Dear Friends, Had a very wonderful experience yesterday; just had to share it with all of you.
In our parish, once a year we celebrate the parish feast day, with too many different celebrations. And yesterday, the whole of our town (A small town in udupi district in mangalore called kallianpur)witnessed a wonderful "jesus celebration". No doubt, the cathoic church nowadays is getting more and more evangelical. Yesterday, as a preparation for the parish feast day to be held on the 22nd, there was a one kilomreter long procession of the blessed sacrament from the church to a very public bus stand immediately after the evening mass, in which around 800 people might have participated. The bible verses prepared by the parishners, were hung and highlighted all through the way of the procession in simple local language kannada, beautiful hymns were sung through out the procession(not only by the church choir but by every member paticipating in the procession), Jesus was being glorified to the maximuim level possible, through out the way in the procession, my mind raced back to Jesus times, where he travelled through Jerusalem on a donkey, this time though It was not a donkey, but a beautifully decorated car. When e reached the town busstand, where a small stage was prepared, a priest from the neighbouring parish, gave a small but a very effective talk to the local people in the native language. This talk was attended not just by christians but by all people, of all religions, so to say, all those who were either waiting for a bus, or were shopping in the area. When the Priest, (full of Holy Spirit) proclaimed loudly about the life, death and resurecction of Jesus, followed by its interpretations for the modern age, stressing now and then that Jesus was love, He lived love, He preached love, and He buitlt an empire of love, the only weapon He used was love, there was pin drop silence, even in such a public bustand. No doubt, the message went clear to all who were there. , I, with great difficulty was repressing my urge to sing out loudly 'hail Jesus you are my king' Praise God Jesus was was glorified before all men there. What can be more marvellous, specially it was a inoitiative takenm, not by any charismatic or any retreat groups, but by simple church going parishners along with their most admired parish priest. love, anita JY, Kuwait, mangalore. Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com =============================================================================== This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. For more info on the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet To unsubscribe from the list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet/join In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================================================
