Saturday, January 14, 2023

KARUNA KI MALA BINTI

 

d:.kk dh ekyk fourh

gs vfr e/kqj ;slq] rwus ekuo tkfr ds m)kj ds fy, lwyh ij izk.k fn;sA rsjs dzqlej.k }kjk vkRekvksa dh eqfDr ds fy, thou dk lzksr QwV fudyk gS vkSj rsjs ikfo= g`n; ls lkjh ekuo tkfr ds fy, n;k dk lkxj meM+ iMkA gs thou ds lzksr] vFkkg bZ’ojh; n;k] lkjh nwfu;k dks vkiuh d:.kk ls <+k¡d ys vkSj viuk loZLo gekjs fy, vkfiZr djA

­­­;slq ds ikou g`n; ls gekjs fy, n;k ds lzksr ds :i esa cg fudys] gs jDr vkSj ty] ge rq> ij Hkjkslk j[krs gSaA

n;k dh ekyk fourh

1- gs gekjs firk---2- iz.kke efj;k---

3- izsfjrksa dk /keZlkj---

4- gs ‘kk’or~ firk@gekjs vkSj lkjh nqfu;k ds ikiksa ds izk;f’pr ds fy,@rsrs ije fiz; iq++= gekjs izHkq ;slq [kzhLr ds@ikou ‘kjhj vkSj jDr@vkREkk vkSj bZ’ojh;rk dks@eSa rq>s p<+krk gw¡A

5- izHkq ;slq ds nw%[kHkksx vkSj dzwl ej.k ds dkj.k% ge ij vkSj lkjh nqfu;k ij n;k djA (nl ckj)

6- gs ikou bZ’oj@gs ikou loZ’kfDreku@ gs ikou vej bZ"oj@ ge ij vkSj lkjh nqfu;k ij n;k djA (rhu ckj)

vkafre izkFkuk

gs izHkq bZ’oj! gekjh j{kk djA vkids iq=&iqf=;ksa ij d:.kk djA ge vkSj gekjs ek¡&cki] HkkbZ&cgus] gekjs vkf/kdkfj;ksa vkSj usrkvksa ds }kjk] tks Hkh iki v/keZ vkSj vijk/k gq, gSa] mUgsa {kek dj nsA gesa n.M u nsA gekjs dtZ ekQ dj nsA gs d:.kk lkxj izHkq vius ikou ygw ls] gesa] gekjs ifjokjksa vkSj gekjh lc cLrqvksa dk vfHk”ksd djA vki gesa viuk cukdj] vkids ifo= vkRek }kjk lapkfyr djsaA vkesu

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Last Itenary of Most Rev. Alphonse Bilung Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Rourkela.

A brief profile of Most Rev. Alphonse Bilung Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Rourkela

Most Rev. Alphonse Bilung, SVD, Bishop Emeritus of Rourkela Diocese, was born on 05.06.1933 to Late Mr. Paulus Bilung and Mrs. Paulina Bilung at Dandjamura village, of Kusumdegi Parish of the diocese Rourkela in the state of Odisha. He had 4 elder brothers and 1 younger sister. His parents being devout catholic brought up the children in good catholic faith. 
Bishop Alphonse began his schooling at Mission Primary school Kusumdegi and did his high school studies at Hamirpur boys’ High School which was started by the missionaries. 

After completing High school studies he joined SVD Seminary at Palda, Indore in 1951. It was around this time that the Indian Government was planning to debar foreign missionaries from entering the country. With this in mind the Society hurried up to promote local vocation to priest-hood. He did his intermediate studeies as well as Parichay Studies in Hindi at Palda from 1952 -1953. 

He did his novitiate at Palda in 1954- 56 and then made his first profession in 1956. From 1956-58 he did his philosophical studies and from 1958-61 did his theological studies at Jnana Deepa Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune. 

He made his Final Profession in 1961 and was ordained a priest on 03.10.1961 at Pune.

After his pastoral course he was appointed to Sambalpur Mission in December 1961. He served this mission in different capacities. He was the Assistant Priest at Kesramal from 1962 -1964. He was Hostel Superintend at Gaibira from 1964-1965. He was re-appointed at Kesramal from 1966-70 as In-charge of the school and simultaneously he was appointed as the In charge of the Elementary Teachers’ Training School. 

Later in 1970 he went Rome for his Nemi Course and completed M.Th in Louvain University, Belgium from 1970-1972 . He was appointed as the Rector of SVD Community and Secretary of the New Odisha High School Gaibira in 1972. It was during this time, Most Rev. Hermann Westermann, SVD, the then Bishop of Sambalpur, along with Late Fr. Liam Horsfall, SVD, the then Regional Superior asked him to be the Vicar General of the Diocese Sambalpur. To this invitation he said, “I am ready to accept this post, but give me a small parish. I want to be a pastor and serve the people.” Therefore, he was appointed as the Parish Priest of the Catholic Church Hamirpur in 1972 as well as the Vicar General of the Diocese. 

