JUNE 2025

Dear Rev. Fathers, Religious, and People of God,

The month of June is the beginning of the school year. Please encourage our children to seek admission in our catholic schools where our children get the catechetical instructions. Please see to it that the catechism classes are very given primary importance in our schools. Teaching catechism to our children is not optional but mandatory. For other non- catholic children, we have a bounden duty to teach moral instruction which will shape them in forming good citizens of our nation. At this juncture, I would like to place on record the results of our schools. Many of our schools have secured the results of hundred percentage and with centum in some subjects. On behalf of our diocese, I offer my congratulations to our correspondents, the principals and the teachers. We are proud of you all as you brought laurels to the institutions and the diocese. Bravo! Keep it up.

In this month we celebrate the great feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. In all our parishes, we celebrate this feast on a grand scale and much more, we take procession of our Eucharistic Lord, venerating and adoring the Lord. It is good practice which will help our faithful to deepen their faith in the Eucharistic Lord. In this month, we celebrate the feast of St. Antony of Padua. He is a saint who is honored across the globe and he is a popular saint among non- Christians who flock to the churches dedicated to St. Antony. The contemporaries of St. Antony called him the “Hammer of the Heretics and Living arc of the Covenant.” Numerous wonders and miracles are attributed to his intercessions. His love for the knowledge of Sacred Scriptures, his devotion to the Eucharistic Lord, his frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament,  his courageous commitment of truth, goodness and justice and his kindness and  concern for the poor and the suffering demand our attention and admiration. Let us ask St. Antony to pray for the graces we need to follow Christ with love and loyalty as he did. The feast of St. Antony is celebrated in many of our parishes. In the parishes of Puliakulam and Poomalur, the feast is celebrated on a spectacular manner. Kindly encourage your faithful to attend the celebrations.

Invoking God’s blessings and with assurance of my prayers and cordial blessings,

Yours devotedly in Risen Lord

+L. Thomas Aquinas

Bishop of Coimbatore