Mangalore, Dec 24, 2012: Catholic Sabha unit of Mother of God Church, Shakthinagar organized the ‘Christmas tableau’ commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ under the guidance of the parish priest Fr Walter D’Souza.
Shakila Kava, Padua cooperator, Thimmappa Shetty, Vinod Shakthinagar, Fr Maxim D’Souza, Fr Jaya Prakash, Fr Maxim were the guests of honor.
The programme began on a high note with prayer dance and skit performed by the little children and other parishioners. The skit depicting the birth of Jesus was depicted on the tableau. Christmas Father ‘Santa Clause’ entertained the crowd and distributed sweet goodies to the kids while the choir sang carols.
The tableau was presented at 3 public places like Preethinagar Bus Stand, near Rama Shakthi mission and Muthappa Gudi.
The president of the Catholic Sabha unit Johnson D’Souza & his team organized the event with cooperation from 5 local associations such as ‘Seven guys- Mugrodi’, ‘Biddel friends’, ‘Tuluvera koota’, ‘Shakthi Friends club’, ‘Deepa friends club’, ‘Jygaana Deepa Mahila Mandal’.
The event was witnessed by huge gathering irrespective of religion.
As part of the celebration, Christmas sweets ‘Kuswar’ were distributed among the crowd.
The celebration indeed envisaged the take home message of ‘unity in diversity’ among the people in the area.
The whole programme was compered by Yashwanth DS.