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Greetings from the “ Bangalore Walla”, from Bangalore last updated on : 6th March 2004
Interview Times Of India, Bangalore Times, 6th March 2004 . Of late I have had some bad experiences of files not appearing on the net from my pages although they are physically present on the site. This has happened after the Yahoo - Geocities merger and updates. I am trying to reload these files. If you do find a files that is not coming up from a link, please send me a mail I also have been out of circulation for quite a while having lost all my data and both my systems because someone sent me the CIH virus. I have not recovered as yet, and slowly putting together a copy of all the data I have on the net (more than 150 pages and 600 photos), so you can understand what I am going through, and if I do not answer your mails as I presently do not have mail access to internet. If I do reply, it may be 'block' replies so please forgive me, but I have no liberties, and use a friend's internet access, also please put 'content' when you send mail or I will delete without even opening, you will understand why. Please accept my apologies, Ronnie.
This Home Page of Bangalore Walla has been up for more than two and half (24th October 1996) years, and the files just kept adding to the original files such as , Places of Bangalore City, Music by the Musicians of Bangalore City, Bangalore City in the 1920’s , Climate of Bangalore City, not to leave out the “Garden City” called Bangalore!! There came a stage that it was difficult to find what was available on the Home Page, as it was so fluid in updates, and additions, that even I got left behind!! Then I sat down one day and decided to take stock and make an “Index” of what was available on this Home Page and the “Others” that are linked to it in support or addition by data or pictures. So now to be more accessible to the viewers, the categories so far have been mainly aimed at the Home, Family, Kids, Scholars, Religious. Travellers, basically People who want something on Bangalore, not just Bangalore City, but the evolution of the City during the Colonial days. There was hardly anything before that period that related to a “City”, a Fort and a small satellite of settlements around it. Scattered on my Home Page of Bangalore Walla, there are over 600 photographs of Bangalore and Around, you would just have to browse through the links of my “Other” pages, there are there for you to discover a little at a time, inviting you to re-visit when you want a new adventure in Bangalore. By the way, Bangalore is situated in the South of India, and is the capital of the Indian State of Karnataka. It lies between Madras (Chennai) to the East and Bombay (Mumbai) to the West. It is known as the "Garden City" of India, as well as the "Pensioner's Paradise" of India. Ask anyone who has been to India will tell you that all roads lead to Bangalore! It's not only the City of Bangalore that stands out, it is her People.
Looking back on the year and half, the structure of the Home page included information on India and Indian Culture through a short summary put up for the “50th. Year of Independence ”, this covered the early times of the country, till the British Colonial days, which left behind the Anglo-Indians, which brought about a unique Anglo-Indian system of Education, which was earlier affiliated to the Senior Cambridge University, now a similar education set up is run from Delhi, governed by the Indian School Certificate, conducted for the Anglo-Indian Schools. This has been updated to the “Plus 2”, or “Twelfth Standard” equivalent to the Pre University Course (PUC) for Colleges. The Colleges in Bangalore, Undergraduate as well as Professional (Engineering & Medical) are affiliated to the Bangalore University which has a variety of courses for the College students, and some of them lately tend to be more practical and industrial oriented, keeping with the times.
There are many Parks in the City of Bangalore, where in the evenings you would find the older generation chatting on the benches, children or kids as some call them playing with each other, running through the flowers. Talking about flowers and gardens, there are beautifully kept parks with colourful flower beds, people also have their own gardens, the larger area of greenery is found at Lalbagh and Cubbon Park. Children and Kids have to be encouraged to enjoy the beauty of flowers and gardens. New BDA (Bangalore Development Authority, now it's called the Bangalore Mahanagar Palike BMP) layouts have a park set aside for the residents, but because of the poor rainfall, many of them are rather dry. Bangalore City has one of the finest gardens in India and is known as “Garden City” apart from “Pensioner’s Paradise”. You will not find “circles” with their Grecian pots of ferns in the middle, now it’s all cross-roads, and nobody has the time to enjoy anything anymore. Lots of roads have become “one-way” sometimes beneficial, sometimes done without a proper plan thus squeezing a quite road or street into a inferno of cacophony discord by unkempt traffic suddenly feeling trapped by these cold steel barriers put across roads. Now the latest trend in Bangalore is 'fly-overs' and cutting trees to accomodate them. There no proper plan as to how the traffic is distributed when they come off these fly-overs, the side roads are still made one-way in residential areas and the traffic cannot bleed off the congestion.
