The year 2010

The ACIT sub group in Pune began its academic year with the Voto in May at Sanjeevan Ashram. A meaningful Rosary followed by a participative and unique Litany followed.

The Feast of Father Poveda was celebrated on 28th July with much gusto and spirituality. The youth led the choir during the Mass at Sacred Heart's church, Yerwada. After the Mass, a presentation on the life of Fr. Poveda and the importance of laity as foreseen by him was interspersed with Goretti, Savitha and Juliet sharing their own experiences of being laity and their vocation in the association. The youth also sang us a song composed by them.

Victoria Diez was remembered on her feast on the 12th of August. Multiple groups met at the TA house and participated in prayer and a powerpoint on her. Videos on her life too inspired everyone gathered.

A commemoration of the feast of St. Teresa of Avila after whom the association is named was celebrated on 15th October. A powerpoint on the life of St. Teresa was followed by prayer based on reflections on St. Teresa by Josefa Segovia.

All celebrations this year are organized in conjunction with the youth, ACIT and Core and each celebration is an opportunity to invite more people to 'Come and see.'

Lenten Recollection 2010

The Teresian Association in Pune had its Lenten Recollection on Sunday, 14th March at Asha Kiran. 26 youth and adults participated in this day of reflection and prayer.
The parable of the Prodigal Son, which was the gospel for the day, was a guide through the day. The morning began with half an hour of meditative prayer led by Patsy Nazareth. Following this Reeves Rodrigues introduced his session with a contemporary video depicting the son and the father in the story and then spoke on the Prodigal Son. Savitha Pais and Juliet Fernandes later shared who in the parable they identified with and their challenges with the story. The rest of the morning was spent in personal silence and reflection on the questions:
What does this story mean to me? Who do I identify with in the story?
What are situations in my life that I may now turn away from and return back to my father?

Priests were also available for the sacrament of Reconciliation.Fr. Simon Almeida then celebrated Mass for the participants. A solidarity collection was made during the Mass towards the earthquake victims of Haiti and the amount of Rs. 4000/- collected was passed on to InterRed an international NGO of the TA.

Post lunch, the attendants in groups discussed the letter of the President of the TA- Loreto Ballester for Lent, this discussion ended with the participants consenting to have an attitude of openness, awareness and sensitivity in this time of Lent and to act in the areas of human dignity and justice.

The participants then reflected on the seven sorrows of Mary in groups and in the prayer of the seven sorrows that concluded the day, each group shared their thoughts, making the sorrows relevant to our times.

Women's Day Celebration

On 8th March, we celebrated International Women’s day. There were more than 500 women participants. There were three moments, first a speech competition on the topic “The role of women in society and family.” Then a short stage program with two talks given by Bramakumari and a Judge (from the court of Honnavar) and there were two representatives from the women and children development office. The third moment was a short cultural program. 27 women participated in the speech competition. The whole program lasted for three hours.

Nancy Fernandes

Women's program

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Women's Program

Women’s program
On the 29th of January 2010, we had a program for women, celebrating Shankranti (a Hindu festival) with women representing 12 villages. There was a Rangoli and singing competition. Clodagh from Dublin was our chief Guest and along with another woman Vidhya were the Judges for this competition. About 200 women were present.

Nancy Fernandes

School Mobile Library

On 30th January 2010, we had organized a quiz competition for 15 government school where our School Mobile Library offers its services. Earlier we had conducted a quiz in all of these 15 schools. Each school had sent 4 children to participate, so there were about 60 children with their headmasters and teachers. It was great to see all responding in a very positive way. Four teachers were given the responsibility to conduct the quiz by Brazil. Clodagh was invited to give prizes to these children. Thanks to Clodagh for the donation that she collected for the books for the Mobile Libray. The children from these 15 schools enjoyed a lot and it was like an outing for them, coming out from the interior villages.
Nancy Fernandes

Youth Day- Honnavar

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