NASHIK, AUGUST 20, 2010: On August 15 Don Bosco Parish, Nashik had an evening with Mary. The whole Parish, brothers, sisters, priests and the laity got together to venerate Our Lady on her day of Assumption into Heaven. The traditional Marian Academy was well conducted. Each of the zones and the Institutions gave a Marian Item. There was a rich variety of song, dance, music, drama and poetry. The whole of the Marian Serenade was interspersed with some comments by the two comperes of the Evening Show, namely, Miss Tina Thomas and Master Nikhil John.
The youth helped out, so also did the zonal and area leaders as well as all the religious from the various Institutions. I am sure Our Lady would be happy with the devotion and veneration showed to her on the day of her Assumption. Since it was the Sixty Third Independence Day of India, Mother India was not forgotten. The last item was one of National Integration. It consisted of the classical Bharat Natyam which had the theme of man becoming one’s own enemy and destroying oneself due to the abuse of creation and finally, the hope and new life in God.
Earlier during the Holy Eucharist, the Parish Marian Month was inaugurated. The Parish Priest, Fr. Nelson Falcao sdb, at the post-communion handed over the three statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the various zonal and area leaders from the three main zones of the Parish. The Marian Month at Don Bosco Parish, Nashik is held from August 15 to September 15.
Every day the three statues move in the three zones, from one family to another. Most of the people from each of the zones, gather in the particular families of the zones where the statues are taken respectively and pray the Holy Rosary. It is a devotion which brings the families and eventually the whole Parish together in unity and action.