The Home Page having a Colonial background, there is bound to be a collection of Churches. There are many different periods of architecture that are created in stone to arches, domes, depending on the European leaning, British, French, Italian or perhaps even Portuguese. Churches belonged to various denominations, and there was always the sense of independence between the Christians of different upbringing. Strange, Christians in a foreign land jousting for some benefit from the Rajas, finally all coming to one level at the time of Independence of India. Families of Catholics and Protestants grew up together and they did marry, but that was frowned on by Society. The Society we have today was not the same in the old days where everything was measured and then only operated upon. Homes were open to one and all, and there was always some togetherness between the children who played, grew up, went to war, some returned, some did not, but that is the tragedy of human ideology. A man must die to allow another to live. Sickness in the old days was like a mist that crept over the land at night, cholera, diphtheria, malaria were common, and children if they survived their teens were killed at times by the war. The First World War was the worst, and it left many children orphaned, apart from being so from sickness. Orphanages were found in several places in Bangalore, and some survive even today, but these even are being pulled down to make way for commercial complexes that are profit making, after all what are a few orphans going to do to defend their very existence? Cemeteries are spread around Bangalore City, depending upon the settlements of the colonies, and pensioners. There are War Graves, Monuments, Memorials, and plaques found in Churches.
Apart from the Christian memories of Colonial Bangalore, the older settlers were Hindus and Muslims, and there are also some beautiful Temples and Mosques embedded in the crowded areas of the city where the population converged. Around Bangalore, there are also some fantastic carved Temples that displayed such art, especially in the time when the progress of man was still in it’s infancy. You can browse through these temples which you can find in the index below. Hindus, Muslims and Christians have all lived in Bangalore in peaceful harmony all these years, of course there has been instances of mischief that has caused some hurt to the quiet loving people of Bangalore.
I hope you have a great time at my Home Page, do let me know what you feel, and what you felt needs to be improved. Any suggestions would be welcome. If you have something of interest of old Bangalore, and you feel that it will add to what I have put down, please do not hesitate to send me a mail. There may be some old books or photographs that you may have, please try and share them with others through this Home Page, after all, many a good source was hidden till the termites and water got to it and it was too late to do anything about it. Sometimes, the next generation are not interested in what was kept in the attic and throws the lot out. Please think of all the people it could bring joy and memories to by your sharing. We did lose lots of good material when the Moore Market was burnt down years ago in Madras (Chennai). In Bangalore, I did go around and meet a few of the “collectors”, but they were unwilling to share thinking that I was out to make a buck, and calmed up when I broached the subject about old material. I have been going around Bangalore taking photographs of old buildings for the Memories of Bangalore, it is indeed a hugh task, if you would like to share in this effort, please let me know.
Anyhow, I hope you have had the patience to go through this ambling of mine, it will however give you a brief of my thoughts. These pointers below are being updated from time to time, so if you dont find someting today, it may be up a little later! And still if you dont find it, then please let me know I'll do something about it, also appreciate if you find any of the links not working or something that needs to be added, it's important that they are fixed or added, ofcourse this Home Page on Bangalore is more aligned to the Colonial Theme and beyond into the Past, not so more the future, but there are lots of "today's happenings" so as not to be left too far into the distant!. In the excitement of telling you all about Bangalore, I forgot to tell you to drop in at the MAIN HOME PAGE to log your visit and return back here. Please do, Your Visit Counts! Thanks, Ronnie. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
Cheers and God Bless, have a Great Time, sorry for the rambling on...
Ronnie Johnson
Better Check it, you never know if there were changes since you last visited, I try to keep the information on Bangalore fluid, forgive me, but then I sometimes slip and miss this Page too!
