We the members of Gujarati Catholic Samaj of USA welcome Fr. Jeba Malai to USA. We wish him all the best while he is here. Let’s know who Fr. Jeba Malai is.
Name : Fr. Jeba Malai
Date of birth : 1st October 1957
Year of Ordination : 26th April 1987
Worked in the missions of Ahmedabad : Matar, Mehmedabad, Nadiad and Mirzapur from 1987 – 2001
Worked in the missions of Archdiocese of Gandhinagar :
Parish Priest in Gandhinagar from 1996-2001
Master’s degree in Marriage and Family from 2001-2002 in Kerala
Director of Family Apostolate from 2002 onwards
Secretary to the Archbishop and Financial Administrator of Archdiocese from 2003- 2013
Director of Archdiocesan Pastoral Centre, Pethapur from 2009 onwards
Vicar General of Archdiocese of Gandhinagar from January 2014 – May 2014
Now he has come to St. Vito’s Church, 816 Underhill Avenue, Mamaroneck, New York as a Parochial Vicar. Msgr.
Rev. Monsignor James White is his Pastor. Fr. Jeba said that his pastor is very kind. He is enjoying his stay over here. He said they had good celebration of Pentecost on Sunday.
Fr. Jeba said he would be happy to meet us and celebrate Holy Mass for Gujarati Community.
We will arrange for him to celebrate Gujarati Mass for us in near future.
The world-famous International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima was sculpted in 1947 by Jose Thedim, based on the description of Sr. Lucia, one of the three young seers who saw Our Lady each month from May to October 1917 in Fatima, Portugal.
On October 13, 1947, in the presence of some 150,000 pilgrims, the statue was blessed by the Bishop of Leiria at Fatima, Portugal to be the pilgrim, the traveler.
Sent out to bring the Message of Fatima to the world, the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue has traveled the world many times, visiting more than 100 countries, including Russia and Red China, bringing the great message of hope, “the peace plan from heaven,” to millions of people. Many miracles and signal graces are reported wherever the statue travels including shedding tears many times.
In 1951, Pope Pius XII remarked: “In 1946, we crowned Our Lady of Fatima as Queen of the World and the next year, through Her Pilgrim Statue, She set forth as though to claim Her dominion, and the favors She performs along the way are such that we can hardly believe what we are seeing with our eyes.”
The Pilgrim Virgin Committee was formed to carry out the mandate set down by the Bishop of Fatima in 1947 and now, after 54 years, Pope John Paul II says that the Message of Fatima is more urgent now than ever. So, the Pilgrim Virgin Committee continues to bring the statue to the world and the demand for visits of the statue remains.
