Jaffna’s very own Irishman: Fr. Charles Henry Lytton OMI-by Avishka Mario Senewiratne Source:Island Early days of the Irish Oblate Born on May 25, 1847, Charles Henry Lytton hailed from Dublin, Ireland. Little is known of his childhood and early days. However, it is known that his mother lived until 1893 and he had no less than seven sisters. He received his education from a College run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Dublin. After choosing to be a priest, 22-year-old Lytton joined the Anglo-Irish Province of Oblates. He passed the Oblate Novitiate in Sicklingball, Yorkshire in 1869. On September 12, 1870, he made his First Profession of Vows in Belmont. A year later, he made his Final Profession of Vows in Autun, France. From 1871 to 1875 he did his scholastic studies in Autun. He was ordained by Msgr. Adolphe Perraud, Bishop of Autun (a Cardinal after 1893), on ...
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ගිරි කුළු මහිම. – By ආචාර්ය ගාමිණී කාරියවසම්. 11 වන දිනට යෙදෙන ජාත්‍යන්තර කදුකර දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් තබන සටහනකි . වසරේදී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයේ මහා මණ්ඩලය විසින් , සෑම වසරකම දෙසැම්බර් 11 වන දින ජාත්‍යන්තර කදුකර දිනය ලෙස ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කරනු ලැබිණි. ජාත්‍යන්තර කදුකර දිනය සංකේතවත් කිරීම උදෙසා සුවිශේශී ලාංඡනයක්ද නිර්මිතය. එකිනෙක හා යාවූ කළු පැහැ ත්‍රීකෝණ තුනකින්, කදු වැටී සංකේතවත් වන අතර ,පළමු කදු සිරස නීල දියමන්තිය පිරිසිදු දිය උල්පත් සංකේතවත් කරයි.දෙවැනි කදු සිරස තැබිලි පැහැය බල ශක්තිය සහ ඛනිජ සම්පත් නියෝජනය කෙරේ. තෙවන කදු වැටියේ කොල පැහැය අහර සහ සමතුලිත දේශගුණයක් සපත කරවයි. මෙම දිනය සැමරීම පිණිස එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය මගින් කඳුවැටිවල තිරසාර සංවර්ධනය උදෙසා, වසරින් වසර කිසියම් නව තේමාවක් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කිරීම ද සම්ප්‍රදායක් ව පවතී. “කඳුකර පරිසර පද්ධති ප්‍රතිෂ්ඨාපනය කිරීම” යන්න 2023 වසරේ ජාත්‍යන්තර කදුවැටි දින තේමාව ලෙසින් ප්‍රකාශිතය. විවිධ මිනිස් ක්‍රියාකාරකම් නිසා කදු මතුපිට වන වැස්ම විනාශයට පත් වීමෙන්, ගෝලීය උෂ්ණත්වය ඉහළ යාමේ ප්‍රවණතාවක් මතුවේ. මෙමගින් අහිතකර ...
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Why This Spectacular Asian Island Is Setting All-Time Tourism Records-by Sam Sears Source:Traveloffpath The fall season can be a slower time of year for travel, but not for this spectacular Asian island. November arrivals topped 151,000 international visitors — a new record for the country. It’s the best month of the year for this trendy Asian nation full of exciting attractions. With no direct flights here from the U.S., that’s not stopping Americans from the adventure of a lifetime. Many tourists are flocking from Europe and nearby India, but Americans follow closely behind for a destination incomparable to the U.S. With wondrous natural sights, stunning beaches, and a new digital nomad visa, Sri Lanka is trending upward heading into 2024. ...
Good News From Jayam December 15, 2023 Pls Scroll Down 35 items Christmas Wonderland and Carols in North Hollywood, Ca. The SLAASC’s Christmas Wonderland and Carols on December 9th, was a big hit with hundreds of Sri Lankans who came to North Hollywood, Ca. Guest of Honor was Lal Perera and his wife Praxid. Los Angeles Consul General Dr. Lalith Chandradasa was there. SLAASC President Niroshan Kahawatte and his Committee went out of their way to decorate the venue with thousands of lights and Christmas trees. They even had fake snow which fell on the guests. The highlight of the show was Sri Lankan kids, who sang Christmas carols. They had practiced for this event and they did a great job! Well done SLAASC. The event was televised in Sri Lanka. The MC’s were Keith Ranga and Medini Ratnayaka. DO GHAZAL Tea About the brand: Do Ghazal Tea ...
