Thank you family and friends for your wishes, blessings and prayers. My family put together a wonderful birthday celebration with live music performance by Mr. Umesh Patel on Sunday, August 30, 2015. Ton of special thanks to my father Mr. Joseph Parmar, my wife Clera Christian, my son Rodney Christian and my brother Ketan Christian. The celebration started at around 7:00pm and ended after midnight. It was 2:30Am when I went to bed.
God had a purpose to put me on this earth and with the help, love, guidance and support from my parents, siblings, relatives, friends, my wife and son, I think I have lived up to that purpose. It is obvious that when we look back to our life, we regret for some foolish mistakes by ignorance or lake of awareness. But I am very much satisfied that I have lived my life to the fullest. The world has changed a lot in 60 years.
Dr. Albert Einstein was passed away on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, NJ and Jagadish Christian was born on August 30, 1955 in Khambhat, India.
Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy, and futurism, was opened on July 17, 1955. The ticket price was $2.00 in 1955 and now it is $200.00 – 100%
The McDonald was opened in 1955, the price of Hamburger was 15 cents in 1955 and now it is around $4.00 – 25%
The minimum wage was $1.00 and now the federal minimum wage is $7.25 only 7.25%
The exchange rate was roughly Rs. 2 VS $1 in 1955 (it was Rs. 3.75 in 1960 officially) now it is over Rs.66.40
But God is still providing fresh air at free of charge for ever. But we have given a price tag to each and everything.
The best Indian movies of 1955:
Rank Title Notes
Shree 420 – Raj Kapoor, Nargis
Azaad – Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje – Gopi Kirshna, Sandhya
Udan Khatola – Dilip Kumar, Nimmi
Mr. & Mrs. ’55 – Guru dutt, Madhubala
Insaaniyat – Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Beena Rai
Munimji – Dev Anand, Nalini Jayvant
Seema – Balraj Sahani, Nootan
Baradari – Ajeet, Geeta Bali
Devdas – Dilip Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Vaijayanti Mala
No wonder why I love music so much. The songs of the above movies are still fresh in mind.
Gujarati Catholic Samaj of USA invites all members and faithful to Meet & Greet Sr. Chandrika CSSH, The Mother General and co-founder of The Cenacle Sisters of The Sacred Heart.
For the faithful who came to the evening Mass at San Salvatore in Onda Salvatore on Tuesday, August, 4th, 2015, there was more than one surprise. The Holy Mass with Fr. General Jacob Nampudakam was celebrated in English and during Mass three members of the Congregation three “Cenacle Sisters of the Sacred Heart“ from India, member-community of the UNION, received mission mandate to go to Peru. There they will establish its first international community, to work in conjunction with confreres from the St. Paul Province already ministering in collaboration with the Immaculate Conception Province. After the celebration everybody was invited to an excellent Indian meal.
The next morning the three sisters, together with their Mother General, another Sister and Fr. General they left for this distant mission, 3200 meters above sea level. They themselves will be barely aware of the challenges ahead of them, the extreme cold on the mountains, the different culture, the language, the solitude, the dangers on the road, the low atmospheric pressure etc. Yet they are “going out”, to the periphery, as Pope Francis invites us all to do. Congratulations to Sr. Anjaly, Sr. Chetana and Sr. Poonan and may God protect them.
