Media Release
Mangaluru, Mar 25: Woman’s Day was celebrated today at Milagres College auditorium. Programme was organised by family welfare committee of Milagres parish pastoral committee.
Programme began with Holy Mass at 7 am at Milagres Church. Large number of devotees participated in the holy mass in his sermon Parish Priest Rev Fr Valerian said, “Woman is the true blessing for our community. They are the true faces of love they take a major share and role in spreading this love with family members. This love helped our family to bind in love. Church witnessed many times true love of woman. Today we address the community as mother church it is the respect we give to woman in the church it’s because this kind of love only a mother can give to her children.”
The programme was inaugurated by releasing the balloons to the air. Hundreds of parish woman participated and released the balloons and inaugurated the event.
Short stage programme was organised at college auditorium at 4 pm. Sr Celestine D’Mello member of the family welfare committee welcomed the gathering. A prayer song was sung by Milagres choir and a welcome dance. Addressing the gathering resource person of the day David Pais said it is very critical woman should understand their rights in the society. “Government has given equal rights to woman to live in the society. It is important we should make use of this. Now in India discussions are started to keep 33% reservation to woman in the assembly. If this bill passes woman will be more powerful to get their rights. Every Mother should be careful in doing their will. All Will should be registered this will help to keep the track and misuse. Husband should give the will rights to his wife and after the demise of wife rights should be transferred to children. Both husband and wife should do the will together so that any miscommunication within the family can be solved when wife reaches the age of 75 she can analyse the children’s nature how good they are in caring and taking the responsibility then she can decide on transfer the property rights to her children. Wife gets 1/3rd of the share of the property and children’s get 2/3rd share of the property. If anyone is working in Gulf, then they should do the will in India and register it here and handover the copy to Gulf government. Reason in Gulf Muslim law is practice hence we need to be careful. We need to be careful in signing the will. Signature should be always difficult to copy. We can always amend the will and cancel the will cost of the will is very small but it will become the powerful tool for the seniors to protect their rights. If any case if children do not take care of them, then they can go and apply in the tribunal where judge has the power to nullify all property transfer registration which happened earlier and all rights they can get it back,” he said.
Parish priest Fr Valerian said that Milagres Church has been has become very famous and powerful because of women. “Today we can find ladies taking up different roles in the church like ward representative, gurkars, taking posts in various church organisations, and doing the Sunday service in an effective way. Our parish pastoral vice president herself is a role model for others. Today church is alive because of woman their active role in the church and the faith what they spread to others. Woman are true messenger of love they have the strong capability spread this in family and in our society,” he said.
Four women were honoured for their service in the church. They were Sr Angeline Mathias, Rita Asumptha Pinto, Nancy Menezes, and Doris Lobo.
Sunitha Monteiro, member of family welfare committee and convener of the programme rendered the vote of thanks. The programme was compered by Molly D’Souza. Soon after the programme, skit and housie-housie game was organised for the participants.