FRANSALIAN PROVINCE
OF PUNE
PUNE PROVINCE:
History of the Province
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Salesian Quotes for the month
The
spirituality of St.
Francis de Sales
is a “Spirituality
of the Heart,”
relevant today as in
the time of St.
Francis de Sales
himself - an
all-embracing,
Down-to-earth
Spirituality for
everyone.
History of the Pune Province of the
Fransalians
The Pune Province was constituted
on 10th August 1996. The expanding Maharashtra-Goa
Province was bifurcated into the Pune and Nagpur
Province to enhance growth in personnel and apostolic
effectiveness. The new Pune Province consists of the
Dioceses of Belgaum, Goa, Pune, Bombay and the States of
Gujarat, Rajasthan and Punjab. This Province which
launched out with forty-eight priests, two brothers and
a few scholastics and candidates, today has sixty-one
priests, four brothers, sixty-six scholastics and around
fifty fresh candidates. The first Provincial, Fr. Jerson
D’Souza, took charge of the administration on 10th
August 1996. The initial difficulties did not deter the
first Provincial Congress from accepting the task of
consolidation of the mission at hand. With dedicated
zeal and clarity of vision, Fr. Jerson, through his
leadership of three consecutive terms of three years
each was able to build up a fervent and energetic
Province. A few rural missions were added and the
existing ones were further stabilized.
On 10th August
2005 the leadership of the province was handed over to the new Provincial, Fr.
Mario D’Souza. Under his able and dynamic leadership the Province is deeply
hopeful to scale newer and greater heights. The province community is vibrant
with life, activity and fervour for the mission of the Congregation and the
Church.
The Province
activities include areas of education, parish missions, preaching ministry,
youth apostolate, literacy programme, rehabilitation of street children,
ministry to the physically and partially mental handicapped children,
empowerment programme for village women and other social apostolates as needed
in the mission places and its people. Mission centres located in the remote
rural areas of India and economically and socially backward are also under the
purview of the Province.
The Province has
signed new contracts for evangelizing work with Bishops, in the dioceses of
Salem in Tamil Nadu, Ajmer-Jaipur in Rajasthan, Broken Bay, and Sydney,
Australia. The province is also aware of the global mission of the Congregation
and the Church. Hence it is committed to provide personnel assistance to
missions in Chile and Brazil in South America.
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Through the year
with St. Francis de
Sales
Meet the humanness
of the Saint and the
saintliness of the
human, meditating
daily with the
Master of Devotion
and the Doctor of
Love.
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