Buddhist Lent is the time each year when the monks stay in their temples and devote their time to study and meditation. For three months during the rainy season the monks will only leave their temples to make their usual alms collecting each morning.
The start of Buddhist Lent falls on the full moon of the eighth lunar month and the children from the Father Ray Children’s Home visited their local temple to offer alms to the abbot and his monks.
As well as offering food, candles are also given to create light in the belief that the light will illuminate the mind. These candles are usually very large, sometimes standing taller than a man, and beautifully carved, and some towns throughout the Kingdom hold special ceremonies, parading huge candles on floats.
Devout Buddhists, like many Christians, will fast for the three months, abstaining from alcohol, cigarettes, chocolate or their favourite food, and in three months time when the Lent period is over there will be parties throughout the Kingdom.
Under the direction of Khun Suppachai, Director of the Father Ray Children’s Home, the new mushroom house is each day providing the residents with more mushrooms than they can possibly eat.
For a long time the children have raised pigs and grown fruit ...
Muay Thai, or Thai boxing, is practiced by most young boys throughout Thailand, and at the Father Ray Children’s Home regular sessions are held when the boys are off school.
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Whilst the nation celebrates the birthday of HM the Queen on August 12th the day is also celebrated as Mothers Day.
Many of the children living at the Father Ray Children’s Home are living there for many reasons; mothers have abandoned them, are unab...
Buddhist Lent is the time each year when the monks stay in their temples and devote their time to study and meditation. For three months during the rainy season the monks will only leave their temples to make their usual alms collecting each morning.
The...
A brand new five star hotel recently opened in Pattaya, and each Friday evening they hold a huge extravaganza where African dancers perform a traditional dance.
The hotel management recently visited the Fr. Ray Children’s Home and invited the children ...
