The meeting of superior’s forum began with invoking of God’s blessings by Fr. A. Arockiam at 9:15 am in MSFS Provincialate at Kunnathur, Trichy. At the outset, Rev. Fr. K. Ignacimuthu the provincial requested the forum to elect a convener and a secretary. Fr. C. Sebastin Raj was elected as convener and Fr. K. Dominic Savio was elected as secretary. The main theme of the discussion was about community life. It was decided that 24 th October 2018 is to be celebrated as Community day. It is to be celebrated in all the local communities of our province. All the fathers who attended the meeting shared about the situations of their own communities and put forward many Suggestions to revitalize and to re-energize the local communities.
The Superiors’ forum unanimously resolved to do the following with utmost sincerity and dedication:
- To set a time table for the community and to follow it strictly without fail
- To being faithful to all the spiritual activities of the community
- To pray every day for all the conferrers
- To have monthly recollection without fail
- To visit the family members of every conferrer in the community
- To read from the life of our Patron and Founder before the meals
- To pray for the conferrers, who celebrate birthday, ordination day and feast day
- To read the obituary everyday and pray for the departed confreres without fail
- To maintain visitors book
- To maintain Chronicles
- To have monthly community meeting without fail and send a copy of the minutes to the
provincial
Since some confreres are living alone in parishes, it is decided to group them with nearby communities to meaningfully celebrate the community day. The following are the groups:
- Kadayal, Nalattinputhur and Othaiyal
- Virudhunagar community and Fr. S. Arockiam, Fr. M. Anish and Fr. A. Jerome
- Ammapatty and Sendurai communities.
- SFS Minor seminary and Thirukogarnam Parish
- SFS School Pudukkottai, Kanakanpatty and Ravoosapatty parishes
- SFS ITI, Nachiarkoil and Mayoraz children’s Home
- Provincialate and Fr. M. Fernandez
- SFS School, Alangayam, Friendly Home, Vaniyambadi SFS School and Vaniyambadi Parish
- Kolli Hills, Dharmapuri, Mariapuram and Fr. C. Martin Kumar
- Perumbakkam, Kodungal, Adanur, and Kanankadu
- Kelambakkam, Perungozhi and R.S. Nagar
- St.Thomas Mount and Fr. A. William
The forum has decided to set apart a full day to celebrate the community day either on 24th October, 2018 or any other day that is convenient. The meeting was very fruitful and encouraging. The meeting came to an end with a prayer.
Fr. K. Dominic Savio