Adoration Monastery of Mount Tabore


Adoration Monastery of the Sisters of Mount Tabor is a Contemplative community of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. The late Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios had a special interest in forming a community of contemplatives in the Malankara Catholic Church. While His Beatitude the late Major Archbishop Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos had taken much more interest in having a monastic life with perpectual Adoration in Malankara atholic Church. Thus the Adoration Monastery came into existence. The main charism of the sisters of Mount Tabor is to pray for the reunion movement which will be fulfilled by the Adoration of the Holy Eucharist. The Sisters take obligation to praying mainly for priests, religious and the laity that is to say for the whole Catholic Church, above all for the sanctification of all priests and religious.

Sr. Mary Veronica PCPA a solemn professed Nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration (a former member of the Malankara Catholic Church) at her own risk left her motherhouse (the Adoration Monastery of Kollam of the Latin Church) with a great desire of starting a life of Adoration in a monastic community in the Eastern Church.

With the help and support of His Grace Benedict Mar Gregorios, the late Archbishop of Trivandrum started a monastic life in the Archdiocese of Trivandrum on 18 March 1978 at Nedumangadu. At that time, there were only two members, r. Mary Veronica and Sr. Mary Roselin. After some more members joined them. A few months later the community was shifted to a rented house at Chirattakonam, a village of Kottarakara. On the month of November 1980 they allotted to them. There they lived a Semi-Cloistered Contemplative community life according to the Constitution of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. Later in a few more members joined the community.

By the help and the support of the late Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios started a strict monastic life and the community got their constitutions approved by the Holy See on18 January 1998. A more suitable place for prayer and contemplation was given them and the monastic life was established on 18 March 2001 at Thattathumala, Trivandrum. On the following day, in the presence of many priests, religious and laity, His Grace Cyril Mar Baselios inaugurated the Public adoration by exposing the Most Blessed Sacrament in the monastery Chapel. From think forward the Blessed Sacrament is exposed and the sisters are engaged mainly in adoration at all times.

The first five sisters made their solemn Profession officially in the presence of His Beatitude the late Major Archbishop Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos on 22 March 2005.

There are seven sisters at present besides a novice and a postulant. The religious constitutions are based on the Franciscan Rules and they lead a life of prayer, penance and strict enclosure. They spend their lives for the glory of God for the salvation and sanctification of whole Church. Now the monastery is progressing by the love, blessings and support of His Beatitude Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis Catholicos and all our Bishops and Priests of the Malankara Catholic Church.

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