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PASSIONIST INDIA ACTIVITIES NEWS OUTREACH October 2019
Volume 6, Issue 10
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Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Greetings! Trust that all of you are doing well.
The Middle Class of Holiness
We have come to the end of a special month for the entire Passionist Family – the month we remembered and
celebrated our holy founder, St. Paul of the Cross. It is also the end of the special and extraordinary month of
mission.
Each time we celebrate the feast of a saint in the liturgical calendar, we are also reminded of our own vocation to
holiness. But unfortunately, either intentionally or unintentionally, we equate holiness with other worldly or
extraordinary gifts bestowed on a select few. However, we all know, and the Church continues to teach, that all
of us are called to holiness, “each in his or her own way” as Vatican Council II reminds us.
So, in what does holiness consists? Gaudete et Exsultate, the Exhortation of Pope Francis, tells that holiness
consists in living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do. It goes onto say: the consecrated people by
living their commitment with joy, the married by loving and caring for each other, the labourer by working with
integrity and skill in the service of others, parents by patiently teaching the little ones how to follow Jesus, those
in authority by working for the common good and renouncing personal gain. In short, it has to do with the
mission given to each one.
Again, the Exhortation reminds us that a Christian cannot think of his or her mission on earth without seeing it
as a path of holiness….Each saint is a mission, planned by the Father to reflect and embody, at a specific moment in history, a
certain aspect of the Gospel.
At the core of our mission is the vocation to keep alive the memory of Jesus Christ’s Passion by our life and
apostolate, not through lofty words or eloquence and not by unusual manifestation of otherworldly qualities or
rare mystical experiences. It is in the patient perseverance of a religious who takes special care to show up at the
table of the Eucharist, or at the table of the community meal, it is in the brother or sister who reaches out to the
other who is down and out, it is in the elderly religious who never lose their smile, in the cheerfulness of the
young. Very often, as the document continues to say, it is a holiness found in our next-door neighbour, who
living in our midst, reflect God’s presence – “the middle class of holiness”!
As we prepare to step into November, the month that reminds all of us about the universal call to holiness, we
are encouraged by this “middle class of holiness”. Therefore, it is my hope and prayer that each one of us, in
this great family of the Passionists, may continue to find ways to reflect God’s presence to those with whom we
live and to those to whom we are send in mission.
May Our Blessed Mother and St. Paul of the Cross and all in the middle class of holiness who have preceded us
continue to inspire us and protect us through their intercession!
Blessings!
Paul Cherukoduth, C.P.
Vice Provincial
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UPDATES
BL. Pius
Campedeli 03
BL. Eugine
Bosilkov 13
BL. Grimaldo
Santa Maria 18
Feast days
NOVEMBER
Birthdays
Tomy 03
Moncy 14
Xavier VT 29
Presentation of
BVM 21
Frs. Paul, Antony AV & Jiffin attended
PASPAC Assembly-2019 in Seoul, South Korea
Third Centenary
Celebrations
committee meeting
at Palliport
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JPIC Orientation Classes were conducted for Minor Seminary,
Philosophy & Theology Students by Fr. Jerald CP
Passionist Lay Movement celebrated the Feast of our Founder
at Kochi (Right Above) and at Palliport (Below)
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Feast of St. Paul of the Cross is celebrated in Communities at
Bophal, Bangalore & Palliport
Free Cow Feed & incentives were distributed to the members of
St. Paul of the Cross Milk Society of Randham at the Feast
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St. Thomas the Apostle, Vice Province, (THOM)
Congregation of the Passion,
Passionist Jyotir Bhavan,
Carmelaram, P.O. Bangalore - 560035.
Karnataka, India. Mob: +91-8129195929
Email ID: [email protected],
Verba volant, scripta manent!
Rosary Month Celebration at Jeevadhama in collaboration with
CTC Sisters, joined by forty families of neighborhood.
Fr. Sony CP
(Myanmar) Joined
Fr. Thomas CP,
Vietnam on the
feast of St. Paul of
the Cross. (Right)
Fr. Ajesh CP
joined the Faculty
of St. Xavier’s
School, Bophal.
(Above)