Come and celebrate our native Saints!
Invitation from the Joseph Naik Vaz Institute, California
Offering Masses for the Beatification and Canonization
of our Indian and Sri Lankan Saints since 1978
2018 Annual St. Joseph Vaz Feast Day and our Indianand Sri Lankan Saints Day Mass
12:30 p.m. Mass on Sunday Jan 28, 2018
at St. John the Baptist Church
1152 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito CA 94530
near del Norte BART station
Concelebrants – Fr. Shantaraj S.J. and Fr. Francis Fernandes S.J.
Jesuit School of Theology, GTU Berkeley and UC Santa Clara
St. Joseph Vaz (1656-1711)
Apostle of Kanara and Sri Lanka
Special Intention
Beatification of Ven. Fr. Agnelo of Pilar
and native born saints and models of sanctity and service
St. Alphonsa, St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara, St. Euphrasia Eluvathingal
Bl. Devasahayam Pillai, Bl. Rani Maria
Fr. Jacome Goncalves, Oratorian Companion of St. Joseph Vaz, founder of Sinhala and Tamil Catholic literature of Sri Lanka
The Martyrs of Mannar and the Martyrs of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Simon Collaco, Muppu of Colombo, helper of St. Joseph Vaz during the Dutch persecution
Names of recent models of sanctity have been added by request
Msgr. R.F.C. Mascarenhas, Founder, Sisters of the little Flower of Bethany, Mangalore
Thomas Cardinal Cooray of Sri Lanka
Fr. Bento Martins, one of the Founders of Pilar
Sister Joan Pinto. Holy Family Sisters, “The Angel of Prisons”
Sr. Maria Celine Kannanaikal, UMI (Ursulines of Mary Immaculate)
For information and No host lunch reservation
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