The first Sisters Doctors Forum of India in central region was held at Pastoral Centre, Ashaniketan Campus. In the inaugural XXII General Body Meeting and CME Sr lucian, the National President of SDFI, highlighted the works of SDFI and welcomed all.
Tomi Thomas, Director General of CHAI gave the inaugural address. Sanjay Gupta, IMA President (Madhya Pradesh State), Fathers Kurian Kachappilly, Ronald Cardoza and Varghese, and Sisters Jenova and Rashmi felicitated all Sister Doctors.
leo Cornelio, Archbishop of Bhopal, gave the presidential address, offered the Holy Mass and blessed the SDFI gathering. In his address he asked the doctor sisters to live extraordinarily by doing extraordinarily works with mercy and compassion. He said that the religious sisters go extra mile to uplift the health care among the rural without expecting honors and benefits makes you different and extraordinarily from others.
“It is because We follow the supreme guru Jesus Christ teaching, compassion and love,” he said, but at the same time he warned the doctors not to become more religious by fulfilling duties but become spiritual be becoming prayerful person to carry out the image of Jesus of compassion and love. Duty bounded life makes you to grow older and not gracefully. He congratulated all the sisters’ doctors for carrying Jesus light that shines in the darkness and blessed them.
