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Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Panaji church feast today NT Staff Reporter Panaji Dec 7, 2004: The feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, patroness of the Panaji church, will be celebrated in Panaji as well as in some other Goan villages tomorrow. The Rector of the Rachol seminary, Fr Tomas Aquino Sequeira will be the main celebrant of the High Mass scheduled for 9.30 a.m. Before that, masses will be celebrated every hour beginning at 5.30 a.m. There is also an afternoon mass at 12.30 p.m. The only evening mass at 5. 30 will be celebrated by the staff of the The Navhind Times. The vicar of Panaji church, Fr Antimo Gomes, informed that the theme of the feast is ‘Mary is a Woman of the Holy Eucharist’. The general theme for the novenas and vespers was “nourished by the Holy Eucharist, Let us together continue our pilgrimage to God”. The president of tomorrow’s feast is Panaji parishioner, Ms Dominica Fernandes. Fr Gomes said that this is the last feast to be celebrated by the old system of ‘Mordomo de festa’ (individually). From 2005 onwards, the entire parish will jointly celebrate the feast, he said. Nine days of novenas preceded the feast tomorrow. Fr Gomes said that the preaching during the novenas was done by three different priests; first three days by the Director of the Youth Centre, Fr Lucio Dias, the next three days by the assistant Director of the Pilar Fathers’ Verna Educational complex, Fr Alfred Almeida and the last three days by the Rome-trained Bible scholar, Fr Simeao Fernandes. Vendors, participating in the 3-day traditional fair, were seen hurriedly erecting their stalls near the church square today evening.
