MISSION AND GOALS

KNANAYA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

MISSION AND GOALS

MISSION AND GOALS

A Mission Statement for Knanaya Catholic Community in North America.

“Knanaya Catholic Community in North America likes to foster Catholic faith and Knanaya traditions including endogamy among its members in North America.”

A Mission Statement for the priests serving as community leaders and mission directors of Knanaya Catholic Community in North America.

“The priests of the Knanaya Catholic Community in North America are dedicated for serving the members of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago with special priority to the members of the Knanaya Catholic Community in fostering their Catholic faith and Knanaya traditions including endogamy. They shall serve as pastoral leaders of the people assigned to them and as community leaders for the Knanaya people.”

Long-term goals of Knanaya Catholic Community.

To prepare the Knanaya Catholic Community for an autonomous ecclesiastical unit.

Short-term goals of our community.

- Establish Knanaya Catholic Associations wherever possible.

- Bring Knanaya Catholic priests from Kerala in every city where our people have migrated.

- Training of Knanaya Seminarians from Kerala in US seminaries.

- Vocation promotion.

- Establish maximum number of Knanaya missions and parishes.

- Build up a central level community structure with departments for communications, social service, community awareness etc.

- Discourage eligible Knanaya people joining other missions.

- Support and cooperate with Bishop Angadiath and Syro-Malabar diocese of Chicago.

- Keep up good relation with bishops of the Diocese of Kottayam.

- Offer enough support and encouragement for Knanaya associations.

- Promotion of lay leadership.

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