Silvester Dsouza
Daijiworld Media Network- Kundapur
Kundapur, Jun 13: The annual feast of St Anthony Padua Kerekatte was celebrated here on Friday June 13 with grandeur.
The festive mass was celebrated by Dr Jerald Isaac Lobo, Bishop of Udupi diocese along with several priests.
Fr Andrew who preached the word of God, in his sermon appealed to devotees to become children of God, through speech and action. He added that prayer will help each one of us to become a child of God and hence closer to Him. "Every individual should listen to the word of God and should live a life according to that," he concluded.
A huge number of devotees gathered for the festival mass that was celebrated with great devotion and faith.
After the mass, Bishop Gerald Lobo along with Fr Xavier Pinto, felicitated Robert D'mello, the main donor of the festive mass. Speaking on the occasion, the bishop appealed to the people to grow in faith and to become children of God.
Fr Xavier Pinto, director of the St Anthony Kerekatte Shrine, thanked the gathering.