MERCES: The Feast of St Cecilia was celebrated with great job at Our Lady of Merces Church Merces on Friday. Musicians young and old from all over Goa participated in the mass and thereafter played their instruments. Fr Simon D’Cunha chaplain of St Joaquim Chapel Borda,
Fr Arnoldo Pinho and other priests celebrated the mass and blessed the musicians and their instrument. St. Cecilia is the patroness of musicians and Church music because, as she was dying, she sang to God.