MCBS Missions

To be Sent Out

Our mission work is based on the Person of the Eucharistic Jesus and our spiritual experience of Him in our personal lives, through word and deed. We project the compassionate portrait of Eucharistic Jesus and His mission.

Being missionaries of the Holy Eucharist we draw inspiration from the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ as the source of all our apostolic activities.

What is important for us in evangelization is serving our fellow human beings by revealing to them the compassionate love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ and in the Eucharist. Here what we ‘do’, speaks more than what we ‘say’.

In 1978 the district of Shimoga, in Karnataka, under the jurisdiction of Mananthavdy diocese, was entrusted to the MCBS Congregation for pastoral care and evangelization. From then on, the Congregation spent all its energy to develop the Mission into the status of a diocese.

On 21 August 2007, Mar Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church erected a new Syro-Malabar diocese, the diocese of Bhadravathi, carving out the entire civil district of Shimoga from the territory of the diocese of Mananthavady. On 21st August 2007, Fr. Joseph Arumachadathu MCBS was appointed as the first Bishop of Bhadravathi diocese and was consecrated on 25th October 2007.

The growing missionary enthusiasm of our Congregation and the steadily increasing number of our members has prompted us to extend our missionary activities even beyond the territory of the civil district Shimoga. It is in this context that the erection of Karnataka region becomes consequential.

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    In 1992 the districts of Satara and Solapur in Maharashtra, under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Kalyan, were entrusted to the MCBS congregation for pastoral care and evangelization.

    Later, the mission became part of the MCBS Emmaus Province. Through the relentless work of the missionaries the mission made such a progress that it was raised to the status of a Region in 2009.

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    In 1989 the missionary activities of the MCBS congregation were extended to the district of Sirohi in the northern state of Rajasthan with a contract with the Diocese of Ajmer-Jaipur on 20th August 1989.

    MCBS priests were entrusted with the charge of the Most Holy Name of Jesus parish in Abu Road. Later, the mission was extended to the districts of Sirohi and Jalore in the state of Rajasthan. This mission has been on the road to growth and progress all through these years.

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        In 2005 Mar Joseph Kunnath, the then Bishop of Adilabad, entrusted to MCBS for independent mission work three Mandal in the then Andrapradesh. The Mission was inaugurated in rented house on 3rdJuly 2006 by Bishop Joseph Kunnath.

         

        The significance of Adilabad Diocese is that ecclesiastically almost all the faithful are new converts. In 2010 the headquarters of the Mission was shifted to MCBS Snehadana, 4 km away from Luxettipet town.

        As a pioneering venture in Tamil Nadu we stated a house of the congregation in Sengottai. The house was blessed and inaugurated on 21st August 1996 by Bishop Thomas Elavanal, who was the then Superior General.

        At the time Sengottai was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Changanassery. At present it is under the Jurisdiction of the diocese of Thuckalai.

        MCBS pioneer missionaries reached Tanzania on 18th December 2009. MCBS Emmaus province was entrusted with the ministry in the Archdiocese of Dar Es Salam in Tanzania and MCBS Zion Province was assigned to start their mission in the Archdiocese of Tabora in Tanzania.

        Our mission centre at Tabora is named as 'EMPOWER' which is the elaboration of “Eucharistic Missionaries for the Person Oriented World Emancipation and Revitalization.” As the name indicates our aim of the project is to strengthen the people through education, health care and social empowerment.

        Rt. Rev. Dr. John Katrukudiyil, Bishop of Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, entrusted Mengio Mission to MCBS Emmaus Province for pastoral care and evangelization. We built Corpus Christi parish Church and the presbytery. There are 22 villages under this parish.

        The second voyage of the MCBS was in 2009. A group of MCBS Zion missionaries reached the diocese of Diphu. They were assigned to different mission parishes for one year so that they could learn the language and get acquainted with the local culture.

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