Little Flower Generalate

Little Flower Educational and Charitable Trust is a body registered in 1999 under the Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act with registration No.100/4/2000. This Trust is sponsored by Missionaries of Little Flower Congregation. It is a purely voluntary and non-profit making organization. It extends beneficial services to the poor and needy living in the remote rural areas with a view to improve the living conditions of the people and to train young people to lead a meaningful life.

MLF at a glance

Missionaries of Little Flower is an Eparchial Congregation in the Archdiocese of Changanacherry. It was founded in the year 1991 at Parelpally in Changanacherry by Emeritus Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil. At present, MLF renders its apostolic services in eight Syro-Malabar dioceses in Kerala, Changanacherry, Palai, Kanjirappally, Thalassery, Mananthavady, Thamarassery and Idukki. Besides we have two mission areas; Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh and Agra in Uttar Pradesh. We render our services in Germany and Italy too. There are eight General Synaxis in its history and we have 24 convents, 164 professed sisters and 11 candidates.

MLF Charism: "To be a witness and shareholder of the Merciful Love of God"

According to Renfro, “no one person, no one community could manifest all the attributes of the Lord. Each religious family reflects a particular aspect or a particular combination of the aspects of the Gospel”. God’s merciful love manifested in Christ holds infinite possibilities of existential response. The call of the MLF is to be understood within this radical call to be merciful with its own inspired emphasis. Our call is a unique call to be merciful, a call to experience and transmit the merciful love. Therefore, we are called to witness to Christ, the merciful, to everyone especially among the poor and the sick.

The present activities of the Congregation are nursing care to the poor, caring the old people specially who are orphans, caring the terminal cancer patients, pastoral activities in the parishes and rendering service to the bedridden patients of the families. We are conducting ‘home mission’ in the parishes and do counselling for the children and families. To impart message of Christ and Gospel values in children we run schools. We have 4 schools, 3 nurseries, one old age home and a cancer centre.