There can never be a saying "I've seen all the places of Bangalore", that too, in one day!! If you have to go through the City of Bangalore from North to South or East to West, you can easily pass through in an hour 's drive, depending on the traffic, but you will not see anything of Bangalore City, because to see her, you have to be able to walk through the streets, the parks, the changes of time, glimpse at some of her eroding past. It would take you months, because everyday, you will get caught up with the "Twilight-Zone" of history, you will be able to see old houses and buildings, read road names from the past, go through forts and palaces, look for "circles" that do not exist today, spend time in parks, the largest of them are Cubbon and Lalbaugh. To capture for you a few fleeting moments of time, I have given some of my Home Pages on Bangalore, which I am sure you will come back to again and again because each time you may find another moment that you had not grasped earlier. There are plenty of Temples and Mosques in and around Bangalore, that would also take up your time. Visits to these may be restricted because of religious backrounds. The innocent and charming look of Bangalore is slowly being lost by inconsiderate and un-esthetically designed road-dividers, which make one feel like animals in a cage, and the fear of being trapped always seems to linger in one when the traffic gets to jostle to get away. Indiscriminate changes of "broken or dashed lines" into "dividers" gives one quite a shock, and there is apparently no love lost for children, aged, handicapped pedestrian movement, which is sharing the same narrow path as wandering horses, buffalows, cows and snarling dogs! There is also no thought of the extra pollution going to be released into the air by the un-necessary extra distance to travel, at times it brings tears to my eyes; No, I am not talking about the pollution, that burns the eyes, I am talking about the way Bangalore is being raped!, So, now one must really think and say "Save Bangalore from the Bangaloreans!!". A section of photographs and ambling on various Towns in the City has been added, this mainly covers houses that are present and past and on the way to 'death row', you can come to them under "Towns of Bangalore" YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
A few of the Towns which you can go to directly in non-frames mode.
Bangalore had it's own charm, being a Military Cantonment in the Colonial days, there were good chances that many musicians settled here to play in the Brass Bands, both at dances as well as in the Band-stands that can be found at Cubbon Park and Lalbaugh, apart from duties in the Regiment of performing for a March, Drill Parade, or just to keep the troops going! Guess, many of the talents were handed down from generation to generation, but basically it was a spirit of music in Bangalore that surfaced all the time. I am not an expert on Music, but a good listner, be to Blues, Jazz, Classical, Rock or even Rap!, however, I do regret that I have not been able to include a section on the traditional Karnataka or Hindustani Music classics, being completely ignorant on the subject, better not indulge in something I dont know about, but if I do come across a Web page that has something related to Bangalore Music, I will gladly "link" the same, if someone can point it out to me for inclusion if possible. I have been able in my brief touch with Western music, to try amd remember those who gave their talents to the City of Bangalore, for the love of music. With the rule made in the City that no "Live Bands" are to play in Clubs and Hotels, some of the musicians have died a strangulated death, not being able to love and play the music that they did so well, and with the commercial invasion of music for the "generation", it's a mind-blowing experience, and a lot of hard cash, so one would think that music is for the rich, even if the talent could lie with the poor! Hey, these are my personal thoughts, but the 'vibes' are so strong, I cannot but open the lid of the gramophone box! YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
The "People" of Bangalore City, come from all corners of India, but the strengths in the population is from the southern states of India. We have the Kannadikas, Tamilians, Portuguese backgrounds which consist of the Goans, Mangaloreans and the Malabar Coastal areas, the Parsies, the Persians and Arabs who had come early in time with their traders for spices, silks and horses, now recognised as Moslems. What I have tried to capture is the memory of families, names that I grew up with and who used to live around the town, some stayed, some migrated, some moved to other states, and others just passed away. People concerned basically from the Cantonment of Bangalore. Because this page is very personal to me, having being brought up with some of them, I treat it as special, and I do have many surprises through personal visits and e-mail from relatives of some remembering the past. This also happens to the "Places" section, and where it reaches back into time for many a testamony of what they felt has been posted, and it gives me such pleasure just to give to another even a small spot of joy through these pages. These are "Home Pages" and not Commercial!! With the People of Bangalore comes MUSIC , and there is also a Section dedicated to Musicians. I may add a sad note that "Dizzy Sal" the world famous Jazz pianist passed away in Bangalore on 25th July 1998. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
The climate of Bangalore has changed considerably during the last fifteen to twenty years, and in the last three to four years, very dramatically. This can be due to many factors, earth warming, population increasing, de-forestation, indiscriminate building on cultivated lands as well increase in the rush for the urban jungle, lakes and tanks being drained out or silted up with the dust and rubble from demolitions that appear to make the city look an earthquake disaster zone!!. Admiral Dawson has done something on this, perhaps I may be able to convince him to add some enlightment on the subject some day. The less said the better!! People have started wearing pollution masks when they ride, and some of the policemen who are on duty also, giving the appearance of a preparation for a "Gulf War" !!!
