In Our Community
“Melody of Divine Love” – Musical program for Senior’s Home
March is a celebration of green and yellow, so we had the children wear green and yellow for St. Patrick’s day. We chanted opening prayers which was followed by a Ganesh bhajan called Gauri Ganesh sung by the youngest children of the group. Next a bhajan called The Lord gave the World was sung. This bhajan reminds us to be grateful to the Lord for the gift of this beautiful world.
Aradhana Mahotsavam at Cooksville Sai Centre
Aradhana Mahotsavam for the year 2019 was commemorated by the Cooksville Sai Centre on Wednesday April 24th day, a day when our beloved Bhagavan left His physical form and became omnipresent.
2018 Holiday Celebrations
Embracing the festive season, the SSE students and devotees of Victoria Park Sai Centre took time for a special ecumenical celebration of the holidays.
Nation-wide continuous Gayatri Mantra Chanting
Monthly SSE Narayan Seva – Sandwich preparation and donation to Drop-In-Center
The Calgary Drop-In Centre offers shelter and meals for hundreds of homeless people all year round. This service activity called as Narayan Seva involves the preparation and distribution of sandwiches, granola bars, and non-perishable food to the Calgary Drop In center that was initiated about a decade ago.
Home for Dinner
The Ronald MacDonald Foundation is a charitable organization that built accommodation facilities near children hospitals in several North American cities to host attendants (parents, siblings, grandparents etc.) of children receiving treatment in the children hospitals. Several charitable and other organizations sign up for volunteering including cooking meals in these facilities in support of these attendants who usually become very busy taking care of their children and have no time to care for themselves. Calgary Sai Centre’s participation in this activity was initiated in the beginning of 2017.
Cooking and serving lunch for homeless people
The Calgary Drop-In Centre offers shelter and meals for hundreds of homeless people all year round. Several charitable and other organizations routinely offer volunteering services including cooking and serving meals. A few devotees have been cooking and serving lunch on every third Saturday of the month in the name of Sri Sathya Sai Centre for nearly 25 years.
Sharing, Caring & Knitting for God organized by the Ladies Wing
Swami has taught us all the importance of “Love all Serve all” and Swami has often said that service (Manav Seva) is service to God (Madhava Seva). In support of Swami’s mission, on the 19th of May 2018, the Ladies wing initiated a Sadhana called “Sharing, Caring and Knitting HIS Love Together”. The goal of this Sadhana was to serve the less fortunate ones through knitting needy items while engaging in Swami’s namasmarana.
“Melody of Divine Love” – Musical program for Senior’s Home
Our monthly performance for the residents at the Erin Meadow retirement home was on October 28, 2018. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Navaratri with the residents. The evening started with a small introduction to the significance of “Thanksgiving”. We elaborated on the importance of “giving thanks” and continued with an opening prayer.
Living Room Food Service
The ” Living Room Food Seva” is a regular feature of the Coquitlam Sai Centre’s Seva activities. The Centre has been offering this meal service seva activity since the early 2000 and is conducted about 4 times a year. A sumptous 4-5 course vegetarian meal is freshly cooked on-site at the Powell Street Getaway, formerly known as the “Living Room Drop-In Centre”, and served to about 150 to 200 patrons at this facility.