JAMSHEDPUR DIOCESE

                       

 

Come together, talk together,

Let our minds be in harmony.

Common be our prayer.

Common be our end,

Common be our purpose,

Common be our deliberations,

Common be our desires,

United be our hearts,

United be our intentions,

Perfect be the union among us.  

(Rigveda: X.191.2-4)

 

OFFICIAL - STATUS
Fr. Alex Misquith, S.J.	Parish Priest	St. Mary’s Church, Digwadih
Fr. Ferdinand Tigga, CMF	Parish Priest	St. Anthony’s Church, Maubhandar
Fr. Bijay Chandra Nayak,CMF	Asst. PP	St. Anthony’s Church, Maubhandar
Deacon Paul Toppo, CMF	Ministry	Nirmal Sadan, Ghatsila
Fr. Pascal Minj	Asst. PP	Catholic Ashram, Purulia
Bro. Jilson T.L	Regency	St. Joseph’s Church, Charbandia
Bro. William Lugun	Regency	Jisu Marsal, Chandil
Fr. Michael Raj	Studies	SEARSOLIN, Philippines

 

 

 

THANKS AND GOD BLESS
Sr. Isabelle, AC.	St. Anthony’s School, Dhanbad
Sr. Blanche Correia, SCN	Gyan Deep Vidyalaya, Birsnagar
Sr. M. Caritas, SRA	Nirmala Health Centre, Amda
Sr. Prabha Tete, SJA	Jyothi Kiran, Mosaboni
Sr. Irudaya Mary, SJA	Jyothi Kiran, Mosaboni
Sr. Arul Mary ,SJA	St. Joseph’s Convent, Mosaboni
Sr. Margaret  Alvares, DC	St. Vincent’s Ashram, Adra
Sr. Susana Jojo, DSA	St. Anne’s Convent, Chaibasa
Fr. Terry D’Bosco, CMF	St. Anthony’s Church, Maubhandar

 

D I O C E S A N   R O U N D – U P S :

St. Joseph’s Church, Charbandia :  The solemn blessing of the newly constructed Church(St. Mary’s) at Tirla took place on April 30. Bishop Felix Toppo, S.J. blessed and consecrated the new Church and presided at the concelebrated Eucharist at 8.00 a. m. Fr. Benedict Minj welcomed the dignitaries and guests for the ceremony and thanked everybody for their cooperation to construct the new church at Tirla. The community extended a very warm welcome to the Bishop with dances and songs after the Mass.

The Priestly ordination of deacon Arthun Surin of Dhodro Baru village took place at Charbandia on May 01 at 7.00 a.m. Bishop Felix Toppo Ordained Arthun a Priest in the presence of his parents, relatives, villagers and the many guests from Jamshedpur and Muzafferpur. Soon after the Ordination ceremony there was a grand welcome programme to felicitate the newly ordained Priest, the Bishop and the many guests. Later all joined the family meal at the campus and proceeded to Dhodro to continue the celebrations.

Fr. Arthun celebrated his First Mass at the village on May 2 at 8.30 a.m. Frs. Manu Horo, Junas Bhengra, Junas Purty attended the Ordination and First Mass.

 

St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Golmuri :  The solemnity of the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, the Parish feast of St. Joseph’s Cathedral was celebrated on May 01. Fr. Carl Dincher, S.J. was the Chief celebrant at the Holy Eucharist and Chief Guest at the cultural programme at the welfare Centre Hall. The parishioners staged various cultural items for the joy of the gathering and to felicitate one another on the special feast day. During the cultural program the parish Council honored Msgr. John Bodra, Mr. Noel Kujur, Sr. Lilia SCJM, Mr. Henry Sarky and Mr. Nathaniel Hans ( the sacristan ) for their outstanding and dedicated contribution to the Parish for the last many years. The Chief Guest honored them with shawls after a resume was presented by Mr. Ephrem Kispotta.

The New parish Council had the Office-bearer’s election held at the Welfare centre on May 21 after the 2^nd Mass. Mr. Peter Bonnerjee is re-elected as the Vice President. The 63 member Parish Council took the oath of office and secrecy during the 2^nd Mass on May 28^th.

