{"id":45170,"date":"2015-07-02T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45170"},"modified":"2015-07-02T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:56:47","slug":"our-lady-of-madu-church-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/02\/our-lady-of-madu-church-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR LADY OF MADU CHURCH FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stanley Perera reporting from Madu Church <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is after 55 years to-day ( 2.7.2015) I visited and participated in Our Lady of Madhu Church festival.\u00a0 I was in the company of Hon.\u00a0Milroy Fernando, Hon. Karuna Amman and Hon. Ms. Sasitharan and my friend Rajitha Perera as the distinguish VIP pilgrims.<\/p>\n

The mass was held under the patronage of Bishops: Rayappu Joseph, Joseph Saundranayagam, Valance Mendis and Andradi.<\/p>\n

The gathering of pilgrims to-day (02.07.2015) was over 250,000.\u00a0 Very peaceful atmosphere was noted with Sinhala and Tamil devotees.<\/p>\n

Bishop Lance Mendis in his preeching highlighted the importance of people who are in politics must serve the people and not be self serving politicians.\u00a0 The most striking statement was Sinhalese and Tamils must be one united community.\u00a0 Well if that is the preeching of Catholic Church, why should Bishops Rayappu Joseph and Joseph Saundranayagam are practicing a different phylosopy.\u00a0 It was the question I asked myself.\u00a0 Having known Bishops Rayappu Joseph and Joseph Saundranayagam in the past of their utterings based on the anti Sinhala buddhists elements, I thought it is best for Bishop Lance Mendis to first convince Bishops Rayappu Joseph, Joseph Saundranayagam and Andradi.<\/p>\n

Well we have demonstrated to-day, how well we are united in the company of Karuna, Ananthi Sasitharan, Milroy and myself joining hands to worship Our Lady of Madhu.\u00a0 We were two different nationalities but we forgot our differences and became one devoted religious group.<\/p>\n

That is the way we should be.<\/p>\n

Ms. Ananthi Sasitharan was dressed in a very colourful expensive Saree and why should not she.<\/p>\n

In the past during the war time I have had many a confrontational dialogues with harsh words with Bishops Andradi, Joseph Saundranayagam and Rayappu Joseph. \u00a0I have to-day took back all I said in the past and my write ups in\u00a0 abusive language.\u00a0 Before Our Lady of Madhu I made a confession and said I am truly sorry Our Lady of Madhu\u201d.<\/p>\n

LET US ALL LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY AS ONE NATION.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Stanley Perera reporting from Madu Church It is after 55 years to-day ( 2.7.2015) I visited and participated in Our Lady of Madhu Church festival.\u00a0 I was in the company of Hon.\u00a0Milroy Fernando, Hon. Karuna Amman and Hon. Ms. Sasitharan and my friend Rajitha Perera as the distinguish VIP pilgrims. The mass was held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}