Installation of the New Provincial.

  SR. STELLA POTTEPARAMBIL FMA

The EMA Province of Mary Help of Christians Kolkata marked a new beginning on 24th June 2021 with the installation of its seventh Provincial.Sr Leelamma Palliparambil.The installation ceremony took place in the provincial house Dum Dum chapel in the presence of Provincial Council members. Kolkata Salesian provincial Fr. Joseph Pauria presided over the solemn Holy Eucharist along with the parish priest of St. Patrick's Dum Dum and three Salesians. During the Holy Eucharist. the outgoing provincial Sr Rose Ezarath read the Decree of Appointment by Mother General Sr. Yvone Reungoat and her General Council. 

The celebrant in his homily highlighted the two Mornesian symbols: 'the window of valponasca and the well of Mornese' denoting the Eucharistic piety and the slim that pervaded in Mornese and which spread across the world. The installation programme had two main parts- Thanksgiving of the outgoing provincial; and handing over of the Province of Kolkata to the new provincial. Superior of the provincial house at Dum Dum. Sr Stella, thanked Sr Rose for her dynamic governance and animation of the sisters during the past six years.

Sr Rose then handed over to the new provincial Sr. Leelamma, a symbolic representation of the tree of kolkata province with the names of the six past provincials and the present 25 communities with 151 Sisters spread across the seven states of India and Nepal. 

A short felicitation and fellowship breakfast followed.Only few sisters from neighbouring communities attended the event due to Covid 19 lockdown restrictions.