 

St. Mary’s Church, N. Road:  The death centenary of Mother Veronica of the Passion, the Co- Founder of the Apostolic Carmel congregation (November 05 – 06) was celebrated at St. Mary’s Parish on April 30. Fr. Edwin Coelho was the Chief celebrant at the Concelebrated Eucharist. The convent girls performed an excellent entrance dance. Sr. Joyce, A.C. gave the introduction and conducted the choir. The Offertory dance was done by the students of St. Mary’s Hindi School. Fr. Edwin Coelho gave the homily and congratulated the Sisters for their missionary zeal and Education ministry in the diocese. Immediately after the Mass, all shared a sumptuous breakfast in the company of the Apostolic Carmel Sisters of the parish in the Hall. Congratulations to Fr. Edwin for the initiative and meaningful celebration in honor of Mother Veronica of the Passion at St. Mary’s.(Edwin)

 

JMJ Convent, Bhilai Pahari :  Bishop Felix Toppo presided at the inaugural Mass at the convent chapel on May 02 at 6.00 p.m. Srs. Irene and Sangeeta worked hard to make all the arrangements for the evening celebration. Sr. Fidelis, JMJ and community supported the Sisters with their presence from morning. Bishop Joe Rodericks, S.J. and the Bishop’s House community were present for the celebration. The guests joined the Sisters for dinner at the new dinning Hall in the convent.

The medical camp held on May 07 had 85  patients and the presence of student nurses from Jeevan Jyothi was well appreciated and of great help to the doctors. One patient had to be rushed to the MGM Hospital during the camp.

 

Bishop’s House : Seminarians in big numbers reached from Lucknow and Bhagalpur on May 01 for their summer ministry and holiday. The first batch went off to Hatikunder for the Bengali-Santhali language classes from May 05 to June 15. Bishop Felix Toppo left Jamshedpur on 4^th morning for Germany via Ranchi. Bishop Joe Rodericks left for Mumbai-Mangalore-Europe –USA on the 8^th evening.

The community gave a farewell meal to Pius Marandi on May 22^nd evening and he traveled back to Dumka on 23^rd immediately after the last examination though had to stay 9 hours waiting for the South Bihar Express at the Tatanagar railway station. He left with fond memories of his one year stay in Jamshedpur. The “HO” group ( Arputha Raj, Linus Kindo, Lucas Lakra, Manonj Kujur, Anthony Minj, Baldev Hembrom, ) reached Lupungutu for the classes on 31^st May.

Vidya Jyoti Centre, Siadih: The construction of the new convent building began on1^st May. Fr. Michael Jojo predicts that it will be completed within this year. The well work  at the convent land has progressed much and it is hoped to touch powerful water source within 20 feet. Sr. Manju spends the whole day supervising the work.

Fr. Vernon after having had another attack of cerebral Malaria during the Holy Week Services at Kiriburu was admitted at the hospital at Kiriburu and later at Chandmari, left for home holiday in the 1^st week of May. He returned on 28^th evening to team up with Fr. Michael Jojo to complete the pond work in the campus for water harvesting and cultivation. One JCB and 2 dumpers were at work for 8 days. The campus is urgently in need of a deep tube well to tide over the summer water scarcity for the hostel children as well as the villagers.

 

Jisu Marsal  Ashram, Hatikunder : Fr. Manu Horo blessed the foundation for the new hostel building at Hatikunder on May 04 in the company of the workers, hostel children, village headman and teachers. Earlier in the day, Mr. Ephrem Kispotta supervised the marking of the building with the help of the contractor,  Mr. Zaffar Khan. The new hostel building will accommodate 100 plus children from 2007.

There are 8 seminarians ( Prince, Jayaraj, Ranjit Kullu, Birendra Tete, Alfred Balmuchu, Sushil Dungdung, Amit Kindo, Vijay Dhan) for the Bengali-Santhali course at Hatikunder. Fr. Manu gave the orientation on May 04 afternoon and classes are progressing on well.

 

 

 Missionaries of Charity, Baihatu: The inauguration and blessing of the new TB block, the silver jubilee of Sr. Ethel Rose and the Silver Jubilee of the convent were celebrated on May 03. Fr. C.R. Prabhu blessed the new block and was the Chief celebrant at the solemn Eucharist at 10.00 a.m. Soon after the mass there was a grand reception for the Jubilarian, Sr. Ethel, M.C. Priests and religious from the deanery were present for the celebrations. The Missionaries of Charity Sisters have been serving the poor and sick at Baihatu for the last 25 years with great faith and dedication. Congratulations to Sr. Ethel and all the other Sisters who were part of the community from time to time for the last 25 years.   

Catholic Charities / Samekit Jan Vikas Kendra , Sundernagar: Sr.  Lata Lakra, SCSC, the   Coordinator of Women’s Desk, SJVK was given a warm send-off on 7^th April, 2006 before she left Jamshedpur to attend the course on- “Community Development Leadership for Women” from April 10 to 28, 2006 at the Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.  After completing the course she returned to SJVK on 2^nd May.

Catholic Charities, organized a half-a- day programme on 17^th.May, at Vikas Bharati for the Operating Partners for CRS supported Watershed Development Programme.

