There are approximately some 200 families from Kerala in Vasai. There is large number of Latin Catholic people also here. They have been going to the syro- Malabar Catholic Church for their spiritual activities or they themselves went to the neighbouring Marti parishes or available parishes for the spiritual activities. But they were not satisfied about this. So for a long time they have been longing to have the Eucharistic celebration in Malayalam. Since, no priests were there, who could manage with Malayalam, they could not do anything much. Now that we two Kerala Priests are here, they decided to have Malayalam Eucharist celebration. All the malayalee people had joined together and asked the permission of the Bishop for this. The bishop was very happy to hear about that and he decided to make it a historical event. So on 24th of May 2009 at 4 PM there was welcome ceremony in the Bishop house Vasai. The Bishop welcomed all the malayalee people. There was a short welcome ceremony and Bishop gave an official welcome to all of them to this program. Very clearly he said that the people from Kerala have the same equal rights for the Eucharistic celebration here in the diocese of Vasai. So people are happy and we celebrated our first Eucharistic celebration after the meeting. Fr. Aji celebrated the Eucharist and he gave a beautiful sermon. Fr. Aji was with all these people and he was going about taking the details of the people and so on. So now every Sunday we will be having Eucharistic celebrations in the Bishop house or in a parish.
There was an advertisement in malayala manorama on Sunday about this and on Monday there was an article and a photo of the program was there in the same news paper. So we hope to have a vibrant malayalee community in Vasai.
The origin and hope of this community is not something divisional or a divided community rather, it is a need of the people here. They have come long way from Kerala to here and they lack the spiritual exercises, for either they are in an unknown language situation or they are in a different rite Eucharistic celebration, which they not accosted with. So the need arises for a more meaningful celebration. AS long as we SCJs are here we can help them and also it would be a great help for our congregation here in Vasai.
There was an advertisement in malayala manorama on Sunday about this and on Monday there was an article and a photo of the program was there in the same news paper. So we hope to have a vibrant malayalee community in Vasai.
The origin and hope of this community is not something divisional or a divided community rather, it is a need of the people here. They have come long way from Kerala to here and they lack the spiritual exercises, for either they are in an unknown language situation or they are in a different rite Eucharistic celebration, which they not accosted with. So the need arises for a more meaningful celebration. AS long as we SCJs are here we can help them and also it would be a great help for our congregation here in Vasai.
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