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Phone Convent: +91 977 23 456108, Mobile: +91 9804973480
Prerna Niwas is the first collaborative mission in the country of Mt. Everest with the Nepal Jesuit Society. The community started as an extension of mission in the year 1999 on the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. The blessing of the convent took place on 23rd July 2000. Prerna Niwas wsa canonically erected to the status of a community on 15th September 2000, the feast of Our Lady of Dolores. Sisters collaborate with the Jesuits in their education ministry at St. Xavier’s School, Deonia. The health center at Christalaya, Maheshpur began in a one room space in Deonia before moving out to the spacious campus of Christalaya Convent. For many years the nurse sister treated the sick in the little room in Deonia before moving to Mahespur.
Phones (Convent): +977 9807912189 (Superior): +977 9433096007 Christalaya Convent, Maheshpur, is situated in the midst of lush green tea gardens and paddy fields, in the district of Jhapa, East Nepal. The convent was blessed and inaugurated on 20th February 2010 by Late Rt. Rev. Antony Sharma SJ, Bishop of Nepal in the presence of Sr. Arlinda Azaredo, Superior General, Sr. Jacinta Mattathinkara, Assistant General, and Sr. Maria Vianney, Provincial Superior and many other FCs and priests from the neighbouring communities. The community was canonically erected on 1st April 2011 with Sr. Malika sa the first Superior. We are involved in various apostolates such as education, medical care, pastoral ministry and prison ministry. Majority of the people are employed in the tea garden or work as daily laborers. Christalaya Health Centre and mobile clinic started in the year 2010. The Mobile Clinic is supported by the Nepal Jesuit Society. Through the mobile clinic sisters reach out to the remotest villages of Jhapa, Illam and Province No. 2. There are nineteen centers where the sisters render their services. Prison ministry is quite in Nepal. Once in three months sisters are allowed to visit Chandragudi jail with the doctors. Christalaya Tribal Girls Hostel started in the year 2012. This was a blessing to many girls in the far away villages with no transport facilities to continue and complete their school education.
12th June 2015, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, was the chosen day for the Daughters of the Cross to begin their foundation in Korobari, Tulachan. The pioneers Sr. Maria Vianney and Sr. Lucia Kujur set out on this missionary journey to take the love of Jesus in this eastern part of the Himalayan kingdom. Like the early Christians the people gathered in the village in a small prayer room to hear the Word of God and prayed the rosary together. In the evening, everyday children came to study and learn prayers, songs and recite rosary with the sisters. The Catechist Suphal Hembrom’s family provided food for the sisters. Sisters lived in a rented house for three years. The house belonged to one of the villagers named Parvati. So sisters named their new abode as ‘Parvati Niwas’. The simple and prayerful life of the sisters inspired Parvati and her husband to embrace Christ. There was a temporary shed made out of mud and bamboo with tin roofs for the school. Seventeen students got admitted to the little school. The little school has come long way. Today there are over 270 students in the school upto class VI and waiting for the up gradation to class VII. Sisters have shifted from ‘Parvati Niwas’ into St. Joseph’s Convent which was blessed on 29th January 2023 in the presence of Sr. Regi Mathew, the Provincial and sisters from the neighbouring communities of Terai. |
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