The Catechetical Sisters of Arogyaatha were founded in 1982 in the Diocese of Kadapa in southern India. We are a young diocesan congregation with no local resources. Our primary work is to evangelize the poor and to catechize newly baptized Catholics in rural villages.
Your encouragement through participation in the Mission Cooperation Plan of the Diocese of Columbus truly has enabled us to continue our ministries and to educate many of our sisters, novices and candidates.
Financial support from your diocese has been a great support to the following ministries:
1. We are educating our candidates and junior sisters and supporting their formation houses with food and maintenance. We sent nine postulants to the novitiate and four junior sisters are studying in various fields in universities.
2. Evangelization is our charism and we give priority to this in the rural villages. We organize camps for different age groups of children, young people, men and women to give them faith formation classes. We teach free tuition classes for the poor kids in the villages. We conduct health hygienic programs and provide medical help in the interior villages where there is no electricity, transportation, safe drinking water or good sanitary conditions.
3. Our little angels in our schools and orphanages are our great strength for the future. Our three schools and two orphanages are full of little angels. They are given free food, education and accommodations by us, which is a most satisfying ministry.
4. We empower women through legal aid and counseling and teaching life skills such as sewing, embroidering and handicrafts that enable them to be independent. As part of our mission, we care for the sick, elderly and those suffering with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
5. We are digging borewells (water plants) to provide clean and purified drinking water to rural villages where there is no electricity or public transportation.
On behalf of my order, the Catechetical Sisters of Arogyamatha, I express my sincere thanks for your financial support this year. Both St. Thomas Aquinas Church and St. Nicholas Church in Zanesville and the priests at these churches were very kind and introduced us to the people at all the Masses during our weekend visit and encouraged them to be generous.
Honestly, we enjoyed sharing our mission experience in these parishes. And we could utilize the mission collection in a better way. Thank you for everything. We hope to visit your diocese in the future.
We promise our prayers for you. Kindly pray for us.