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Sep
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Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels
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The liturgy celebrates the feast of these three archangels who are venerated in the tradition of the Church. Michael (Who is like God?) was the archangel who fought against Satan and all his evil angels, defending all the friends of God. He is the protector of all humanity from the snares of the devil. Gabriel (Strength of God) announced to Zachariah the forthcoming birth of John the Baptist, and to Mary, the birth of Jesus. His greeting to the Virgin, “Hail, full of grace,” is one of the most familiar and frequent prayers of the Christian people. Raphael (Medicine of God) is the archangel who took care of Tobias on his journey.
Before the reform of the General Roman Calendar today was only the feast of St. Michael. St. Gabriel was observed on March 24 and St. Raphael on October 24.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that, “[T]he existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls “angels” is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition.”
Angels are pure, created spirits. The name angel means servant or messenger of God. They are celestial or heavenly beings, on a higher order than human beings. An angel has no body and does not depend on matter for his existence or activity. They are distinct from saints, which men can become. Angels have intellect and will, and are immortal. They are a vast mulitude, but each is an individual person. Archangels are one of the nine choirs of angels listed in the Bible. In ascending order, the choirs or classes are 1) Angels, 2) Archangels, 3) Principalities, 4) Powers, 5) Virtues, 6) Dominations, 7) Thrones, 
Cherubim, and 9) Seraphim.
St. Michael
The name of the archangel Michael means, in Hebrew, who is like unto God? and he is also known as “the prince of the heavenly host.” He is usually pictured as a strong warrior, dressed in armor and wearing sandals. His name appears in Scripture four times, twice in the Book of Daniel, and once each in the Epistle of St. Jude and the Book of Revelation. From Revelation we learn of the battle in heaven, with St. Michael and his angels combatting Lucifer and the other fallen angels (or devils). We invoke St. Michael to help us in our fight against Satan; to rescue souls from Satan, especially at the hour of death; to be the champion of the Jews in the Old Testament and now Christians; and to bring souls to judgment.This day is referred to as “Michaelmas” in many countries and is also one of the harvest feast days. In England this is one of the “quarter days”, which was marked by hiring servants, electing magistrates, and beginning of legal and university terms. This day also marks the opening of the deer and other large game hunting season. In some parts of Europe, especially Germany, Denmark, and Austria, a special wine called “Saint Michael’s Love” (Michelsminne) is drunk on this day. The foods for this day vary depending on nationality. In the British Isles, for example, goose was the traditional meal for Michaelmas, eaten for prosperity, France has waffles or Gaufres and the traditional fare in Scotland used to be St. Michael’s Bannock (Struan Micheil) — a large, scone-like cake. In Italy, gnocchi is the traditional fare.
Patron: Against temptations; against powers of evil; artists; bakers; bankers; battle; boatmen; cemeteries; coopers; endangered children; dying; Emergency Medical Technicians; fencing; grocers; hatmakers; holy death; knights; mariners; mountaineers; paramedics; paratroopers; police officers; radiologists; sailors; the sick; security forces; soldiers; against storms at sea; swordsmiths; those in need of protection; Brussels, Belgium; Caltanissett, Sicily; Cornwall, England; Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee Florida; England; Germany; Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama; Papua, New Guinea; Puebla, Mexico; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Sibenik, Croatia; Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington; Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Symbols: Angel with wings; dressed in armour; lance and shield; scales; shown weighing souls; millstone; piercing dragon or devil; banner charged with a dove; symbolic colors orange or gold.
St. Gabriel
St. Gabriel’s name means “God is my strength”. Biblically he appears three times as a messenger. He had been sent to Daniel to explain a vision concerning the Messiah. He appeared to Zachary when he was offering incense in the Temple, to foretell the birth of his son, St. John the Baptist. St. Gabriel is most known as the angel chosen by God to be the messenger of the Annunciation, to announce to mankind the mystery of the Incarnation.The angel’s salutation to our Lady, so simple and yet so full of meaning, Hail Mary, full of grace, has become the constant and familiar prayer of all Christian people.
Patron: Ambassadors; broadcasting; childbirth; clergy; communications; diplomats; messengers; philatelists; postal workers; public relations; radio workers; secular clergy; stamp collectors; telecommunications; Portugal; Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington.
