Bengaluru: BCCRS to organize Pentecost-2017 Night Vigil in Konkani on Jun 3

- Media Release

Bengaluru, 25 May 2017: Konkani Revival Prayer Group which is part of BCCRS (Bangalore Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services) of Archdiocese of Bengaluru will be organizing ‘Pentecost Night Vigil in Konkani’ at St Joseph’s Commerce College auditorium, near St Patrick’s Church, here, on Saturday, June 3 from 9.00pm to 5.30am.

 

Fr Pius D’Souza from Shivamogga diocese will be sharing word of God along with gifted priest of archdiocese Fr Bonaventure Rodrigues, spiritual director of St Peter’s Seminary, here. Praise and worship led by Konkani worship Team.

 

Like every year Archdiocese of Bengaluru celebrates birthday of the Church and the feast of the Holy Spirit through a prayerful Pentecostal Night Vigil at St Patrick’s Church in the heart of the city.

 

On the Pentecost after the resurrection of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, according to the Acts of the Apostles, descended on the disciples in the form of tongues of fire accompanied by the sound of a rush of wind, and gave them the power of speaking in such a way that people of different languages could understand them. In Bangalore, after the Night Vigil which was conducted in five different languages in the same campus (Konkani, English, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam) starts to speak in one single language, the language of Love! during the Multilingual Eucharistic Celebration of Holy Mass at 4.00am by the Dr Bernanrd Moras, Archbishop of Bengaluru.

 

BCCRS Konkani Revival Prayer Group invites all the Konkani families in Bengaluru to experience the Pentecost Blessings by joining this Night Vigil in large numbers  and to Praise and worship Risen Lord in their own mother tongue and to strengthen our spirituality and Konkani prayer in Bengaluru.