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our Risen Lord, joined the company of the two disciples on the way to Emmaus who were walking in unbelief and despair; they were going away from Jerusalem where the redemption took place. First, He listens to their inner restlessness and then He explains to them the Scriptures to their problem. Their hearts were burning within them while He opened the Scriptures to them (Lk.24.32). this is true inner healing. Through the breaking of the Word of God during the retreats the participants are made aware of the blocks which prevent them from experiencing the love of God. Their ‘minds become renewed’ (Rom 12.2) and they ‘learn what is pleasing to the Lord’ (Eph 5.10). Experiencing a burning zeal to follow the Lord, they renounce evil of sin and despair and start to taste the ‘abundant life of the Lord’ (Jn 10.10)

Born in 1938 in Kerala, ordained Priest in the Society of the Divine word in 1970, Fr. James Mariakumar SVD was awarded Doctorate in comparative study on Bible and Upanishads in 1974. Thereafter he worked in the tribal mission in Jhabua, Inter Religious Dialogue Center in Indore and also as Spiritual Director and Professor of Indian Philosophy in the SVD Seminaries in Indore, Bhopal and Mysore. He joined the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1978, and was preaching Charismatic Retreats in Hindi in different parts of North India before he came down to South India.

Since 1955 the Lord has led him to Counseling Ministry based on the Bible, leading people to Inner Healing. He started his preaching ministry on Growth Retreat in Inner Healing and Holiness in 1977. Began in Kerala, the Lord led his ministry to various European countries since the year 2000.

Born in Trivandrum in 1954, Mary Pereira, who was working as Superintendent in Teresian college office, Mysore after her Post Graduation in Sociology, was brought into the ministry by the Lord, first for the counseling and then for the preaching ministry. Deciding to enter into the fulltime ministry, discerning the call of the Lord, after twenty years of service, she took voluntary retirement from her work in the year 2000. In 2005, she did Dei Verbum Pastoral Biblical Course for three and a half months conducted by the Society of the Divine Word, Rome for the Ministers of the Word of God and Formators in the Biblical Pastoral Ministry.