Madras Mission
Vision: Spread the spirit of Franciscan Clarist Congregation - follow Poor Humble Crucified Christ through our life and service in a village. Thus a prolong dream about the care for cancer patients fulfilled with the establishment of F. C. Convent and Jeevodaya Hospice for cancer patients.
Look after the needs of the Parish Church and especially have a keen interest in the Spiritual affairs of the Parishes'. We started a new Convent in Mugappair. Added to the convent, start a hostel for women to help their life and study.
Uplift the surrounding of the villages in Education, Life style, Health and Hygiene, we started a new Convent in Nemallur. A clinic also attached with this convent
Mission: Jeevodaya Hospice aims at Serve the Poor, rejected and abandoned advanced cancer patients by giving them free Palliative care- Total Care- physical, spiritual and moral care- of the patient thereby help them to live in dignity and die in dignity.
Through the nursery school and the kid's library - which give basic education to the poor kids around the Convent - mould the young minds to lead a life rooted in God's Love and Love for the neighbour.
Through the free Community Clinic answer the immediate medical needs of the poor people of the locality and also give them awareness on health and hygiene also. Give them awareness on the killer disease cancer.
Join the Parish Priest in his pastoral work to Build up the Syro-Malabar Community in Perambur and Mathur. Strengthen the Catholic families in their faith and traditional rituals.
In Nemallur conduct various activities separately for women, Youth and Children to bring out the outcome of the vision. Aim is to spread the gospel of Jesus "Love one another as I loved you". Child without any discretion to caste, class, creed or religion
Kenya Mission
Vision:. The first Kenyan house was Catholic Mission House. Uplift the poor local people providing education and job opportunities. Strengthen their faith in God through sacraments and catechism classes and seminars. Inculcate and improve their stand in the society. Care the vulnerable children of the society. Nurse the sick and improve their life situation.
Mission: We provides Basic education through Boarding Primary School both for the boys and girls and secondary education to the girls. Many poor local students are educated freely while rich students paying fees.
Different vocational trainings are given to the poor young girls to earn their daily bread. Through Boarding Primary School, many poor students are given free education. We conduct seminars and vocation camps are organized for young women. Care the unwanted disabled children Physically disabled children are sent various institutions for higher or technical studies.
Conduct seminars and courses for the youth and Sunday classes for the kids, - care the aged and destitute people of the parish.
Prepare the children of the three school for sacraments Baptism, Confession, Holy Communion and Confirmation. Assist in all the pastoral work of the Parish.
Care the physically disabled and mentally retarded children of the society and educate them. Empower in the students the Christian values through education. Encourage the youth to follow Jesus through religious life and serve the communities.
Care the disabled and mentally retarded children and give awareness to the society not to discard them. Job Oriented training to the poor, young ladies to make them self sufficient. Religious formation is given for these who aspire religious life.
Religious formation is given for these who aspire religious life
1.
Name of the Province :Alvernia Province Irinjalakuda
2.
Name of the Country :Kenya, Africa
3.
Name of the Provincial Superior (At the time of Establishment):Rev.Sr. Liberata
4.
Name of the Superior General (At the time of Establishment) :Rev.Mother Celerina
5.
Name of the Diocese
(At the time of Establishment) :Machakos
6.
Name of the Bishop
(At the time of Establishment) :Bishop
Urbanus Kioko
7.
Name of the parish
(At the time of Establishment) :Mbiuni
Parish
8.
Address of the community- (At the time of Establishment) :F.C.Convent
Catholic Mission, P.O.Box-29, Mbiuni,
Machakos, Kenya, Africa
Continuing/ Suppressed- Date :Still
continuing
9.
Local superior of the Community (At the time of Establishment) :Sr.Jovitta
10.
Members of the community (at the time of the establishment) :Sr.Jovitta, Sr.Cajetten, Sr.Mary Thomas,
Sr.Vinaya Bastin
11.
Apostolic activities
(At the time of Establishment) :Teaching
in Govt.High School and Manage School, Pastoral Ministry, Teaching catechism in
Schools
12.
Name and address of the institution. (At the time of Establishment) :
13.
