Carmelite Missionaries : February 2013

Monday, February 18

what are the practices of lent?

Thursday, February 14

WORKSHOP ON EDUCATION

THE WORK SHOP ON EDUCATION CONDUCTED ON 6TH AND 7TH OF FEB-2013. IN ORDER THAT WE MIGHT BRING UP THE FUTURE CITIZENS WHO WOULD BE MOTIVATED TO LOVE AND SERVE THE HUMANKIND AND LEARN TO LIVE AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO ONE ANOTHER.

GOD ALONE IS THE REAL VALENTINE

I will never forget you,

My people
I have carved you
on the palm of My hand
I will never forget you
I will not leave you orphan
I will never forget My own

Does a mother forget her baby,
or a woman the child
within her womb?
Yet even if these forget,
yes even if these forget,
I will never forget My own

(Isaiah 49: 14-16)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.(John 3:16)

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.(1Jn:4:10)
( Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This demonstrates God's love for us.)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE TRUE LOVE OF GOD AND THOSE WHO VALUE EACH PERSON AS GOD'S GIFT.

Wednesday, February 13

Ash Wednesday History

Ash Wednesday is the day Lent begins. It occurs forty days before Good Friday. Actually, Ash Wednesday is its colloquial name. Its official name is the Day of Ashes. It is called Ash Wednesday because, being forty days before Good Friday, it always falls on a Wednesday and it is called Ash Wednesday because on that day at church the faithful have their foreheads marked with ashes in the shape of a cross.

Ash Wednesday is one of the principal holy days for the Western Church. More commonly observed by Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians, and Lutherans, Ash Wednesday falls on the seventh Wednesday before Easter (usually around February 9). Ash Wednesday begins a season of fasting and repentance (Lent) in preparation for the Easter celebration.

ITINERARY

We the Carmelite Missionaries are founded by Fr. Francisco Palau, a Carmelite Priest from Spain in 1860. We are an international Congregation and thus we are present in forty countries all over the world. Our charism is to be sign of communion in the Church and in the world.

Our Congregation is present in India since 1954. It was the Indian Government invited the Spanish Sisters to work in the Leprosy hospital of Junagadh, Gujarat. With this humble beginning, today we are present in nine states: viz: Gujarat, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Jharkhand, Kerala, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. Our apostolate is varied, such as: education, health, social and pastoral work. In India very specially we focus on the education of the girl child and women empowerement through Self Help Groups in remote areas of our country.