA KOPPALA – Provincial Procurator

14th to 16th January Meeting with the Procurators in order to energize the proper use of the resources and to strengthen our commitment of poverty at the personal and community level. And to update the knowledge to adapt the new methods of accounting system. Also she addressed to the sisters the role and the function of the local procurators. And organized these days with the help of the resource persons to learn well the Budget system and Tally.

Visited the Community of Kovur. Sr. Hilda Mary Koppala gave some instructions to the Superior and to the Local economer and advised them to reinforce what they have learnt during the meeting especially to have uniformity in the accounting system. She suggested them to make some developments which are very necessary in the community and in the school.

Decisions Cancelled the visit to Bellary 16-18th February Cancelled the visit to the community of Ramnad 21 -23rd

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FormationSeven of our second year Novices went to have their apostolic experience in the different communities from 02nd of January 2015 to 2nd of May 2015.

1. Anthonyammal Chinnapagandiyam and Hilda Mary Rajendran - Community of Kovur.

2. Maria Jaya Jeba Chandran and Vilcy Joseph - Community of Kothur3. Mary Benazer Bhutto Chinnapparaj and Pavani Padivela - Community

of Thaiyur4. Vinit Jeromia Vincent Paulraj - Community of Koovathur

Let us accompany them through our prayers.

Renovation of the Vows

On 06th January Four of our Juniors Sisters

Sr. Caroline Jeyamila Divyanathan Sr. Pasca Selva Mary Gabriel Sr. Philomena Monica Lesly Sr. Maria Antony Arokia Selvi Lazar

renewed their fourth year of religious vows. Let us pray for them and congratulate them.

ArrivalOn 06th of December 2014 Sr. Christina Mary Antony Samy arrived from Colombia. She is placed in the community of Provincialate and rendering her service at Bethel Velanganni Matha High School.

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On 09th of December 2014 Sr. Amala David came from Italy for her home visit. On 09th of January she returned to Italy.

15thto17th December 2014 Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi the Provincial Superior and Sr. Michael Mazarella Pudhota and Sr. Maria Auxilia Athimala the Provincial Councilors conducted seminar on various themes to our Novices who are preparing to go for the apostolic experience in some of our communities.

On 01st of January New Year 2015 was celebrated the Feast of the Mother of God. Here in our Provincialate we invited our Nellore Diocese Bishop MD. Prakasam to celebrate the Thanksgiving Mass for our Jubilarian Sisters Sr. Annie Tharigopala, Sr. Michael Mazarella Pudhota and Sr. Shantha Kumari Bellamkonda. The celebration of the Holy Mass was meaningful with an inspiring Homily of our Bishop. He thanked and appreciated the faithfulness of our sisters in living their Yes to the Lord throughout these 25 years of their religious life in our Bethlemite Institute. Mother Mary who is faithful to the will of God in all her life must be our guide and light. As God is ever new and perfect He invites us through this New Year of 2015 to be perfect and ever new as He is. The Holy Mass was concelebrated by Rev. Fr. Stephen, Fr. Showri Reddy and Fr. Carmel Alex.

Dear Sisters, Gratitude is the best attitude. So we express our gratitude to our Provincial Superior Rev. Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi, Sr. Michael Mazarella Pudhota the vicar Provincial and Sr. Maria Auxilia


Experiences

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Athimala the Advisor of Formation who helped us to grow with sense of belongingness and to live our lives with responsibility, love and generosity. They brought within us the awareness which is more important to do our apostolic experience. We learnt the way to adapt ourselves in the community where we will share and live through the attitude of resilience. We learnt to have the positive attitude and the ability to see the failures as a form of helpful feedback.

During this encounter we understood that our first mission is accepting and doing the will of God in all the situations and circumstances of our lives. We understood our mission means to be sent for a particular purpose but also it has to be shared with every human being by using our potential power in the mission to each person. We got knowledge about the communities and the apostolic mission of our Province which helped us to have the knowledge about our main mission what we are going to carry out, and the quality we need in our mission. These inputs sessions helped us to prepare, to discover and to transform our lives for the mission.

- Novices.

The year of Consecrated life is a call to go deep to the history of our institute to review our life in touch with the same spirit of our founders. As a part of our preparation to our final vows we had three days meeting with our Provincial Superior Rev. Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi and Rev. Sr. Michael Mazarella Pudhota the junior’s Mistress from 8th – 10th of January in the community of Porur.

We began our meeting on the 8th evening and Rev. Sr. Michael Mazarella Pudhota commenced it by explaining the objective of the meeting where she told us to be conscious of our preparation that we may give ourselves joyfully to the Lord.

The next day, our Provincial Superior Rev. Sr.Leena Mary Medabalimi began the meeting with a small prayer service to motivate us to enter into the reflective atmosphere. Sister spoke about “Radical love and a path of Light” in which sister gave some seventeen points to


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evaluate our life humanly that may lead us to live our committed life meaningfully.

The following session was guided by Rev. Sr. Michael Mazarella Pudhota on the theme of “Aims of the Year of Consecrated Life” and sister explained about the reason for the period from Nov.30.2014 – Feb.2.2016. The three years are explained with the documents and in particular to remember the past with gratitude, to live the present passionately and to approach the future with hope. With this sister concluded saying that being in this year of preparation we need to foster dialogue with the elder sisters to learn their inspiring spirit and to respond it more effectively in the present. We believe and hope this year of preparation is the time to receive and enjoy riches of God’s grace and a time of transformation.

