Media Release

Kifaru, Sep 10: The popular ‘Monthi Fest’ the feast of Nativity of Mother Mary was celebrated with devotion at Mary Immaculate conception Church, Kifaru SAME on Thursday evening at 4.30 pm.

Parish priest Fr Hilary Lobo celebrated the Holy Eucharist and SMAM social development director Fr Victor Machado gave the homily on the significance of celebrations. Mission superior Fr Alwyn M J D’Souza and assistant parish priest Fr Jason Lobo were the concelebrants.

Parishioners offered flowers and offerings to mother Mary and Fr Hilary Lobo blessed the new crops, grains, vegetable offered by the faithful. Parishioners conducted the beautiful choir and enhanced the tempo of celebration.

After the mass sugarcane, a ‘Monthi Fest’ specialty was distributed to all. Leonardo Laghua and family donated the same. Sisters of Marian convent decorated the altar and mother Mary’s statue. Brother Lanson Pinto was instrumental in all the arrangements. At the end, the parish priest thanked those who regularly participated in the 9 day Novena and everyone for the celebration.

Blessing and inauguration of ‘Young Tanzania’:
After the celebration all parishioners along with the priests marched towards the youth co-operative project site called ‘Young Tanzania’. It is an initiative of Society of Mangalore Africa Mission [SMAM] to empower the youth of Kifaru parish and generate employment through self-sustaining projects. Parish priest Fr Hilary Lobo blessed the newly built chicken and piggery farm and prayed for its success and entrusted it to the care of mother Mary.

Through this co-operative society the youth will have small scale livestock industry which will help not only the parish youth but also the parishioners. SMAM has many plans to empower the poor people of Kifaru and its nearby villages. All parishioners seemed to be very happy through this initiative. Mission superior Fr Alwyn M J D’Souza thanked everyone who worked towards the realization of this project.