Amazing. In less than ten days, nearly 600 hundred signatures! Now we can do better. Please print out the petition form for those who do not have access to the internet. See (http://josephnaikvaz.org/jnv_Signaturesheet.pdf) and get people to physically sign the petition. Please pass the petition around in your church/Goan association, etc. We need everyone to sign.
When the signature page is complete, please scan the page and email to [email protected] or mail to: JOSEPH NAIK VAZ INSTITUTE 67 KINGSTON ROAD KENSIGNTON, CALIFORNIA, USA, 94707 Thanks to all who have signed the petition so far. You are making it happen and as a signor to the petition you will always be a part of history in the Vatican's records for this just cause. Don't miss this opportunity to help a Goan saint achieve his rightful honour after 300 long years. If Blessed Vaz is canonized a saint it will be due to people like you who helped his cause. You have made it the People's Petition. Please do not stop. If each person got another 10 signatures each we will have an imposing number to deliver to the Pope. You can make it happen. The 300th anniversary of the death of Blessed Joseph Vaz (born Goa, India) is fast approaching on January 16, 2011. Our Joseph Naik Vaz Institute has worked to publicize his life and Cause since 1980, when we incorporated in California as a 501(c)(3) in the State of California. We ask for your support of our new Petition to the Pope, His Holiness Benedict XVI, asking that Blessed Joseph Vaz be canonized for the 300th anniversary of his death. Your signature to this Petition will help to send the people's support to the Pope for Blessed Vaz' long delayed and just canonization. Together we can make this canonization happen. 300 years is a long wait for a Catholic Saint and Blessed Vaz could be on the verge of being canonized with your support. Please sign the petition and forward to your family and friends to sign. All welcome to sign (i.e. you do not have to be Catholic). Regards, Filomena Saraswati Giese and George Pinto Joseph Naik Vaz Institute www.josephnaikvaz.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Goa-launch of the well-received *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho on Aug 29, 2010 (Sunday) at 11 am at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. Meet the author, buy a signed copy (only Rs 295 in Goa till stock lasts). http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
