The Bishop of Mannar Diocese was addressing those who were present at the centenary celebration of the Shrine of Our Lady of Matara.

He said, “We wish to have a country in which every community and each ethnic group would be able to live with their identity and enjoying an equal right and dignity”.

“Let us decide in this sacred grounds to live in peace and harmony, unity and equality in this blessed land of ours as members of one family although we have multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural people living in different parts of the country”.

Citing the tsunami catastrophe and the Southern district as one of the worst affected areas in the country, the Archbishop observed that over 45,000 lives were lost in the tsunami but the loss of lives through abortion is much more than the lives lost by the tsunami.

The Festive Concelebrated Holy Mass offered in Thanksgiving to God through Virgin Mary, for the grace bestowed on the Sri Lanka Church and the especially to the Catholic community living in Matara district during the past one hundred years.

With the Colombo Archbishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis in the chair, the Member Bishops of the Catholic Bishops Conference Sri Lanka representing Anuradhapura, Badulla, Chilaw, Kandy, Galle, Kurunegala and Mannar along with the Pro Nuncio Archbishop Mario Zenari, Colombo Archbishop Emeritus Nicholas Marcus Fernando and Chilaw Bishop Emeritus Frank Marcus Fernando offered the Sacrifice.

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