St Joseph Vaz
- Victor Colaco
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 15
Saint, our own from our land, Now the apostle of Sri Lanka( formerly Ceylon). Jan 16th is the feast day, pray and intercede for us in the company of our Lord.
In a faraway land, formerly Ceylon now Sri Lanka, he reinvigorated a faith unde the guise of a beggar or a laborer, with great risk to his life, the faith that was almost extinguished under the tough strictures of the Calvinist, who abhorred the One true Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith, the warm embers that other religious orders labored, toiled and planted in His vineyard in Goa.
Yes, the seed was planted in our land some 500 years ago or more and the seed blossomed into a tree. Its million leaves iridescent and suffused by this beautiful faith, as we bear witness wherever we go, whatever, be our fate and though we stumble and fall sometimes, we can gaze upon that rugged cross, on the One who bore our transgressions and walk again freely for another mile, till it's journey's end, and time to bid adeus and go home.
Pax Christi, happy feast!!
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