COMMISSIONS

Activities:

   Full Bible, New Testament, Pocket Bible, Family Bible in different sizes and make them available among the Tamil speaking people in and        outside Tamilnadu;

   Conducting classes, seminars and workshops to Clergy, Religious and laity to make them aware of the need of the Word of God in their        life;

   Conducting VBS(Vacation Bible School) programme with suitable materials so that the participants can become effective proclaimers of the        Gospel and training the teachers for VBS;

    Conducting Bible lessons through Correspondence Course and Social Media;

    Arranging Diocesan and Regional Meetings on Bible Study;

    Preparing materials for meaningful celebration of Bible Month, Bible Week and Bible Sunday;

    Publishing book and articles on Bible;

    Running the Website www.tnbcbc.org;

    Animating Bible Apostolate throughout all the Latin Dioceses of Tamilnadu through Diocesan Secretaries of Bible Commissions and         Religious Congregations;

Activities:

   Conducting regular seminars and faith formation programmes at the Regional and Diocesan level to train the participants to be effective        teachers in catechism;

   Conducting regular programmes for Religious to be animators of Catechetical teaching;

   Making research and prepare suitable manuals and materials to teach catechism for the First Holy Communicants, newly married couples        and participants of Pre-marital preparation course;

   Printing and supplying Tamil and English Catechism books for students from classes I – XII and Sunday Catechism books for students        from Levels I – VIII;

   Training to promote adult catechesis through families and Anpiams;

Activities:

   Animating the Clergy, Religious and laity towards a meaningful and effective celebration of the Liturgy, other Sacraments and para-liturgy;

   Preparing manuals to impart correct understanding of liturgical celebrations;

   Translating the liturgical books such as Roman Missal, Rituals, Lectionary etc,, and to make other Christian Liturgical books available in        Tamil so that the Faithful can make use of them at different occasions in their Christian life;

   Conducting regular seminars and meetings for the Clergy, Religious and Laity on liturgy on regional, diocesan, vicariate and parish level        and zonal levels;

   Conducting a three year on-going formation for Religious;

Activities:

   Animating New Pastoral Integral Approach For Mission(ANPIAM)

   Creating New Way of Being the Church;

   Forming and strengthening of Basic Ecclesial Communities (ANPIAM);

   Helping the dioceses and parishes establish and grow as Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) witnessing to their faith;

   Animating the leaders in ANPIAM to grow in their communities;

   Coordinating Regional, Zonal, Diocesan and Vicariate Units of ANPIAMS;

   Translating and preparing manuals and sample materials for the meaningful celebration of ANPIAM and circulating those materials needed        for Anpiam meetings and seminars;

   Preparing and sending every year materials needed for the meaningful celebration of ANPIAM Month in January;

Activities:

   Formation given to Individuals and Groups to be committed Disciples of Christ through New Evangelization Courses, like ‘Paul Course’,      ‘John Course’, EmmausCourse’ … etc.

   Conducting Seminars for Priests, Religious, Lay Men & Women on recent Church Initiatives & Papal Encyclicals, like ‘Misericodiae Vultus’,       ‘Evangelii Gaudium’, ‘Laudato Si’, ‘Amoris Laetitia’.

   Coordinating New Evangelization Initiatives in all the Diocese of Tamilnadu Region.

   Promoting Gospel Proclamation Materials and Audio Visual Aids and Making them available in Tamil Language

Charismatic Renewal:

   Creating among Christian Faithful an insatiable thirst for Personal Prayer and Word of God

   Organizing Seminars for Various Categories of people and training them in Conducting Prayer Meetings, Forming Parish Based Prayer        Groups, Using Charisms & Gifts and Exercising Healing & Deliverance.

   Coordinating and forming Diocesan level Charismatic Teams.