Mangaluru: Fr Santhosh Rodrigues the director of Pastoral Institutes Bajjodi offered the Holy Mass on the seventh day of the novena. In his homily, Fr Rodrigues referred to Jesus blessing the children and admonishing the people that unless one becomes like little children one can’t enter the Kingdom of God. He said that the little children are pure in heart and they don’t harbour enmity in the heart. He stressed the need of grooming children in good characters which shape their personalities. At the end of the mass, Fr Rodrigues made a special prayer for the children.
The Blue Angels group added beauty to the liturgy by their melodious voice. Fr Onil D’Souza the director of the Ashram conducted the novena.