OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE: PROVINCE OF JAFFNA

Twenty candidates started their six-month intensive training at Gnanodhayam, Mannar, Sri Lanka on the 2nd of February 2014. There were ten candidates from the Oblate Province of Colombo and ten from the Oblate Province of Jaffna  Four more candidates from Colombo were expected to join later. They will be initiated to the Oblate way of life by the veteran formator Fr.Emmanuel P. Jesudasan OMI assisted by Fr. Yacop Satheeskumar omi and Fr. Siluvairajah Arul Sutharson omi. Lecturers from different academia in Sri Lanka will visit Gnanodhayam on a weekly basis to give intensive training to the candidates.

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Fr. Paul Marx OMI, Superior of Denmark District visited Province of Jaffna in February 2014. He came on a fact finding mission towards better collaboration between Denmark and Jaffna Province. Fr. Marx visited many Oblate institutions and rehabilitation projects in Mannar, Vavuniya and Mullaitivu for the victims of war. He was accompanied by Fr. Alrin Soosaipillai OMI from Jaffna Province who is at present ministering in Denmark. Fr. Fredric Anton Thevaraj OMI, another Oblate from Jaffna Province, is also ministering in Denmark.

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