The Chief Guest was Mr. Ashwini Kumar, B.D.O. Jamshedpur Block. Accompanying

him was Mr.Dayanand  Jha , Asst. Engineer. Also present were Mrs. Rajshree, Deputy

State Representative of CRS, Jharkhand and Bihar along with Partner Support Officer,

Mr. Tapan  Sanyal, from Ranchi Office. In the programme the BDO informed the participants about the various Government Schemes and Programmes, especially the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. He very much appreciated the good work done by Catholic Charities and congratulated the staff for the initiative taken.

SJVK conducted a five days training programme for Youth Volunteers in four batches from 4^th April to 12^th.May. This training was imparted to 125 boys and girls of Mosaboni Block under Village Planning Exercise programme of UNICEF. The resources persons were six Facilitators trained by SJVK. The topics covered were-health, sanitation, education and capacity building. Two more batches are yet to receive this training.

SJVK very successfully completed 10 Roof Top Water Harvesting structures in the Government run rural schools of West Singhbhum District. This important project was given to SJVK by the Government of India, Ministry of Water Resources ( Ground Water Desk ) New Delhi. ([email protected])

 

Divya Bharati, Chaibasa:  On 7^th May, the clergy and religious of the neighboring communities came to Divya Bharati for the blessing of the Grotto. Fr. Raphael Lakra conducted the prayers. Earlier, Fr. John Deeney gave a short history of Divya Bharati.

The Chaibasa Deanery had a special celebration of “Motherhood Day’ on the 13-14 at the Divya Bharati. Altogether 153 mothers came for the 2-day programme. Fr. Augustine Kullu, the dean unfurled the deanery flag to commence the celebration and exhorted them to be channels of unity and change in the society. Fr. Joseph Surin, S.J. and Sr. Basanti, SCN were the resource persons. Mrs. Joba Majhi, MLA, Manoharpur graced the occasion and spoke on the theme “Media’s effect on the family”.(Fabian)

 

Jharkhand Board Class X Results- 2006
Name of the School	Total Nos.	1st Div.	2nd Div.	3rd Div
Amar Jyoti School, Pardih	27	27
Gyan Deep Vidyalaya, Birsanagar	52	43	9
St. Joseph’s School, Golmuri	131	109	21	1
St. Mary’s School, N. Road	103	97	6
St. Xavier’s Girls School, Chaibasa	49	32	16	01
St. Xavier’s School, Lupungutu	221	134	82	01
St. Xavier’s  School, Chaibasa (Parish)	98	65	32	01
St. Xavier’s School, Gadi Tundi	38	15	19	2
St. Anthony’s School, Dhanbad	80	56	19	3
St. Ignatius, Rengra	12	4	8
DBH, Gomoh  / Hostel - 27	59	35	22	2
De Nobili Hindi School, Digwadih	38	35	3
St. Robert’s, Parsudih	91	82	9

 

St. Xavier’s school, Purulia: With showers of blessings from above in many a disguise, we are delighted to inform you that St. Xavier’s School, Purulia obtained its permanent affiliation and permission to introduce classes XI and XII from the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi. The application forms for Std XI are being given out and classes will commence from June after summer vacation. The ICSE results too brought a good cheer. Out of 62 students we sent up for ICSE Examinations, March 2006, 61 of them were awarded with a pass certificate. One of the girls could not make it as she fell seriously ill during the examination.

The Annual Prize distribution on 6^th May came to an abrupt ending due to a sudden downpour soon after the distribution of prizes by the chief guest Swami Atmaprabhananda Maharaj, the Secretary and Principal of Ramakrishna Vidyapeeth, Purulia. On 1^st May, the Workers Day was celebrated by the students Council. It was well conducted and appreciated by our domestic staff. A team from Seva Kendra, Kolkata conducted a very enriching session on Life Skills Education for our whole staff. It was sponsored by the CRS Calcutta Archdiocese and the Government of West Bengal. Four of our teachers will be trained to mentor life skills education in the school. Our senior students were exposed to a “Career by choice not chance” programme which was conducted by the institute for Career Studies, Lucknow. Principal Hilary accompanied senior students for the workshop in Career Guidance, Entrepreneurship Development and Vocational Training organized by the Rotary Club of Purulia. Seven of our teachers are attending the last modules of their In-service modular training held at Calcutta at the Eastern Zone of the ICSE Council. Some of our students are attending the coaching camp for sports and games and learning musical instruments in the school during the summer vacation. (Hilary Lobo, S.J.)

