Information on Sacraments & Miscellaneous

Baptism

To get your child baptised, contact the parish Office for the registration form.

Baptisms: All Sundays of the month at 11.30 am. with prior due preparation for parents and godparents on all Fridays of the month from 4.30 to 5.30 p.m.


Marriages

Those intending to get married should
(a) check into the availability of the Church for a Wedding Mass as early as possible;
(b) attend a Marriage Preparation Course organised by the diocese atleast 6 months before the marriage;
(c) meet any priest around 6 months before the wedding for the necessary papers to be done.
Marriages are not allowed to take place on Ash Wednesday, Maunday Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday. Marriages during Lent specially on Sundays of Lent are strongly discouraged and to a lesser degree during the season of Advent.

Marriage Preparation: Thursdays of every month, 4.30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.


Confessions

Everyday before and after mass.


Communion for Old and Sick People

First Friday of the month - morning.


Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament (Adoration)

Daily from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m., except on Sundays.

Golden Nuggets

At the entrance of the said "Corte de Oiteiro" road, near the base of the main stairway, there is still one 'Poço de Ossos' where the unclaimed bones from the said grave yard used to be thrown. That well is still known as 'Addanchi bhain' or 'Well of Bones'.