The end of Vassa, Pavarana Day, is on the 5th October, and thus begins the Kathina season for all Theravada monasteries.<\/p>\n
Santi’s Kathina celebrations will happen on Sunday 22nd October.<\/p>\n
This year, the Kathina ceremony and robe offering will be led by the Cambodian community from Canley Vale, and all are welcome to join in and also make offerings to the Sangha on this special day in the Buddhist calendar.<\/p>\n
The day’s program is below.<\/p>\n
KATHINA CELEBRATIONS \u2013 22ND OCTOBER, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Program<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:30-10am \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Arrival (Refreshments available)<\/p>\n 10:00 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Set up dana tables and food<\/p>\n 10:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome and Blessing<\/p>\n 11:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rice pindaphat<\/p>\n 11:15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offer food to the Sangha CLEAN UP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (all help)<\/p>\n 1:15pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cambodian community begin the Kathina procession<\/p>\n 1:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robe and requisites offering to the Sangha<\/p>\n 2:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Talk and chanting of blessings by Sangha<\/p>\n 2:30-3pm \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Optional walk together (or some can drive) to the Big Cave and Kwan Yin statue<\/p>\n 4:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Farewell<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Download Santi Kathina program 2017<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The end of Vassa, Pavarana Day, is on the 5th October, and thus begins the Kathina season for all Theravada monasteries. Santi’s Kathina celebrations will happen on Sunday 22nd October. This year, the Kathina ceremony and robe offering will be led by the Cambodian community from Canley Vale, and all are welcome to join in Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(Sangha eat upstairs and lay people eat downstairs, in house or surrounds – unless raining)<\/p>\n