www.goa-world. com >> >> GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) >>http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/ http://www.colaco.net/ >>http://www.live365.com/index.live >>Tumcam Maie-mogacho ieukar. Stay tuned to Gulf Goans e-Newsletter - everyday >>someone, somewhere learns a >>little.....________________________________________________________________________________The >> Blessed Joseph Vaz cause for canonization >> >> >>A Solemn High Mass in honour of Blessed Joseph Vaz (1651-1711) Apostle of >>Kanara and Sri Lanka, Patron of the Archdiocese of Goa is being celebrated on >>Saturday 27th Sept 2014 at 11 am at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, 2950 >>Midland Ave, Scarborough Ontario M1S 3K8. All invited. Thereafter the >>congregation is invited to a "Meet and Greet" in the Church hall. >>The service is being organised by supporters for the cause of Blessed Joseph >>Vaz in Toronto, and initiated by The Joseph Naik Institute in Berkeley, >>California. The Institute is sponsoring a Mass and celebration in Rome on >>September 23rd, 2014 for the 329th Anniversary of the founding of the Oratory >>of St. Philip Neri in Goa by Blessed Joseph Vaz (see below). >> >>Please pass this message to your family, relatives and friends. >> >> >>----------- >>Re: The Blessed Vaz cause for canonization >> >>The Joseph Naik Vaz Institute is sponsoring a Mass and celebration in Rome on >>September 23rd, 2014 for the 329th Anniversary of the founding of the Oratory >>of St. Philip Neri in Goa by Blessed Joseph Vaz. The Mass will be held at the >>historic Oratorian church in Rome, Chiesa Nuova. All are invited to attend or >>sponsor a Companion Mass in your local parish on or around Sept 23. See >>details at >>http://www.josephnaikvaz.org/images/Sept%2023%20Vaz%20Invitation.pdfSo far >>approximately 20 companion masses around the world are being said on or >>around Sept 23 in a massive show of support for Blessed Vaz's cause for >>canonization. >> >>The main celebrant will be Rev. Mario Avilés, C.O. Procurator General of the >>Oratory of St. Filipe Neri worldwide. One of the concelebrant's will be a >>representative of Cardinal Tauran, head of the Pontifical Council for Inter >>religious Dialogue. >>The liturgy will be coordinated by the Archbishop of Goa's representative, >>Fr. Agnelo Mascarenhas S.J. >> >>The Intentions of the Mass are: >>• The commemoration of the beginning of the Congregation of the Oratory of >>St. Philip Neri in Goa, on September 25,1685 by Blessed Joseph Vaz, C.O. >>• For the canonization of Blessed Joseph Vaz, C.O. Apostle of Kanara and Sri >>Lanka >>• For the success of the Pope's visit to Sri Lanka and to the Philippines in >>January 2015 >> >>Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka and the Bishops of Sri Lanka, together >>with the Bl. Joseph Vaz National Secretariat, have assigned September 14th to >>be a Sri Lanka wide day of prayer for the Cause of Canonisation and in Praise >>& Thanksgiving for the gift to Blessed Joseph Vaz. They are requesting Goa to >>join them on this day of prayer. We invite all friends and devotees of Bl. >>Joseph Vaz to participate in this Sri Lanka Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving >>for Blessed Joseph Vaz on Sept. 14. See Cardinal Ranjith's message at >>http://www.josephnaikvaz.org/images/Cardinal%20Ranjit%20message.pdf >> >>Thank you. >> >>Joseph Naik Vaz Institute >>www.josephnaikvaz.org >>__._,_.___ >> >>________________________________ >> Posted by: George Pinto <georgejpi...@yahoo.com> THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Every >> individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some >> respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
