Report by Stanley Bantwal
Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (RD/SP)

Bangalore, Jan 13: The annual feast of Infant Jesus Shrine, Vivek Nagar here will be held on Wednesday January 14 while the flag hoisting was held on Sunday January 4. 

The nine days of novenas in various languages throughout the day that began at the Infant Jesus Shrine here on Monday January 5 concluded on Tuesday January 13, in spiritual preparation for the annual feast. 

Holy Masses on festal day of Wednesday will be held for every hour in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Konkani languages for the benefit of a wide section of the faithful. 

Archbishop Dr Bernard Moras will offer festal Eucharistic Mass at 10.00 am on Wednesday here along with the congregation of Carmel priests and other priests from all over the metro.  A grand car procession will be held at 6.00 pm followed by benediction. 

The devotion of Infant Jesus began in the sixteenth century in Europe and extended to this garden city  during 1969. Thousands of faithfuls from all over the country and abroad, without the distinction of caste and creed arrive at the  Infant Jesus Shrines here, in Mangalore and Nashik Road in Maharastra throughout the year, to pray, to thank and to pay obeisance.