Carmelite Sisters of Charity, Vedruna (CCV), India turns Golden today

Vedruna Sisters, Gujarat
This photo was taken on final vows of Vedruna Sisters at
St. Xavier's Church, Navarangpura. Ahmedabad last year 

  This Congregation was founded in Vic, (Barcelona) Spain on 26th February 1826 by St.Joaquina de Vedruna.

  Contemplation of Jesus and direct contact with the reality is what gave birth in Joaquina to a passionate desire to “work for the glory of God”.  It is this mission that unifies all Vedrunas sending them out to follow in her very footsteps, along her paths, risking all freely and jopyfully that God’s dream for humanity may be realized.

  Joaquina was chosen to provide a response to the marginalization of women in her time and she initiated a new form of religious life in the Church marked by a family spirit, a contemplative gift and a simple life of joy.From their charismatic identity, they like Joaquina respond to the needs of the time with audacity and risk-taking.  They reaffirm their preferential option for the poor and their commitment to place themselves at the side of those most neglected, wherever they live and work, allowing themselves to be evangelized by them.  They are in all over the world in 24 countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America.  Such was the dream of their foundress, “she could feel her arms stretching our in order to embrace the needs of the whole world.”

 In India

 In 1963 the Holy See formally erected the Major Superiors Conference of India (CRI) and approved its statutes. The same year it became a Registered Society under the Registration Act of 1860.

 The Conference saw two major phases of changes during the course of its march to Golden. Today it functions as Major Superiors Conference as well as conference of all the religious of India. Its national, regional and local structures make it a body of 1,30,000 religious men and women.

Source:

http://vd.pcn.net/en/