Little Flower Seminary, Aluva, is the Major Formation Centre of the Little Flower Congregation, the fruit of the vision and laborious task of the late Very Rev. Fr. Basilius CST, the founder of the Little Flower Congregation. It was established in 1960 and was then known as Little Flower Study House. In 1962, it was constituted into a Major Seminary for Philosophy and Religion. The seminary is a home for all the major seminarians of the Congregation.

The Institute envisages an integral formation of the Seminarians to become the models of Christ who is teacher, priest and pastor (OT4). The philosophical training is meant to help the students acquire, through various academic engagements and disciplinary activities, the ability to reflect over matters of intimate human concern with certitude and also to help them move towards the goal of attaining a discursive and intuitive apperception of Reality in its coherent dimensions of Man, Nature and the Ultimate.

As such the entire philosophical program of this institute is oriented towards the intellectual and experiential realization of this unified vision of Reality. This realization is a release from several conceptual, dogmatic and ideological cocoons in which the real splendor of the human mind remains concealed. Transcending a deceptively contradictory world and  worldview is necessarily accompanied by a substantively unitary awareness of the eternal truth, which is essentially harmony.

The hermeneutical tools towards the attainment of this goal is the reflective and critical sravana and manana of the spoken and written word and the insightful observation and meditation of the book of nature-the two sources of revelation in Augustinian terms.

The praxis of this intuitive and intellectual awakening is a compelling commitment to the service of the entire creation. Hence the motto of our Institute: sarva bhuta hite ratah-those who delight in the welfare of all beings. The text of our motto is from Bhagavat Gita (5:25; 12:4). Here the Dharma of the human is paraphrased as delight in the welfare of all beings. The Gita expects the perfect human to delight in, to go in ecstasy over the  welfare of all beings. The course of philosophy extending over a period of three years and envisaged to be an intensive, collective and personal search for knowledge bear its fruit as the partakers of this common journey genuinely commit themselves to the enhanced goodness of every human and the increased welfare of every creature, every plant, every ray of light and every particle of soil in this cosmos and feel the ecstatic joy over the same.

Along with this three-year Philosophy Course, the students are also doing B.A Course in Philosophy at the University of Calicut and at the University of Punjab. The plan of Philosophy Course is arranged in such a way that the syllabus and other requirements of the B.A Courses of both universities are fully taken care of . 


Address: Little Flower Seminary, Aluva - 683 101
Telephone 0484 - 2623437,2626204,Fax 0484-2624245
E-mail: lfseminary@gmail.com
Web: www.lfseminary.org