The official inauguration of the academic year 2023-2024 of DBTC was held on Tuesday 06th June 2023. Fr. Don Bosco Lourdusamy, the provincial of INM and moderator of DBTC, celebrated the Holy Eucharist and the professors of DBTC solemnly professed their faith as a manifestation of what they believe in and that they would teach the faith they have professed. During the homily, Fr. Provincial urged everyone to view their life through the eyes, minds, and hearts of the holy Trinity in order to better comprehend the purpose of religious and priestly formation.
The inaugural function for the new academic year commenced at 9.00 am with the lighting of the lamp. Fr. Emmanuel Maddhichetty, the principal of DBTC, welcomed the dignitaries, in a special way Fr. Don Bosco Lourdusamy, the Provincial of INM and the Moderator of DBTC and Fr. Pathiaraj Rayappan, the newly appointed Rector of Becchi and the Secretary of DBTC. He also welcomed the professors and the students. Then, in the annual report he summarized the significant academic activities of the previous year 2022-2023. Thereafter, the Moderator of DBTC in his address urged everyone - students and teachers alike - to go towards God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit together, through their acts of Prayer, Charity, and Study. Later, Professor Anthonysamy Lourdusamy delivered the keynote address. He introduced to the students Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Sacramental Theology, emphasizing the idea that sacraments are symbolic in a context where language, historicity, temporality, and corporality are all properly attested to and treated as mediators of truth. The Inaugural function concluded with a hymn to Don Bosco.
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