Kerala based Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC) with its strength of more than 7000 members has been spread to all over India and abroad as 24 Provinces and 4 Regions. The main Charisma of FCC is “To Holiness through Lowliness” by serving the poor the sick and the needy seeing Christ Crucified in them.
Charism
F.C.C Charism is to attain Perfect Love by experiencing personally and intensely the self emptying Love of the poor, Humble and Crucified Jesus and by leading a life of constant conversion and penance bearing witness to the Gospel.
Vision
Personally and intensely Love and experience Poor, humble and Crucified Jesus Christ.
Mission
Share and enjoy God’s Love in the community and share this Love, through the Apostolic activities of F.C.C, to all specially to the poor, sick and the marginalized and thereby spread the Kingdom of God.
Motto
“To Holiness through Lowliness”
Vision
Personally and intensely Love and experience Poor, humble and Crucified Jesus Christ.
Mission
Share and enjoy God’s Love in the community and share this Love, through the Apostolic activities of F.C.C, to all specially to the poor, sick and the marginalized and thereby spread the Kingdom of God.
Motto
“To Holiness through Lowliness”
Though FCC have branches in Tamil Nadu the first branch in the capital of Tamil Nadu Madras (now Chennai) started functioning in 1989 as a unit of Alvernia Province of Irinjalakuda Diocese.
Sister Provincial of Alvernia Province, then Sr. Liberatta and team came to Chennai in November 1989 and opened a branch in a rented house at Ayanavaram as they were called by the Bishop of Mar. James Pazhayattil of Irinjalakuda Diocese to assist the Syro Malabar priests in their ministry in Chennai.
It was the decision of the General Chapter of Fransciscan Clarist Congregation in 1988 that each province should have a terminal care centre for people suffering from incurable diseases which Sr. Liberata took verbally and when she thought of having a project of our own in Chennai she gave first preference for the terminal care centre which by Divine providence paved the way for Jeevodaya Hospice through different people whom God Almighty arranged in the paths of Sr. Liberatta FCC and her team. This we can very well see in the history of Jeevodaya Hospice. This mission was materialized when FCC sisters moved to Mathur village and owned a land of their own which also was saved from Government acquisition because of the Project Jeevodaya Hospice - the Terminal Care Centre - for Cancer patients.