Wednesday 3 May 2017

Divine Mercy Feast Day Celebration

- Ashley Cantophor

Kolkata : Every year, the celebration of the Divine Mercy Feast at Sacred Heart Church, Dharamtala attracts people in great numbers. Once again the nine day Novena was well attended and appreciated by all with inspiring homilies given by different priests on each day. People have testified and proclaimed publicly of the numerous graces and blessings received during these celebrations, year after year.

The CCCRS, under the leadership Fr. A. C. Jose sdb has done everything possible all these years to make the Mercy Divine Feast day celebrations fervent and spiritually powerful. Raymond Baptist led the CCCRS right through the work and all hard worked at all the stages of the Novena and the feast. People began to enter the Church from as early as 11.30 a.m. Soon the church was packed to its capacity. After the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, at 1.10 p.m.Cynthia Beck ably led the people into Praise and Worship preparing them for Adoration.The choir led by Francis Beck brought in a thunderous but inspiring effect to the whole service. The  healing and deliverance service by Fr. Jose was really anointed and let the people to a great spiritual experience. Enough priests were available for all the faithful who desired to make their confession. A little before 3 P.M.the Divine Mercy Chaplet was recited by all the faithful that was followed by the solemn Eucharistic Celebration presided over by His Grace Archbishop Thomas D’Souza and con-celebrated by Fr. Soosai Manickam, Fr. Peter Duriaraj and two other priests.

His Grace, Archbishop Thomas, Fr. Soosai Manickam the parish priest and the whole parish have been instrumental in the successful and  impressive celebration of this feast. His Grace Archbishop Thomas D’Souza’s homily was really very meaningful and touching. The Archbishop gave us a beautiful testimony of the Divine Mercy picture bleeding from the heart from the pictures kept in a convent in Kharagpur and he further exhorted all to seize the opportunity given by God to be reconciled with him by accepting the message of the Divine Mercy Revelation.

At the end of the Service the Archbishop released a beautiful souvenir on the Bible Convention for HEALING AND DELIVERANCE 2017 presented the first copy to Fr. Soosai Manickam and Fr. Jose offered the second copy to the Archbishop Thomas D’Souza while the third copy went to Fr. Peter Duriaraj A very emotional testimony was given by Fr. Soosai followed by a vote of thanks to the Archbishop and Fr. Jose and the CCCRS Members. The Chairman Mr. Raymond Baptist also gave a vote of thanks to His Grace, Fr. Soosai, Fr. Jose, the priests present there and each and every group and individual that made the day a great success. The services concluded with the kissing of the Relic. 



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