About Vachanolsavam

Vachanolsavam is a monthly publication, also known as "Popular Mission Magazine". This magazine had the purpose of evangelization and re-evangelization in the Church and outside the Church. Vachanolsavam contains absolutely Spiritual and Scriptural reflectives supported with a lot of experiences and testimonies of people from different religions, walks of life, countries, etc. Along with this, it is to be remembered that lot of healings, conversions and anointiy of the Holy Spirit occured while reading this magazine.

Word meaning:

The word "Vachanolsavam" is originally the combination of two Sanskrit words: "Vachan" means WORD and "Utsav" means FESTIVAL, together means "Festival of the Word of God". Vachanolsavam is actually a festival of the Word of God. It contains reflections of the Word of God, its different interpretations and testimonies of how Gods Word worked in th life of people by way of physical healing, inner healing, freedom from sin, forgiveness of sins, repentence, unity, Anointiy of Holy Spirit, etc.

Vincential Congregation:

Vincentian Congregation is a Catholic religion society of men started in Kerala, in the Spirit of St.Vincent De Paul. The main ministry of Vincentian Congregation is Preaching the Gospel. Popular Mission Retreat is a specific form of Preaching the Word of God by the Vincentian Priests and Brothers. That is the patrimony received from the heavenly Patron, St.Vincent.

The world famous Potta Ashram was and is the Popular Mission Centre of the Vincentian Congregation. Popular Mission Retreat is conducted in Parishes and as a follow-up of it, Prayer service in the Ashram slowly started.

Presently Vachanolsavam is the greatest Catholic magazine published in India, with widest number of readers and subscribers. Nearly non-christians are readers of it and it generates in them faith in Jesus Christ. Now, Vachanolsavam is published in 6 languages: Malayalam, English, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu.

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