The congregation of Ursulines of Immaculate was founded by Bl. Morello of Jesus in the year 1649 in Piacenza, Italy.
It has branched out in the countries of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
The first batch of Five Italian Pioneers set foot on the Indian soil in November 1934.over the years, the Congregation has steadily grown through the length and breadth of different continents, receiving from the Lord Jesus and Bl.Brigida Morello, the mandate of perfect love of God and neighbour expressed in serving God’s people.
The Ursuline Sisters engage themselves according to the need of the time through various apostolates such as Education, Healing, Socio-pastoral and other humanitarian work.
Our Foundress Bl.Brigida Morello, was always attentive to the movement of the Holy Spirit and attuned to the signs of her tome to respond prophetically to the mission of Church.
In her moments of deep communion with the lord and in search of God’s will, she clearly heard the voice, “Come out of your solitude and save souls”.
What is most striking is the prophetic vision of our Foundress, which is cleary projected in the future, giving unquestionable sanction to any kind of activity that can ensure the “good of the neighbour, benefit of the city, and procuring of God’s glory”.
PEDAGOGY OF URSULINE EDUCATION
In the Bible God presents Himself as a teacher. In the book of Hosea God says,”It was I who taught Ephraim to walk”. In the New Testament we have Jesus as the Master Teacher. The portrait of our Foundress Bl.Brigida Morello with one hand on her chest and crucifix in the other hand is an expression of her contemplation in action. The aim of education according to her is to form souls who can be the living temples of God. She emphasizes education of the heart without which no personality is complete nor is a Christian mature. The MEANS of our institute is the perfect love of God and neighbour. The END of our institute is the greater glory of God. She invites us to identify ourselves with the crucified of today through the education of the marginalized. Bl.Brigida Morello valued the secular sciences and the teachings of the same. She realized that it is proper of the human person that he or she cannot reach a level of life, really and truly human, expect through culture, by cultivating and understanding of the natural and divine values.
According to our Foundress education should focus on moral, intellectual and integral development based on Gospel values of truth, social justice, universal love, global peace and forgiveness to prepare young people as builders of families, followers of Christ ans agents of social change. Our Foundress has special concern for the education of girls and the liberation of woman and hence we esteem the education is a very significant apostolate of our congregation.
Hence, as Ursuline education it is our bounden duty and responsibility to build our own personalities after the image of Christ, imbibing the value of Christ and model our life and style of administration and functioning after the example of the Master Teacher; so that we become authentic leaders and inspiring educators, giving emphasis on our being and doing. Thus we have to become committed in our mission with simple lifestyle, compassionate dealing, gentleness, complete dependency on God and above all by being integrated personalities.
PHILOSOPHY OF URSULINE EDUCATION
Our philosophy of education a heritage from our Foundress Bl. Brigida Morello and the pioneer education is the Christian philosophy of education personalized in the century old traditions of our sisters. It is stated in an admirable simplicity in Art.93 & 94 of our Constitution.
In our active apostolate we give special importance to education in the school. We contribute to the integral formation of the young by the type of teaching which tends to bring about a personal synthesis, not only between faith and culture but also between faith and life.
In our school we favour an atmosphere that is conducive to communicating Christian values. We give importance to religious instruction in the curriculum, always respecting other religions as well.
Those involved in the vocation of teaching shall respect the personality of the students. We strive to create a climate of understanding and friendship so that the young people may be disposed to dialogue and accept the Christian principles of love and social justice not by imposition, but out of conviction.
Thus our philosophy of education sets before us the ideal of education our students to be spiritually oriented, morally upright, socially concerned and intellectually well informed persons.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
- In our institution we aim at promoting the growth of an integrated personality of the students by imparting to them a sound spiritual, moral, intellectual, aesthetic and physical education, in order to prepare them to face challenges of the modern world.
- We educated them to be spiritually oriented, morally upright, socially concerned and intellectually well informed persons.
- We shape our students to be citizens who are patriotic, tolerant and embedded in the indian ethos of spirituality and prepare them to be agents of social change for the uplift of the poor and backward classes.
- We help them to appreciate the Indian heritage and remain open to the positive elements of other culture.
- We also help them to be aware of the ecological changes. Be eco-friendly and learn to save the natural resources.
- The schools stand for academic excellence, development of skills and character formation based on the love of God, with a view to build future citizens and leaders who will work with sincere commitmemt to God and the growth of our country.