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"The New
Evangelisation as a call to conversion, grace and wisdom, is the only
hope for a better world and a brighter future."
'Ecclesia in Asia'
(# 29) Pope John Paul II 6 November 1999
ISOE 1st Mission to India 13 August / 4 September 2004
Joe with Bishop Singaroyan DD, Bishop of Salem, Tamilnadu, India. (The ISOE was in India at the invitation of Bishop Singaroyan.)
Fr Panneer Selvam, Director of the Salem Commission for Evangelisation, Proclaiming the Word of God during the Course for 55 priests representing the 17 Dioceses of Tamilnadu.
Breakfast-time for the Fathers on the Trichy Course
Visit to The Largest Basilica to Our Lady in Asia. Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Health, Vailankanni, Nagapattinam District, Tamilnadu, India.
60 Priests who attended the Salem Diocesan Retreat
Ministering to the pupils of the Cathedral School, Bangalore
Some of the 58 Sisters who attended the week-long Course on the 'New Evangelisation' in the Catholic Church.
Gathered around the Lord - Rejoicing!!
Representatives of the 34 congregations present at the Sisters Retreat
'Summary Time'
(L) Sr Pauline Mulavarikkal, Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver practising 'evangelising' (R) Sr Maria Lourdu, Sisters of Charity of St. Mary
Teresa, Fr Panneer and Vincent, full-time Evangelist in the Salem Diocese
The ISOE would like to extend grateful thanks to Bishop Singaroyan and Fr Panneer Selvam for their kindness, hospitality and care during our three-week mission to India and the Bishop's kind words of accreditation, quoted in part below.
05.09.2004 From Rt. Rev. Dr. S. Singaroyan Bishop of Salem
To. Mr. Joe O’ Callaghan and Miss Teresa Kehoe Irish School of Evangelisation Dublin.
This is to send you my appreciation and gratitude for your three programmes to our Priests and Religious in Tamilnadu state in India. Your course to the Priests of the Region enkindled their missionary zeal and gave them a clear concept of the New Evangelisation. ...
Your Retreat to the Clergy of Salem was new in its presentation and methods. ... Your insistence to our priests on personal prayer, personal relationship with Jesus the Lord, personal commitment to him, clarity on the concept of New Evangelisation, need for the infilling of the Holy Spirit and the centrality of the Holy Eucharist were very much useful. The use of the multimedia during the presentation helped them to follow the thought with ease.
Your third program ... evidenced maximum involvement of the participants both individually and as communities. The religious priests, brothers and sisters were motivated in their mission of evangelisation and were taught how to go about. They were so taken up by this program that they have asked for subsequent programmes of similar nature at different levels.
I recommend these programmes of the Irish School of Evangelisation for other dioceses and Religious Congregations in India and other countries. Wishing you all the best and assuring you of my prayerful blessing!
Yours ever in Christ Jesus, Rt. Rev. Dr. S. Singaroyan Bishop of Salem, India.
The ISOE will present Schools of Evangelisation in India 24 Aug - 9 Oct 2005 For further details contact Joe O'Callaghan 00 353 1 282 7658 |
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