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“Today is Mother Mary’s birthday. Every year the Mount Mary church celebrates this day by organising a week long fair. But this year due to Corona pandemic all the religious places are closed. This includes the Mount Mary church, Bandra, Mumbai. Hence the organisers of the Bandra fair cancelled the fair and simultaneously celebrated Mother Mary’s birthday in the closed church by offering prayer.”
“Mother Mary is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Madonna, Our Lady), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy) and names associated with places, (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Guadalupe).”
“All of these descriptive refer to the same woman named Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ (in the New Testament) and are used differently by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and some Anglicans.”
“Mary was a first-century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph, and the mother of Jesus, according to the canonical gospels and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin. Mary also has the highest position in Islam among all women. She is mentioned in the Quran more often than in the New Testament, where two of the longer chapters of the Quran are devoted to her and her family.”
The Quran refers to Mary (Maryam) by the following titles:
“• Ma’suma – “”She who never sinned”””
“• Mustafia – “”She who is chosen”””
“• Nur – “”Light””. She has also been called Umm Nur (“”Mother of one who was Light””), in reference to ‘Isa”
“• Qānitah – the term implies constant submission to Allah, as well as absorption in prayer and invocation.”
“• Rāki’ah – “”She who bows down to Allah in worship”””
“• Sa’imah – “”She who fasts”””
“• Sājidah – “”She who prostrates to Allah in worship”””
“• Siddiqah – “”She who accepts as true””, “”She who has faith””, or “”She who believes sincerely totally”””
“• Tāhirah – “”She who was purified”””
“Colour blue associated with Mary. The Virgin Mary is not only mother to Jesus, but to all humanity. Deeply rooted in Catholic symbolism, the blue of her cloak has been interpreted to represent the Virgin’s purity, symbolize the skies, and label her as an empress, or blue was associated with Byzantine royalty. The twelve stars above her head apply to both the twelve patriarchs of the tribes of Israel (original people of God), and the twelve apostles (renewed people of God).”
“Jesus wear red and blue while the blue represents the Virgin’s purity, and connotes her royal status, the red garment signifies traits connected with motherhood, including love, passion, and devotion.”
“The main significance Virgin Mary pendant jewellery is the belief that wearing it will bring special graces from the Virgin Mary. It is often worn to help strengthen the faith of a person in the Catholic tradition, but can be worn by anyone with a Christian affiliation and a respect for the Blessed Mother.”
“Bandra Fair is a week-long fair held annually in the Bandra suburb of Mumbai, India. It starts on the Sunday following 8 September, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, mother of Jesus, at the Mount Mary Church, Bandra. The Bandra Fair is estimated to be around 300 years old. The fair started when a statue of Mother Mary was found floating in the Arabian Sea between 1700 and 1760, which, according to a legend, a Koli fisherman had dreamt about a few years earlier. The Bandra Fair is very popular in Mumbai. Every year, different political parties set up their political banners across the suburb of Bandra inviting the pilgrims to the Fair. The Bandra Fair is also popular across the world especially with the Indian Catholic Diaspora. A similar event called the “”Bandra Feast”” is organized annually by the India Social and Cultural Centre (ISCC) in Abu Dhabi.”
