Silent but intent are the men, women and children who raise their eyes in prayer and pleading, to the life-size statue of Jesus Christ hanging on the Cross, looking down on them benevolently.
Crowds and not only Catholics but from all religions and not just from Marawila but from across the country stop by at the Kurusa Palliya to look in wonderment at the line-image of Christ’s face visible on the stomach of the statue. The shrine is open throughout the day and night and some come in for a quiet moment even early morning around 2.
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Unlike the opulence of big churches, the simple structure which is home to the statue of Christ on the Cross is surrounded by tombstones. Burials still take place here as it is the ‘grave-yard’ of the Church of Our Lady of Presentation just up the road about 350 metres away. The church had been consecrated way back on February 1, 1875 and the grave-yard established two years later on April 15, 1877.
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Fr. Thiri’s words to the crowd after the ceremony had been that they would see its miracles after he was gone, says Fr. Ivan, adding that his prophetic words had come true when the children of the area were assailed by a skin disease in 1947 and one desperate mother had prayed fervently at the Cross, washed the feet of Jesus with water and then headed for home to dab that water on the skin rash of her little one.
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It is possible to believe in both evolution and the Catholic church’s teaching on creation, Pope Francis has said, as he cautioned against portraying God as a kind of magician who made the universe with a magic wand
These included a recommendation for "all faithful, including the religious, to receive Holy Communion reverently kneeling and on the tongue", as well as laymen being forbidden from preaching
As a priest, he worked on justice and peace issues and was director of the diocesan pastoral center, and general manager of Catholic private schools
Cardinal Ranjith
Bishop Cletus
Crowds and not only Catholics but from all religions and not just from Marawila but from across the country