In 1974, Most Rev. Raphael Cheennath, SVD succeeded Bishop Westermann SVD, as the bishop of Sambalpur Diocese. Once again he was appointed as the Vicar General of Sambalpur Diocese.

After a year in 1975, he was appointed as the Regional Superior of Sambalpur Region of the SVD at Jharsuguda. He was appointed one of the General Consulters for the Generalate at Rome in 1977. While there in Rome, in 1979, Rourkela Diocese was carved out from Sambalpur Diocese, and he was appointed as the first Bishop of Rourkela Diocese. His Episcopal Ordination was on November 03, 1979. Since then he served the diocese of Rourkela as a Good Shepherd for 30 long years. 

During these 30 years he worked tirelessly for the faith formation, proclamation, evangelization, education, health care, vocation and socio-economic development as a whole in the Diocese. It was the time to establish and extend the integral life of the people as a Bishop in the new Diocese. He left no stone unturned in the mission work. Due to his hard work and zeal for the soul, the Christian population grew day by day. The number of priests and the Religious Vocation also grew. For the growth and faith formation of the people, many parishes were established in the rural as well as in the urban areas and many Religious Congregations were invited to work in the Diocese. In the field of education his achievements and contribution will be remembered for the generations to come.  

As a shepherd of the Diocese he had love, compassion, care, dedication and loving approach in the pastoral life. He knew his faithful by name. He knew the life of the people and timely reached out his hands for help. He worked cordially with the Government officials. Due to his cordial approach he was able to do all the official work personally. 

After the retirement he was staying in Catholic Mission Hospital Nuagaon in priest’s resident and helped Bishop John Barwa SVD and later Bishop Kishor Kumar Kujur in their pastoral work actively. Since 2017 he had been staying at Bishop’s house, Hamirpur. He continued to render his pastoral service to the Diocese. But since 2018 he was semi paralysed needed constant assistance.

Monday, September 5, 2022

Why Israelites were well known?

दुईठू बात लगीं इसराएली मन महान राहें

1-  ईश्वर उ मन केर संग में राहें

2-  और दूसरा- ईश्वर केर देवल नियम उमन ठिन रहे

मूसा नबी उमन के कहलक – हे इस्राइली मन मोएँ जे नियम और आदेश मन केर शिक्छा तोहरे मन के आइज़ देवाथों उकार उपरे ध्यान देवा और उकार पालन करा जेकर से तोहरे जीवित रहबा और प्रतिज्ञा देश केर अद्धिकरी हौएक परबा ।

ईश्वर केर नियम न केवल इशरेली मन लगीं रहे मगर हमार लगीं हों हेके। ईश्वर केर नियम हमरेके बेस जीवन जिएक में मदाइत करेल।

प्रभु येसु कहेन मोए नबी मन केर नियम के टूटाएक नहीं मगर पूरा करेक आहों ।

नियम का हीके

नियम कहले कोनो देश चाहे  राइज़ केर अधिकारिक कानून चाहे विधि  हीके जे बताएल की एक आदमी के का करेक आहे और का करेक नखे ।

एहेलेखे, नियम- धर्म मेँ हों आहे। धरम केर नियम के अगर पालन करब तो हमरे धार्मिक और ईश्वरीय राइज़ केर भागीदारी हौएक परब।

प्रभु ई भी कहेन जे मन ईश्वर केर नियम मन के पालन करेन और दोसरा मन के हों पालन करेक कहेन उमन ईश्वर केर राइज़ मे महान काहल जबाएँ ।

सेलगीन परिस्थिति जोनो भी हौओक – बेस आदमी बनेक और नि बनेक मोर उपरे निर्भर करेल।

ईश्वर हों कहाएन मोएं तोहार आगे जीवन और मृत्यु, बेस और अनैस रईख देवथों । तोहरे जीवन के चुना जेकर से तोहरे और तोहार पीढ़ी जीवित रही । 

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

DIWALI: THE FEAST OF LIGHT

Today in India our Hindu brethren celebrate Diwali. The feast of light. Diwali holds significance for Hindus as it symbolizes the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and happiness over sorrow.

Light dispels the Darkness. Jesus says ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” -John 8:12

He came to dispel the darkness from human heart, fought against evil in the society. Tried to give joy to the world.

the  Same work he assigned us when he said Matthew 5:14: You are the light of the world......16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Today we pray to God that we realize always .... As St Paul says  " You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5

We ask pardon from the lord when we lived as the sons of darkness.

Thursday, September 2, 2021

VIRGIN MARY AND OUR LIFE JOURNEY

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus,

You are preparing spiritually to celebrate the nativity of Virgin Mary. It is a good practice to reflect upon the life of Mother Mary through different talks, meditation and prayer. The more we come to know the more we love our Lady. This will surly help you to strengthen your relationship with mother.

