Staff Reporter, Bhopal
Sant Samaroh program to be held on 18th January 2015 at Carmel Convent Sr. Secondary School, B.H.E.L, Govindpura, Bhopal in the honour of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara and St. Euphrasia Eluvathingal. This Samaroh is organized by the Catholic community of Madhya Pradesh in which members from all over the state will be taking part. Dr. Leo Cornelio, Bhopal Archbishop is the main person who is organising this event.
The programme starts with the thanksgiving Holy Mass led by Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Nuncio of India. Around 200 Catholic Priests will be celebrating the Mass on 18th January 2015. Public Gathering is organised after the Holy Mass at 5.00 pm. Shri Deepak Joshi, Honorable Minister of Education, Madhya Pradesh will preside over the gathering.
Dignitaries from Social, Political and Religious circles will speak on that occasion. There will be cultural presentations on the lives of these two saints. Dr (Fr) Kurian, Provincial of CMI congregation told during addressing the media that, We will honor these great saints and offer the thanksgiving Mass on 18th January 2015 at Carmel Convent Sr. Secondary School, B.H.E.L. These two saints were very similar and very different .
They were similar in the sense they had a deep faith, a deep awareness that they were inadequate on their own, but they had a concrete faith that in God all things are possible. By declaring them saint is just like acknowledging their holy lives which basically was for the betterment of the human beings and society.
We live in the modern and dynamic world of activities which, unfortunately, is characterized by erosion of even basic human values and marked by consumeristic mentality, individualism, selfishness, threat and persecution.
In every opportune time and space God intervenes to renew the world by sending prophetic personalities and personifications of noble human and religious values and sanctity as models and inspiration for the people. Sr Ancilla CMC, Provincial Councillor, Bhopal said “ It is a true joy for the Carmelite family to have their founding father canonized alongside one of his spiritual daughters. They have spent entire life for the causes which brings bonhomie in the society.
When the world runs after fleeting pleasures and success, God intervenes by introducing saintly personalities who left everything to adopt a simple life style for the sake of the kingdom of God. . We need to follow their footsteps and sayings to make our life peaceful. Father Chavara was a social reformer, publisher, educator and founder of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) and the first Catholic indigenous religious order for men in India.
He was born near Alappuzha, Kerala India in 1805 and died at Koonammavu, Kerala, in 1871. Mother Euphrasia, a member of the Order of the Sisters of the Congregation of Mother of Carmel.