Day 3: 29.12.2021
The love of God enabled us to begin our day in His
awesome presence. We thanked and praised God for His mercies and blessings as
we assembled at 6 a.m for the Eucharistic adoration and Moring prayer.
The Holy Mass, was celebrated by Fr. Aloysious, Scripture
Scholar and also serves as Parish Priest, Damaiguda. In his homily, he focused on
the theme ‘Unity in the family’. Model families in today’s world, is a big challenge.
The families are appearing to be living
in unity but they live in compromised unity. Can the families raise up their children?
children’s lives are surrounded by mobiles… which is more attractive and the
families face lot of pressure and conflicts takes place between couples. This inflicts
negative influence and injury on child’s growth. Can we step in to build ideal and
healthy families based on the model family, Holy Family? Are we equipped to
serve the present generation? Jesus was born to the family of Mary and Joseph
and by His presence he made His family Holy. The families cannot be holy, unless
Christ takes His birth in these families and for this prayer and dialogue are
necessary. Jesus chose to do the will of His Father and was born and died and
resurrected…so to raise a good family, life of Jesus needs to replicated in homes…when
crosses are there, death and resurrection sure to take place.
The capitulars gathered for first session at 9 a.m. The minutes of the previous day meeting was read and approved. Then the general assembly went through the remaining work on 3rd, 4th, and 5th Priorities. After which, the members dispersed for group discussion for finalizing the priorities already worked out.
At 3 p.m the members gathered for the personal prayer.
Having refreshed in the presence of the Eucharistic
Lord, the General Assembly resumed the work at 3.30 p.m to finalize the Five priorities.
By 7 p.m the work on five priorities was completed successfully. After which
the Capitulars prayed the vespers and dispersed for dinner.
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