The Tamil Catholic Association of Victoria 
Welcome to the TCAV Members Update.
In this edition of the Members Update you can read about:
- Members Update
- Prayer
- President’s Report
- Upcoming Mass Time and locations
- Constellation Photos
- Youngsters Cake Stall at Dandenong Fellowship
- Let us know about your thoughts and concerns
- Archive August 2016
As always, if there is something you would like to know more about and we haven’t addressed it here, please contact one of our committee members or email tcavinfo@gmail.com. If you have moved houses or if you are aware of anyone who is not in our mailing list please let us know.
We also convey our heartfelt condolences to Rev.Fr. Neville Gnanarajah whose mother passed away in Canada and we informed the obituary notice to all our members through email.
Prayer
The Blessing of Winter.
The season of winter has ended, let us give thanks for the many quiet blessings of this season.
We give thanks for the blessing of winter: Season to cherish the heart.
To make warmth and quiet for the heart.
To make soups and broths for the heart.
To cook for the heart and read for the heart.
To curl up softly and nestle with the heart.
To sleep deeply and gently at one with the heart.
To dream with the heart.
To spend time with the heart.
A long, long time of peace with the heart.
We give thanks for the blessing of winter: Season to cherish the heart.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.
Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith.
May we be planted and grounded in love and grow in all ways into Christ.
President’s Report
My dear Tamil catholic association member,
The first month of our new committee had been hectic where TCAV had been able to get few activities rolling.
We have formed the Youth forum with quite a number of active youngsters giving their names. We had the vision presentation by pastoral carer for youth Rev.Fr. Joseph Amal to the TCAV committee on the 13th of August. We are grateful to Fr. Joseph for taking an active role in this project and we are encouraged by the number of youth who is willing to contribute their fair share. TCAV kindly ask all our parents who have children/youth in the age range of 15 -30 unmarried to give their names to our mailing address tcavinfo@gmail.com. As one parent quipped “when the children go for the youth meetings they go with an unwillingness, but when they return you could see the happiness in their faces”. It helps them to form new friendships, different environment, new practices, New thoughts and much more they gain. So parents please give your best for the welfare of our children.
We had Madhu Feast celebrated on the 21st of August and a large gathering participated in the prayers at this historical feast. This year we had representation from the Sri Lanka high commission in Australia through the Consular General of Melbourne. We thank all who participated in the feast mass, fellowship and for your contributions. The collections made through the madhu feast mass in the year 2015-2016 was AUD$ 1500 which was sent to the mission house in Pampaimadhu in the Mannar district in Sri Lanka for the rebuilding of the church which was affected during the war in Sri Lanka. This year’s collection too will be sent to one of the churches who needs our help in the mannar district.
We had the privilege of welcoming two newly ordained priests of the MGL(missionaries of Gods Love) community at our monthly mass at Bundoora. Rev.Fr. Rembert Fernando and Rev.Fr. Anthony Santhiyagu had been helping TCAV by regular visits to our monthly masses and youth programs. We thank all who participated in the ordination mass and at the Bundora mass.
We had our youngsters doing the cake stall in our August mass in Dandenong. We had a big sale and made AUD$ 237.75 which will be used to develop new programs and activities.
We will also make every effort to ensure our website to engage and entice our readers. Nirmala Alphonse of our committee has taken the initiative to develop the website and your suggestions are most welcome and we thank Nirmala for her dedication.
I am delighted to contribute my services and shoulder the responsibility to serve the community as a servant of god.
I will be transparent in all our activities and engagements with our members through the newsflash.
God Bless
Tyrone Gnanapragasam
President TCAV
Upcoming Mass Times and locations
2nd Sunday Mass 11-09-16
St.Gerard’s Church, 71, Gladstone Road, Dandenong North, Vic 3175
Mass Time: 3.30 PM followed by fellowship at the parish hall
3rd Sunday Mass 18-09-16
St. Andrew’s Church, 105, Greaves St., Werribee. Mass Time 5.00 PM
4th Sunday Mass 25-09-16
St.Damian’s church, 5, settlement Road, Bundoora, Vic 3083
Mass Time: 5.00 PM followed by fellowship at the parish hall
Special event
Festival of Annai Velankanni 2016
Date: 17-09-16
Venue : Serbian church hall Corner
Perry & Church road, Keysborough, Vic 3173 Mel 89 E11
Constellation Photos
Youngsters cake stall at Dandenong fellowship on 14-08-16
Our Youngsters lovely yummy cake stall on 14-08-16
Dear members, It was delighted to see our youngsters involved in the fundraiser by selling cupcakes. Although the cakes were not priced, our community was generous in donating. All the cakes were donated by Well Wishers, and Woolworths. We collected AUD$ 237.75 during our sales. Well done our youngsters.
Membership Fee News
Thank you very much for the continuous support given to our Tamil Chaplain and to the management committees in the past and last financial year 2015/ 2016.
This is a kind reminder to you about the Tamil Catholic Association of Victoria’s Membership Fee and Chaplain Maintenance Fund for the year 2016/ 2017 (1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017). Our association functions through your generous contributions such as membership fee and we look forward for your continuous support once again in the current year with membership fee payments, we kindly ask you to pay your membership fee at your earliest.
Annual Membership fee is $40.00 for the family and $20.00 for concession card holders and students. We are requesting minimum $60.00 per year ($5.00 per month) from a family for Chaplain Maintenance Fund.
As requested by most, following are the account numbers for both accounts. The accounts are held in Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Please deposit your yearly contributions in these accounts and let me know about the transaction as early as possible.
For Membership Fee Deposits:
Name of Account Holder – “Tamil Catholic Association of Victoria”
Bank, State & Branch (BSB) No. – 06 3245
Account Number – 10031975.
For Chaplain Maintenance Fund Deposits:
Name of Account Holder – “Tamil Catholic Association of Victoria – Chaplain’s Fund”
Bank, State & Branch (BSB) No. – 06 3245
Account Number – 10512920.
Please contact Canisius Gnanasooriyar on 0431 780 348 or Alfred Reynald on (03) 9795 7798(AH) or 0439 302 597, if you need further information.
Canisius Gnanasooriyar/Alfred Reynald.
Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer, TCAV 2016/2017.
Updating your details
Have you recently moved or changed your details?
Make sure you let us know if your personal details have changed so that we can keep you informed of all the latest TCAV news and events.
Simply email tcavinfo@gmail.com with your new contact details or contact one of our members and we’ll update our records for you
Let us know about your thoughts and concern
We always welcome your comments, suggestions, concern’s to improve our services to our community. With your input we are confident we can learn, listen to make our members happy and their intentions fulfilled in our community and spiritual work. We recognise that you are valuable players in our TCAV team and we thank you for being part of the TCAV family.