Mangaluru : The bishop of Mangalore Aloysius Paul D’Souza, inaugurated the preparations for the four-day Karnataka regional level convention to be held at Rosario Cathedral Grounds in the city from November 9 to mark the golden jubilee of Catholic Charismatic Renewal worldwide.

The bishop inaugurated the preparations by releasing the posters at his house on Sunday. The bishop, in his message, wished success for the convention.

The Charismatic Renewal has brought showers of blessings on the Catholic church at large and to the Catholic church in Mangalore in particular. The charismatic movement has infused a lot of spiritual strength into the traditional minded Catholics and has brought in a lot of changes in their life. Hence it is an occasion to celebrate the gifts of the holy spirit, he said.

The four-day programme will have two parts – training in the morning to 500 leaders from 14 dioceses of Karnataka and conventions in the evening from 4pm to 8 pm, in which 10,000 are expected to participate, he said.

In preparation for the convention, the intercessory prayers will be held in all the parishes of the diocese and also in fourteen diocese of Karnataka. The Bishop will officially inaugurate the convention and Bernard Moras, the Archbishop of Bangalore, will celebrate the concluding holy mass. Other bishops from Karnataka will celebrate the holy mass on other days in turn. Eminent preachers under the leadership of Lawrence Mukkuzzy, bishop of Belthangady, will preach the Word of God on all the four days, said Fr Onil D’Souza, the convener of the convention.