Pune's Sr Benedicta to attend Mother Teresa’s canonisation

Sr Benedicta to attend Mother Teresa’s canonisation in Vatican
Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Monday, 1 August 2016 AT 10:29 PM IST
    
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Pune: Sr Benedicta from Pune will be part of the Indian contingent, led by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, which will attend the canonisation of Mother Teresa at Vatican City on September 4.

Sr Benedicta is a nun belonging to the Missionaries of Charity Convent located at Tadiwala Road here. The congregation’s Maharashtra provincial Sr Jinette and Sr Karuna from Amravati are two other nuns who will attend the ceremony. 

Two or three nuns from each province of the Missionaries of Charity from all over the world are scheduled to participate in the canonisation ceremony at Vatican. 

Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa a saint at the event which is being held on the eve of the death anniversary of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity congregation. 

Pune too will join the celebration of  the canonisation of  Mother Teresa.  Sr Showrina, superior of  the  Missionaries of Charity Convent, Tadiwala Road, told Sakal Times that the feast day of the new saint, falling on September 5, will be celebrated with a mass during the novena services of Our Lady of Vailankanni in Khadki. Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre will be the main celebrant at the mass to be held at St Ignatius Church in Khadki at 12 noon.

Bishop Dabre will also celebrate a special mass at the convent of the Missionaries of Charity in Chinchwad at 8 am on September 5 and at Tadiwala Road at 8 am on September 6, Sr Showrina said.

Honour for pune nun
- Sr Benedicta is among the three nuns from Maharashtra province of the Missionaries of Charity who will attend the canonisation ceremony. 

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