India's first deaf-mute priest leads Mass at Old Goa

For the first time a mass was celebrated through sign language at the SFX Training Centre for Children with Disability at Old Goa on Sunday morning which was celebrated by Fr Joseph Thermadam, who earlier in May this year became the only deaf-and-mute to be ordained a Catholic Priest in India.

Thermadam celebrated the mass at 9.30 am -- silent through sign language -- and in the congregation were 120 deaf Catholic pilgrims who accompanied him along with deaf members of the Goan Catholic laity.