PANJIM: Archbishop of Goa and Daman Most Rev Filipe Neri Ferrão on Thursday announced that the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India will be organising a National Prayer Service for the Health of the World on August 7, from 8.30 am to 9.30 pm.
On that day, the Church in India, as one family, will be in prayer for the health of the world, in view of the difficult times that the people of our nation have been going through on account of COVID-19. This prayer will be conducted from the tombs of St Thomas in Chennai, St Francis Xavier in Goa and St Teresa of Kolkata as well as from the major Marian Basilicas of India, V G Mount Mary’s, Mumbai; Sardhana (Meerut), Hyderabad, Bangalore and Vailankanni. It will be telecast by countrywide Catholic Television and YouTube channels, including our own Diocesan YouTube channel and CCR TV.
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During this Prayer Service, we shall raise up to God all the victims of COVID-19, living and deceased, without discrimination of creed or race, particularly the deceased bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful to whom the Church was not able to give a decent funeral due to the pandemic restrictions. While Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai will give a reflection, Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi will consecrate the people of our nation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Archbishop stated in his circular.
The Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be imparted from our own Basilica of Bom Jesus by Archbishop Filipe Neri and the concluding prayer song will be telecast from the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, Vailankanni.