Symbols: Archangel; sceptre and lily; MR or AM shield; lantern; mirror; olive branch; scroll with words Ave Maria Gratia Plena; Resurrection trumpet; shield; spear; lily; symbolic colors, silver or blue.
St. Raphael
Our knowledge of the Archangel Raphael comes to us from the book of Tobit. His mission as wonderful healer and fellow traveller with the youthful Tobias has caused him to be invoked for journeys and at critical moments in life. Tradition also holds that Raphael is the angel that stirred the waters at the healing sheep pool in Bethesda. His name means “God has healed”.Patron: Blind; bodily ills; counselors; druggists; eye problems; guardian angels; happy meetings; healers; health inspectors; health technicians; love; lovers; mental illness; nurses; pharmacists; physicians; shepherds; against sickness; therapists; travellers; young people; young people leaving home for the first time; Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa; Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington.
Symbols: Staff; wallet and fish; staff and gourd; archangel; young man carrying a staff; young man carrying a fish; walking with Tobias; holding a bottle or flask; symbolic colors, gray or yellow.
Sep
29
Nuns excommunicated for involvement with heretical group
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By Malea Hargett | 9/28/2007 | Catholic News Service
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CNS) - Six sisters from the Monastery of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge in Hot Springs were excommunicated by the Catholic Church for their involvement in a schismatic association based in Quebec.
The excommunicated sisters have been longtime members of the Community of the Lady of All Nations, also known as the Army of Mary. They joined the association between 20 and 30 years ago and adopted the teachings of its founder, Marie-Paul Giguere, who believes she is the reincarnation of Mary.
The association is no longer considered a Catholic organization because of its false teachings on the Trinity and Mary, a Vatican official said.
“The Army of Mary has clearly and publicly become a schismatic community and, as such, a non-Catholic association. Its particular teachings are false and its activities are not able to be frequented nor supported by Catholics,” according to a formal declaration written July 11 by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The congregation released the declaration Sept. 12 and Msgr. J. Gaston Hebert, Little Rock’s diocesan administrator, learned of the decision Sept. 17. The Little Rock Diocese has been without a bishop since Bishop J. Peter Sartain was installed as bishop of Joliet, Ill., in June 2006. Read more
Sep
29
by Mary Kochan | September 28, 2007 | Source
September 30, 430 saw the death of the Latin Church Father St. Jerome and hence September 30th is his feast day. Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary Latin of his day. Since Latin was at that time, the common or “vulgar” tongue, his translation was called the “Latin Vulgate.”
Latin texts of the Scriptures were known from the infancy of the Church. But by Jerome’s time, many variations had crept into the various available Latin versions of the New Testament. Pope Damasus I committed to Jerome the task of organizing and revising the Latin versions and consolidating them so as to create an authenticated text that corresponded with the best attested Greek manuscripts available.
It would be useful at this point to consider a common misconception about the accuracy of the biblical text. One sometimes hears people say, “The Bible was copied and recopied so much that no one could know what it really said.” Let’s engage in a thought experiment for a minute — and anytime anyone says this, you might ask him to do the same.
What if you had a roomful of 20 people and you gave them all a copy of some text like the Gettysburg Address and asked them to copy it by hand? Would they all copy it correctly? Probably not. Might everyone of them make errors? That is very likely. But would any two of them make the same errors? Highly unlikely. Now once you had collected all the copies together, would you be able to reproduce the original text from them? Of course, you would. All you would have to do is look for the majority readings wherever there was a discrepancy. The more texts you have to work with, the easier the job (we call this work “textual criticism”) would be. So the number of copies of parts of Sacred Scripture does not in anyway tell against its accuracy, rather it gives scholars amazing testimony to the inspired Word of God especially compared to other ancient writings.
The following are some examples of the number of manuscripts of ancient writers that have survived. The plays of Aeschylus are preserved in perhaps 50 manuscripts, of which none is complete. Sophocles is represented by about 100 manuscripts, of which only 7 have any appreciable independent value. The Greek Anthology has survived in one solitary copy. The same is the case with a considerable part of Tacitus’ Annals. Of the poems of Catullus there are only 3 independent manuscripts. Some of the classical authors, such as Euripides, Cicero, Ovid, and especially Virgil, are better served with the numbers rising into the hundreds.
