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Mangalore: Bishop Lays Foundation for New Church Building at Shaktinagar

  •   Wed, Aug 15 2012 02:47:41 PM

Mangalore: Bishop Lays Foundation for New Church Building at Shaktinagar

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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (VM)

Mangalore, Aug 15: Bishop of Mangalore Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza laid the foundation stone for the new church building at Mother of God Church in Shaktinagar here on Wednesday August 15.

The foundation stone was laid in the presence of Fr Walter D’Souza, parish priest, other parish priests and parishioners.

Prior to the foundation ceremony, Bishop celebrated Eucharistic mass and the church website was also launched.

Fr Vincent Monteiro, director of pastoral center, Basti Vaman Shenoy, director of World Konkani Centre, Shakeela Kava, local corporator, Fr Jayaprakash, Patrick Soans shared the dais.

Speaking on the occasion, Bishop Dr Aloysius said that the parishioners should work together towards the betterment of the church, trusting in the providence of god. They should think that the church is a house of god and should be generous enough while contributing, he said.

"With ‘one heart, one soul’ the church community should grow," said the bishop, wishing speedy completion of the work.

Dennis Machado, parish vice-president welcomed, William D’Souza compered and Vincent D’Souza, parish secretary proposed the vote of thanks.

Fr Boniface Pinto, director of mangala jyothi, Fr Ronald Prakash D’Souza, Fr Anil D’Souza, Fr Santhosh Rodrigues, Fr Rupesh, Fr Deepak, Lawrence Cutinho-engineer, among others were present.

Shaktinagar parish under Mangalore diocese is dedicated to Mother of God and was established in the year 2003. Now, due to the increasing number of parishioners in the community, the church faces constraint of space especially during Sunday’s congregation. Thus, a need for a bigger church was felt by the parish council and the parishioners.
  

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  • peterPinto, Badhyar/ Dubai- on tour

    Fri, Aug 17 2012

    All the best and well wishes to a Grand sacred Monument at Shaktinagar.

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  • Fr Maxim D'Souza, Magalore/Pune

    Fri, Aug 17 2012

    Congratulations to all Shaktinagar parishioners. Really you have begun a Challenging work under the able leadership of Fr Walter D’ Souza. Really the Shaktinagar Parishioners needs a bigger church for the Liturgical celebrations. The present church is so small which hardly contain 200 to 300 people. Half of the people have to stand outside during the mass. So the new church building is the need of the hour. Lets support this Holy and Big project. May God Bless all to complete this work as early as possible with the generous donations of the People.

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  • Peter Menezes, Shakthi Nagar

    Fri, Aug 17 2012

    Best wishes to Shakthi Nagar parishoners. The present church is too small and the bigger one is real necessity. Request the readers to help the cause. Most of residents staying are middle class.

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  • Nancy Menezes, Milar, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 17 2012

    Congratulations Fr Walter. You are doing great job. Mr Vice president god bless you & fly for your service. This we learnt from a small parish at sagar How to serve God and his people. Keep it up.

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  • SOPHIA SANDEEP, SHAKTHINAGAR,MANGALORE

    Thu, Aug 16 2012

    very well done, Fr. Walter go a head, We do pray for the completion of the work, and we request all the readers to support & help us to build a God's Home.

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  • Denis Cutinha, Kulshekar

    Thu, Aug 16 2012

    Shaktinagar Catholic residents needed a Church very badly.The present Church is too small and the father's residence too is very small.

    Now there is a big catholic population in Shaktinagar.A bigger size Church would accommodate the future congregation.Besides the Church there should be enough place to build a wedding hall / KG school etc.If not neighbouring land should be bought now and kept for future projects.

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  • Ronald Albuquerque , Shaktinagar Mangalore

    Wed, Aug 15 2012

    Congratulation to all the parishioners of Shaktinagar and the fore front personnel Involvement plan to built such a beautiful Mother of God church. Fr Walter D’Souza, I must admire your hard work and challenging task you have undertaken and now creating history in Shaktinagar, I feel very proud , Being a parishioner of Shaktingar Church, I will request all our parishioner please come forward to work together towards the betterment of the church. Thanks to Vincent D’Souza for taking beautiful Photos and thanks to Daiji world For publishing such a good news. May god shower the blessings on all those who will involve to built this beautiful church.

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