Gunadala Matha Festival

Gunadala Matha Festival was successfull , more than 10 Lakh devoties attended this festival and everything went on well without any problem.

Of those 10 Lakhs only 40% were Catholics means 4 lakh remaining people are mixed people from different religions ( Hindus, Muslims) and ofcourse Prostantents.

Jesus youth in Vijayawada diocese took initiative of reciding 1 Lakh Rosaries & 3 days 24 hours Perpetuial Adoration for the Success of this Festival.

Jesus Youth of Hyderabad and other prayer groups in Andhra Pradesh also joined in completing One lakh Rosaries for the success of this festival,

Festival started with Holy mass on 9th Feb 2007 at 6.30 AM and around 8.30 AM Adoration Started and ended on 11th Feb 2007 late night.

Many Religious ( Sisters , Priests, Decons, Brothers, Seminary & Convent students) , General devoties from Warangal and other parts of AP also took part in this Adoration along with Jesus Youth of Vijayawada Diocese.

Most. Rev. Prakash Mallavarapu, Bishop of Vijayawada also spent some time in Adoration along with Jesus Youth on 9th & 11th Feb 2007.

Fr. Don Bosco , Our diocese Youth Director was always there with us and helped us alot and also two big JY Banners were put one at Main Entrance and other near the Adoration hall so that every one know that Adoration is going on at that place and frequent announcements were made by Fr. Bosco and the Festival organizing committe about the Adoration from the main stage.

On 9th Feb 2007 time was alloted to present Youth Activities from 9.30 to 10.30 PM

It started with Donbosco Navajeen Musical band followed by YOV Skit , theme of the Skit is " Do What Jesus Says " skit depicts the Scene of Marriage of Cana , Mother Mary telling the people to Do what Jesus and it was presented in different way relating to the present days trend.

After that Fr. Bosco gave Introduction of Jesus Youth and the activites that happened in last one year after that we presented Jesus Youth 2006 events 15 minutes Video presentation and our dear Bp. Prakash Mallavarapu graced the occassion and allmost 300 Religious ( Sisters , Priests, Decons, Brothers, Seminary & Convent students) you belive it or not there were more than 50 thousand people were in the ground who watched the video presentation, we all were happy and this happened on 9th Feb 2007 first day of the festival.

On 11th Feb 2007 around 7.30 PM , JY lead the people in Praise & Worship starting with Action songs for more than 25 Minutes and alomst 5 - 10 Thousand people were sitting in the ground who participated in this 40 mins and there are so many people passing by from ground and climbing the Hill as it was the last day of the Festival.


Finally, the festival was successfull and this festival helped Jesus Youth Movement to reach out to many Religious and lay leaders and general people .