Eight Postulants Enter Novitiate in Tanzania
On July 19, 2022 the vestition ceremony of the eight postulants was held during the vespers at Malisho, Carmelite Novitiate community, Tanzania. Rev. Fr Praveen Frank OCD, the Regional Vicar presided over the rite of vestition and initiated them to the novitiate. There are altogether 8 postulants who entered the novitiate on the eve of the feast of Prophet Elijah, the inspirer of the Order. Out of the 8 novices, four are from Tanzania, two from Malawi and one each from Zambia and Sri Lanka. After the vestition rite, the patents of Fr Reginald Mworia as the Superior of Novitiate community and Fr Roshan Pinto as the Novice Master were read. Before the supper the outgoing novices welcomed the new novices with a wishing song. The Vicariate wishes them a blessed year to experience the life of a religious in the garden of Carmel and at the same time we offer our fraternal support and prayerful assistance to the Superior and the Novice Master who will shoulder the responsibility in forming these young novices in the Carmelite way of life.