Eucharistic meet mourns Paris carnage

Cardinal Oswald Gracias invites the delegates to spend a few moments of silence to pray for the victims of the terrorist attack in Paris (Facebook photo)

 

Mumbai: Friday’s carnage in Paris cast a shadow over the ongoing Eucharistic Congress in Goregaon as well.

Archbishop Oswald Cardinal Gracias, of of Bombay  led the 850 delegates in observing a few moments of silence to pray for the victims who perished in the serial attacks.

Later in the evening, a mass pilgrimage was undertaken to the shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni in Uttan, and here too, the congregation mourned the innocent loss of lives.

(http://mattersindia.com/eucharistic-meet-mourns-paris-carnage/)

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