From the very inception of the Province, it was having the mission territory of Delhi and the states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh as its mission territories. Ever since, those friars of the true province were working commitedly to stabilize the mission. They were able to reach to new mission stations, take care of parishes and establish new schools. The Heady stabilization and the expansion of the mission prompted the general superiors to raise the mission to the status of a Provincial Custody – Prem Jyoti Custody; this took place on 22nd November 2003. Initially the mission Head Quarters was attached to St. Joseph’s Ashram, Jwala Nagar, Delhi’, later it was shifted to Yamuna Vihar on 7th August 2006.

Our Founder

St. Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally — not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a mite of self-importance.

Serious illness brought the young Francis to see the emptiness of his frolicking life as leader of Assisi’s youth. Prayer — lengthy and difficult — led him to a self-emptying like that of Christ, climaxed by embracing a leper he met on the road. Read more