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Holy Trinity Ashram, Lalur
A house of the Trinitarian order at Lalur, near the John Mathai Centre, opened in 1994 to train priests and serving the sick, the orphaned and the elderly.
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The Holy Trinity Ashram belongs to the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order. It stands at Lalur, close to the Dr John Matthai Centre.
Coming to India
The book explains that this was the first Trinitarian ashram in India, started under the order’s American province. Its first house was blessed at Chiyyaram in Thrissur in 1986 by Mar Joseph Kundukulam, then head of the diocese. In 1994 the ashram at Lalur opened as the place where the order’s priests are trained.
Old bungalows, new buildings
The site has a story of its own. The book recalls that this stretch of the Lalur temple road once had only three bungalows set among bamboo and old trees: John Mathai’s, a Government Registrar’s (with a gooseberry tree famous for its huge fruit), and a doctor’s. Today the ashram’s buildings fill much of that ground.
Its work
Besides training priests, the ashram’s members help with the parish liturgy and care for the sick and orphaned. The book praises their readiness to help in hard times. The order also runs “St. Simon de Rojas Karunabhavan”, a home for elderly people who have no one else to care for them.
The Holy Trinity Convent of the Trinitarian sisters is also at Lalur.