Name of the benefactors (At the time of Establishment) :Rev.Fr.Alex UkkenCMI (Provincial) Rev.Fr.Jose
Kallely, Rev.Fr.Joy Kalaparembath
14.
A brief note on the establishment of the community (At the time of
Establishment) (Five to eight sentences)
Brief History
It was a strong
suggestion in the general plenary assembly (1984), our Congregation is a
pontifical one and flourished in all over India and in some developed
countries. Rev.Fr.Alex Ukken, the provincial superior of Devamatha province and
the CMI Fathers started the procedure for the consent letters from, His
Excellency, Urbanus Kioko, the Bishop of Machakos Diocese in Kenya, where the
CMI Fathers were first settled by the end of 1988, Bishop sent his official
invitation letter to the provincial superior, Alvernia province and also His
Excellency James Pazhayattil, the Bishop of Irinjalakuda Diocese. Again it took
almost one year to take up the tremendous task of selecting the pioneers,
preparing them. And also to construct a minimum comfortable residence for them
in the working area. On 11th Nov. 1989, our first batch of our
enthusiastic sisters, set out to Kenya after getting all the blessing of our
superiors and all other sisters of the province. On 12th Nov. they
were highly welcomed by the parish priest and the representative of the
proposed parish. Thus small seed of Franciscan clarist Congregation was bloomed
in the soil of Mbiuni Parish in Machakos diocese, Kenya on 12th
November 1989. In the Mbiuni parish, the priest in-charge (CMI) started a
boarding primary school –St. Joseph B.Pri. School for imparting quality
education and then secondary girls school- Carmel Girls Sec. School, because
sisters were available to teach and manage the school. At present we have eight
communities in Kenya and in 2019 Kenya mission was erected as a Region known as
Santa Maria Region- Kenya and in 2020, constructed a regional house and blessed
on 31.08.2020.At present 42 sisters are working in Kenya and out of which 16 are
from Kenya. Now we have nine candidates to our province in different stages.
FOREIGN MISSION- Italy, Roma
1.
Name of the Province :Alvernia Province Irinjalakuda
2.
Name of the Country :Italy, Roma
3.
Name of the Provincial Superior (At the time of Establishment):Rev.Sr.Hermas
4.
Name of the Superior General (At the time of Establishment) :Rev.Mother Ceelia
5.
Name of the Diocese
(At the time of Establishment) :Diocese
of Porto Santa Ruffina
6.
Name of the Bishop
(At the time of Establishment) :Bishop
Gino Reali
7.
Name of the parish
(At the time of Establishment) :Maria del Carmine
8.
Address of the community- (At the time of Establishment) :Instituto Santo Volto, Via Cesare
Battisti-7, Santa Marinella, Roma 00058, Italy
Continuing/ Suppressed- Date :Still
continuing
9.
Local superior of the Community (At the time of Establishment) :Sr.Jenny
John
10.
Members of the community (at the time of the establishment) :Sr.Jenny John, Sr.Jeena, Sr.Sudeepa, Sr.Saly
11.
Apostolic activities
(At the time of Establishment) :Healing
Ministry, Old Age Home (Benedictine Sisters)
12.
Name and address of the institution. (At the time of Establishment) : Instituto
Santo Volto, Via Cesare Battisti-7, 00058 Roma, Italy
13.
Name of the benefactors (At the time of Establishment) : Benedictine Sisters
14.
A brief note on the establishment of the community (At the time of
Establishment) (Five to eight sentences)
A
brief note
Inspired
by the missionary spirit of St.Francis, Sisters of Alvernia province set out to
Rome to spread the message of kingdom of God through healing ministry. In 1994
Sr.Jenny started to work in Santa Marinella, Rome with sisters of other
provinces as per the request from the Mother General. In 2004 when a new
community was established in Rome under generalate, the apostolic work in Santa
Marinella was handed over to Alvernia province during the tenure of Mother
Ceelia, the then mother General. Sr.Jenny John, Sr.Jeena started to work in Santa Marinella Old Age home on Ist January
2004. After few months Sr.Sharon also joined in this community. Later in 2007 Sr.sudeepa
and in2010 Sr.Saly also became members of this community.
