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About St. Chavara

                   

St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara had a great vision on education in India. He acted with extraordinary courage to meet the challenges of his time. He insisted on opening schools attached to every catholic church, and entrusted the responsibility of building it up in tune with the needs of the time to the Catholic community. If today Kerala is the most literate state in India according to the (UNDP) measurement of human development index, St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara was a moving spirit behind this achievement. Through an integral person-oriented education he wanted to lay solid foundation for a life long process of growth in every human being towards a fully human and fully matured individual.

In tune with the spirit of its founder, the congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), with more than 3000 members, is today running 300 educational institutions in this country from Kanyakumari in the south to Poonch at Jammu and Kashmir in the North. In the beginning of 21st century the congregation has stepped into the field of medical college, and engineering college.

The CMI congregation is the embodiment of the dream and vision of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara who was a nineteenth century educationist and social reformer in India. He was honored by the government of India by releasing a postal stamp in 1986 with his image.

St. Chavara to Children

  • Let those who love God be your Friends.
  • Engage in the works suited to your age and education.
  • Got to School regularly and review the learning material and renew your memory every week.
  • The greatest among you is the one who is the humblest.
  • Children you are God investments in the hands of your parents.
  • Laziness fosters evil habbits.
  • The children who have love of God and fear of God will love and respect their parents.
  • Wisdom and purity should be your spiritual food like food for natural growth.
  • Good friends will make you good.
  • Keeping bad books is like hiding fire in the straw.
  • You ought to love truth and justice.
  • Trust your mother; God will hear the mother requests like the baby requests.
  • Attain punctuality by means of regular timetable.
  • You angels will turn to be devils if you fall into evil situations.
  • Regular reading of Good books and meditating on it will illumine the mind.
  • You ought to reach home before evening and take part in the evening prayers.
  • Your attire and sanctity ought to be according to your age.
  • Immoderate attire will only lead you to evil.
  • Let your ability be in piety regulating your life and controlling your senses.
  • What you earn by deceit and theft will melt like snow.
  • Let there be no day in your life in which you did no good to others.
  • Do not insult or trouble the poor.
  • It is the duty of the children to look after their parents.
  • Even if you are grown in age and maturity you have to accept your parents and submit to them.
  • Do not be the cause of your parents shedding tears on account of you.
  • Since you belong to God, you must be given back to God.