FMA Shillong || Daughter of Mary Help of Christian

Our Father and Founder

At the age of nine little John Bosco was given a mission in a vision.

Mother And Co-Foundress

Mary Mazzarello was born on May 9, 1837 in a little white cottage in Mornese, Italy.

The Pioneers

Sr. Maria Bricarello was the first missionary Daughter of Mary Help of Christians from the N.E. to return to the Father’s house

30

Oct

2019
Rector Major amidst the Salesian Sisters of Shillong Province

30 October 2019 marked the maiden visit of Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, the 10th Successor of Don Bosco, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Shillong Province.
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18

Sep

2019
41st Annual Provincial Congress of Salesian Cooperators

The Association of Salesian cooperators met for their 41st Annual Provincial Congress at Auxilium Girls School, Agartala - Tripura on 14-15 September 2019. Around 400 participants from the 18 centers
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25

Aug

2019
FMA PCI 2019 held in Shillong

The seven FMA provinces under the big umbrella of provincial conference of India met for their annual meeting from 20 – 22 August 2019 at FMA Outreach, Lumshyiap Shillong. The meeting brought to
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18

Jul

2019
New members to the Association of Salesian Cooperators

14 July 2019 marked an important day for the Salesian Cooperators of Shillong Province when four more members were added to the association through the promise taking at Umden Centre. The promis
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22

May

2019
Blessing from above – a new residence for Auxilium Agartala

The new building that will house the Sisters and the young people has now become a home with the inauguration and blessing of Auxilium Home Agartala on 19 May 2019. Sr. Elizabeth George FMA, Provincia
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All News

Strenna

Strenna 2019

So that my joy may be in you (Jn 15,11) HOLINESS FOR YOU TOO My Dear Brothers and Sisters, my Dear Salesian Family, Continuing our century-old tradition, at the beginning of this New Year 2019 I address myself to each one of you, in every part of the “Salesian world” that as the Salesian Family we constitute in more than 140 countries. I do so while giving a commentary on a subject very familiar to us, with a title taken directly from the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on the call to holiness in today’s world: Gaudete

Superior General

Mother Yvonne Reungoat (2008)Mother Yvonne Reungoat has been a member of the General Chapter for 12 years (1996-2008) and since 2002 she has given her service as Vicar General and also as the person directly responsible for the four large international communities in Rome. During this time she was the closest collaborator to the Superior General, Mother Antonia Colombo and she shared with her the government of the Institute and the processes inherent to religious life and to education undertake

13 January,2020

Retreat I : 6-13 January 2020 [School Sisters and Boarding Assistants]

11 March,2020

Retreat II : 4-11 March 2020 [Perpetually Professed Sisters]

22 April,2020

Retreat III : 15-22 April 2020 [Perpetually Professed Sisters]

9 May,2020

Retreat IV : 2-9 May 2020 [Provincial Council and Animators]

10 July,2020

Retreat V : 2-10 July 2020 [Temporary Professed Sisters]

29 July,2020

Retreat VI : 22-29 July 2020 [Novices]

Provincials

Sr. Catherine Mania

1953-1959 and 1970-1974

Sr. Cesira Gallina

1960 - 1964

Sr. Theresa Merlo

1965-1969

Sr.Virginia Marchetti

1975-1981

Sr. Marie Vazhapilly

1981 - 1988

Sr. Philomena Prabalanathan

1988 - 1994

Sr. Ivy D'Souza

1994 - 2000

Sr. Phyllis Bamon

2000 - 2006

Sr. Rosa Pyngrope

2006 - 2012

Sr. Isabella Suja

2012 - 2018

Sr. Elizabeth George

2018 - till date

Birthday Celebrants

Sr.Shangpliang Marvella

13 December

Sr.Shylla Luigina

13 December

Our History

St. John Bosco founded our Institute on August 5, 1872

Through a gift of the Holy Spirit and the direct intervention of Mary, St. John Bosco founded our Institute on August 5, 1872 as a response of salvation to the profound hopes of young girls.

He endowed it with a spiritual heritage that had its inspiration in the charity of Christ the Good Shepherd, and the maternal solicitude of Mary gave witness to a “LOVE THAT ENCOUNTERS CHRIST IN THE YOUNG”and imparted to it a strong missionary impulse.

1877 saw the first expansion of the Sisters work outside Europe and India welcomed the first Sisters in 1922.

14,116 Daughters of Mary Help of Christians or as more popularly known, Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco’s continue to be the perpetual and living monument of Don Bosco’s gratitude to the Mother of God, the Help of Christians, to whom we own all that we have and are. She is the Mother, Teacher and Guide, always and forever the same..