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Christmas in the Good Old Days In Ceylon – By Noel Crusz Image Source : visitinsrilanka The memories of how Christmas was celebrated in the good old days in Sri Lanka come back to mind. Before the Christmas season the house was painted, the walls white-washed, and with a low black tar edging all-round the rooms. The chairs were re-cushioned. The traveling tailor came to the home, measured the rooms, and made the curtains on our old Singer sewing machine. Red Mansion polish was applied on the red cement floor, which got a shine by rubbing with a heavy handled brush and then mopping with a soft cloth. It was hard work. Cake making was a ritual, where the mother laid the rules and the children offered to help. We ate a good many of the cashew nuts and raisins when no one was looking. Two weeks before Christmas the children ...

Dec 18, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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The launching of the book “Noel Crusz’s Little Bike Lost” The book Noel Crusz’s Little Bike Lost: The Story of Sri Lanka’s First Schoolboy Film by Avishka Mario Senewiratne was launched on October 6, 2022 at the Auditorium of the College of Surgeons, Colombo 07.  Rev. Dr. Victor Silva, who served as the 11th Rector of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The event saw the attendance of a near full-house; consisting of senior priests of the Catholic Church, Film Personalities, Josephians of yesteryear, current Josephians, professionals, historians, researchers, musicians etc. An eloquent and inspiring keynote speech was delivered by the renowned actor and social activist Peter D’Almeida. Little Bike Lost which came out in 1956 was produced by Fr. Noel Crusz OMI and the Film Society of St. Joseph’s College. Shot mainly at St. Joseph’s College and in Colombo, the film contains the oldest recovered footage of the College, its buildings, students, big matches and mundane ...

Oct 9, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , ,
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Roman Catholic filmmaker Noel Crusz-by Robert Crusz Source:Dailymirror Noel Crusz was born in 1921 and ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in 1948. Finding that “celibacy is martyrdom”, as he wrote, he was dispensed from his vows and returned to lay status in 1965. He married in 1967, emigrated to Australia and passed away there in 2003. The famous Australian journalist, the late Alan Gill, writing about Noel Crusz, said “He was at various periods, sometimes concurrently, priest, filmmaker, writer and journalist. Add ventriloquist, puppeteer, broadcaster, catechist, and beloved husband of his wife Tirzah, and you have the measure of the man.” Fr. Aloysius Pieris S.J. called him “ … a Catholic priest decades ahead of his country’s local Church in appreciating and fostering the catechetical potentialities of Social Media ….” In a newly published book, “Noel Crusz’s Little Bike Lost ...

Oct 7, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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CHRISTMAS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN CEYLON – by Noel Cruz (Introduction by Des Kelly) Memories, memories. This was written by the Star of the Music, Art & Drama Society of St.Peter’s College, Bambalpitiya, the Rev.Fr. Noel Crusz, who left the Priesthood when he found the celibacy laws were too much for him. I knew Noel Crusz very well, as I joined the “Society”immediately on starting my education there. Noel was a very intelligent guy, full of different ideas about Music, Art & Drama, and it certainly looks like he loved to write as well.           I hope that the readers of eLanka and especially the old Peterites, enjoy this little account of what Christmas was like in the good old days.           Desmond Kelly.          (Editor-in- Chief)  eLanka.    CHRISTMAS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN CEYLON ...

Dec 11, 2020 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , Comments 1
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