Browsing through the Net on the choices of sites and pages for Children, I did not find anything that the Children wanted them to see, except what we wanted to see! So I decided in a flash of inspiration to create a page that children and kids express themselves with relationship to pets, and the response I got from one school was quite encouraging. What was an eye-opener was that although I had asked the kids to write about their pets, some of the kids and children were of the opinion that they wanted to say something, even if it meant about their family or about a holiday, and so I was forced to take heed of their suggestions in writing, and so another page was opened for them. You can browse through these pages, I am sure that they are unique, perhaps the first of it's kind in Bangalore or even in India. I had put pointers to the local Newspapers to view these pages to encourage the kids, but I have to say the response is yet to come to encourage the children and the kids in their feelings. If anyone has contact with someone from the Press in India, or even overseas, please go ahead and ask them to review the persuit of this page making kids better people, filled with more love and care as they express themselves with their love for their pets, a parallel situation when they grow up, surely they will be better people. We only have to give them a chance. It's up to you out there to help them achieve their objectives. Shortly, this will be opened to the handicapped children and kids to also put their feelings out. So keep tuned and perhaps if I get the right motivation, then the kids and children will get the best that I can give them.YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
"Garden City" of India, "Pensioner's Paradise" are amoung the most well known expressions used by people describing Bangalore. True, Bangalore has abundant flowers and gardens, but, there always seems to be a "but", because of the number of large compounds being dug up to shelter the concrete caged jungle of modern buildings called "flats", the charm of people having, keeping, loving, and showing them off is slowly dwindling down in numbers, and with the passing away of 'old timers', sometimes cease to have life again, espically with the thought of water shortage because of lack of rains, and underground resources. Too many borewells are coming up taking the sap of life from the land,. Still in this gloomy and not so gloomy thought, there are plenty of people who love to keep gardens with beautiful flowers, even though it means a much smaller plot or even a balcony to look after, and it is to these people that we need to cheer on, the champions of "Lonely Planet". For it is said that "A single rose could be my (and your) garden", and with this thought in mind, I have dedicated the pages of flowers to my late mother Anne, who loved flowers, and all those who strive to keep Bangalore green!! A walk through the Parks like Cubbon Park and Lalbagh will show you how much the change has made to these "lungs" of the city in the recent years, even with the High Court banning vehicles from plying through the parks during certain hours, the effect is in the scars seen on the trees. Root rot, cancer, decapitated young sprouts, digging around the roots, dehydrated, sickly trees and plants are a reminder that ' What God has created, man has desecrated'!!YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
It has always facinated me when looking at old photographs in bromide or black'n'white, the life in still pictures re-emerging through corridors of time back today. What the way of life was say about 200 years ago, maybe 150 or 100 years back into time. How they dressed, mannerisms, the whole pantomine of figures, in carriages, turbans, horses, top-hats, long coats, kufftans, lungis, flared skirts and dresses, and on and on it goes. What I have done is tried to photograph the remaining buildings in Bangalore. But of course, not having any influence or governmental authority, the support of such a venture is non-existant, and I had to rely on the availability of accessability and the rush of time, for I have experienced that if you have to ask anyone permission to take photographs, chances are that you will positively get a 'No!'. Under these conditions, I have put together and shared with you all what ever I could photograph. There are many old timers who have beautiful black and white photographs of "old Bangalore", but refuse to share them with anyone, or the price is just out of the world, and since this is a 'non-commercial' home page, I just cannot do the honours of paying for anything that I did not take out myself!! But I am sure the collection of mine for your perusal is quite sufficient for the moment. Just a thought, maybe one day, someone from Kodak or Fuji or Konica or one of the Local Flim Processing Labs like Foto Flash views my page on Bangalore and decides to sponsor me, just pumping up the volume of thought , until then, you will have to deal with the lot and the little that I have provided for you. Please note that many of the photo-thumbnails are clickable and will take you to larger versions or dedicated pages themselves, so please don't hesitate to try it, espically from the 'Bangalore Walla' Collection. Don't forget there are around 500 plus pictures related to Bangalore and Around waiting for you to discover. If I tell you where they all are, you will miss the opportunity to visit some interesting pages, not all are listed below..YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
Nothing much to say except to emphasize what has been said in the earlier part on Places of Bangalore and Climate of Bangalore. Here we do have a little additional requests, laid out to those who are bringing down buildings, and to those putting them up. A section is also put aside for trying to restore some of the Cemeteries of Bangalore, which are historical in value, as a few well known men are buried in them. We will come again to the subject when we come across " Cemeteries, Monuments and Memorials ", further down the page. I came across an article by Winston D'Souza , on how to save Bangalore by means of "Rapid Transit Systems", he brings forward his points on the Subway against ELRTS. It is a Word "encl2.doc" file.
