Kerala Latin Catholic Dioceses’
Guidance & Counseling Service Providers’ Meet
St.Joseph’s Guidance and Counselling Centre Bishop Jerome Institute Campus, Kollam, 691001
Dear Rev.Father/ Sister
Greetings from SJGCC, Diocese of
Quilon!
We are pleased to inform you that SJGCC (St.Joseph’s
Guidance & Counseling Centre, Diocese of Kollam) is organizing an informal Kerala Latin Catholic Dioceses’ Guidance
& Counseling Services Providers’ meet on 3rd May 2012 at SJGCC
Hall, Bishop Jerome Institute Campus, Kollam. Meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Train timings of arrival & departure is
given in the next page so that you may plan your journey.
The
purpose of the meet is to bring counselors involved in counseling and guidance
services, to share their experiences, challenges and identify community driven
therapeutic approaches to deal with specific problems in our healing ministry. Being
the first meet each representative of a Counseling Centre is encouraged to make
a presentation in the meeting. LCD projector will be provided for those who
wish to use the same. Please bring your brochures and related public
awareness materials for display if any. Participation of lay persons involved in
the services is most welcome.
To
meet the expenses a registration fee of Rs.100.00 per participant will be
collected.
Please feel free to contact us if
you require any further information regarding this meet. Please confirm your
participation by calling us on 0474-2745691 or 9497534141. If you can please sent us a brief
report in advance to sjgccentre@gmail.com.
Kindly pass this mail to persons involved in this service in your Diocese.
Contact person:
Mr.Bijo Joseph
Counselor, SJGCC, Kollam
Mob: 9497534141
Thanking you,
Yours Sincerely,
Rev.Dr.Jose
Puthenveed
Director,
SJGCC
Tentative Program
Arrival & registration (9 am)
Meeting : 10.a.m.
Agenda
Prayer Song
Welcome
Self Introduction
Tea break
Presentation of activities of Counseling Centres
(PowerPoint presentation facilities will be
provided)
Lunch break
Group Discussion
Departure: 3.45 pm
Train Timings From Kollam R. Station
Arrival
Trivandrum-Vanchinad -
8.15 am
Trivandrm-Intercity -
8.40 am
Mumbai-Kanyakumari -
8.50 am
Departure
Nizamudeen - 3.20 pm
Gandhidam - 4.20 pm
Banglore - 5.10 pm
N.B.
Please get down at railway station and take any bus going
towards Kannanellore and get down at Chemmamukku stop. From there you can see
BJI campus. Paying minimum fare you can take an auto.
RECOMMENDATIONS
10th
May 2012
Dear Friends,
All Kerala Latin Catholic Diocesan
Counselling Services’ providers meet held on May 3, 2012 at St. Joseph’s
Guidance and Counselling Centre, Bishop Jerome Institute Campus, Kollam, Kerala
deliberated on various psychosocial issues affecting the Latin Catholic
communities from the perspective of guidance & counselling services’
providers. It was resolved at the meeting that the recommendations be
communicated among the diocesan bishops, generals and provincials serving the
Latin Catholic communities. I am happy to send you a copy of the
recommendations.
Thanking You,
Yours Sincerely,
Rev. Dr. Jose Puthenveed
Director, St. Joseph’s Guidance &
Counselling Centre, Kollam
Recommendations
to Latin Catholic Church Hierarchy, Generals & Provincials.
Introduction
The
world we live in is marked by violence, suicide, skyrocketing divorce rates,
abortion, domestic violence…and the list can go on and on. And it builds on
itself and perpetuates a cycle of abuse and despair. In Kerala, divorce rates
are alarmingly increasing; we see its reflection in the catholic community with
daily more and more petitions filed in marriage tribunals. So also Alcoholism
is taking a toll on lives, breakdown of family, relationship, disease, domestic
violence, neglect of women and children. Studies done in a few dioceses
indicate a significant increase in suicide rates and religious communities are
not exempt from these tragedies. Among school children many psychosocial
problems are unattended due to lack of professionally trained counsellors.The
youth in our community are falling victims to porn addiction, substance abuse
besides alcohol. Many of our people are suffering from
stress
- related problems and depression. People suffer internally, but do not know
where or whom to turn to for help.
The participants recognized the good
work done by many priests and sisters and lay people in the guidance and
counseling services in the Dioceses but expressed univocally that they are just
a drop in the ocean of maladies people suffer from. This pressing and urgent
need has called us forth to come together today, the 3rd of May,
2012. Impelled by the urgency and the need of the hour to respond to our
people’s wide range of social, emotional, behavioural, mental health or family
problems, we the participants in today’s meeting representing the Latin
Catholic Counselling Services Providers would like to make the following
recommendations:
1) Start Centres with proper infrastructure facilities and
professionally trained personnel for counselling and guidance services.
2) Promote a network of counselling service providers in
the Latin Dioceses of Kerala and to enable them to share and exchange their
particular resources and expertise.
3) Encourage religious congregations serving the Latin
Dioceses to develop Counselling Centres of their own with qualified
professionals.
4) Enourage schools, hospitals situated in the Dioceses
to open up counselling services with professionally trained hands and to have
an on-going program involving principals, teachers and parents.
5)
Encourage priests and religious men and women to create
awareness among people on the need of seeking help from Counselling Centres.
6)
Initiate community diocesan mental health programs at
parish level by training BCC Educational & Social Samithi leaders with
necessary skills to tackle most of the problems at the local level under the
supervision of Diocesan Counselling Centres.
7)
Organize follow-up counselling sessions for couples who
have attended pre-marital courses after a year.
8)
To include “hands-on” field experience of life under
supervision of Guidance and Counselling professionals during the formation of
future priests and nuns in school counselling & family counselling
services, conducting awareness programmes, research and evaluation.
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In the Milestone of Latin Catholics, it is written, "However those who received the Christian faith in the first century kept it for their own communities and were reluctant to share it with other communities with whom they did not want to associate due to the prevailing caste system." "The prevailing caste system," has been a wrong belief due to the consistent propaganda by Syrian Christians that they are the descendants of upper castes like Nambudiri, Jew, Assyrian and Nair. When St. Thomas came to Kerala in 1st century AD, there were no Nambudiris and therefore their claim of Nambudiri descent is false. They claim that Thomas of Cana who was alleged to have come to Kerala was a Jew. But Thomas was a fictitious figure. He is said to have brought 72 families. In those days women would not travel on unsafe ships to distant countries. Even Vasco da Gama did not bring his wife. Thomas of Cana, according to Armenian records, was an Armenian merchant. So the claim of Jewish descent is also false. There was no Assyrian migration to Kerala at the time of persecution. They migrated to Iraq, Turkey and Persia. So this is also a fake claim. Nairs forced Christians in those days to work in their paddy fields (oozhiyam service). There is no record for Nair conversion. Bur Missionary records of CMS clearly show untouchables such as Ezhavas, mukkuvas, dhobies, barbers and slaves were converted Kottayam, Mallappally, Pallam, Alappuzha, Kottarakkara, Mavelikara, Chengannur, Mundakkayam, Thiruvalla and Adoor.Their descendants are now attending CMS (CSI) churches, calling themselves Syria Christians. So they are also like Latin Catholics belong to lower castes
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