Matharpacady Holy Cross – 146th Anniversary Novena – Announcement

In these Times of Pandemic join Matharpacady Village in praying for protection:

The Holy Cross Oratory at Matharpacady was built in 1875 to testify how Faith in Jesus saved Matharpacady Village from the devastating Bubonic Plague.

With living faith:

The Annual Novena to the Holy Cross

(Patron Saint:  St Roque)

Commences:  7.30 p.m. IST, DAILY from

April  22 to 30, 2021

Cross Bells will be rung 7.30 p.m.

The Theme for the Novena this year is :

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land”.  2 Chron 7:14

The Feast Day Mass will be streamed live on Saturday, 1^st May 2021 at 7.00 pm on YouTube of “Our Lady of Rosary Church Dockyard”. The link for the same will be sent in due course.

Click on the link being sent to you daily, follow on your smart-phone or Smart TV, and sing, pray and rejoice simultaneously with your fellow residents of Matharpacady and neighbours in India and abroad.   Kindly click on the “SUBSCRIBE” icon on your screen for regular updates.

The link to our YouTube Channel is given below :

https://www.youtube.com/c/StanislausBaptista

You can scan the QR channel code given here

Please pass this message on to relatives, friends and well wishers and post/share/message this opportunity of His Love & Protection —

We are also attaching the link to The Daily Eucharist being celebrated by His Eminence,  Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay –

Please click on the link below to access the article in Sunday Midday, 18^th April 2021, pages 22 and 23 – “It Takes a Village to Heal a City” by Author-Publisher – Meher Marfatia

https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/it-takes-a-village-to-heal-a-city-23168991