John's 19:25-27

At the foot of the Cross, it was John, Mary (mother of Jesus), Mary’s sister (Salome), Mary (wife of Clopas) and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,[b] here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

                                                          The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

According to the gospel passage it was Jesus' duty as a responsible son to entrust his mother to somebody safe and sound. If Jesus would have other brother and sister he would have entrusted to them but not to John. Jesus looked both the side and saw his mother Mary and the disciple John. In the Gospel we read Jesus saw the disciple whom he loved. It is not that the Disciple who loved Jesus.

I believe we all are loved by Jesus, that's why we are here today. In the gospel of Jn 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, Jn 6: 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. Jesus is the good shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep.

For the love of the Church Jesus even dies on the cross.  This is the true love that Jesus shows for his loved ones. There is no grater love than any one who lays down his life for his friends. 

and the last message from the cross for all the disciples whom Jesus loves is this "Here is your Mother" and we read from this hours the disciple took her in to his home.

It is the duty of every disciple, it is the duty of you and me to take mother Mary into our home, family in our lives. Because if we love Jesus we must follow his commandment. We should accept mother Mary as our own mother and as the good Christian model to be followed.

In the other passage we read, the angel Gabriel came to Mary and gave five promises during the visitation.

          1. you will bear a son and He will be grate

          2. He will be called son of God the Most High

          3. The Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David

          4. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever

          5. his kingdom there will be no end.

These were five promises made to Virgin Mary and Mary said I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it happen according to God's will and she accepted it. We see in the bible from the day she accepted the will of God in her life she had to go through all kinds of sufferings, all kinds of loneliness, rejections at the end she is standing at the foot of cross on mount calvary.

Mother Mary started her life after those five promises made to  her. At the foot of Jesus she might have remembered all the promises.

1. He will be grate : looking at his son on the cross she could feel Jesus is going to die, he is wounded, he is insulted, he was flocked and angel said he will be great.

2. He will be called the son of most high God: But now everybody calling him criminal.

3. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever: He is not going to reign he is going to die now.

4. The Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David: now he is lying of the cross.

Mother Mary might have remembered all the promises Angel Gabriel gave to her.

Just imagine if you were in the place of mother Mary ....

All the promises was shuttered  nothing was fulfilled on the cross. Mother Mary Looking at the cross she might have felt God has cheated her. She could have denied God. she could have proclaimed God and angel cheated me. I belied them but they cheated me. there is no god, could have accused God and proclaimed as we do in the time of difficulties but she did not do that. She was called to fulfil the will of God not her own. 

Mother Mary had spiritual strength to come to from Calvary experience to the upper room.  Mother Mary gathered all scattered disciples, we read in Act 1: 12-14

12 Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. 13 When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Mother Mary gathered all the scattered disciples and praying together. In the time of difficulties mother is with them.

You have started your journey believing and trusting in the lord, you believed that God called you, you responded to his call, after you joined and finally professed sometimes you might have felt everything was in vain, your promise and expectations had no meaning. You might have also experienced the situation which in your life time never expected.  You might have been rejected, your proposal, your ideas may not have been accepted, facing all these situations you may feel standing at the foot of cross like Mother Mary.

The Lord wants to give us a message through mother Mary. Mother Mary is the first Christian and  if all these things had happened to her then these things must happen to us too.  We all have to go through Calvary experience. Where all our dreams and expectations will be shuttered, we will be tested, our faith will be tested only then we come to know whether we have strong faith in God. A faith not tested need not be a strong faith.

In the Gospel of John 6:5-6 we read. When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. The momentary struggle we face in life is to test our faith because Jesus already has in mind what he is going to do.

Same thing happened to mother Mary, but she was not perplexed rather went to the upper room. upper room is to go to pray. There is a beautiful passage in the bible from the book of Sirach 39:16

"All the works of the Lord is very good and whatever he commands will be done at appointed time. when the appointed time comes all that he has commanded will happen".

There are lots of promises in the bible and not a single promise will go in vain. Because the Lord says in Isaiah 55: 11

so My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.”

Suffering and crisis are supposed to happen in every Christians lives but we should not waver. The word of God should be in our heart. but the problem is, our heart is filled with people's word, words of news, words of office work except word of God. Mother Mary was never distressed  because “... Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Lk 2: 19

We are forgetting the bible, forgetting the word of God when crisis come. from mount Calvary/ or sad experience we are unable to come to upper room/ pray. Unless we go to the upper room God is not going to direct us.

We can see the promises come to fulfilment only when we have patience. Mother Mary waited not one or two days but almost 33years.

Mother Mary is the Help of Christians. She never abandons her children. The struggle we face today is well known to our Mother. Lets come to her and pray through her intersession for oneself and for the needy and our prayer will never be unheard. Let give place to mother Mary in our life and follow her to follow Jesus more closely.  Amen.