WHAT IS
FRATERNITY?
Jesus Fraternity is a catholic voluntary organization under the
All Kerala Catholic Bishops' Conference. This was started in the
year 1981 and was formally approved and registered as a voluntary
and charitable organization in accordance to Govt. regulations as
per the charitable institutions act of the Govt. Kerala. Jesus Fraternity
as voluntary and charitable organization / society has its Head
Office at Pastoral Orientation Centre, Palarivattom, Ernakulam,
Cochin-25, Kerala, India.
Be Blessed!
"Come to me you who are blessed by my father, take your inheritance,
the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For...
I was in prison and you came to visit me"(Matthew 25:34, 36).
Here is an opportunity obtain manifold blessings by carrying out
this mandate of Jesus Christ, through Jesus Fraternity.
Jesus Fraternity
Jesus Fraternity is a movement under the supervision the Kerala
Catholic Bishops' Conference. It is a fellowship of prayer and fraternity
serving the lost, least and last especially in the prisons of Kerala,
by striving for the holistic (total integrated) rehabilitation of
the prisoners, would be prisoners (criminals) and their families.
Fraternity meets the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical,
familial, financial and social needs of these people.
It is estimated that before the advent of Jesus Fraternity and similar
ministries, 75% of the prisoners (as in other parts of the world)
who were released from prisons of Kerala, committed crime and were
imprisoned again. It is reported that this rate has been reduced
to 20% as the effect of the activities of Jesus Fraternity and similar
ministries. Thus Jesus Fraternity helps the society a peaceful place
to live for you and for your children.
Power of Prayer
The Fraternity is empowered by prayer. Hundreds of members of Jesus
Fraternity are those who have had a Christ-experience and people
of prayer. Their involvement in the Fraternity deepens their spiritual
experiences. That is one of the reasons why more and more join the
activities of Jesus Fraternity.
Fellowship of Fraternity
The principal aspect of Jesus Fraternity is its fraternal spirit
of Christian brotherhood, where every participant is supported by
prayers of hundreds of volunteers and beneficiaries of Fraternity
in prisons, ashramams and families. The supporters / accomplices
thus experience true Christian fellowship or koinonia
Proclaimers of the Word
Jesus Fraternity proclaims the Gospel (Word) in word and deed, taking-the-unchanging
but life-changing Gospel to people behind prison doors. The prisoners
and their families thus come to know the love of God, the merciful
and compassionate Father, the grace of Jesus Christ through whom
all have obtained forgiveness of sins and reunited with God and
man and the comforting fellowship of the Holy Spirit. They realize
that Jesus extends his grace, free to every human, irrespective
of caste, creed, ideology or belief background. Jesus Fraternity
is thus committed to the kerygma. |
