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01. The Salesian Community: Fr. Devapragasam Joseph Fr. Dominic Sagayaraj Fr. George Edwin Fr.

Kadaplackal Abraham Fr. Kerketta Shilanand (IND) Fr. Lourdusamy Arokiadoss - Director, Secretary: TNBC Bible Commission - Asst. Director, Professor: DBTC - Professor: SHS /Dean of Studies: Philosophy - Spiritual Director - Student : M.A (Youth Empowerment) - Administrator

STATISTICAL DETAILS OF THE MISSION The Salesian Community at St. Pauls Bible Institute in collaboration with the Bible commission of the TNBC caters to the Biblical formation of the lay faithful, animation programmes on Scriptures and Social ministry through evening study centres. i. Bible Ministry: The institute offers diploma / certificate courses on Bible to both lay and religious. Sr. Matilda ME, renders her voluntary service as a faculty of the Bible ministry here. Residential Bible courses: Altogether there are 9 students who have benefitted from the residential courses during this academic year. Diocese of Palayamkottai: Diocese of Pondy-Cuddalore: Diocese of Tanjore: Colombo-Sri Lanka: Religious sisters: Bible Correspondence courses: Bible Certificate Correspondence course in Tamil is being offered to 150 people from Tamil Nadu and outside Tamil Nadu. Similarly, Bible Certificate Correspondence course in English is also being offered to more than 100 people both in India and abroad. Apart from this, the animation programmes on Scriptures, retreats and other spiritual programmes are organized outside the centre. Details of the Staff: There are two office staff and three domestic staff. They are paid by the centre. 2 1 1 3 2

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Spiritual Animation and Formation: Morning and evening prayers, daily mass, adoration, religious feasts, novena, daily rosary and other spiritual programmes. ii. Publication: Vivilia Virundhu, a monthly journal is published here. Around 2000 copies are printed every month. It contains resourceful articles on scriptures, saints and theology. There are around 1000 regular subscribers for this journal. iii. Neighbourhood ministry: The community reaches out to the needs of the poor children of the neighbourhood through evening study centres.
No. Centres Students

1 2

Becchi Evening study centre Ragunathapuram (sub-centre) Total

180 30 210

At present there are 2 evening study centres functioning at Kumananchavadi and Ragunathapuram and they are taken care of through the close collaboration of the lay collaborators. More than 300 are benefitting from these evening study centres and scholarship programmes.

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