Church in India follows Synodal path celebrating annual Marian novena

MUMBAI, India – As the Church approaches the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Sept. 8, the Church in the Archdiocese of Bombay is holding a novena in preparation.

On Friday morning, a synodal journey was started in the Mumbai neighborhood of Bandra at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount.

Bandra has one of the oldest Catholic communities in the city, and was evangelized by Portuguese Jesuits in the 16th century. When Bombay was handed over to the British in 1661...