because people can connect their own family experiences with Mary, Frenz added. Frenz further noted that understanding the ‘Matha’ (mother) does not require theological expertise nor even any ...

Speaking on the occasion, Social Service Centre Executive Director Prasad Muvvala said that the Gunadala Matha is also said to be synonymous with healing powers. The devotees who pray Mother Mary ...

The three-day long Mary Matha festival held at the grotto of Mother Mary atop Gunadala hill in the city begun here today. Vijayawada: The three-day long Mary Matha festival held at the grotto of ...

The Mother wants us to discover this love that will dry the tears from our eyes,” he said. Later, the holy mass was conducted by Bishop Joji, the Mary Matha Shrine Rector Fr. Chinnappa ...

VIJAYAWADA: The three-day Gunadala Mary Matha festival commenced with great ... He encouraged devotees to seek the intercession of Mother Mary during times of hardship, trusting in her prayers ...

the devotees from various parts of the State thronged the hill shrine to pay their obeisance to Mary Matha at Gunadala. The devotees of different faiths also worship the Holy Mother, he added.

"While the actual day of Mother Mary's birthday fell on September 8 ... to be known in different names in colloquial Marathi, 'Matha Mavli', 'Mothi Mavli' and now 'Mot Mavli'," said Fr Correa.

Thousands of people from various communities and religious faiths participated in the festival of Immaculate Conception of Mother Mary, popular as the Visakhapuri Mary Matha Feast, at the 156-year ...

Religious figures are often (if scandalously) appropriated outside sacred settings, but the decontextualization of Mother Mary has been in hyperdrive of late. Long a fixture on devotional medals ...