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Under 19 Asia Cup begins-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis AS eight Under 19 teams of EIGHT countries battle each other at ABU DABHI beginning today, we look back at the 2022 competition via SHRESTH SHAH’S REVIEW, IN ESPNCRICINFO … IN FEBRUARY 2022 WHERE THE TITLE READS THUS: “UNDER-19 WORLD CUP 2022: WYLLIE, DHULL, BREVIS AND WELLALAGE HEADLINE ESPNCRICINFO’S TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT Our XI features four Indians but find out who else made the cut India were the most dominant side in the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, but there were many from other teams as well who impressed with their talent and skills. Here’s who all made it to ESPNcricinfo’s Team of the Tournament. 1. Teague Wyllie (Australia) With unbeaten scores of 86 and 101 in Australia’s wins in the group stage, Wyllie was his team’s anchor in chases against West Indies and Scotland. His 97-ball 71 against Pakistan in the quarter-final secured safe passage into the semis. ...
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Noel News – Special Christmas Bulletin Special Christmas Bulletin Home at last, after a whirlwind tour around the country, giving talks about downsizing and launching our new downsizing book. It was great to see so many of you who are subscribers, and to talk to people who brought older copies of my books to be signed and telling me that my books had changed their lives. This is basically a Christmas catalogue because I haven’t had time to do a newsletter in the last two weeks –I’ll certainly be doing a newsletter before Christmas because there is so much to talk about. When we think about Christmas, we think about Christmas gifts – and I can think of no better gift than a book that can change people’s lives. So, in this newsletter, I’ve got some suggestions for you plus another three books which are not mine, but which ...
මහරගම නගර සංවර්ධනය, 2024 වසර තුළ වේගවත් කිරීම සඳහා අගමැතිගෙන් නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස්…. වේගයෙන් නාගරීකරණය වන මහරගම ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් බල ප්‍රදේශයේ, නගර ආශ්‍රිත සංවර්ධන කටයුතු වේගවත් කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය,මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය ඇතුළු අදාළ ආයතන වෙත උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. ඒ එම ආයතනවල නිලධාරින් කැඳවා පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංකීර්ණයේදී පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදීය. ඒ අනුව හෝකන්දර නගරය දියුණු කිරීම සඳහා එම කටයුතු පළාත්බද මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියෙන්,මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය වෙත පවරා ගෙන සංවර්ධනය වේගවත් කරන ලෙස විශේෂ උපදෙසක් ලබාදෙන ලදී. මහරගම පමුණුව ආශ්‍රිත කලාපය රෙදි පිළි තොග සහ සිල්ලර වෙළඳාමේ නිරත වෙළඳ ප්‍රජාවට බාධාවකින් තොරව එම කටයුතු පවත්වාගෙන යාමට එම මාර්ගවල ගමන් කරන බස් රථ විකල්ප මාර්ග ඔස්සේ ගමන් කරවීමේ හැකියාව සොයා බලන ලෙසත් උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. මහරගම නගර සභාවේ කොට්ටාව උපකාර්යාලයක් ඇති කිරීම තුළින් ජනතාවට පහසුකම් සලසන ලෙස කී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා, සංවර්ධනය කර ඇති නාවින්න ක්‍රීඩාංගණය පූර්ණ වශයෙන් මහරගම නගර සභාව වෙත පැවරීම පිළිබඳ සොයාබලන ලෙස දැන්වීය. මහරගම ඩිපෝව දැනට භාවිතා කරන අක්කර හයකට ආසන්න භූමි ප්‍රමාණය වඩා ඵලදායි, ප්‍රශස්ත ලෙස භාවිතා කිරීමට නිර්මාණශීලීව ...
Mr Sugathadasa – St Thomas’ College teacher & of Handcrafts fame celebrates his 95th birthday The college teacher, Mr Sugathadasa of Handcrafts fame celebrated his 95th birthday at his Bandaragama home yesterday Some high powered people one notes among those present! Dr.Nihal de Silva (academic and champion long distance athlete!), Mr Welgama MP, Lasantha Salgado (playing piano), Keseralal Gunasekera, architect Ashley de Vos, Milinda Hettiarachchi (member of the board of governors STC), Prof G.L.P. of course, R. Rajakaruna and Sriyan Jayasekera among other stalwarts and dignitaries!! Quite a “force” of goodwill ambassadors! ...
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ICC Men’s T20 WC Australia 2022 opening game in Geelong Johann Jayasinha Honoured to be part of Trophy Bearers with David Cruse ...
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Christmas party at the Walawwa with Noeline Honter and Sohan Weerasinghe from Sri Lanka with Andrea Marr and popular band Ebony – by Trevine Rodrigo (eLanka) As the important day of the Christian calendar fast approaches, joyful parties to are taking place all around Australia. Esric Jackson and Shehan Wijewardena of the Walawwa organised a sellout Christmas party with Noeline Honter and Sohan Weerasinghe from Sri Lanka with Andrea Marr and popular band Ebony. Esric Jackson himself added more flavour to the event with his own vocal renditions to further liven up a great afternoon. Apart from a lively crowd of afternoon revellers, a wide attendance of musicians gathered to take in a wonderful show. Ash and Allison Jayasinha, Gwenie Khel, Cherrie Chamari, and a host of others were among those who showed up to take in the performance of two proven entertainers over the decades. And they were ...
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