Sai Centre: Alberta
Interfaith Unity Walk for Peace & Love
With Swami’s grace and love, the Edmonton Sai Centre participated in the Interfaith Unity Walk for Peace and Love that occurred at the Alberta Legislature on May 24, 2019. Our Center has had affiliations with the Interfaith Center for many years and since 2017 with Bro Jagadeesan’s visit the Interfaith Center has been more open to collaboration with us.
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.
Nationwide 108 hours continuous Gayatri Mantra Chanting
General meaning: We meditate on that most adored Supreme Lord, the creator, whose effulgence (divine light) illumines all realms (physical, mental and spiritual). May this divine light illumine our intellect.
Sincerity
Perhaps, after all, in the great Pantheon of Virtues, the key is Sincerity.
“If you have no Shradda (Sincerity, earnestness), you cannot achieve anything, whatever other qualifications you may have,” Sathya Sai Baba said. “Only the earnest seeker can acquire knowledge of the Divine. However intelligent one may be, without earnestness he will achieve nothing. A man with earnestness can convert a small burning cinder into a huge bonfire.” “If [he] lacks Shraddha he will allow even a blazing fire to go out.”
Gandhi’s Legacy – Essay by Navya Baradi of Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Edmonton
A MESSAGE OF LOVE FOR 2018: “LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL”
The Edmonton Sai Center has been active in the Interfaith community for the past several years. In October 2017, the Center received a Deepavali message from Pope Francis that was sent via the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton. The Archbishop Richard Smith was touched by the loving response from our Center for the message from the Vatican and expressed interest in coming together in friendship and exploring joint community service projects.
An Interfaith Event in Alberta
The Edmonton Sai Centre received an invitation to participate in an interfaith event on June 28th, 2015 in the town of Whitecourt, Alberta which is a smaller resource-based community about two hours northwest of Edmonton. The event was sponsored by the Ahamadiyya Muslim Jama’at and hosted by Reverend Alwin Maben, the local United Church minister.