When the British came into Bangalore around the begining of the 1800's, some of the families of the Officers and Troops moved along with them. The children needed to be educated and most of them at that time were taught to read or write at home. Gradually, when some of the Christian Missionaries (English, French and Amercians) and Religious Orders came to administer to the sick and the souls of the people and the Garrison, they opened up some of the schools and gradually colleges, and so Bangalore does boast of some of the old Colonial schools and colleges and the atmosphere is still prevailing as the buildings hold the spirit of the ancestors that walked the corridors of them. Church patronage was also stretched out to Catholic and to some extent Protestant educational institutions that were predominately for Europeans and Eurasians, as well as the local residents (known as 'Natives'). These schools for boys were in all cases under clergy management, and taught by professors belonging to the religious orders or congregations, assisted by lay-masters. The girls' schools are for tht most part under Sisters of different religious congregations. In many of the schools non-christian pupils were freely admitted and in a few of them they formrd the overwhelming majority. Some of the newer schools and colleges have shot up in the last quarter centuary, and so one finds quite a collection of so called 'educational institutions', spotted in all corners of Bangalore. I have just noted a few of the schools that are around the Cantonment, but there are plenty of the schools that existed in the 'good old days' which are worth a mention. You may find some of them in the "infophil.com" collection of Alumni of Bangalore City. You are most welcome to suggest and send me details of schools of the 'Pre - Post Colonial era", and I will try and find some place for them if possible. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
Bangalore City has a climate that is quite positive towards sports, at least it was. But finding a place to exercise your talent for sport can be quite exasperating. One really came to know the conditions during the National Games at Bangalore where atheletes had to practise in parks and improper conditions, further to their woes they had to keep shifting their venues as someone or the other raised some objection or the other! I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Alan Mcbride lately, he was the famous coach of HAL and St. Joseph's Boys' High School, and when I do, you can be sure he will be added to this page. A sports writer of bangalore that one came across in the yesteryear was the late Leslie Wilson, and I did get some inputs from his wife to share with you all. Alan Mcbride has passed away in late 1998.
When did the Anglo-Indians come to Bangalore is not quite clear, but it definately was early in the 1800's, because we find that many of the people who lived in those days are remembered by plaques on Church walls, and since those Churches are quite old, then their existence would probably be earlier or around the same period. However, they were in abundance in Calcutta, Meerut, Poona (Pune), Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Tamilnadu), Cochin (Kochi) long before they came to Bangalore. But as I am no expert on Anglo-Indians, perhaps you could visit the Anglo-Home Page and go through links that would give you a better insight.
