A REVIEW ON THE LIFE AND APOSTOLATES OF INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE AND SOCIETIES OF APOSTOLIC LIFE IN THE SYRO-MALABAR CHURCH

Authors

  • Rosmin Cheruvilparambil Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, Rome

Keywords:

indigenous, St. Thomas Christians, community, St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara, origin, foundation, congregation, vicariates, establishment, sisters, collaboration, vocation, struggle

Abstract

The Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church sui iuris is blessed abundantly with the gift of vocation to consecrated life. Consequently, this Church is very active with the presence of fifty-six indigenous institutes of consecrated life as well as the presence of its sons and daughters in hundreds of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life in the Universal Church. This article presents an outline of the origin and development of the indigenous institutes of consecrated life in the Syro-Malabar Church. It also analyses the canonical impacts, brought by the elevation of this Church to the Major Archiepiscopal status in 1992, over these institutes. Finally, the author deals with the struggles and the challenges faced by these institutes in the present scenario of the life and mission of this Church sui iuris and points out the contributions and assistances offered by these institutes to this Church sui iuris and to the Universal Church.

Author Biography

Rosmin Cheruvilparambil, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, Rome

Author: Rosmin Cheruvilparambil S H, is a religious sister belonging to the Sacred Heart Congregation, Pala Province, Kerala, India. She obtained Licentiate in Oriental Canon Law from Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bengaluru and Doctorate from the Pontifical Oriental Institute Rome in 2012. She had her ministries such as, secretary to the Provincial Superior, judge in the eparchial tribunal of Pala, etc. Currently she serves as assistant professor of Canon Law at the Institute of Oriental Canon Law, DVK, Bengaluru and as defender of bond at the eparchial tribunal of Mandya functioning at DVK, Bengaluru. She has authored several articles on consecrated life.

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Published

2020-08-02

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): Iustitia: Dharmaram Journal of Canon Law

Section

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