Jesus the Healer - Indian Fathers and Srilanka Sisters
The Fathers and Sisters of Jesus the Healer in India
ABOUT THE INDIAN FATHERS
Rev. Fr. Joseph Victor JH, is the Founder and Director of the Pious Association of Jesus the Healer. He became a Priest belonging to the Congregation of the Heralds of Good News which was started by Fr. Jose Kaimlett in 1980s. But Fr. Jose Kaimlett started also late in 2003 another Congregation called Missionaries of Compassion. There was a crisis in the Congregation of Heralds of Good News as well as in his new Congregation. A division set in both the Congregations but more acutely in the Heralds of Good News. Because of several alleged factors like money laundering, vested interest, group ganging within the community for power, position and money and several other negative factors, Rome appointed an Apostolic Visitator who studied the situation of the Congregation of Heralds of Good News and submitted a report to Rome. !n the meantime some 45 members joined Missionaries of Compassion from the Congregation of Heralds of Good News. Fr. Joseph Victor was one of them. Since situations were equally bad in the Congregation of Missionary of Compassion, The group asked for direction from Rome as to whether genuinely they could live a good religious life. On the basis of the report of the Visitator, the Roman Dicastery wrote to each member a letter giving the following 5 options.
1. "Return to full communion with The Heralds of Good News, a Pontifical Society of Apostolic Life. This would entail submitting to the authority of the officially recognized Supreme Moderator, who at that time was the Pontifical Commissary. Fr. Mathew Maruvathrail, SDB".
2. Seek a transfer from the Heralds of Good News to an existing Pontifical or Diocesan approved institute or society, other than the Missionaries of Compassion.
3. Join the Missionaries of Compassion, a Diocesan Society of Apostolic Life, formally erected in the Archdiocese of Hyderabad with a willingness to adhere to the Constitutions and Rule of that Society.
4. Find a benevolent Bishop willing to juridically erect a new Association of the faithful whose charism is clearly distinct from The Heralds of Good News and The Missionaries of Compassion, of which you would wish to be a member.
5. Individually seek a Bishop and a Diocese into which you would choose to be incardinated as a Diocesan Priest.
Since the fourth option involves the formation of a new and separate entity, it would also require an individual or a committed group to approach Bishops who might be willing to undertake such a venture.
Rev. Fr. A. Joseph Victor JH, being committed to a religious life and not willing to quit it, chose the fourth option of starting a Pious Association and make it grow into a Religious Congregation with the vision: People thirst for the Word of God, hence Word of God in all its richness must be preached today was his dictum. The Pious Association of Jesus the Healer will have as its charism only the preaching of the Word of God and give His healing touch.
THE SISTERS OF JESUS THE HEALER
Our Charismas proceed from deep gratitude for the goodness and love of God which is poured out for us through Jesus Christ on the cross. We too follow the footsteps of Jesus and want to participate in the passion, death and resurrection our Lord through Sacrifice in Service, making Jesus to be known to the ends of the earth.
Our mission is to make known God’s merciful love to the whole world so that all may be reconciled and brought into communion with God. We dedicate our lives to proclaim the Good News of Salvation through the witness of our consecrated and communal life, as the sisters of Jesus the Healer in commitment to our life of prayer and mission. Our life of prayer and intercession as well as our commitment to the spiritual and corporal works of mercy flows from our charism, vision and mission. We are particularly called to dedicate to ourselves in serving the poor, the sick, and those who are in need of renewal of faith.
We embrace the life of mission doing service to the poor, downtrodden, abandoned, homeless, widows and so on by living a life with vows of obedience, poverty, chastity and Love and Attachment for the Catholic Church. As we daily contemplate Christ’s gracious gift of love offered on the cross and intercede for the needs of all mankind, we seek to give to others the mercy we have received. Under the patronage of Mother Mary, St. Joseph and with the Eucharist as the focal point of our daily life, we live out our mission by offering our life completely to Jesus Christ, the Healer as a holocaust of love and for the salvation of souls.
Our mission is to reach out to all the people of the world and bring faith, hope and healing into their lives, and help to strengthen the faith of the believers, in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church and to pray for the souls which, in turn will be conducive in achieving the purpose of their call and also to always contemplate on things and on constant union with God in Prayer, which is our first and principle duty (cf. Can. 663 §1).