The numbers of manuscripts of other writers are: for Caesar’s Gallic War 10, Aristotle 49, Plato 7, Herodotus 8, Aristophanes 10. Apart from a few papyrus scraps only 8 manuscripts of Thucydides, considered by many to be one of the most accurate of ancient historians, have survived. Of the 142 books of the Roman History of Livy only 35 survive, represented in about 20 manuscripts. Homer’s Iliad is the best represented of all ancient writings, apart from the New Testament, with something like 700 manuscripts. However, there are many more significant variations in the Iliad manuscripts than there are in those of the New Testament.
When we come to the New Testament, however, we find a very different picture. Altogether we possess about 5,300 partial or complete Greek manuscripts. Early on, the New Testament books were translated into other languages, which seldom happened with other Greek and Latin writers. This means that in addition to Greek, we have something like 8,000 manuscripts in Latin, and an additional 8,000 or so manuscripts in other languages such as Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Gothic, Slavic, Sahidic and Georgian. As these translations began to be made before the close of the second century, they provide an excellent source for assessing the text of the New Testament writings from a very early date — Dick Tripp (Anglican Clergyman) Exploring Christianity – The Bible.
Because Jerome was able to work from Greek texts that were already considered ancient in his own day — and that have since been lost — his Latin translation remains of inestimable value to biblical scholars. He also translated the Old Testament from the Greek Septuagint into Latin, as well as making another translation of the Old Testament directly from Hebrew and Aramaic.
September 30, 1452 exactly 1022 years after St. Jerome’s death, the first printed book was published by Johann Guttenberg in Germany. And what text of the Bible did Guttenberg publish? Why the Latin text of Jerome, of course.
The Guttenberg Bible fixed, or stabilized, the text of Scripture much better than hand written copying could do, but even back in the 16th century, it was recognized that critical attention to Jerome’s text was sorely needed. During the intervening millennium, Jerome’s text had been copied and recopied by hand to the point where someone needed to do for it what Jerome himself had done for the Latin texts of his day. But it would not be until the 20th century that an attempt could be made to reconstitute Jerome’s translation according to a critical assessment of the surviving manuscripts.
Once again it was a pope, this time Pius X, who made it his determination to prepare for a critical revision of the Latin Bible. In May 1907, he assemble the abbots of the various Benedictine congregations in Rome and ordered the beginning of the long and arduous task of determining as accurately as possible the text of St. Jerome’s Latin translation, made in the fourth century.
This included decades of patient research through two world wars, locating, examining and photographing all the ancient manuscripts and portions of manuscripts held in libraries, museums and monasteries all over Europe. The work was finally published, beginning with the Latin Psalter in 1969, with other sections released throughout the 1970s, and the entire “Nova Vulgata” or “New Vulgate” in 1979.
St. Jerome, patron of scholars and librarians, must have surely been pleased.
Mary Kochan, Senior Editor of Catholic Exchange, writes from Douglasville, Georgia. Her lectures are available from Saint Joseph Communications.
Sep
29
John 1: 47 - 51
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47 Jesus saw Nathan’a-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”
48 Nathan’a-el said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 Nathan’a-el answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.”
51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”
Sep
28
Time Magazine is Irresponsible for Printing Pope John Paul II Euthanasia Article
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By Father Jonathan Morris Fox News Time Magazine has published a story that suggests John Paul II may have been euthanized by his doctors at his own request.
The article is blatantly irresponsible, for the reasons I will explain below. But of even greater journalistic concern are the author’s false statements about what the Catholic Church teaches regarding end-of-life care.
It would be in the magazine’s best interest to issue a public retraction of its error.
Blatantly Irresponsible
With the provocative title “Was John Paul II Euthanized?” Time editors have lobbed suspicion into the public square about the late pontiff’s personal integrity.
We are made to wonder if John Paul II practiced what he preached. The world knew him as the great defender of the dignity of human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, but according to Time’s report, when the going got tough, John Paul II himself may have thrown in the towel.
