PLEASE PRAY FOR US, TOO
Pic.: Anand Sreedhar “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ” - Saint Augustine T h is Wednesday night, around 9, as I was getting into our building lift, I saw my immediate nighbour Sherry getting out of the lift holding his mom’s hands. “Going out for a dinner?” I asked spontaneously. “No sir, going for the Novena.” “Okay, okay,” I said hurriedly as I closed the lift door, “Pray for us, too.” “Certainly, sir,” Sherry promised with a broad smile on his face, “We will.” I have been living in Mumbai for over 35 years now. But, let me tell you, I haven’t been for a single Wednesday Novena held at the famed five-hundred-year old Mahim church. Nearly 40-50 thousand devotees, both Christians and non-Christians, devotedly attend nine masses – popularly called ‘Novenas’ – to seek solace from Our Lady of Perpetual Succor. Sherry is a young Hindu. He has been faithfull...