October 2012
Volume 1, Issue 1
CCBI
Youth Commission
NEWS LETTER— fresh thoughts we share...
The Editor Speaks: Why a Newsletter? ‘news shared is news lived’
Dear Regional secretaries, Youth
Directors and Youth in India,
Greetings from your brother Elias.
Newsletters are one of the least expensive and most effective public relations tools that draw our attention to
a familiar life lived and shared. Don’t
we feel the need to express our lived
lives and the exiting happenings in our
youth ministries via a public relation
tool? News shared is news lived.
By sending out quality information to
a newsletter on a regular basis, we
keep our youth at the national and
international levels, potential young
leaders in formations, our friends and
other important sources updated
about our ministries and our shared
lives in our youth ministries.
return
visits.
Plus, the effort
of creating a
newsletter itself
speaks volumes
about our commitment to the
ministries that
we are entrusted
with. It also positions us, leaders, as experts and valuable
resources.
Chairman
Most Rev. Henry D’Souza
Member Bishops
Most Rev. Cyprian Monis
Most Rev. Vincent Samuel
Executive Secretary &
Editor of Uthship
Fr. Elias ofm
Friends, we intend to bring out your
UTHSHIP newsletter every month. Your
timely assistance and contributions will
enable us to bridge the gap and create a
better network among our ministries.
It is your Commission with a Mission.
So, Let's Get Started…
Fr. Elias ofm
Frequency of news mailing builds
familiarity, and familiarity inspires
Executive Secretary of Youth Commission,
Conference of Catholic Bishops of India
CCBI UTHSHIP Website Launched at Belthangady, 30 September 2012
CCBI Youth Commission
was pleased to launch its
national wide website
“UTHSHIP” on the occasion of the 8th Karnataka
Regional Catholic Youth
Convention 'Yuvajanotsva
2012', at Belthangady on
30th September 2012.
The
website
was
launched
in the presence of Dr. Bernard Mo-
ras, Archbishop of Bangalore, 13 Bishops from the
state of Karnataka, Sri
Vincent Pala, Union Minister for water resources
and minority affairs, Dr.
M Veerappa Moily, Union
Minister,
Oscar
Fernandes, MP, and Ronald
Colaco, industrialist and
philanthropist.
About
5000 youth from the
state of Karnataka wit-
nessed the launch of the
CCBI Youth Commission
website.
Fr. Elias ofm, the Executive Secretary of CCBI
Youth Commission, introduced the website as a
communication tool that
will make the Youth Commission par with the mind
of the youth in the world,
and thereupon invited
Inside this issue:
Editorial
1
CCBI Website
1
Youth in Belthangady
2
Call to Write
4
Uthship Congrats
4
Year of Faith
4
News Items - Request 4
Page 2
YOUCAT
You cannot imagine
at all how much you
interest God; he is
interested in you as if
there were no one
else on earth
JULIEN GREEN
(1900-1988
French Writer)
“Youth
should
become the
agents of
change in
society,
forming
themselves
as leaders
and
achievers."
YOUCAT
Inspiration
(Latin: inspiration =
inbreathing): God’s
influence on the human writers of the
Bible, so that he himself should be regarded as the author of
the Sacred Scriptures
CCBI UTHSHIP Website Launched (cont.)
the Chairman
of the CCBI
Youth Commission, Bishop
Henry
D’Souza
to
launch
the
website. Bishop
Henry
D’Souza, invoking
the
blessings of
Almighty God over the
work of the National
Commission,
launched
the website at the click of
a button.
This website will cover
the youth activities from
all the 13 regions and the
various youth movements. It will also bring
the youth news under
various sections such as
regional, National and
international. It will translate the ideas of the
youth via articles and
success stories under the
headings - spiritual, social, ethical, success and
career. The website will
also enable the youth to
become leaders and
achievers through two of
its main projects during
the year of Faith “Biblical
Secrets to Success and
Career Guidance modules” which are aimed to
cover the virtual Indian/
world market specially
the youth in India.
Youth lead their way to Belthangady
8th Karnataka Regional Catholic Youth Convention 'Yuvajanotsava 2012'
(28-30 September 2012)
Youth led their way to
Beltangady on Friday September 28, 2012, as the
8th Karnataka Regional
Catholic Youth Convention 'Yuvajanotsava 2012', organized by the
Karnataka Regional Youth
Commission, was off to a
spectacular start. Thousands of enthusiastic
youth from across the
state thronged Holy Redeemer
Church
at
Belthangady to participate in the convention.
The Youth Convention
began with a flag
hoisting. Most Rev. Lawrence Mukkazhy, Bishop
of Belthangady, the local
host diocese, hoisted the
national flag and Mr. Emmanual, the president of
KCYM hoisted the convention flag. It was followed by a solemn Eucharistic Celebration presided over by the Chairman
of KRYC, Bishop Henry
D’Souza. After formally
inaugurating the event,
Bishop Henry D’Souza
said, "Youth should become the agents of
change in society, forming themselves as leaders
and achievers." The keynote address was delivered by Fr. Faustine Lobo,
National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies.