This would be a great story if it were true. The facts say it’s not.
Time regurgitates an article written by Italian medical professor Dr. Lina Pavanelli. She claims John Paul II did not die of natural causes, but rather by what the Catholic Church itself would consider euthanasia. Dr. Pavanelli says that from what she could see on television, the Pontiff was losing weight and had difficulty swallowing. Therefore, doctors should have inserted a feeding tube into the ailing patient much sooner than they did. Because she trusts that her medical colleagues who attended to the Pope would have offered him good advice, she surmises the Pope must have rejected the feeding tube with the intention of accelerating his own death.
The problem is Dr. Pavanelli — Time’s only source for this bombshell accusation — had no personal contact with the patient and no access to his medical records.
And everyone who did … says she is wrong. In Italy, her article was overlooked as bad science and good (so to speak) politics.
Time Magazine knows this. In fact, they quote John Paul II’s personal physician, Dr. Renato Buzzonetti, as saying, “His treatment was never interrupted. Anyone who says it was is mistaken.” The magazine also notes that, according to Dr. Buzzonetti, a permanent nasal feeding tube was inserted three days before the Pope’s death … as soon as he could no longer sufficiently ingest food or liquids.
That would seem like good timing. Read more
Sep
28
MENSAHE NG SANTO PAPA
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MENSAHE NG SANTO PAPA BENEDICTO XVI SA MGA KABATAAN NG DAIGDIG SA OKASYON NG IKA-XXIII PANDAIGDIGANG ARAW NG MGA KABATAAN, 2008
““Kayo ay tatanggap ng kapangyarihan pagbaba sa inyo ng Espiritu Santo; at kayo’y magiging mga saksi ko” [Gw 1:8]
Minamahal kong mga kaibigang kabataan!
1. Ang ika-XXIII Pandaigdigang Araw ng mga Kabataan
Lagi kong naalala nang may malaking kagalakan ang iba’t-ibang okasyong ating pinagsaluhan sa Cologne noong Agosto 2005. Sa katapusan ng di-makalilimutang pagpapakitang iyon ng pananampalataya at sigla na nananatiling nakaukit sa aking diwa at sa aking puso, gumawa ako ng isang tipanan sa inyo para sa susunod na pagtitipon na gaganapin sa Sydney sa 2008. Ito ang XXIII Pandaigdigang Araw ng mga Kabataan at ang magiging paksa ay: “Kayo ay tatanggap ng kapangyarihan pagbaba sa inyo ng Espiritu Santo; at kayo’y magiging mga saksi ko” [Gw 1:8]. Ang pinaka-paksa ng espiritwal na paghahanda para sa ating pagkikita sa Sydney ay ang Espiritu Santo at ang misyon. Noong 2006, itinuon natin ang ating pansin sa Espiritu Santo bilang Espiritu ng Katotohonan. Ngayong 2007 naghahanap tayo ng mas malalim na pag-unawa sa Espiritu ng Pag-ibig. Ipagpapatuloy natin ang paglalakbay patungo sa Pandaigdigang Araw ng mga Kabataan 2008 sa pamamagitan ng pagninilay sa Espiritu ng Lakas at Pagsaksi na nagbibigay sa atin ng tibay ng loob upang mamuhay ayon sa Ebanghelyo at ipahayag ito nang buong tapang. Kaya naman napakahalaga na bawat isa sa inyong mga kabataan – sa inyong mga pamayanan, at kasama yaong mga nangangalaga ng inyong edukasyon – ay makapagnilay dito sa Pangunahing Kinatawan ng kasaysayan ng kaligtasan, ang Espiritu Santo o ang Espiritu ni Hesus. Sa paraang ito ay makakamit ninyo ang sumusunod na mga matatayog na layon: ang makilala nang tunay ang Espiritu, unang-una sa pamamagitan ng pakikinig sa Salita ng Diyos sa Pagpapahayag ng Biblia; ang magkamalay nang malinaw tungkol sa kanyang patuloy at masiglang presensiya sa buhay ng Simbahan, lalo na habang inyong tinutuklas-muli na ang Espiritu Santo ay ang “kaluluwa”, ang nagbibigay-hininga sa buhay Kristiyano, sa pamamagitan ng mga sakramento ng Kristiyanong pagtanggap – Binyag, Kumpil at Eukaristiya; ang lumago sa gayon sa pag-unawa kay Hesus na nagiging mas malalim at mas masaya at, gayundin, ang isabuhay ang Ebanghelyo sa bukang-liwayway ng ikatlong milenyo. Sa mensaheng ito, magalak kong inihahandog sa inyo ang isang balangkas para sa pagninilay na maaari ninyong siyasatin dito sa taong ito ng paghahanda. Sa ganitong paraan masusubok ninyo ang kalidad ng inyong pananampalataya sa Espiritu Santo, masumpungan itong muli kung ito ay nawala, palakasin ito kung ito ay naging mahina, namnamin ito bilang pakikisama sa Ama at sa kanyang Anak na si Hesukristo, na isinasakatuparan sa pamamagitan ng di maisasantabing gawain ng Espiritu Santo. Huwag ninyong kalimutan na ang Simbahan, at ang buong sangkatauhan mismo, kasama ang lahat ng tao sa paligid ninyo ngayon at yaong mga naghihintay sa inyo sa hinaharap, ay malaki ang inaasahan mula sa inyong mga kabataan, sapagkat nasa loob ninyo ang pinakadakilang handog ng Ama, ang Espiritu ni Hesus. Read more
