TEWATTA, Sri Lanka – 'Today, in this fast changing world with challenges and difficulties, are you looking for your children’s spiritual, educational or economical prosperity? Saving for your children is good, but the goals you give your children must be to strive to be good persons growing in wisdom and stature. To be successful in life our aims must be clear. What are your aims for your children?' Mgr Oswald Gomis said during last Friday’s solemn Eucharist on the Feast Day of the Blessing of Our Lady of Lanka at Tewatta Basilica, which is located some 20 kilometres north of Colombo.
At the start of every year thousands of Catholics and Buddhists alike come to Sri Lanka’s national shrine for a special blessing, for their work, machinery, vehicles and tools they use to make a living.