Midnight masses draw large crowds in Tiruchi

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Worshippers be  midnight Christmas Mass astatine  Our Lady of Lourdes Church successful  Tiruchi successful  the aboriginal  hours of Thursday.

Worshippers be midnight Christmas Mass astatine Our Lady of Lourdes Church successful Tiruchi successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. VENGADESH

Christmas was celebrated with spiritual fervour successful Tiruchi and different districts successful the portion connected Thursday with congregational work and peculiar prayer.

Though the weather was cold with the somesthesia hovering astir 23 degrees Celsius connected Wednesday night, enthusiastic Christians, including elders, women, and children attended the midnight peculiar wide astatine assorted churches. Midnight wide and peculiar supplication was held astatine churches crossed the region, including Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Mary’s Cathedral and Holy Redeemer’s Basilica. They drew ample crowds.

The people, who attended the peculiar congregation and wide successful Tiruchi, exchanged greetings and pleasantries with 1 another. Many chose to sojourn their friends and household members and distributed sweets and cakes arsenic a people of exchanging joyousness and happiness.

Churches were illuminated and colourfully-decorated on the juncture of Christmas.

Velankanni celebrates

People gathered successful ample numbers astatine the wide astatine the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health successful Velankanni and Our Lady of Lourdes (Poondi Matha) successful Poondi, too different salient Christian places of worship.

Special supplication was held successful churches, including the Roman Catholic religion astatine Marthandapuram and TELC astatine Machuvadi successful Pudukottai. The members of Thiruvarul Peravai visited the churches and exchanged greetings with the people. 

Published - December 25, 2025 08:24 p.m. IST

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