Religious group to impart skills to rural youth

Simurali (WB) Sep 2 (PTI) A group of Roman Catholics will train rural youths in vocational skills like cattle-rearing, carpentry, farming, welding, pisciculture and driving. The group, called the Adoration Brothers of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, was established on June 11 with Archbishop of Kolkata Lucas Sirkar inducting five men in it.

"When I was at the youth commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, I was thinking what could be done for the rural youth. I wanted to have a group of men who will go and train the youth in their own places," Sirkar told PTI during a visit to the monastery here.
According to Sirkar, the Brothers will train youths in vocational skills like cattle-rearing, carpentry, farming, welding, pisciculture and driving. How are the Brothers different from other Roman Catholic religious congregations? "They will not be able to work in schools and hospitals as they will have to spend nearly four hours in prayer and Eucharistic adoration.
That will be central to their lives, like the hermits of old," he said. Sirkar, who founded the Adoration Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1986 as the then Bishop of Krishnagar, said he was once asked by Mother Teresa to have Religious engage in Eucharistic adoration in every parish.
"This is my response to her call." .