Pauline Secunderabad

                                                            The Jubilee Year – Pilgrims of Hope The Holy Mother Church traditionally proclaims a Jubilee year every 25 years. It is a year of special grace and forgiveness which offers the faithful the opportunity to obtain a plenary indulgence. Pope Francis declared that 2024 would be dedicated to prayer in preparation for the Jubilee. The Year of Prayer is, in the Pope's words, focused on “rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer, prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, prayer in the world.” In order to promote the importance of the Jubilee year of the Church, the Daughters of St Paul took the initiative to reach out to the Hindi speaking migrants of St Ann’s Church, Mallapur. Earlier, our sisters had conducted the way of the c...

                                All India United Christians Movement For Equal Rights (AIUCMER)       The All India United Christians Movement for Equal Rights organized an All India Consultation. The meeting began Saturday 26 th October at 3.30 pm at St. Patrick’s high School, Secunderabad. The main person for the meeting was Bro. Jose Daniel, of Montfort Brothers, who has long years of working experience in this Association.   Bro. Jose was chairing the meeting while Sr. Manju C.M. was Co-ordinating the whole programme. There were various eminent speakers speaking on various topics and how the problem of the equal rights for the dalit Christians is pending on over many years. Everyone highlighted on the problem saying, “End discrimination based on religion, change of religion doesn’t change castes or caste disabilities”.   Though Bro Jose is working for the da...

  Vocation Work at Nalla Jerla in Andhra Pradesh. At the request of Fr Anthony a Cleritian priest   Srs Tara and Nancy set out for vocation work to Nalla Jerla a village situated in Eluru.   This parish is run by the Claretian fathers. This parish is consisting of 7 villages. We reached there on 9 th afternoon. After the lunch and little rest, towards the evening we visited one of the villages and met the girls of 7 th , 8 th , 9 th and 10 th . They are basically farmers and many of them study in Govt and private run schools. Some of them are studying in Fathere’s English Medium School. Next day being Sunday after the Mass we visited two more villages. Some girls we met in the Church itself and others in their homes. We found the Parish priest and the people were very simple and welcoming.   Since there is no convent of sisters, the children have no idea about the religious life. Some of them have given their addresses and have expressed their desire.   We ...