Regarding Santa Marinella old age home there
are 150 bedridden inmates and our sisters provide holistic care including
spiritual care to them. Benedictine sisters in Santa Marinella convent always
appreciate the simplicity and sincerity and for the dedication in discharging
their duties. Sisters always ready to prepare the elderly people to receive sacraments-
confession, Holy Eucharist and anointing of sick. There is a good rapport among
Benedictine sisters and FCC Sisters in the community from its beginning
onwards. Mother General of the Benedictine sisters always welcomes whole
heartedly our superiors when they use to go for their official visitation.
Santa Chiara Convent in Perugia, Italy started on 08.01.2020 with the purpose of caring the orphans in medical and spiritual care which is our charism entrusted by Bishop Charles Lavigne. Sr.Jeena and Sr.Sharon are the pioneers of this mission and Sr.Jisha Mary recently 06.08.2020 joined with them.
FOREIGN MISSION- Germany -01.03.1994
1.
Name of the Province :Alvernia Province Irinjalakuda
2.
Name of the Country :Germany
3.
Name of the Provincial Superior (At the time of Establishment):Rev.Sr.Liberata
4.
Name of the Superior General (At the time of Establishment) :Rev.Mother Hentry Suso
5.
Name of the Diocese
(At the time of Establishment) :Arch
Diocese of Essen
6.
Name of the Bishop
(At the time of Establishment) :Arch
Bishop of Cardinal Hubert Luthe
7.
Name of the parish
(At the time of Establishment) :Herz
Jesus Parish Duisburg
8.
Address of the community- (At the time of Establishment) : Hospital Service
Duis Burg
Continuing/
Suppressed- Date : Suppressed
on 2001 March
9.
Local superior of the Community (At the time of Establishment) :Sr.Nicetta
10.
Members of the community (at the time of the establishment) :Sr.Nicetta, Sr.Christella
11.
Apostolic activities
(At the time of Establishment) :
St.Barbera Hospital, Duis Burg.
12.
Name and address of the institution. (At the time of Establishment): St.Barbera
Hospital, Duis Burg, Germany
13.
Name of the benefactors (At the time of Establishment) :Rev.Fr.Berckenhof.
14.
A brief note on the establishment of the community (At the time of
Establishment) (Five to eight sentences)
It was a strong suggestion in the
general plenary assembly (1984), our Congregation became a pontifical one and
flourished all over India and in some developed countries. by Bishop Mar James
Pazhayattil, Bishop of Irinjalakuda and priest working at Chennai mission invited
FCC Sisters to work chennai in
1989. As per the invitation from the
Bishop, Alvernia province took a decision to work in Chennai Mission and stayed in rented house and
had a plan to start a terminal care centre for Cancer patients. It was
registered in 1990 as a Charitable trust and
made a plan to construct Jeevodaya Cancer Hospice. It was the time to
find out financial support for the construction and other services. So sisters
were searching fund for this project to fulfil and met the Rev.Fr.Gabriel CMI. He suggested to our provincial to send two sisters
to work in Germany and use that money for this kind of service. So Sister
provincial Sr.Liberata and Sr.Lalitha Theresa went to Germany to enquire the
situation to work and approached the Bishop Hubert Luthe, Bishop of Essen Diocese. Bishop gave invitation to work in
St.Barbera Hospital, Duis Burg in Germany and invited six sisters. Two of our
sisters Sr.Niceta and Sr.Christella sent to new mission for work in St.Barbera
Hospital, Duis Burg, Germany. They stayed together in same Hospital with other
four sisters from different provinces. They suppressed this house on March 2001. In 28.04.2001 our
sisters shifted into new convent in Hennef and worked in a Old Age Home, which was managed by the Franciscan Sisters.
In 2012 we started another convent in Kologne with three sisters and working in
another Old Age Home. In 2018 closed the previous convent in Heneff and relieved from the Old Age Home of
Franciscan Sisters. Then started another convent, ‘Rani Maria’ convent, Freshen
in 2018 with 4 sisters. At present 7 sisters working in Foreign Mission,
Germany.
