The Music School, SFX, Moira, Goa is affiliated to the Pilar Music Academy. The Music School, SFX, Moira, Goa is managed by Bro Inacio and his staff. The Music School, SFX, Moira, Goa caters to 50 students every year, many of whom have passed the grade 1 and 2 of the Trinity School of music, London. At the end of the academic year, a music day is held with students presenting their musical talents on their instruments along with their vocal abilities. Certificates and prizes are distributed on the occasion.
The Music School, SFX, Moira, Goa is run in the ancestral property of Fr. Cosme Costa in Lima Vaddo, Carona, Moira, Goa which came under the Society of Pilar in May 2010 by a deed of donation. The story of the house is a unique one, The house was originally purchased by 2 brothers in 1886, One of them, Cosme Damiao Noronha became the sole owner of the house and property in 1888 due to passing away of the other brother. He has 10 daughters and the house was inherited by his youngest daughter, Quiteria at her marriage to Damiao da Costa from Curtorim in South Goa. He being a timber merchant renovated entirely the roof of the house in 1930. They had 2 children, a daughter, Estefania who married George Peres Da Silva and a son Fr. Cosme Jose Costa S.F.X. On the death of Estefania in 2006, her family and brother donated the house along with the surrounding property and furnoture to the Goa Province of the Pilar Society.
The donation of the house and property were accepted by Fr. Galdino Monteiro SFX as the provincial in 2010. Since then extensive renovations have been carried out transforming it into 5 self contained rooms. Along with the music school, the house is also the location of the day care center called ‘Joie de Vivre’ for senior citizens set up under the Ummid scheme of the Goa Government.
Fr Kyriel D’Souza as the Provincial of Goa has established a community under the Anjuna Local House. Fr Michael Rebello and Bro. Inacio D’Souza are residents of the house and conduct various activities to make the presence of the Society of Pilar felt in and around Aldona and the surround areas. Fr Michael renders pastoral services to St. Rita’s Chapel and the Auxilium Convent in Carona as well as the Quitula and Corjuem Chapels as well as the Anjuna Church when needed.
The eco mission of planting fruit trees around the house was started by the Late Fr Inacio Almeida. He planted numerous fruit trees and medicinal plants making the area around the house extremely green. He used to visit the house from Birondem ( Valpoi) to Carona every fortnight in the mornings and spend the entire day tending to over a hunderd patients who flocked to the house for advice on ailments and seeking treatments though ayurvedic medicines. He has successfully cured a number of difficult cases. However after his sudden and untimely death his successor, Fr. Santiago Fernandes SFX has carried out his work.
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