• The second batch of the Province Retreat -Realizing Your Inner Self, preached by Fr. Anil Thalakkottur CMI
    (Director of Vidyavanam Ashram, Bangalore)
  • Fr. John Marcus (Provincial Superior) drives the tractor during work time in the fields during the Mission Seminar for Formees of the Province. Some Priests joined the Deacons, Scholastics and Orientation Course formees (25 in all) for the three-day seminar organized in a village (Bir Talaa, Punjab).
  • Bishop Ignatius Mascarenhas (Diocese of Simla Chandigarh) graced the Sacerdotal Diamond and Silver Jubilee celebrations of Fr. Marden Pereira (Diamond Jubilee) & Fr. Albert Fernandes and Fr. Eusebio Gomes (Silver Jubilee).
  • Fr. Sonny Furtado (Dean of Bathinda Deanery, Diocese of Simla Chandigarh) with the resource personnel and participants of the enriching and well-organized Laity Commission Seminar – Koinonia.
  • Christians from our mission station of Reckong Peo & Dublin in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh receive the sacrament of Holy Communion and Confirmation.
  • Our austere, charismatic and zealous members - Fr. Christopher Masih and Fr. Rupert Travasso make pioneering inroads as the first and full-time Evangelization Team of the Province.
  • Fr. Rosario Antao celebrates with Bal Niketan hostel girls after the Giddha Competition at St. Anne’s Church, Rania, Haryana.
  • The winners of the mesmerising fourth edition of the Inter-School Dance Competition, Nrityanjali organized at St. Xavier’s Sen. Sr. School, Sirsa, Haryana.
  • Fr. Franky D’Cunha organizes Women’s Day celebration at Sacred Heart Church, Billawar, Jammu & Kashmir.
  • Bro. David Masih leading the adoration service during the Kripa Satsang Mela, while Rt. Rev. Franco Mulakkal (Bishop of Jalandhar) blesses the crowds at Dhariwal, Gurdaspur, Punjab.
  • Fancy dress competition at St. Xavier’s School, Satkoha, Punjab. The school is the Province’s latest and first educational institute inaugurated in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
  • Fr. Santo Antonio Pereira (Parish Priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Utorda, Goa) in the center, with his parishioners, who were on a mission experience tour of the missions of the Province.
  • Fr. Vijay Minj organizes the parish feast and satsang mela at St. Mary’s Church, Sri Hargobindpur, Punjab. Christian folks from near and far joined in the joy and festivities of the day, when many parishioners received the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation too.
  • Xaverian Dental Clinic and Medical Centre inaugurated in New Delhi. Octogenarian Fr. Marden Pereira (86 year old, senior-most member of the Province) enthusiastically volunteered to be the first patient.
  • Fathers join in the interfaith prayer service of the Bal Niketan hostel boys at Bathinda, Punjab. Local customs, attire and symbolism facilitated the reading and reflections from the Bible, Bhagavad Gita and lives of the Sikh Gurus.
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I'm delighted about our Delhi Province website which offers us a platform to share information about our Province's activities, works, apostolate and achievements. It also provides a way to share news and updates regarding our members. With an effective website, we can regularly highlight events and activities

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PROVINCIAL SUPERIOR.

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SOCIETY OF PILAR

Who We Are

We the Pilar Fathers are members of the Society of Apostolic Life, whose very raison d’être consists in actively introducing Jesus to all peoples, and sharing his teachings considered as 'good news' for wholesome human and social life, through the witness of life, and their activities. The Society is 'Indian by birth'

What We Believe

The Society intends principally to make Jesus Christ present among those who do not yet know Him and among Christians who have become indifferent to Him. It members are pioneer missionaries who live and work as the Messengers of the Good News, as his Prophets and as His Teachers...

History

The "Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier", commonly known as the "Society of Pilar", was started by Fr. Bento Martins on 26th September, 1887. Fr. Bento then was a humble diocesan priest in a nondescript village of Agonda in Goa. But being afire with the zeal of spreading the Gospel to the new places...

Provinces & Region

THE SOCIETY TODAY:
Branching into Four Provinces and a Region
Since the last 70 years the Society of Pilar has been steadily increasing in number and expanding the scope of its service to God and the nation. In the very next year after the Society was revamped, two...

Background

The Delhi Province took root with the appointment of two of the Society’s members at the Sirsa Catholic Mission Centre in 1960. Their legacy was inherited and carried on by members that followed not only at Sirsa, but steadily in other parts of North India. It was indeed a pilgrimage of faith with the people that called for adapting to their customs, traditions, learning their language, which led to a mutual enrichment of people and messengers. The Delhi Province pledges to carry on the charism and work in that same spirit...

History of The Province

PIONEERING WORK AND SETTING UP OF COMMUNITIES
In the early fifties Fr. Assuncao D’Souza and Fr. Gustavo Alvares worked with much zeal in Hisar and shimla formerly parts of the Archdiocese of Delhi. In the late fifties Bishop John Burke invited our Society to send four priests to work in his new Diocese of shimla Chandigarh. Having the General Chapter of 1959 considered the request it was resolved that the Society would send priests provided that they were not employed in parish work...

DELHI PROVINCIAL

Keeping in view the Vision and the Thrust of the Final Statement of the XVI General Chapter, the Delhi Province during its elevation on 2nd July 2004, adopted the Motto ‘Pilgrims of Faith, and Witnesses of Hope’. The motto is the concrete expression of our charism and patrimony, of being pioneer missionaries dedicated to the task of community building among all peoples. Being pilgrims of faith implies a multi-religious context, where in we walk hand in hand with people of goodwill of all communities in dialogue, enriching and bringing contentment to their lives by sharing our Christian faith with them. Our mission is also being witness of hope in this vast social situation were hopelessness, injustice and exploitation that characterizes our country. It involves sharing our love and service through the personal witness of our lives, and through social development programmes. During the First Ordinary Chapter of Affairs we did a sincere assessment of our mission work and spelled out certain key objectives to guide us in the days ahead.

Following were the objectives:

1. To evolve a more effective mission apostolate.

2. Since the vitality of the ecclesial community depends to a large extent, on its youth, they were to be given utmost priority.

3. We took cognizance of the fact that we need to lay more stress in the area of social action

Our Apostolate
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