A Token of Gratitude to Our Animators

My dear Sr. Edna Mary, Sr. Maire O’Byrne and Sr. Josephine Rani,

With great pleasure, joy and love we have been waiting to thank you. We highly esteem and much appreciate your marvelous communication skills, amazing sisterliness and wonderful Silesian spirituality. In short your life is a feast to our eyes. We entrust ourselves and our mission to your prayers, while requesting the same for us.

The whole group around THE well

My dear Sisters,

As we walked towards the source of our origin

Thinking sanctity a frightening mountain

Ha! We found the glorious holy fountain

In the simple and humble land where it all begin.

The window has been the spring board,

And the well has been the footboard,

And for the chosen, it is a notice board

Thus you joyously , humbly serve as signboard.

The window infuses self-confidence to peer out,

And with audacity and faith to say out,

“Do  whatever He tells you”, to  shout out,

Mary and Rosary our devotion you cry out.

The window widens your horizon

You become sensitive to listen

To the end of the world you hasten

The loving Father’s kingdom to widen.

The well promotes this determination

With joy and cheerfulness to the destination

With humility and courage, a good combination

To free the world from condemnation.

The window and the well are one

To blend the divine  and the human into one

East or west, North or South we are one

To make known  the  Holy One.

For this, Dear Mother Mazzarello ,you live

In these zealous and  patient hearts you live

In these untiring and loving service you live

Dear sisters,  you are the living Mazzarello.

With much love and deep gratitude,

Sr. Anne Augustine, INK, Bangalore, India.

Feast of Gratitude

Sisters, Claudio and his wife

Today Sunday we joined with the parishioners in celebrating mass in the parish church at 11.30 am.

What a surprise to find Claudio and his wife waiting for us after mass. They wanted to thank the sisters for their assistance on Friday. Before leaving they had a photograph with them. Incidentally, it was the same Claudio who made the beautiful Nativity Scene in the crypt of the Parish Church.

Returning from mass we were joined by the community for dinner. The afternoon was spent rehearsing for our multicultural evening.

Fr Anthuvan celebrated mass for us in the house at 5.30pm and afterwards the community once again joined us for our evening meal.

The opening dance to thank the Mornese Community

Later we assembled in the hall to express our thanks to the community for all the kindness, generosity, goodness and sisterly love they showed to us during our stay here at the Collegio. The variety show which followed gave a flavour of the many cultures and talents of those who formed our group. There were dances, a sketch and songs all expressing our thanks to the wonderful community who made us feel so much at home from the moment we arrived.

We presented the community with some gifts provided by the different provinces taking part in the project.

The community then expressed their thanks to us in word and song and our night together ended with our joint singing of “O Qual Sorte”. In this way a truly Salesian evening came to an end.