Novices Alphonse, Charles, Edwin, Jickson, Karthik
and Mifin, led
by their master, Fr Anuraj, celebrated their
first profession, presided byt he
superior of India, Fr Mariolino, at our seminary in Chembaraky,
on May 4.
For another novice, Antony, hit the day before the festival
by a sudden fit of
chickenpox, the celebration is probably postponed
to May18.
The day was, as
always, beautiful, participated,
colorfoul, sung, ...
in a word really joyful and lived!
Some numbers:
- 12: it is the twelfth time that a first profession
is celebrated in India,
since 2003, and always
in Chembaraky;
- 93: are the Indians novices of the various groups
in these twelve years;
- 51: it is the current total of the Josephites of Indian nationality in
the congregation, of which: sixteen
are priests, four deacons, twelve theologians,
six doing pastoral training and thirteen philosophers;
- 28: it is the
average age of the fifty-one Indian
confreres.
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