Friday, August 12, 2016

St. Antony’s Ashram, Payakaraopet

 The Capuchin friars when they came to this place, it was a desert like place but today it is developed and the parish is growing.....close to the town of Tunni......there is a big hill...which the Catholics occupied and built a small shrine of Mother Mary....it is now 30 years and the faithful keep going on top of the hill to pray....all along the path there are stations of the Cross.....in Lenten season all denomination christians too join in pilgrimage.....
 Every Saturday is a day of recollection and fasting....lots of people from near and far participate in this recollection....the friars from the province come to preach.....

 wow ......Jesus in Gethsemane garden.....a green hill at the background....lovely place for silence and contemplation.....even in summer the hills are green.......
 The whole area really invites faithful to be quite and silent.....to be with the Lord...

 The town ......


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