 

Jamshedpur Youth: A training programme for the junior youth of the diocese was held at the Vikas Bharati, Sundernagar from May 14-18. There were 82 youth leaders representing the various parishes taking part in the training for juniors and 44 in the senior group. It was on Self-Development and Empowerment.  Fr. Cornelius Tigga and Fr. Romanus Kerketta, S.J. conducted sessions on “Spiritual Awakening” and Mr. Cosmos Thomas on “ Legal Advice”. Career Guidance in computer Education  was given by Mr. Michael Francis and Personality development – Self discovery by Fr. Joseph Surin, S.J.

An evaluation of the programme proved that all enjoyed the sessions and benefited immensely. Promising to re-form and re-shape the youth organizations at their respective parishes all left Vikas Bharati. Congratulations to Mr. Richard Sarky, the programme coordinator and Fr. Joseph Surin, the Diocesan Youth Director. (Richard)

 

St. Xavier’s Parish, Chaibasa :  Fr. Elvius Dungdung was installed Parish Priest on May 28 during the 7.30 a.m. Mass by Fr. George Manna . The church was packed to capacity. During the Mass 50 children from the villages received ‘First Communion’. They were camping in the parish for a week preparing for the great event. Mr. Ephrem Kispotta  was the Master of  Ceremony for the installation.

Immediately after the Mass the parishioners welcomed their new Pastor and bid a tearful and thankful farewell to Fr. Alex Misquith, S.J., who ministered the Parish for 3 years with great enthusiasm and dedication. He indeed gave the region a vibrant vision in the work evangelization. He visited the villages regularly for Mass and conducted meetings  to give the people a better understanding of the faith. It is hoped that Fr. Elvius will continue the evangelization work with the cooperation of the catechists and villagers and achieve greater success for the Kolhan mission. On 28^th evening the clergy and religious of the deanery assembled at the parish to thank and appreciate the pastoral apostolate of Fr. Alex Misquith, S.J. in Chaibasa parish and to extend a warm welcome to Fr. Elvius Dungdung.

 

 

CBSE  PLUS II / CLASS X  RESULTS
Name of the School	Appeared	Dist.	1st Div.	2nd.Div	3rd Div	Comp.
St. Mary’s English  +2	145	22	76	21	01	16
St. Mary’s English   X	158	56	53	24	04	21

 

 

ISCE PLUS II / CLASS X RESULTS
Name  of the School	Appeared	Passed
St. Xavier’s  English School, Purulia    X	62	61
Sacred Heart School, Adra      X	15	15
Loyola School, Kumardhubi   X	80	80
Loyola School, Kumardhubi  + 2	40	39
St. Xavier’s English School, Chaibasa   X	40	38

 

N A T I O N A L  - I N T E R N A T I O N A L  !

 

Father Augustine Thevarparambil, known as the apostle of Dalits, was beatified in Ramapuram, Kerala on Sunday, April 30. Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, presided at the beatification ceremony in the name of Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Telesphore P.Toppo, President of CBCI, was present along a galaxy of Church leaders. (cbcisite)

 

 

Campaign against Hunger & Disease Collection – 2006                                Rs.
01	St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Golmuri	23,414.00
02	St. Joseph’s Church, Gua-Kiriburu	19,423.00
03	St. Mary’s Church, N. Road, Bistupur	18,000.00
04	Infant Jesus  Parish, Sonari	12,430.00
05	Sacred Heart Church, Adra	10,995.00
06	St. Anthony’s Church, Dhanbad	7,500.00
07	Our lady of Guadalupe Parish, Telco	5,762.00
08	St.  Barbara’s Church, Mosaboni	5,212.00
09	St. Theresa’s Parish, Jhinkpani	400.00
10	Vidya Jyothi, Siadih	240.00

 

 

Accepting rent no bar for eviction of tenants:  “ Accepting rent after serving eviction notice does not mean that a landlord has decided against terminating the lease, the Supreme Court held today. A division bench headed by Justice B.P. Singh said mere acceptance of rent was not enough to prove that the landlord had waived the notice. Besides submitting the proof of the landlord accepting the rent, the tenant has to show some act that expresses or implies the landlord’s intention to treat the lease as subsisting, the court said”. (The Telegraph, 06.04.06)

 

 

Welcome to Jamshedpur Diocese
Sr. M. Shuchi SRA	Nirmala Health Centre, Amda
Sr. Rita SJA	Jyothi Kiran, Mosaboni
Sr. Flora SJA	Jyothi Kiran, Mosaboni
Sr. Alphonse Mary SJA	St. Joseph’s Convent, Mosaboni
Sr. Bernadette Tirkey DSA	St. Anne’s Convent, Parsudih
Sr. Susari Bodra DSA	St. Anne’s Convent, Chaibasa
Sr. Bina A.C.	St. Anthony’s School, Dhanbad.
Fr. Bineesh, O.P	Birsanagar

 

 

 

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