Very Rev Fr A.M.A. Prabakar
of Our Lady of Health, Vailankanni. As the Rector of the Shrine
Basilica, I am immensely happy to talk to you through this
wonderful media. Indeed it is a privilege to me to speak to you
over this media wherever you are. I thank God and our Blessed
Mother of Health for bringing us together.
I hope that this website would fully quench the thirst of
billions of devotees of the Mother of Vailankanni all over the
world. I also thank all the devotees of mother of vailankani for
expressing their valuable suggestion giving through this shrine
website from all the corners of the globe.
I also hope that all the devotees of the mother of
vailankanni get the information and the activities of the shrine
through this powerful media especially devotees living outside
the country.
Through the growth of the name of the Shrine through
Medias like people. Newspaper, Books, Magazines and the film
‘Annai Vailankanni’, has been constant and never fading during
these years, the spread of the fane of Vailankanni in comparison
to the progress and power of the media has not been fully
adequate and the name of Arokia Madha has not permeated
everywhere as it should have had. Hence, considering all these
factors insufficient, the Bishop of Thanjavur Most Rev. Dr. M.
Devadass Ambrose the guardian of the Shrine Basilica, proposed
to bring out this website that can reach all the countries and all
the Hearts. We thank God and the Blessed Arokia Madha, for this
grace sown in us to conceive the idea and give birth to the
Shrine website. Now the website-Child is one year and two
months old smiling at you whenever you open
the www.vailankannishrine.net.
Of all the benefits this Website showers on its devotees,
the Live-Telecast of the Mass in Tamil is the most wonderful gift
to the devotees. The Shrine has no Television of its own and
hence at the request of the Shrine, the Jaya plus T.V. has come
forward to streamline the live-telecast every day from 06.00
a.m. to 07.00 a.m. (IST). The Live-telecast of the Mass is a great
blessing to all especially the aged and sick and those who cannot
personally participation in the Live-Mass is in Tamil, Many non-
Tamil Speaking devotees both Christians and non-Christians as
well take part in the Mass. As the request of various devotees is
mounting day by day for live-telecast in other language also, the
Shrine will soon begin to give live-telecast of the Mass in other
languages one after the other.
The website has all the necessary details you wish to
learn about this Shrine Basilica at Vailankanni, Nagapattinam
District, Tamilnadu the south-eastern state of India, where Mary
the Mother of Jesus (LK 1:31), gave her apparitions three times
in 16 th and 17 th Centuries. Vailankanni is a Holy land of Our
Blessed Mother.
Please send your needs through the Shrine
email info@vailankannishrine.net or phone to us over 94431
63530: 04365-263423, 263530, 264890.
All Your needs are placed in the Prayer Services every
day in the Shrine and in the Mass Services. Believe that the ever
gracious Mother will grant your wishes. There is nobody who is
left empty who has sought the bounty of the ever compassionate
Mother of Vailankanni.
Dear devotees, you are welcome to make your pilgrimage
to the Shrine Beside taking part in the Mass and Prayer Services
in the Shrine and having fulfilled your vows if any to Our
Mother, do not forget to spare your valuable time for Prayer
before the Eucharistic Lord in the Adoration Chapel where the
adoration is done round the clock. You can very well sit and pray
for hours together in this chapel whether during day or night
and meditation.
In View of the Shrine Basilica Golden Jubilee, One- Hour
Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament was conducted in the Main
Shrine during the Golden Jubilee year from November 2011 to
November 2012. During this Hour special prayers were
conducted for the intentions of all the people and countries of
the world. Though the Golden jubilee Year ended, the one-hour
Eucharistic Adoration is being continued now at the request of
devotees who have taken part in it and it is programmed to be
carried on every year. This Prayer Service is conducted for the
entire congregation gathered here during this one hour. The
whole congregation prays here as ‘One-Family’. Hence whenever
you visit the Shrine, Kindly make use of this wonderful
opportunity and join the praying-congregation and place all your
needs in front of the Eucharistic Lord and You will find solace in
His presence and success in your life. This hour 03.00-04.00 p.m.
was chosen to recall the death of Our Lord on the Cross on Good
Friday. Hence prayers during this hour, are very effective to
bring spiritual and temporal progress in your life and in the life
of all people of your society, nation and world. You are
requested to pray for all.
It is an immense joy to me talk with you every month
through this media about Our Lady of Health who intercedes
unceasingly her Son Jesus Christ our Lord for good of all her
devotees.
“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying
heavy burdens, and I will give your rest” (Mt 11:28).
Always praying for you,
Fr. A. M. A. Prabakar,
Rector.