Name DBS
We being inspired by the Spirit of Jesus adopt the name ‘DEEN BANDHU SAMAJ’ for our Congregation. We choose this name because; (i) It expresses the original inspiration from Jesus, whom we try to imitate imbibing his spirit. He was always in compassion with the hungry and suffering, the poor and oppressed the ignorant and sinful (Lk.4:18-19). (ii) Jesus had a very special love and concern for the poor and he was rightly called the friend of the poor-Deen Bandhu. Our Founder Mar Paulinus Jeerakath and the founding members also had the same love and concern for the poor. Hence the congregation was given the name Deen Bandhu Samaj which means the Congregation of the Friends of the Poor. (iii) “Bastar, where the Divine Providence directed us to start our community, is a place of poor people, a backward area with a weak section of mankind. Hence if we are not their friends we have no friends.”