Konkani Community St Paul’s Catholic Church Musaffah Celebrate Third Anniversary
UAE: The Konkan community of St. Paul’s Catholic Church Mussafah, Abu Dhabi celebrated their Third Anniversary with great fervor on 13th of July 2018. The celebration began with Holy Mass at 6 pm and the main celebrant for the mass was Fr Wilson Rumao Spiritual Director, St. Paul’s Konkani Community, Mussafah, Abu Dhabi. A large number of faithful over 500 attended the 3rd-anniversary thanksgiving Mass.
The Cultural Programme started immediately after the Holy Mass Suresh Saldanha anchored the program very well. The Programme began with Prayer dance Saglya Srastechya Yeh Raschnara (Oh! Creator of the Universe) performed by Stacy, Sianna, Deona and Serra. The Main Coordinator of the community, John D’Lima welcomed the Priests Fr Varghese OFM Cap, Asst. Parish Priest, Fr Abraham OFM Cap. Asst. Parish, Fr Wilson Rumao OFM Cap, Asst. Parish Priest and Spiritual Director of Konkani Community of St. Paul’s Church Musaffah and guest of honors M/s. Robert D’Souza, Noel D’Costa and Flavia Crasta, for felicitation. Flower Bouquets were given to them as a token of love and gratitude for their wholehearted support to the community.
Immediately after the felicitation, M.C. requested all Priests and Guests of Honour for Lighting of the lamp along with Apex Team Coordinator. A special Anniversary cake was cut in commemoration of this event. M.C. called on to stage members of audiences who celebrate their birthdays/anniversaries during the month of July.
John D’Lima gave a detailed Annual Report where he highlighted all activities that have taken place during the past one year.
It was a very proud moment for all the members of the Konkani community at Mussafah to felicitate 3 of their Parish children who have passed out 10th and 12th-grade exams with a certificate and gift as a token of love and appreciation. The recipients of these felicitations are: Abigael Fabia Sequeira- SSCE, Chrizel Shirley D‘Souza –SSCE and Shalet Pinto- PUC. Konkani community also felicitated Mervin Lobo and Jennifer Gomes for training the children and for the choreography of the cultural activities as a token of love and appreciation.
The anniversary theme song with the lyrics by Suresh Saldanha and composed by Ashwin Dias was performed and received a loud applause.
The Musaffah Kids performed a scintillating dance performance titled Rail Gaadi. This dance was performed by Deana, Serra, Stacy, Natasha, Sianna, Cleon, Ethan, Natan and Justin. The audience were on their toes and gave them a rousing round of applause for their performance.
The next dance performance was by Savio and Merlyn and Marvin and Jasmine titled Yego Tu Yego Mogache Toofan utovnk Yego. This was a mesmerizing performance given by Musaffah youngsters where the audience started dancing and shouting ‘once more’.
The day’s final cultural programme was a dance from Mervin Lobo and Melissa Monteiro. The performance took the audience to a different level, all were stunned to see the performance. The audience stood up and gave them a rousing ovation. An eye-catching performance by the artists to remember for a long time.
There were many spot prizes for Children, Men and Women distributed in between the programme. The M.C. kept the crowd on their toes with his humorous and witty jokes.
The vote of thanks was delivered by the Apex team Liturgy Coordinator Robert Cardin, he thanked all for their continued support and also appealed the same for the future events. He also thanked Fr Wilson Rumao for organizing the 2nd Konkani Mass for Musaffah church which all people were longing to have for a long time.
The grace before meals was done by Fr Wilson. The specialty of the meal was Traditional preparation of food which was enjoyed by all.
The Baila dance for all made the people to come on to the floor and dance. The program ended with singing laudate dominos by all.
It was a memorable evening enjoyed and cherished by all.
