Udupi: Innumerable Devotees attend Annual Feast of Our Lady of Health Parish, Shirva

By Wilson D’Souza
Pics by Phoenix Digital Studio, Shirva
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 06 Feb 2013: The annual feast of Our Lady of Health, Shirva, near here was held with utmost religious fervour on Wednesday February 6.

 

Udupi diocesan chancellor Fr Valerian Mendonca con-celebrated the festal Eucharistic Celebration along with several clergies at Shirva parish, here on Wednesday morning.

 

 

The makeshift altar (Cherel) of Our Lady of Health was stationed for devotees to pay their respect with candles and flowers. Number of priestsand hundreds of  devotees of Mother Mary from the Shirva Varado and neighbouring parishes attended the solemn feast mass.

 

On the eve of the annual feast, on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, the vespers was celebrated by proclaiming the Word of God by Rev. Fr. Rudolf, Administrator of Fr. Muller’s Hospital, mangalore. The Cherel of Our Lady of Health was blessed near the  Syndicate Bank followed by prayers. Thereafter, the people came in procession to the church where passages from the Bible were read and sermon was preached. After the service there was a grand display of fireworks.