PRESS RELEASE FROM THE JOSEPH NAIK VAZ INSTITUTE THE JANUARY 16 FEAST MASS OF AN INDIAN-SRI LANKAN FIRST RESPONDER AND SAINT ON YOUTUBE ON OUR WEBSITE www.josephnaikvaz.org Special Intention for Healing from Covid-19
We invite you to our live stream mass on Saturday, January 16, 2021 Feast Mass of St. Joseph Vaz, at 5:30 p.m. California time. The link for the live stream Mass is at https://josephnaikvaz.org/ or https://youtu.be/6N7aBq9capQ This annual mass is offered for the feast of St. Joseph Vaz and the beatification of Ven.Fr. Agnelo. It will be offered by Rev. Fr. Olvin Veigas S.J. from the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore. Our main Intention this year is to pray for the victims of Covid-19 and their families, for First Responders, for national leaders to make wise policies, in Thanksgiving for vaccines, and Healing from Covid-19. The single most consuming concern for humanity in 2020 has been the Coronavirus - Covid19 - pandemic affecting 218 countries and territories around the world. We invite you to say our Prayer for Healing from Covid-19 through the intercession of St. Joseph Vaz, a saintly model for First Responders, which is on our website, see https://josephnaikvaz.org/archives/957 In all this, we are thankful for First Responders and frontline workers who provide those affected by this pandemic with health care and services, often with a risk to their own lives. We ask you to read our article on our website about St. Joseph Vaz, as an Indian-Sri Lankan First Responder when he nursed the abandoned victims during the smallpox epidemic in 1697 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, see https://josephnaikvaz.org/archives/974 As well as our own Feast Mass, Bishop Oscar Cantü of San Jose, Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore, Bishop Peter Paul Saldanha of Mangalore, and Bishop Michael Barber S.J. of Oakland, California are offering Masses for the Feast of St. Joseph Vaz and for Covid–19 intentions. If you have any questions about the Feast Mass we are offering on January 16, please email josephnaik....@gmail.com Thank you. Joseph Naik Vaz Institute https://josephnaikvaz.org/archives/972
