It’s
my pleasure to present you the report of the planning session for the year
2012-13. The meeting was held on 13th July, 2012 in the third year
theologian lecture hall. It was a joyous occasion for the English academy which
had Dr John Romus as the guest of honor and the new English academy moderator Rev.
fr. Alphonso francis and the out going moderator Rev. Dr George Assariparambil. The meeting commenced at 10.45 am, with the
prayer song led by bro. Ranjith rossario subsequently secretary bro selvamani CMF
presented the minitus of the previous meeting after few additions and
correction the report was passed. Then Umakant malik the out going president of
the English academy welcomed the dignitaries and the house with gamcha and
flowers also with the words of love and warmth.
Then
the new venture of the English academy was in the form releasing of the
magazine which contains all the issues of last year English academy and few
inspiring articles authored by the students of theology. Rev. Dr. John Romus
the dean of the morning star college released the magazine with the words
“publish or perish” and congratulated the team work and efforts to bring out
magazine many more in the years to come. Then the out going Moderator rev. Dr. George Assariparambil
thanked all for the huge contribution for the success of the magazine
especially bro. Jigmy Thomas and bro. Umaknat Malik for their constant efforts
in materializing the magazine and warmly welcomed the new moderator Rev. fr.
Alphonso Francis and officially handed over the files pertaining to the
academy. Now the new moderator presided the planning session. Before planning
the session the house went for electing the new president and the secretary,
the house proposed bro. Robert Johnson and bro. Teleswer ss.cc president and secretary
respectively. The moderator had accepted them as president and secretary elect
but they will exercise their duty only after having consulted with the staffs
of the college.
Then
we went for planning the session for the forth coming month 17th
August. This meeting will be organized by the third year theologian they have
decided to deal on the Indian Christian theologian Rev. Dr. Michael Amaladoss. Then the second meeting on
September 14th would be organized by the second year theologians on
one of the current or burning issues. The following themes were suggested Higgs
boson particle, problem of inflation, child abuse by clergy female infanticide,
human trafficking, and the choice is left the3 group to choice the theme and
present it. The third meeting would be organized on November 12th by
the first year theologians. The house had spent some time for explaining to the
first years about how to go about the meeting. After having tried to convince
them, the moderator suggested they will plan together to organize the meeting;
since they have so much time is left.
Finally,
we discussed about the 25th January meeting whether to have debate
or panel discussion the house has decided to have the panel discussion. The
moderator has decided the topic to be kept open and the whole house would be prepared
on time to venture it. After that moderator Rev. Fr Alphonso Francis gave us a
message that “our aims are to draw the hearts of he people to Jesus for whom we
must put up all our efforts to the maximum with in the available means. This
effect would be seen how people respond to us when we preach about Jesus or
speak about Jesus, thus it is two way traffic when we communicate it we do it
to the full that, “others are drawn upon”, and we shall utilize the academy to
the full to learn how to draw people to Jesus.
The
out going president had gave few information and suggestion for the academy
they are 1, allot some funds for English academy 2, there is a space for the
English academy in the morning star college the address is www.morningstarcollege.in so kindly
post your articles before that check the grammatical errors of your articles,
give right and correct references, avoid negative comments about the persons
with names, last but not so lately bro peter proposed the vote of thanks to the
gathering and moderator prayed the final prayer with that the meeting came to
an end at 12.15 pm.
Yours
sincerely,
Selvamani David. CMF.
(The
secretary)
