Dr. Joseph Farrugia - 40 years responsible for pastoral care of tourism

Dr. Joseph Farrugia celebrates his 40th anniversary being responsible for pastoral care of tourism

On 1^st June 1983, Dr. Joseph Farrugia was appointed being responsible for the pastoral care of tourism. He replaced GC Josef Franzl. In that time, priest Joe Farrugia formed the Vienna International Religious Centre (VIRC). The VIRC is constantly offering weekly an international mass in six languages. The mass is held in english, especially for tourists and people who are living in Vienna, but do not speak german. The psalm, intercessions and the readings are in italian, spanish, french or/and german language. Furthermore, the folder Grüß Gott is printed yearly in order to help the otherspeaking communities as well as ecumenical partners. This year 14'000 samples are shared with hotels, innercity churches or events. As a map is included, a requested service can be found very quickly, also for orthodoxe and protestant ones. At Easter and Christmas time (including the preparation time) there are further folders with special offers in that special times.

We have celebrated this anniversary on Sunday, 18^th June 2023. Nevertheless, you are cordially invited to attend our International (multilingual) Mass at the Votive Church (9th district, Street of 8th May) every Sunday at 11:30.

This mass is held every week. We invite you to hear the word of God and we are happy to assist you to get more contacts in Vienna. It doesn't matter if you easily join the mass as participant or you would like to contribute a further service.

In addition, preparation to the holy sacraments, will be offered in various languages or we also can refer to further language communites.

If you are looking for a funeral or a blessing in another language than german, please also get in contact with us.

In our community there are a lot of people with different, insteresting biographies and professional careers. As a lot of them have to leave/change their residence, we are challenged to get involved with the specific needs of our community from time to time. Therefore the offers differ from year to year.

By the way, do you know our VIRC Bookmark?

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