Invitation to Birthday Celebration of St Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Sri Lanka and Kanara, India on 20th April 2024 at 19.00

organized by the Joseph Naik Vaz Institute
with the Sacred Heart Tamil Catholic community
at Our Lady of Refuge Parish, San Jose

Remembering that St. Joseph Vaz first smuggled himself into the northern traditionally Tamil part of Sri Lanka in 1687, was sheltered by the few underground Catholics left there and studied Tamil from them. He founded a Para-liturgy and Catholic Literature in the Tamil and Sinhala languages of Sri Lanka.
The celebrant will be Rev. Dr. Louis Lava S.J.
20th April 2024 at 07.00 PM: Bilingual Mass (Tamil-English)
Address: 2165 Lucretia Ave, San Jose, CA 95122
By Reservation only: text Noella @ 415-370-3591
or email us at [email protected]
https://www.josephnaikvaz.org