Touch Somebody's Life: A Gala Performance to benefit The India Group! (50 TICKETS!)

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Touch Somebody’s Life

The Arclight Theater

152 West 71st Street

Saturday, January 11th, 2014 at 8pm

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Touch Somebody's Life! Gala Performance of Music, Song and Dance to benefit The India Group

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The India Group (TIG)

Mission

Following St. Francis Xavier, who proselytized and is buried in India, we hope to work with the poorest of the poor in India, providing direct, supervised support in the areas of education and health care.

Who We Are

TIG is a group founded by SFX parishioners who traveled in India and worked with Indian families in 3 communities to identify their most crucial educational and health care needs.

What We Are Doing

Currently we are paying school tuition for 11 children, 7 girls and 4 boys, to attend pre-school, elementary or middle school (c. $350 a year per child).  Most of these children are the first in their families to attend school, and in some cases, to read or count.  We also secure funds to provide long-term and emergency health care.  For example, we provide anti-seizure medicine (c. $150 a year) for a father who has been diagnosed with epilepsy.  One of the children was diagnosed with what the doctors’ think was encephalitis.  TIG secured enough money to help pay a portion (c. $1500) of the hospital bill, and the child, somewhat to the doctors’ surprise, survived.  We have also paid for surgeries, pre-natal care, and health care related to women’s issues and alcoholism.

What You Can Do

•     Pray for us as our group attempts to pay for our current work, expand, and discern next steps

•     Learn more about us by

o   visiting our website:  http://www.theindiagroup.net

o   contacting us:  TheIndiaGroupNYC@gmail.com to

§  join our mailing list

§  become a part of TIG

·      Make a donation

o   through our website: http://www.theindiagroup.net

o   by check or money order made out to TIG and sent to

                                    TIG

                                    % Michael Termini

                                    15 Marina Dr.

                                    Bayonne, NJ 07002

·      Join us on our next Lenten pilgrimage to India and the families, February 9-28, 2014  

Happy Birthdays!

Baba called and he asked me to let the people who help know that today, October 10, is his baby's, Haman's, birthday.  He wants us to pray for him and the family today.  It is the 9-day celebration in honor of the god Kali, and Baba is sacrificing a goat.  He will pray not only for his family, he said, but also for us.  I thought all the children were born on October 25.  I'm sure I was told this at some point, but he said today is Haman's birthday and Milli and Krishna share the October 25 birthday.

Please donate today. Thank you!

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VARANASI by Mary Oliver

VARANASI

Early in the morning we crossed the ghat,

where fires were still smoldering,

and gazed, with our Western minds, into the Ganges.

A woman was standing in the river up to her waist;

she was lifting handfuls of water and spilling it

over her body, slowly and many times,

as if until there came some moment

of inner satisfaction between her own life and the river’s.

Then she dipped a vessel she had brought with her

and carried it filled with water back across the ghat,

no doubt to refresh some shrine near where she lives,

for this is the holy city of Shiva, maker

of the world, and this is his river.

I can’t say much more, except that it all happened

in silence and peaceful simplicity, and something that felt

like that bliss of a certainty and a life lived

in accordance with that certainty.

I must remember this, I thought, as we fly back

to America.

Pray God I remember this.

_______________________

Mary Oliver
A Thousand Mornings
(Penguin, 2012)