Love Gives Life   

Bhaviasri

  A surprising phone message received from one of our Kindergarten students Bhaviasri met with an accident in the evening hours. She is from Uthandapuram village and from a poor family. Her father is a daily breadwinner and mother goes to paddy work when it is available and they have two children and she is the eldest. Younger is a boy aged two. She is very smart and active child. In her village near to her house she knocked at a stone and fell flat on the street. She had a very bad injury to the urethra which caused bleeding and unable to pass urine. Immediately she was taken to the nearby city hospital. They kept her under observation for a day and discharged not giving needed attention to the injury.

Parents had taken their child to three various hospitals for better treatment. A week later they found her with terrible stomach pain and taken to Vizag big hospital and they found her urethra was blocked and was infected and fracture on pubic bone. They have given some medication and placed catheter to pass the urine. Further treatment and investigation found that her urethra is fully closed up and they could not trace the place of it. She requires a plastic surgery to the urethra, which is very expensive and for the poor parents do not know where to turn. In this trying crucial moment we, the Canossian sisters shared the painful situations to Mr. Alan J. Ouimet and miraculously we received a special assistance from a FFA Sponsor to use a fund for the needy. Thus the fund became source of comfort to take a decision to accept the challenge of their financial difficulty and go ahead courageously. The Doctors are not given any security for the success of the surgery which is major, expensive and delicate. They could not trace the place of urethra which was completely disappeared without leaving any sign to be traced out.  

After three months of medication on 15th June she underwent surgery successfully. She recovered and enjoying good health, which we believe as great miracle from God. All became possible by the compassionate heart of many especially by a timely generous contribution of FFA. Through this painful event Bhaviasri proclaim Jesus Prabu is my God and she tells her villagers and all those who meet her that Jesus healed her.

Rosamma is a 39 year old abandoned woman living with her widowed mother, her brother and her 8 year old son suffering from a clipped lip. Her brother is a fisherman, a seasonal employment,  and the sole bread-winner.  With his irregular income he is struggling to manage his own living as well as that of their aged mother. Consequently, this poor woman and her son are a real burden. Rosamma's meager earnings come from some menial works in the neighboring houses which hardly fulfill their daily necessities. Her son, Sachu, is in the  3rd grade. She is trying to forget all the painful experiences in her married life through her child. His future is her only goal but she has no means to attain it. So she is leading a very depressive life.  This poor mother is very much worried that she cannot fulfill the educational needs of her son. This family is living in Rosamma's paternal house.  It is built long years back and is in a bad condition. The house is incomplete too.  She has no idea about how long she will be able to survive in this home with her son. In future when her brother gets married she is bound to leave this house. As long as her mother is alive she could survive there, after that she may not find shelter to dwell with her son peacefully. She is longing for a kind assistance to survive and to provide a better future to her son.

Sr. Daphne Anto

During the first week in October I will be preparing to send over the third quarter allotment which covers your allotments sent during July, August and September. This quarter is the time to send your Christmas gifts as the next allotment, the 4th Quarter, will not go over until January, 2013.  

If you are sending Christmas cards to your family please mail them directly to India and send them to Franciscan Family Apostolate, Mount Carmel Cathedral, Alleppey 688001, Kerala, India.  

Sister Daphne is presently recovering from serious surgery and doing well. She will be on limited duty until November. Lilly Arulappan will be in charge. Lilly has been with us since the 1980's. If you wish to communicate with Alleppey you may do so through email at  ffaalleppey@gmail.com; if you wish to communicate with Sister Carmel Paul in Andhra Pradesh please contact her at carmelpaula@yahoo.com. They are ready to serve your every need.