To: Rev. Father General Virginio Bressanelli
Dear Rev. Fr. Superior General
Hope that you are in good healthy. We Pray for you and for the success of all your endeavours. May I make use of this opportunity to express our gratitude from our part, with a brief description of the ceremony of the postulancy.
The ceremony of acceptance of the postulancy started at 5 pm. in our first house in India, named "Dehon Bhavan" in Kumbalanghy. We, four of us, entered into St Antony chapel in procession accompanied by our Regional Superior to India Fr. Martin van Ooy and Fr. Andrew Sudol. Fr. Martin gave a simple and meaningful introduction to us and to the audience. He described the meaning and importance of postulancy period. Fr. Andrew requested the Superior to admit us to the postulancy. And we, the postulants all together assured our fidelity to the charism and to this postulancy period. He placed the Holy Spirit on our hands and advice us to be holy according to the Gospel teaching. The ceremony was followed by adoration. All the participants prayed for us by singing All Saints litany.- At the end of the ceremony were wished and congratulated warmly by all who were present We, the postulants were so filled with joy and gratitude. Some of the parishioners, supporters, our priests and our younger brothers were present on this ocassion. The ceremony was simple and meaningful. We used this opportunity to pray for you and for your assistants.
Dear Rev. Father, once again we express our gratitude from our sincere hearts for having permitted us to the postulancy, in spite of our drawback. We promise that we will be trying our best to get rid of our drawback to be worthy to carry out the charism of this Congregation in India. But we need your prayers, supports, care, concern and love. May we stop. Requesting your blessings and the prayers.
Joseph Arokiaswamy, Louis Mariano Fernandes, Henry Thapalodath and Roque Placido Rebello