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Youth lead their way to Belthangady (cont.)
administration and in the
judiciary has been our
undoing. We have to encourage more and more
youngsters to get into
these streams”, he stated.
As many as 1,500 representatives and members
of Diocesan Youth Commissions of Karnataka,
Bosco Youth, AICUF, Jesus
Youth, ICYM and MSYS
from around 750 parishes
across the state took part
in the mega convention.
On day two, 29 September 2012, two panel discussions formed the highlights of the day. The first
discussion was on ‘Youth
are called to be achievers
and leaders’. Mr. R V
D’Souza,
Bangalore
(public service), Sabita
Monis
(academia),
Cajetan Dias (creative
arts), Praveen Kumar
(political life) inspired the
youth with their life experiences on the topic,
while Mr. Jose Jacob,
Bangalore moderated the
panel discussion. Later in
the day, in the second
panel discussion, Mr.
Krishna Byre Gowda, J R
Lobo conscientised the
youth on ‘Youth problems
and challenges’, While
Bishop Henry D’Souza
moderated the discussion.
30 September 2012, Day
three witnessed a mammoth number of about
5000 youth from all over
Karnataka. A youth march
for peace was flagged off
by Sri Vincent Pala, Union
Minister for water resources and minority
affairs. Dr. Bernard Moras, Archbishop of Bangalore, Dr. M Veerappa
Moily, Union Minister,
Oscar Fernandes, MP,
and Ronald Colaco, industrialist and philanthropist
were the chief guests.
Addressing thousands of
youth, Ronald Colaco, NRI
entrepreneur and philanthropist said, “In India
even though Christians
are in minority, our contribution in the field of
education, health care
and social service is commendable, when compared to the contributions of any other community”. However, he
pointed out that “Lack of
representation from our
community in politics,
On this occasion, Mr.
Roland Colaco announced
the formation of a
“Corpus Fund” of Rs. 3
crore (one crore each for
3 consecutive years) in
the name of a Trust. The
interest, accrued from
this, will be solely utilized
to financially assist IAS,
IPS and KAS aspirants
from the community
through scholarships.
In his presidential address, Most Rev. Bernard
Moras, Archbishop of
Bangalore called upon
the youth to take the
initiative of inculcating
leadership qualities in
them and thereby build
the church and nation at
large.
Encouraging Christians to
excel in all fields Dr. M
Verrappa Moily, minister
of power, Govt of India,
said “India is very young
in age; we have lots of
human resource,
and
youth form a sizeable
chunk of these human
YOUCAT
What is Mission?
(from Latin mission =
sending): Mission is
the essence of the
Church and Jesus’
mandate to all Christians to proclaim the
Gospel in word and
deed, so that all men
can freely make a
decision for Christ”
“It’s your nation,
your democracy,
therefore, your
participation
matters the most”
YOUCAT
In Jesus Christ, God
took on a human
face and became our
friend and brother.
POPE BENEDICT XVI
September 6, 2006
CCBI
Youth Commission
resources. Naturally our productivity
should have been more as compared
to other states, where they lack such
wealth of young human resources”.
Dr. Moily also called upon the youth to
take active interest in politics.
Jacob Bangalore, Sabitha Monis Mangalore and Don Bosco, Tech Karnataka,
NGO organization Bangalore.
The occasion also saw the launching of
CCBI youth commission website. Fr.
Elias ofm, the Executive Secretary of
Vincent Pala, minister of state for wa- CCBI Youth Commission introduced
ter resources and minority affairs, the website and Bishop Henry D’Souza
Govt of India said, “It’s your nation, launched the website.
your democracy, therefore, your participation matters the most”. MP Os- The three day convention concluded
car Fernandes also spoke highlighting with a solemn thanksgiving Holy mass,
the power of youth and the need to presided over by the Rev Bernard Momake the best use of this vital re- ras, Archbishop of Bangalore and consource of youth power.
celebrated by the catholic bishops of
Karnataka.
During the occasion, outstanding
young achievers were honored with The CCBI Youth Commission lauds the
Karnataka Catholic Yuva Rathna stupendous effort of Bishop Henry
Award. The Awards were presented D’Souza and Fr. Maria Joseph, and for
to Cajetan Karwar, Roshan Ferao Man- making the event a great success.
galore, Roshan Ouseph Mandya, Jose
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Special
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out its Year of
Faith Reflections’
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UTHship congrats Mr. Jose Jacob
The CCBI Youth Commission congratulates Mr. Jose Jacob,
one of the its consulting team members, for receiving outstanding young achievers award during the convention.
He was honored with Karnataka Catholic Yuva Rathna
Awards.
Don’t miss it!
We wish Mr.Jose Jocab all success in his future endeavours.
We request all the Regional and Diocesan Youth Secretaries/Directors to support us by sending us your news and articles before
the end of every month. Your timely response will enable us to get the CCBI Newsletter the first week of every month .
Please help us help you sever better…
Fr. Elias ofm, The Executive Secretary