{"id":103,"date":"2026-01-20T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:54:42","slug":"bicentennial-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/bicentennial-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicentennial Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bicentennial Celebration: The yearlong celebration of the <strong>Bicentennial Jubilee of our co-founder, Blessed Mother Mary Theresa Scherer<\/strong>, was a grand and spiritually uplifting event that united sisters, students, staff, and parishioners in honoring her remarkable legacy.&nbsp; Q<strong>uiz competitions were held in the province for sisters and the students of our schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The province-level closing ceremony of the Bicentennial Jubilee on 31 October,<\/strong> was a spiritually enriching and inspiring event for the sisters of the province.&nbsp; Rt. Rev. Paul Simick, the Bishop of Bagdogra diocese graced the occasion presiding the Eucharistic celebration.&nbsp; The life and legacy of Blessed Mother Maria Theresa Scherer depicted meaningfully through a Dance-Drama by the students of Sonada Holy Cross Girls\u2019 Higher Secondary School on the occasion was a touching tribute to our co-Foundress.&nbsp; The entire province was exhorted to bloom and bear fruits of the values of compassion, faith, hope and love with renewed dedication, wherever we are planted as each community offered a sapling during the offertory.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A work born of deep reflection, dedication and vision: A Biography of <strong>Blessed Mother Maria Theresa Scherer<\/strong>, written by Sr. Dr. Merlyn George Kanjirakombil was released on the occasion of the closing of the Bicentenary celebrations.&nbsp; We congratulate Sr. Merlyn George for delving into the roots of our congregation through this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scscsiliguri.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}