By Matters India Reporter
Kochi, April 22, 2020: The Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), a Kerala-based congregation, has updated its “CMI Global,” a smartphone App that offers support to its members on the go by helping them remain in the CMI digital loop.
“Originally, it was launched in 2015. This latest update was live on April 20. In fact, we are working on the final version; it will go live only by April 23 (as a few more suggestions were given once the beta version was launched),” a CMI priest, who wished not to be named, told Matters India.
About the App can be read with the available options and information once it is installed from Google’s Play store, or iOS Store.
On the opening screen, one would get Liturgy (Syro-Malabar and Latin readings of the day, switchable between English and Malayalam), obituary (CMI), and prayer (presently, only Liturgy of Hours, in Malayalam, for Syro-Malabar).
It offers information on the CMI with a brief history, timeline, and statistics, basic information on the members (both living and deceased), CMI houses and institutions (with contact details), and various occasions to be celebrated (like birthdays, feast days, anniversaries of profession and priestly ordination) to strengthen their CMI communion.
One of the most distinctive features of the App is that it provides “Kanona Namaskaram” (Liturgy of Hours) prepared by Carmelite Father Abel.
Anyone is welcome to use ‘CMI Global’ App (Mobile App v5.0). It also provides Liturgical Readings in Syro-Malabar and Latin Rites (both in English and Malayalam).
If interested, one could also find information on CMI Congregation on the same App and it is a free to download: Android App Link: https://bit.ly/3bxaYGC and ‘iOS’ App Link: https://apple.co/2RmQ5Y1
The CMI is the first indigenous religious congregation in the Catholic Church of India. It was founded in 1831 by Fathers Thomas Palackal and Thomas Porukara, along with Saint Kuriakose Chavara.
Initially, the congregation was known as Servants of Mary Immaculate. The CMI priests work in various parts of India and abroad. It had 2,597 members (1,900 priests) in 2016.