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TẾT – LUNAR NEW YEAR 2019 CELEBRATION AT THE CAO DAI HOLY SEE IN TAY NINH

TẾT – LUNAR NEW YEAR 2019 CELEBRATION AT THE CAO DAI HOLY SEE IN TAY NINH

Updated 2019-03-11 00:54:58

According to the Cao Dai Sacerdotal program, at 7:00 am, on the 1^st day of the Lunar New Year (ie. February 5, 2019), Cardinal Thuong Tam Thanh, Chairman of the Cao Dai Sacerdotal Council at the Holy See in Tay Ninh, and a number of dignitaries and religious officials of the 9 Ministries, as well as thousand of Cao Dai followers, gathered in front of the Holy Great Temple to watch the start of the Lunar New Year celebration, which included dance of dragons and music performance. It is estimated that more than 50 thousand followers attended the ceremony.

After the ceremony at the Holy Great Temple, the crowd moved to the Holy Mother Goddess Temple to pray there. Next, the dignitaries and followers come at the Pope’s residence, the Male Cardinal’s office, the female Cardinal’s office to pray at the deceased Pope’s altar, at all the female and male Cardinals’ altars.

Then at the Female Cardinal’s office, the dignitaries were treated to a breakfast of vegetarian bread and cakes.

At the Male Cardinal’s office, the Chairman of the Sacerdotal Council distributed lucky money to anyone present there.

The Tet celebration ended at 9:00am.

Here are some pictures of the Tet or Lunar New Year 2019 celebration at the Holy See.