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Bon Voyage Fr. Alex Clement Joseph, PhD – Farewell party on Saturday, May 19, 2012
Fr. Alex Clement Joseph, PhD
Born: Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Priestly Ordination: April 17, 1994; Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu
Priestly Assignments:
1994: Assistant Parish Priest, Sanand parish
1995-1997: Secretary to Bishop Stanislaus Fernandes, Vice-Principal of St. Xavier’s, Mirzapur.
1998: Assistant Parish Priest, Bochasan parish
1998: Rector of St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary, Navrangpura
2000-2003: Administrator & Counselor, National Vocation Service Center, Pune.
U.S.A.
May 2003 – May 2012: Assistant Parish Priest, St. Peter’s Church, 22 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10007 – Archdiocese of New York.
Education:
B.A. St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad – 1986
M.Sc.: Psychology, Madras University – 2002
M.S.Ed.: Counseling, Fordham University, New York – May, 2006
Ph.D.: Counseling Psychology, Fordham University, New York – August, 2011
Future Assignment:
Professor, Staff Psychologist: National Vocation Service Center, Pune – June 2012 –
After completing his PhD degree in Counseling Psychology, Fr. Alex – Dr. Alex is going back to India on May 27, 2012. He will be a Professor (staff Psychologist) at National Vocation Service Center in Pune, Maharastra. But he will travel back and forth to different school-colleges in Gujarat.
Fr. Alex has been part of the Gujarati Catholics living in and around tri-state area since 2003. He was always available and ready as and when any of the Gujarati family has asked for his presence for any occasion. Either it is a baptism or funeral mass, either it is Christmas or New Year’s celebration. He has always reached to the nearest location by mass transportation. Together we have prayed, laughed, ate, joked, and in time of sorrow he has given us comfort. I don’t have a count of how many Gujarati Masses he has celebrated for us. Your sermon has been always enjoyed and appreciated by both adults and youngster as you have always used both Gujarati and English languages. It is hard to say goodbye after nine long precious years together. But we are proud of you that you have decided to go back to India to serve the homeland. We wish you all the best and we will keep you in our prayers and you do the same. But we wish and request you that you come and visit us at least once a year.
Gujarati Catholic Samaj of USA has organized a farewell party for Fr. Alex where he will celebrate his last Gujarati mass for us before he goes to India on May 27th. So please come and join to say thank you and goodbye to Fr. Alex.
Place: Woodbridge – (exact location will be published in few days)
Date: May 19th 2012 Saturday.
Time: 2:00PM Gujarati Mass then the farewell party will go on.
Pictures by Ketan Christian.
Mr. Arvind D. Macwan, Executive Engineer R & B (P) division Kheda District retired.
Mr. Arvind Engineer (short name A. D . Macwan from New Ravikunj Society, Anand) retired from R & B (P) Division, Kheda –Nadiad, Gujarat Government on 31st March 2012. He served as an Executive Engineer for about 34 years in Roads & Building Dep’t. of theGujaratGovernment. He was the first Christian who became an Executive Engineer in the history of Kheda District. His Farewell function was organized by Panchayat R & B Div. staff at Hotel Tulsi Garden, Nadiad, Mr. Sangle an I.A.S. Officer, The D.D.O was the President of the program and Mr. Pargi I.A.S was the Chief Guest on the occasion. During the Presidential speech Mr. Sangle spoke that Shri Macwan got retired after long serving years without any adverse remark and for that I congratulate him. He is very positive person, for this I congratulate to his father and his wife too. The Collector, Shri Pargi has also informed that Shri Macwan, is a very positive person and has always responded well. He also added that the district administration will definitely feel his absence. Dr. Jayant Macwan fromSanjivniHospital, Anand elder brother of Shri Arvind Macwan rose to the occasion and described his younger brother as his roll model. Dr. Gohil the Civil Surgeon also expressed his concern voiced that he will also miss his companion. In his speech Shri Arvindbhai has given full credit to his father, mother, brothers, sisters and the higher officers and colleagues and other subordinates as well. The dignitaries like Addl Collector, Prant Officer, Dy. DDOs and other Dist. Officers were present. The function was made successful by Mr Bhatt, Dy. Ex. Engineer and his team. All the Contractors and the staff members were present and expressed their concern and said “we will miss him” Congratulations to Shri Arvindbhai and his family. I also found Shri Arvindbhai is very gentle person and I also congratulate him on his retirement.
News by Kanubhai Parmar, Anand
આણંદના મેથોડિસ્ટ ચર્ચમાં સૌપ્રથમવાર અવિરત બાઈબલ વાંચન
પાધરિયાની પ્રજાના પ્રશ્નો – પાધરિયાની પ્રજાનું પ્રશંસાપાત્ર પગલું – પાલિકાનું પ્રયત્ન પણ
આણંદ નગરપાલિકાની હદમાં આવેલા પાધરિયા વિસ્તારમાં વસતા લોકો વેરા તો બધા જ ભરે છે પણ સુવિધા-રાહતમાં વારો નથી આવતો. નગરપાલિકાના આ ઓરમાયા વ્યવહારના વિરોધ માટે અને પ્રશ્નોના ઉકેલ માટે ત્યાંના રહીશોએ વિશાળ મૌન રેલીનું સફળતાપૂર્વક આયોજન કર્યું હતું. આ આંદોલનના પ્રણેતા અને ભાગ લેનારા બધા જ અભિનંદનને પાત્ર છે. હવે આરંભે શૂરા જેવું ના રહી આ આંદોલનના સફળ પરિણામ સુધી લડતા રહેશો એવી અપેક્ષા. ઈશ્વર આપના આ કાર્યમાં સહાય કરે એવી પ્રાર્થના.
દિવ્ય ભાસ્કરમાં આવેલો અહેવાલ વાંચો.
