Birthday of Provincial @
Baroda
August 24, 2016 – on the feast day of St
Bartholomew, the faithful of Gorwa parish
along with the parish community and the
young priests of the K.G. Province
celebrated the anticipated birthday of Rev
Fr Charles Serrao, the Provincial Superior.
The formal celebration commenced at 6-30pm
where the birthday baby along with the 11
young priests and Frs Kaushik and Noel
gathered around the altar of the Lord to
celebrate the Sacrament of love and to thank
the Lord for the gift of life. Since the
mass was in Gujarati language, Fr Sunil
Monis, Superior and Parish priest presided
over the Eucharist and preached a meaningful
homily highlighting the experience of the
Lord in our day today lives. Towards the end
of the celebration, Fr Sunil made known to
the community the intention of the
celebration and the birthday baby was
requested to cut the cake. As the knife
entered the heart of the cake, all the
faithful with one voice sang the birthday
song. Fr Provincial expressed the words of
gratitude for this meaningful celebration
and invited all the parishioners to pray for
the mission of Baroda. The second part of
the birthday celebration was continued at
the parochial house where the provincial cut
the cake in the presence of the Carmelites.
Fr Sunil felicitated the birthday baby and
Fr Joel the vicar General of the diocese
gave a bouquet of flowers. The guests of
honor were the family of Mr Hadrian who was
an ex Carmelite and companion of Frs Joseph
Pinto and Ivan Sanctis. The cream of the
celebration was the birthday dinner which
was filled with variety of dishes.
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