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The
Missionary Society of St Thomas the Apostle (MST) is a missionary venture
of the Syro-Malabar Church. The main thrust of the MST is to foster
and promote missionary activites of the Church. Thirty six years down
the road, the Society has come a long way, especially in the missionary
activities.
Thirty
seven years down the road, the Society has come a long way in the missionary
activities in India and abroad. Today MST has 284 priest members witnessing
the Gospel in ten different countries in five continents. The Society
has over 100 candidates under five stages of formation in its own centres
of formation manned by well qualified and experienced teams of formators.
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MST is
a Society of Apostolic Life with an exclusively missionary charism,
whose sole goal is to spread the Kingdom of God through witness and
apostolic involvement. Drawing spiritual enthusiasm from St Thomas,
the Apostle of India and her patron, MST is committed to take up
missionary responsibilities anywhere in the world through collective
apostolate. The way of life of the members of the Missionary Society
is determined, spirituality enriched and life sanctified by their dedicated
missionary apostolate.
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founder of MST is the missionary and visionary Bp Sebastian Vayalil, the
former Bishop of Palai. MST was born on February 22, 1968 as an organized
missionary effort of the St. Thomas Christian Church of Syro-Malabar rite
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Bp
Sebastian Vayalil, Founder of MST
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Cardinal
Furstenberg lays the corner stone of the MST Headquarters - Feb. 22,
1968
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