Christianity came to India with the arrival of St. Thomas at Cranganore on the Malabar coast, who went on to Mylapore near Madras, and where he suffered death by martyrdom at San Thome. Christianity came to Karnataka around the 14th Centuary and specific to Anekal with the arrival of the Dominicans, and at the begining of the 16th Centuary there were around 900 Catholics there. The Jesuits entered the scene around 1700. However, in Bangalore, the oldest Church is St. Mary's Basilica in Shivajinagar which dates back to 1685. The original was a chapel with a thatched roof called 'Karikal - Mada Kovil' or 'Arogya Matha Kovil'. Abbe Dubois writes that there were around 1000 Catholics in Bangalore in 1803, and most of them Europeans. The first Protestant Mission in Karnataka started in the Bangalore District around 1820, and was called the London Missionary Society. It started by establishing boarding houses and orphanages for boys and girls. A Theological College was started in 1910. Histories of some of the Churches along with recent photographs will take you through time. St. Mary's Basilica is one of the best known Churches that has seen lots of Faith-building and Miracles, now a modern Church of the 'Infant Jesus' in a slum of Viveknagar is also deemed to be a center for pilgrims for thanksgiving and requests for blessings. Although these Churches are Catholic, people of all denominations and religions visit them piously, and receive blessings from God. It is a strange point to note that the nationality of the Catholic Church in India was the nationality of her Clergy. Amoung the European Ministers, a very small percent were Irish, a still smaller were English descent. The rest were members of various religious orders from Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. In Bangalore, the best known were the French from the Paris Foreign Mission. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
Cemeteries (Christian) and Memorials are quite a few in Bangalore, as expected from a Colonial settlement, where soldiers, laymen, and their families died and were burried. The one of the earliest of Cemeteries to be recorded for Europeans in Bangalore was called " Fort Cemetery", which lies to the West of Bangalore and close to Tippu's Fort, but this does not exist today , having had the benefit of a 'choultry' or 'wedding hall' built over it, and no trace of any of the grave stones can be seen, perhaps they were pounded into gravel to use as foundations of the building. This cemetery was located at the back of St. Joseph's Church, (there is a photo of this church somewhere on my home pages), where, as a nun in the opposite Convent described the scene that one day the bull-dozers came and just flattened the land, and the stones were either removed or sold. It was sad, that although this cemetery is recorded by B. Lewis Rice, C.I.E. in 1906 it's not there anymore. There also used to be a R.C. Cemetery in the compound of the Church of the Sacred Heart, as well as one near the present Corporation Offices. Both have been levelled without trace. Apparently this cemetery is about the same age as another cemetery extremely East of Bangalore (in that period of time), called the Agram or Old Protestant Cemetery. This seems to have recorded a grave as early as 1809. This cemetery is being considered for repairs, and Admiral O.S. Dawson is in charge of it's progress. The other Christian cemeteries in Bangalore, are located on the Mysore Road, Old Madras Road, Hosur Road and Kalpali. There are some Military burials on the outskirts of Bangalore and supposedly come under a Regiment Unit for upkeep. As for Monuments, there are many that were in public places, but because of the obstruction to traffic, or difficulty to maintain, have been moved and relocated within the particular Regiment's Unit. One of the most important of memorials in Bangalore was the Cenotaph Monument which was built in memory of Lt. Col. Moorhouse, Capt. Delany all the soldiers who died fighting Tippu Sultan and in the capture of the Fort during the period 1791-1799. It is most unfortunate that the monument was destroyed on October 28th, 1964, with vengance and without thought, apparently stirred by frenzy of a moment of passion little realizing that by doing so, have dishonoured the very countrymen who died in the same event, and have been mentioned on the slabs. Only one broken small section piece has been located near the City Market, in the Corporation compound, used as a bench. (I will try to get hold of a photograph of the monument or the article 'Monumental amnesia' by Suresh Moona, 21st May, 1994, Deccan Herald). One of the larger monuments still on the roadside is the one on Brigade Road, and is being looked after by the Paratroopers formerly the Pioneers. The best kept one is in the premises of the Madras Engineers HQ's, and you are lucky for I have a few photos of the same below. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
Bangalore is almost mid-way between the South Indian Peninsula coasts, and has an abundant of places that are Tourist attractions such as Temples along the Madras or Tamilnadu Coast and also in the Mangalore - Kerala Coast. But going inland, because of the Cauvery River, there are some really superb Temples along this river, which goes through the interior of Karnataka.
RESEARCHERS & GENEALOGY RESOURCES
The Lacey Family History Collection of Photographs Photos of People, Places adn Objects of India Sylvia Murphy's ( Sydney, Australia ) photos of Bangalore and India British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) KGF People British Cemetery at Baithkol, Karwar, Mangalore
(Updated: 26 September 2003: Your Suggestions and Comments are requested, please send to: e-mail :
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Thought for the Day: Prayer of St. Francis. Lord, make us instruments of your Peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow Love, Where there is injury, Pardon; Where there is discord, Union; Where there is doubt, Faith; Where there is despair, Hope; Where there is darkness, Light; Where there is sadness, Joy; for your mercy and for your truth's sake.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand than to be understood; to love than to be loved; for it is by forgetting self that one finds it, it is by forgiving that one is forgiven, it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.
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