The Marathi Catholic Association celebrated its annual feast of Mount Mary yesterday with solemn Eucharist celebrated by me. The feast preceded by nine days novenas with homilies every day online. Many families participated everyday and profited from the preaching and novenas as many could not be present in the church. The Marathi and Konkani community in both these parishes organise this feast every year with enthusiasm and religious piety, devotion and fervour. Many people enthusiastically participate and make it feel that they are in their respective parishes back home.
Yesterday I celebrated Marathi Mass at Sharja at 10.30am with good number of faithful, dressed up for the occasion, it was nice to see women dressed up in beautiful Saris with flowers. The choir sang so beautifully which helped the faithful pray in a meaningful way.
After the Mass the Parish priest Fr. Muthu came to wish the faithful and the president of the association welcomed him with the floral bouquet.
In the evening here in our parish we celebrated the feast with Manglorean community, they call this feast as "MONTHI FEST". we had a meaningful liturgy with melodious choir singing hymns to mother Mary. In procession we brought the statute of baby Mary, along with the rice corns and vegetables to be blessed. In front of the altar we blessed the corns and then began the Eucharistic celebration.
Fr. Stephen Lewis celebrated the Mass, Fr. Andrew Fernandes preached the Homily and i welcomed and thanked them by concelebrating the eucharist. At the end of the mass the faithful sang traditional konkani hymns to Mother Mary. All of them received cold drinks and snacks for celebrate the birthday of Mamma Mary.
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