Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Where there is knowledge
there is no know-er
Where there is know-er
there is no knowledge!
[ author : Shaukath in Mozhiyazham -  മൊഴി യാഴം 50 - ഷൗകത്ത്  ]

Here knowledge is enlghtenment.
Where the brain has used all its exercises
and not gained anything
there can be an awakening.
It just happens
The world of thoughts has become silent
this awakening takes place.
I and mine are no more.
Knowledge, know-er, and known disappear.
I am not different from other things, other people:
this awareness grows
This is a very very rare experience.




Monday, February 11, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI to step down.


Pope Benedict XVI has announced he will resign in two weeks. Here is his full statement:
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Happy Christmas and Happy New year 2013


Friday, December 14, 2012

Fr.Sebastian Puthuparambil passed away




 Fr.Sebastian Puthuparambil- 73 years old (Udaipur Diocese) died around 3.00a.m on 14 Dec 2012. The funeral will be held at Udaipur on 15 Dec 2012 at 2.00p.m. He was a Jesuit for 19 Years in Gujarat Province, India ( from 1957- 1976). Kindly keep him in your prayers.

With best wishes and in Union of Prayers,
Socius- Gujarat Province
Fr.Lawrence Dharmaraj

Monday, December 10, 2012

Funeral Service : Fr Ordonez sj, Gujarat, India

The celebrants at Unteshwari Mariam Mata Mandir

Fr Gariz and other priests present.

Fr Ordonez sj

Candles at the tomb.
Photos C/o Vijay / BBN

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Fr .Ordonez Ignacio (GUJ) 84/68 expired


Fr .Ordonez Ignacio


R.I.P.
Fr .Ordonez Ignacio (GUJ) 84/68 expired this morning due to heart  attack (08- 12-2012 ) at Unteshwari.
The funeral will be held at 5.00 p.m ( today) in  Unteshwari  Shrine, Kadi  on  08-12-2012.
Please remember him in your prayers.
Fr.Lawrence Dharmaraj SJ
Socius
GUJ

Personal Information

Birth: 23 -10-1928 9 (Spain, Navarra)
Entered SJ: 26-08-1944 ( Loyola Spain)
Priesthood: 24-03-1958 ( Anand- Gujarat)
Final vows: 02-02-1977 9 Nanakantharia)

Responsibilities held
Asst PP: Retreat house, Baroda—1960
PP at Gothada—1961
Asst PP at Bhilodas—1971-1973
PP at Nanakantharia -- !973-1983
Socius to the Provincial –1984-1989
PP at Meghrej –1989-1993
Asst PP at Meghrej—1993-1994
Asst.PP at Bhiloda—1994-2004
Asst.PP at Unteshwari—2004-2012