The Abhishekagni Sisters (ASJM) is a religious community founded in the Eparchy of Palaghat on 8th September 2014, with the approval of Bishop Mar Jacob Manathodath, by Fr. Xavier Khan Vattayil, Fr. Binoy Karimruthinkal and Mother Amy Emmanuel, holding firmly to the motto, “For Christ and the Church”…
ASJM was established as the fruit of God bringing together in Sehion in 2007 Fr. Xavier Khan Vattayil, Fr. Binoy Karimaruthinkal, and Mother Amy Emmanuel, the spiritual directors of ASJM, who had been formed and nurtured through different circumstances of life while carrying within them the same inner call. On 8 September 2014, Bishop Mar Jacob Manathodath, the former Bishop of Palakkad, declared the first community of ASJM a Pious Union. On 14 December 2017, the feast of St John of the Cross, ASJM was raised to the status of a sui iuris religious institute. On 3 January 2019, the feast of St Kuriakose Elias Chavara, the first six members made their perpetual vows, while the first batch of seven novices made their first vows. The Abhishekagni Sisters are a community that spends all days in deep prayer and spiritual reflection, except for the fifteen days of each month set apart for ministry.
The Abhishekagni Sisters seek to strengthen and empower the whole world, especially priests and consecrated persons, through Gospel proclamation filled with the ministry of deliverance, counselling through the use of charisms, and ministries of inner healing, and to build vibrant Christian communities throughout the world. Their goal is to strengthen the Holy Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, and to make the evangelization of the world possible before the Second Coming of Jesus. Like the Blessed Mother, they seek to attain a profound experience of the Trinity and, through prayer rooted in the ascetical life and a ministry of deliverance filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit, to enlighten the chosen and the whole world, build up the Holy Church, and make the evangelization of the world possible.
ASJM moves forward relying entirely on Divine Providence and integrating the ascetical life with apostolic ministries. Through six houses in Attappadi, Vazhakulum, Pathanamthitta, Mannuthy, Odisha, and Texas, the Abhishekagni Sisters serve the Church and extend their apostolate both within India and abroad. The motherhouse is located at Abhishekagni Mount, near the Sehion Retreat Centre in Attappadi.
