April 21, 2020 is the 369th Anniversary of birth of St. Joseph Vaz (1651-1711), Apostle of Kanara and Sri Lanka.
April 21, 2020 is tragically also the First Anniversary of the bombings of Churches and hotels in Sri Lanka last year on Easter Sunday which happened to fall on the Birthday of St. Joseph Vaz. Bishop Michael Barber, S.J. of Oakland Diocese will celebrate the Holy Eucharist that our Joseph Naik Vaz Institute and devotees of St. Joseph Vaz are offering at Oakland's Cathedral of Christ the Light on April 26, 2020 at 11 a.m. in memory of the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday tragedy. Please watch the Live stream on April 26th at 11 a.m. on the Cathedral's Facebook website at http://www.ctlcathedral.org Let us all join Bishop Barber in praying for the victims in Sri Lanka as well as for the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic and for all medical first responders around the world who are heroically taking care of those critically ill and dying, just as St. Joseph Vaz looked after the abandoned victims of the small pox epidemic in Kandy in 1697-98. Please donate to Cathedral of Christ the Light on its website to support the work of the Cathedral which generously sent their Easter Mass donation last year for the victims of the Sri Lankan bombings. We send our deepest thanks and appreciation to the Most Reverend Bishop Barber S.J. and to the Rector of the Cathedral, the Reverend Brandon Macadaeg for their prayers and support. We invite you to visit our website http://www.josephnaikvaz.org for a Life sketch and articles about St. Joseph Vaz as well as the link https://josephnaikvaz.org/archives/736 for last year's Memorial at the Jesuit School of Theology, GTU in Berkeley, California. Joseph Naik Vaz Institute Berkeley, California
