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

22

Sep

2022
Inauguration of Skills Meghalaya Training at Khapmara

The Auxilium Skills Training Centre Khapmara, on 20 September 2022 inaugurated the Training on Tailoring and Fashion Designing under Skills Meghalaya and funded by Meghalaya State Skills Development S
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16

Sep

2022
A new Saint for the Salesian Family – Br. Artemide Zatti

(ANS - Rome) - The official program of events organized by the Salesian Congregation on the occasion of the canonization of Salesian coadjutor Artemide Zatti has been published. In addition t
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6

Aug

2022
Twin Celebration: 150th anniversary of the FMA Institute and Perpetual Profession

The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Shillong Province celebrated the 150 years of the foundation of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) on 6 August 2022 at the Cathedral of Mary
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3

Aug

2022
Renewal Course for Temporary Professed Sisters

The 102 Temporary Professed Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Shillong Province gathered at FMA Outreach Shillong from 29 July – 2 August 2022 for the renewal course and renewal of the vows. T
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22

Jun

2022
Seminar on Embracing Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness held for Sisters

Thirty seven Sisters of the profession batches 2000 to 2009 gathered at FMA Outreach, Shillong for a three-day seminar from 18 – 20 June 2022 on Embracing Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness, The Midlife Jou
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All News

Strenna

Strenna 2022

PRESENTATION OF THE THEME FOR STRENNA 2022 “Do all through love, nothing through constraint” (St Francis de Sales) Dear Brothers, Sisters and Friends, Just six months ago we gave the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians – as has been our tradition since Don Bosco’s time – and the whole Salesian Family, the Strenna for the New Year. Six months later, therefore, I have been asked to anticipate what could be the guiding theme for the new year 2022, as the different rhythms of the hemispheres where the Salesian pr

Superior General

Mother Chiara Cazzuola She is the 10th Successor of Mary Domenica Mazzarello. Born in Campiglia Marittima – Livorno (Italy) in 1955. Belonging to the Tuscan Holy Spirit Province, she experiences her first formative stages in Castelgandolfo (Rome) where, on 5 August 1975, she makes her First Religious Profession vows in the FMA Institute. Degreed in Literature, she is a teacher for several years and subsequently, Principal of the First and Second Degree Secondary

7 October,2022

Reception of Postulants Medal

9 October,2022

Canonization of Br Artemide Zatti in Rome

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.Suchiang Embok

1 October

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..