Yes, they do—in both our personal and professional lives
Over two hundred Catholic students from rural parishes of the Diocese of Tiruchirappalli came together twice in the year 2010-11 in Campion School, Trichy, for a two-week soft skills training program. The late Bishop Anthony Devotta showed keen interest and was present personally along with me for the inaugural and the valedictory functions. The rural Catholic Tamil medium students hopped onto the stage to speak in English, or to deliver a declamatory speech in Tamil. While some took the microphone confidently and stood in front of the screen, others placed on the board the poems they had penned in Tamil and English; one student showed her computer animation skills. Many parents attended. They were pleasantly shocked to see the confident performance of their children. A proud parent said, “Initially, I was reluctant to take up the parish priest’s invitation to send my child to Trichy for fifteen days. But now I feel that the fifteen days given were too short.”
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Brother Paul Raj SG
