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Members of Christian assemblage — some Catholics and Protestants — celebrated Christmas with spiritual fervour and tone of goodwill by attending Christmas wide astatine assorted churches and supplication halls crossed assorted towns and cities of Kittur Karnataka portion connected December 25.
Festivities included saying prayers, feeding the poor, taste programmes and singing carols. The celebrations were vibrant, peculiarly successful Hubballi and Dharwad wherever some Catholics and Protestants reside successful bully numbers.
The centuries-old Hebich Memorial Church, the Church of All Saints, the Holy Cross Church successful Dharwad, Basel Mission Church, CSI Maier Memorial Church and different churches successful Hubballi were illuminated arsenic portion of the celebrations and witnessed a ample turnout during the Christmas mass.
As portion of the celebrations, Christians successful the duplicate cities enactment up the accepted Star motion successful beforehand of their houses, and assorted localities inhabited by them are illuminated with colourful lights.
In fact, the festive tone pervaded the duplicate cities for implicit a week with bakeries and shops selling cakes, puddings, chocolates and sweets, and stores selling Christmas gifts and apparel doing bully business. Restaurants and malls wore a colourful look with Christmas trees being erected and Christmas decorations.
Some non-Christian families received sweets and cakes from Christian families. A fewer Christian families invited friends and acquaintances to articulation them successful the celebrations.
At the CSI Maier Memorial Church successful Hubballi, Rev. Sattyababu Samuel, Presbyter successful complaint of the church, on with Rev. Raju Medgoppa and Rev. Moses Huggi, led the Christmas service. Bible speechmaking and prayers were conducted by Isaac Putlar and Shobha Shotakki.
Prayers were offered and prizes were distributed to religion members who had excelled academically. The religion choir presented peculiar Christmas hymns, and offerings were collected by the ushers. The offertory supplication was led by Rev. Sattyababu Samuel.
Delivering the Christmas connection connected the taxable ‘Preciousness of Life’, Rev. Samuel said that the commencement of Jesus Christ symbolised anticipation and salvation, and urged the congregation not to unrecorded successful fearfulness but successful faith, ‘as God had sent his lone lad for the redemption of humanity’. The work concluded with the Lord’s Prayer and benediction by Rev. Sattyababu Samuel.
CSI Karnataka Northern Diocese Bishop Rev. Martin Borgai was among those who took portion successful the Christmas work astatine All Saints Church successful Dharwad. Similar Christmas services were held successful assorted churches crossed the region. Children and elders alike came dressed up for the occasion.
Festival of compassion
In his connection connected the eve of Christmas celebrations, Bishop of CSI Karnataka Northern Diocese Rev. Martin Borgai Christmas has said that Christmas is simply a festival of compassion, peace, love, and sacrifice that Christ gave to the world.
“Christmas is not a festival constricted lone to the Christian community. We indispensable emotion 1 different without considering caste oregon differences. Christmas, the commencement day of Jesus Christ, is simply a festival successful which radical of different faiths actively enactment on with Christian brothers and sisters. It is simply a solemnisation that brings joyousness to the full land. May the commencement day of Christ bring happiness, peace, and harmony to each radical of the State. In today’s modern satellite filled with haste and tension, whitethorn the festival of Christmas assistance america physique amended relationships, region differences of opinion, interruption down the walls created by divisions of religion and sects, and foster steadfast and cordial relations. Now is the clip for america to determination guardant with brotherhood, love, closeness, and fraternity. Only past volition the festival of Christmas attain its existent significance,” helium said.
