{"id":62304,"date":"2024-02-24T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdipime.org\/?p=62304"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:28:14","slug":"celebration-of-gods-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/missionary-life\/celebration-of-gods-fidelity\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of God&#8217;s fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forty-one of us from four organisms of India marking the diamond, golden and silver Jubilee of our first profession are at Vimala Niketan, Siliguri to colour the significant milestone that need to be celebrated. At this point, what else could we say than to articulate it in the way we put in the title- \u201ccelebration of God&#8217;s fidelity\u201d. We are here to reflect upon the commitment that we had made and lived until today. At this moment, a series of questions scroll in our minds as we introspect the journey of 60, 50 and 25 years:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-How and why did we make the commitment?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Have our reasons changed and our motives matured?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Do we perceive things differently perhaps more distinctively than initial years?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Why did we maintain our commitments, what struggles did we face, who assisted us along the way?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Perhaps more importantly how did the Grace of God sustain us in perseverance?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigating through these questions, the road map we travelled, becomes clear to us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-62304 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240113_070505-scaled.jpeg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240113_070505-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\u201ccelebration of God&#039;s fidelity\u201d. 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We are here to reflect upon the commitment that we had made and lived until today\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240114_091234-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240114_091234-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240114_091307-scaled.jpeg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240114_091307-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\u201ccelebration of God&#039;s fidelity\u201d. We are here to reflect upon the commitment that we had made and lived until today\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240114_091307-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240114_091307-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240114-WA0048.jpeg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240114-WA0048-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\u201ccelebration of God&#039;s fidelity\u201d. We are here to reflect upon the commitment that we had made and lived until today\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240114-WA0048-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240114-WA0048-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to all types of journeys, we made. They were gracious, tedious, challenging and even facing the dead end. Thanks also to various road-signs that affirmed, enlivened and enriched our journey. Thanks to the persons who kept accompanying us and the beneficiaries, who kept encouraging us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what more can we say? We can only say \u201cThank you Jesus for your faithfulness to us throughout these years. Help us to continue our journey until the end in your faithfulness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us during this opportune moment, while we ruminate with astonishment the sacredness of the past to thank God, the definitive Author who remains faithful to us forever and ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0Jubilarians 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vimala Niketan, Siliguri<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41 religious from India celebrate Diamond, Golden &#038; Silver Jubilees, reflecting on God&#8217;s fidelity &#038; sharing their inspiring journey of commitment, grace &#038; challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":62306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missionary-life"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240112_203021-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}