- Sr. Roselien Sudha Anthony Raj

I thank my powerful Lord, through whom I’m Blessed and selected as a worthy instrument to continue His mission meaningfully. Also, I give my heartfulgratitude to our Provincial Superior Rev. Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi, her councilors and Rev. Sr. Mary Hilda Koppala, who have given us the good opportunity to participate and to have deepened experience to carry out my mission in a fruitful way. We were presented with the motto of the administrators “Like Christ in Bethlehem we must be completely available.”

In our gathering beautiful motivational thoughts and points were shared, among that “Our communities should witness to vow of poverty”. Not only as an individuals in religious life to bear witness to poverty, but we are called to witness as communities to testify to what the church requires was touched me more. Also, the role and function of a Treasurer was given very clearly. In that “Learn to be wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove, when dealing with the money and with the people. Be generous, to cater to the needs of the community was very reflect able and applicable. Then the Circular letter of Vatican City by Cardinal Braz De Aviz was discussed, in that ‘Religious congregation should commit to


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transparency’ was kept in the first place. We were guided by two resource persons: Sr. Sargunam of the Holy Cross congregation and Bro. Velanganni Ravi of the Sacred Heart Congregation. They clearly explained to us regarding the maintaining of accounts. They dealt with us about the ‘double entry’ and Tally Programme. They were very patient in helping us to understand and made us to do them with examples for our better understanding.I express my heartfelt gratitude to our Provincial Superior Rev. Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi and to Rev. Sr. Mary Hilda Koppala for this meeting. We hope to execute all what we learnt in our coming days in the mission.

- Sr. Jayanthi Celine Rose Mary

“EDUCATION IS THE MANIFESTATION OF PERFECTION WHICH IS ALREADY IN MAN”

Our Provincial Superior Rev. Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi offered us an opportunity to participate in the Telugu Bishop’s commission for Education (TCBC) organized by association of catholic educational institutions of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for two days seminars i.e. 23rd and 24th January 2015, Sr. Lilly Josephine Tharigopala, Sr. Motcha Mary Patchala, Sr. Auxilia Athimala, and I attended meeting.

The two days of seminars, call us to be a liberators to make the children to be good, intellectually competent, emotionally confident, socially

responsible citizens of tomorrow. Education is not information but it is a transformation of the children. Rev. Fr. Joseph Manipadam secretary commission for Education & culture CBCI, New Delhi enlightened us on implementation of catholic educational policy and child protection policy in our educational

mission, which says to analyze the three stages:

Assessing in the current scenario Drawing a preferred scenario


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Designing strategies for getting the scenario in our educational mission.

The salient features of our catholic school must be distinguished from other schools by these values:

1. Faith formation2. Spiritual transformation 3. Value education4. Commitment to the marginalized5. Towards a just society6. Communitarian approach in education7. A more committed and effective staff8. A neighborhood responsibility in education9. Institution of higher learning10. Qualitative education11. Universalization of education12. Vocational education 13. Ecology environment

We were given the thoughts on child protection policy to value dignity of student who are presented to us. Our building must be child friendly to facilitate supervision. Importance also given to the erecting of CCT camera in the schools.

Dr. Mamatha member of the child right commission Telangana State spoke about child right acts and its implications. Children play very important role in the school, each teacher’s responsibility to understand the children that they need to be observed, negligence, lack of care, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse; verbal abuse, child exploitation and she gave us the brief introduction about RTE act where she stressed on corporal punishment which should be avoided. When we use violence we teach violence, respect, self discipline, character formation, child right club, training for teachers, parents-

We were given importance on the use of information communication technologies( ICTS) in the teaching and learning process by professor S.N. Prasad and school science education – Why and How?( Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth). Students should not feel the burden of learning science but they should understand science learning is meaningful,


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purposeful, interesting, exciting, investigate, pleasurable, activity based, experimental. Science related to everyday life and becomes a way of life.

At the end the meeting it was concluded by the Bishop Most Rev. Thumma Bala, Archbishop of Hyderabad & chairman, TCBC, insisted on as it is the nature law to protect and to provide to the teachers the EPF and ESI, since they are working with us. He gave us a blessing to continue our service for the betterment of society in the field of education.

We thank whole heartedly Rev. Provincial Superior Sr. Leena Mary Medabalimi and Sr. Auxilia Athimala the advisor of the apostolate for the chance given to enrich ourselves to be a better educator.

- Sr. Arockia Mary Adaikalasamy

The feast of our Lady of Bethlehem.This day was meaningfully lived and cherished by the sisters of all our communities in a creative manner manifesting our love and devotion towards our Lady of Bethlehem. She who faithfully lead the life of our Holy Founders in contemplating the love of the mystery of the Incarnation of her Son Jesus and to radiate the same love to all who were in need of their service. This feast day made us to feel that we Bethlemites are the daughters of the same Mother who is the mistress of all our lives. May “Our Lady of Bethlehem, the believing Virgin in whom faith shines as a gift, openness, answer and fidelity” (Const. 43), be with whom we walk full of joy, love and hope in the commitment with the announcement of the message of salvation with which, she resolutely and courageously work for the good of all mankind.


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FOREVER WITH THE LORD

Mrs. Lilly Josephine, the elder sister of years old died of sickness.

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