Religious Activities

Youth Club

The objective of Youth Movement is to unite all the youths and to live an eternal life. Each one us needs direct human contact with the power and the love of God. Jesus wants all his people to live a happy and joyous life. Therefore He wants us healed of anything that saddens or depresses us, obstacles that make it impossible to love. He wants us to live a victorious Christian life, right in the devil?s back yard. So our Youth Movement is to serve the poor children to continue their studies. They teach the poor children. They take free tuitions. Our services are to improve social environment, donate blood, give awareness to drugs, clean the graveyard, encourage the people to save money, build a small library, help the poor, visit the aged serviettes home, wrote bus time-table in the entrance of the village, etc.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY

The aim of Vincent de Paul Society is Jesus Christs principle of if you did it to one of the least of the members of my family you did it to me?. The Vincent de Paul Society was started by the our Vincentians. Vincent de Paul Societys Services are to select seven poor families and give food, accommodation and medical allowance.

Catholic Action Society

The objective of the Catholic Action is to renew everyone in Christ and to preach the Holy Bible, illumine our minds with the light of truth and strengthen our fraternal sprit that we may always seek and do Gods willed. The activities are graveyard maintenance, visiting the patients and praying for them, visit families and pray for them, group prayer and get Christs experience.

To visit the families regularly

To visit the patients in family and hospital

To encourage family prayers

LEGION OF MARY

The objective of the Legion is to glorify god through the purification of the members. The two ways to realise this objective are prayer and service. This service is co-operating with our lady and the church, in the mission of spreading The Kingdom of Jesus Christ under the guidance and supervision of the church leaders.

In 1937, even before the legion of Mary was started in the diocese, Maravankudieruppu has the more no of male praesidium in Kottar Diosece.

CATECHISM

The objective of Catechism is to follow Jesus Christ?s principle of love, justice, unity, trust, sympathy, faith, forgiveness, etc., input all these principles into children's heart and bring the children under the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Activities: To prepare an annual plan and the basis of annual plan we conduct our classes. Last week of every month we conduct teacher?s meeting. In those meeting, we discuss the present month activities and the future month activities. Every year we celebrate Christmas. The third day feast of our church is celebrated by our children and teachers. The Vocational Bible Class is conducted every year in the month of May. We conduct trainings and improve the knowledge of our teachers. We also participate all the training contucted in the diocese. We encourage the children to read the Holy Bible and help the poor and also we encourage them to pray daily.

Rural women welfare association

The objective of Rural Women Welfare Association is to encourage the women to save money and improve their life into good and standard position.

Activities: Awareness songs, world news, national news, input all these things and to help for women empowerment. Teach the governments policies and to activate it correctly. Take the loans in the bank and use it for their childrens higher studies and business. Clean the drainage, put street lights, etc., and to develop their village clean and tidy. We participate the training given by kottar diocese. We take training like small scale business, law, leadership training, etc.

Liturgical Spiritual Comity

The objective of Liturgical Spiritual Comity is to develop all the Christian ceremony activities and improve our life style and to live a good Christian life.

Activities: We give training to the members of this comity. Every Wednesday we conduct a meeting. In this meeting we discussed the main theme of every Sunday mass. We write the main theme and paste it in the alaya peedam. We discuss our negative things and to improve it in the future. We also write the main theme of the Sunday mass, the reading and other things all put it in the notice board. We give liturgical training, reading practice, song practice, etc. all our training is given through the anbiyams, associations, commissions and committees. Flower decoration, Altar decoration, etc. are done by our members. The Parish Priest is participated all the meeting and give his ideas and suggestions.

The Society of the Sacred Heart

The Society of the Sacred Heart (Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is a Roman Catholic religious congregation established in Franceby St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800. It has presence in 45 countries. Membership to the Society is restricted to women only. Its members do many works, but focus on education, particularly girl's education.