Saint Anthony’s Annual Feast-Sixth & Seventh Day of Novena

Saint Anthony’s Annual Feast-Sixth & Seventh Day of Novena

 Mangaluru : Saint Anthony’s Feast – Sixth day novena was held at St Anthony’s Ashram Chapel, Jeppu on June 05, 2019. Fr Stany Fernandes the Asst Parish Priest of St Sebastian Church Thokkottu offered the mass for the intention of ‘preserving the nature’.

Father Fernandes in his homily said that the earth and universe created by God is beautiful. The beautiful creation and the plentiful resources are created by God for the use of human beings and for their happiness. But human beings out of their greed have abused the nature by over use and wrong use. If our future generation have to receive nature in its beauty we need to take care of the creation and preserve it with utmost importance, he said. He also asked the devotees to pray specially for the rains.

Fr Thrishan D’Souza- the Asst Director conducted the Chaplet and the Rosary. Fr Onil D’Souza – the Director of the Ashram conducted the novena. Hundreds of people participated in the devotion .

Saint Anthony’s Annual Feast-Seventh Day of Novena :

Saint Anthony’s Feast – Seventh day novena was held at St Anthony’s Ashram Chapel, Jeppu on June 06, 2019. Fr Ashwin Cardoza the designate director of Indian Catholic Youth Movement of Mangalore Diocese offered the Holy Mass for the intention of youth.

Father Ashwin in his homily said that the followers of Jesus should build their life on the foundation of faith so that they can become the torchbearers for Jesus. Saint Anthony in whose honour the novena is held did the same in his young age. He was filled with zeal for Jesus. He offered his youth to serve the Kingdom of God after the example of Jesus. Father Ashwin also called on the devotees to pray for the youth who are unemployed, who suffer the addiction of drugs and alcohol, who look for suitable proposals. He said that we should pray for the youth as they are the pillars of our society.

Fr Onil D’Souza the Director of the Ashram conducted the Chaplet and the Rosary. Fr Thrishan D’Souza the Asst Director conducted the novena. Hundreds of people participated in the devotion.