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May 17, 2021

Dear Benefactors, friends and well wishers of Saint Theresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission,

Greetings and Prayerful wishes to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Being under the care and protection of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D. (Executive Director, Founder of Guatemala Missions and Founder of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission), we are able to live a life of dignity.

St. Theresa of Calcutta Indian mission’s vision is to reach out the poor and needy. Therefore this mission is supporting one of our priest’s poor family, who are running a small dairy farm in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

There are good number of developmental activities that are taking place in this dairy farm with support and encouragement of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D. (Founder of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission). The recent developmental activities are, two trucks of hay is bought for the buffaloes. Five cement well rings are purchased for storing the food of buffaloes.

The urgent works that need to be addressed in this dairy farm are: firstly, building a pond for buffalo drinking water. Pond can help all the buffaloes to drink water at a time. It reduces the human labor and saves the time.  Secondly, we need to do cement flooring for the buffaloes outside the dairy farm. We have purchased one truck of stone chips and forty outdoor flooring stones with a reasonable price for this purpose.

We now look forward for your kind support for building a pond for buffalo drinking water and cement flooring for the buffaloes. Your generous contribution will uplift a priest’s  family which is striving to come up in life.

Being under the care and protection of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, we never go hungry and are well taken care. Bishop Joe is our spiritual father and he is everything to us after our Lord Jesus Christ. We think of him daily and pray for him.  The love and concern that he has towards St. Theresa of Calcuta’s Indian Mission and mission dairy farm is very inspiring.

St. Theresa of Calcutta Indian mission ever remains grateful to dear bishop Joe and all its well wishers.  

Continued prayers for you,

With a grateful heart,

Yours sincerely,         

Fr. K. Anthoniswamy (GSC)

Secretary of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D.

& Director of St. Theresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission

PROGRESS REPORT - Mission Dairy Farm, July 22, 2021

Having deep faith in our Lord and with the support and blessings of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D. (Executive Director, Founder of Guatemala Missions and Founder of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission) many developmental works are being undertaken in the mission dairy farm, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.  

The recent developmental works are: Building the Stone Floor and Pond for buffalo drinking water outside the Dairy Farm is completed. We have now started building pond for buffalo drinking water inside of our dairy farm.

St. Teresa of Calcutta Indian Mission sincerely thanks Rev. Bishop Joseph  F. Catrambone  and Rev. Madeleine Redmond and Michele St. Mary for their prayers and generous support towards the completion of this project.

My dear brothers, sisters and well wishers of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission and Guatemala Missions,           

Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D. (Executive Director, Founder of Guatemala Missions) has taken up many projects to educate the poor children and to eradicate poverty in some of the most remote areas of India. 

In order to eradicate poverty, he has recently taken up a project in the state of Andhra Pradesh. This project is designed to empower the poor faithful who are under the care and protection of Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone. The faithful who are poor are striving to come up in their lives. Their striving is to be set free from their financial debts. Their striving is for human dignity and to live a life of happiness as children of God. The poor faithful have got a small dairy farm which has 8 buffaloes and few calves. The calves take nearly 3 to 4 years to grow up and give us milk.

Therefore under the guidance of Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catramabone, many developmental activities are taking place in the small dairy farm.  Recently the milking machine was installed in the dairy farm and it was blessed by our beloved bishop Joe and the Good Shepherd Companions in Jan, 29, 2021 at 9:15 P.M of USA Eastern time. 

On 08 February 2021 we shifted the manure from our place and cleared the land with JCB. It was possible only with the help and support of our dear Bishop Joe. 

As it is well said:

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime” 

In the same way, we the faithful are experiencing the helping hand of our dear Bishop Joe in the initial stages of our small dairy farm. We the poor and needy love and appreciate the concern that our dear Bishop Joe shows towards our wellbeing.

Once again, we are very much grateful to our dear Bishop Joe, the Good Shepherd Companions and all the well wishers of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission and Guatemala Missions.    

PROGRESS REPORT -  Mission Dairy Farm, June 29, 2021

With the support and cooperation of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D. (Executive Director, Founder of Guatemala Missions and Founder of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Indian Mission) many developmental works are being undertaken in the mission dairy farm, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.  The recent developmental works are: one truck of sand, two trucks of stone chips and 400 cement bricks are purchased for building cement floor and Pond for Buffalo drinking water.

The work of building cement floor and Pond for Buffalo drinking water got started; it would cost around 20,000 Rs ($ 270) to complete this small project in our mission dairy farm.

Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, Rev. Madeleine Redmond and Michele St. Mary had been very generous towards St. Teresa of Calcutta Indian Mission and this mission dairy farm.

St. Teresa of Calcutta Indian Mission sincerely thanks Rev. Bishop Joseph  F. Catrambone  and Rev. Madeleine Redmond and Michele St. Mary for their prayers and generous support. Please continue to support us and may your blessings be upon us to complete this small project in our mission dairy farm.

Yours sincerely,

Fr. K. Anthoniswamy (GSC)
Secretary of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D.

My dear brothers, sisters and well wishers of Guatemala Missions,

I am Fr. K. Anthoniswamy, a catholic priest belonging to the congregation of Good Shepherd Companions. I am under the care and protection of Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone, M.Div., D.D. (Executive Director, Founder of Guatemala Missions). 

 I live in andhra Pradesh, india. I am from a poor family. My parents are running a small dairy farm in my place; we have 8 buffaloes and few calves. The calves take nearly 3 to 4 years to grow up and give us milk.

As of now, we are four of us living in the dairy farm, I along with my parents and we have one worker named as ‘Gopi’ to help us in the dairy farm, the worker has no room to stay, he just stays under the shed in the dairy farm. The worker has no one to look after him; therefore we are looking after him.  After having come to know my family situation our dear Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone came forward and sponsored us a milking machine in our dairy farm. 

Our Dairy Farm and the milking machine was blessed by our beloved bishop Joe and the Good Shepherd Companions on Jan, 29, 2021 at 9:15 P.M of USA Eastern time. We are very much grateful to our dear Bishop Joe, the Good Shepherd Companions and all the well wishers of Guatemala Missions.

 Most Rev. Bishop Joseph F. Catrambone is not only our spiritual father but he is a man of charity, simplicity and a good friend in need. We ever remain grateful to him for all that he is to us. 

Please continue to pray for us and may your blessings be upon us always.  Continued prayers for you,