Cherupushpa Mission League (CML)

The Cherupushpa Mission League is an indigenous lay missionary organization, established on 3rd October 1947 at Bharananganam, in the diocese of Palai (Then diocese of Changanacherry) Kerala, S. India. The Cherupuspa Mission League (CML) is an organization which fosters and promotes the missionary mentality of God’s children. It was a lay initiative to promote the missionary zeal among the members of the Church, especially children and youngsters. Two visionaries P. C. Abram Pallattukunnel who is popularly known as Kunjettan (Little Brother) and Rev. Fr Joseph Maliparampil formed this pious organisation. CML was formed in churches all over Kerala to pay tribute to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Saint Theresa, also known as Saint of Little Flower was deeply devoted to God and prayer at a very young age. At age fifteen, Saint Therese entered the Carmelite religious order. As a Carmelite, St. Therese deeply prayed for all missions of the world. She is always remembered on mission Sunday. Nine years after she became a Carmelite sister, Therese died of a terrible bout and tuberculosis. One of the last things she said was the following: “I will spend my heaven doing good on earth”. "Your own sons, Oh India, will be the heralds of your salvation" (Filii tui India, administri tibi salutis), the words of Pope Leo XIII, are taken as the motto of CML. The official slogan is "Love, Sacrifice, Service, Suffering."