Bento Fernandes sj RIP 27th Nov 2018

FR. BENTO  FERNANDES SJ

         

Photo Gurjarvani 2015

We are sad to inform you that FR. BENTO FERNANDES SJ (GUJ ), 77 years old /  53 years in the Society of Jesus, passed away on 27 Nov, 2018 at 06.45 AM in Bhailal Amin Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat.

The funeral details  will be communicated later.

Fr Bento Fernandes was suffering from diabetes.  He was undergoing dialysis in Bhailal Amin Hospital, Vadodara.  His health was deteriorating in the past couple of days.  

All the members of the Province are to offer One Mass and members of the community are to offer two masses for the repose of FR. BENTO FERNANDES SJ.

We commend his soul to the merciful love of God.

May the good Lord grant Fr. Bento Fernandes eternal rest and may his soul rest in peace.

Peace,Shekhar Manickam SJ

Isudas at his own Ordination: Poem

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Isudas Cueli sj

By Joe Palathunkal
Jesuit Father Isudas Cueli who translated the whole Bible into Gujarati, died in Baroda today, August 16, 2018.



Born on December 24, 1930, in Spain, for Cueli it was translation all the way once he mastered the Gujarati language of this north-western Indian state where Gandhiji was born, and the fact that he was destined to die the next day of Indian Independence, appears to be a coincidence. After all, translating the Bible, learning an Indian language so well, was indeed a translation of his whole life into 'Indian-ness'.

The great and tough mission of translating the entire Bible into Gujarati was entrusted to him by the Jesuit society in 1964—a formidable task—hard and tedious for a man from Spain, but he did it with such care and acumen that there is a commonplace viewpoint that Cueli’s translation of the Bible is the only translation in the whole of India that has the real hue of typical Indian linguistic nuances which appears as if it is not a translation.

To make a translation appear as if it is originally written in that language, is the magical calibre of a translator, which Isudas Cueli had acquired through his own ingenuity and genius.

Assisted by literary and linguistic giants, Joseph Macwan, Nagindas Parekh, Niranjan Bhagat and Prof. Raymond Parmar, when the Sampurna Bible was brought out by Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, Anand, in 1981, people were wonderstruck at the quality and beauty of the language, this Spaniard brought into the translation of this most translated book of the world.

The success of the Sampurna Bible prompted Father Isudas Culei to dedicate his whole life only for translation. His next big project was the huge four volumes of liturgical commentaries which he did almost alone. He also translated the entire missal into Gujarati, an unforgettable service to all those who flock to every church in Gujarat for the Holy Mass.

Another major venture was the translation of the Documents of the Vatican II, though only the major ones, this indeed was a catechetical process to inculcate the radical views of the Catholic Church in the land of his mission, the 'karmabhoomi'.

“Indeed, he spent the whole life on translation,” says fellow Jesuit Varghese Paul who himself is a prolific writer in Gujarati, with 47 books to his credit. Though very tedious and exacting, Isudas Cueli did it, following the Jesuit motto: For the Greater Glory of God.

When this 21st century John Wycliffe’s funeral Mass will be held at Rosary Cathedral, Baroda, tomorrow, August 17, one can never forget another coincidence: it was the day Hindi Bible translator, Padmabhushan Fr. Camille Bulcke SJ from Belgium, died in New Delhi. And Fr. Isudas Cueli from Spain leaves us leaving an everlasting imprint on our cultural history with his Sampurna Bible in sampurana Guajrati.

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FR. ISUDAS CUELI SJ

[1930 – 2018]

Fr. Isudas Cueli SJ (GUJ )  87 years old /  68 years in the Society of Jesus, passed away on Thursday, 16 August, 2018 at 09.15 AM in Our Lady of Pilar Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat.

The funeral mass will be held on Friday, 17 August at 11.00 AM in Rosary Cathedral, Vadodara.

All the members of the Province are to offer One Mass and members of the community are to offer two masses for the repose of FR. ISUDAS CUELI SJ.

  

Biographical Sketch

Father:   Jose

Mother:    Balbina

Fr. Isudas Cueli was born on 24 December, 1930, in Spain.  He entered the Society of Jesus on 03 September, 1949.  He was ordained on 24^th  March 1962.  He pronounced his Final Vows on 02 February, 1965.

   

Responsibilities Held in the Society

  

      

Responsibilities Held in the Society
Responsibility	Place	Year
BIBLE TRANSLATION AND FORMATION	AHMEDABAD	1964-86
JUNIORIATE DIRECTOR	AHMEDABAD	1969-81
RECTOR IN NEWMAN HALL	AHMEDABAD	1981-87
ASST PARISH PRIEST	KHAMBHAT	1987-90
TRANSLATION WORK	JEEVAN DARSHAN-BARODA	1990-91
TRANSLATION WORK	SUGHAD	1991-94
PARISH PRIEST	ANAND	1994-96
WRITER AND TEACHER	SUGHAD	1996-2002
SP FATHER	PRENOVITATE, HILLNAGAR	2002-03
WRITER AND TEACHER	SUGHAD	2004-15
PRAYS FOR THE SJ AND CHURCH	JEEVAN DARSHAN	2015-2018

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We commend his soul to the merciful love of God.

May the good Lord grant Fr. Isudas Cueli eternal rest and may his soul rest in peace.

• Thanks to : Shekhar sj

                                                                               

Isudas Cueli sj RIP 16th Aug 2018

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