Sep
28
MESSAGE FOR THE END OF RAMADAN
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PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
MESSAGE FOR THE END OF RAMADAN
‘Id al-Fitr 1428 H. / 2007 a.d.
Christians and Muslims:
called to promote a culture of peace
Dear Muslim Friends,
1. It gives me special pleasure to send you for the first time friendly and warmest greetings from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue on the occasion of your joyful feast of ‘Id al-Fitr, with which the month-long fasting and prayer of Ramadan ends. This month is always an important time for the Muslim community and gives to each individual member a new strength for their personal, family and social existence. It matters that all of us witness to our religious beliefs with a life increasingly integrated and in conformity with the Creator’s plan, a life concerned with serving our brothers and sisters in ever increasing solidarity and fraternity with members of other religions and all men of good will, in the desire to work together for the common good.
2. In the troubled times we are passing through, religious believers have, as servants of the Almighty, a duty above all to work in favour of peace, by showing respect for the convictions of individuals and communities everywhere through freedom of religious practice. Religious freedom, which must not be reduced to mere freedom of worship, is one of the essential aspects of freedom of conscience, which is the right of every individual and a cornerstone of human rights. It takes into account the requirement that a culture of peace and solidarity between men can be built in which everybody can be firmly engaged in the construction of an increasingly fraternal society, doing everything one can to reject, denounce and refuse every recourse to violence which can never be motivated by religion, since it wounds the very image of God in man. We know that violence, especially terrorism which strikes blindly and claims countless innocent victims, is incapable of resolving conflicts and leads only to a deadly chain of destructive hatred, to the detriment of mankind and of societies.
3. As religious believers, it’s up to us all to be educators of peace, of human rights, of a freedom which respects each person, but also to ensure increasingly strong social bonds, because man must take care of his human brothers and sisters without discrimination. No individual in the national community should be excluded on the grounds of his or her race, religion, or any other personal characteristic. Together, as members of different religious traditions, we are called to spread a teaching which honours all human creatures, a message of love between individuals and peoples. We are particularly responsible for ensuring that our young people, who will be in charge of tomorrow’s world, are formed in this spirit. It is above all the responsibility of families and then of those involved in the educational world, and of civic and religious authorities, all of whom have a duty to pay attention to the spread of a just teaching. They must provide everyone an education appropriate to his or her particular circumstances, especially a civic education which invites each young person to respect those around him or her, and to consider them as brothers and sisters with whom he or she is daily called to live, not in indifference, but in fraternal care. It is thus more urgent than ever to teach to the younger generations, those fundamental human, moral and civic values which are necessary to both personal and community life. All instances of incivility must be made use of to remind the young of what is waiting for them in social life. It is the common good of every society and of the entire world which is at stake.
4. In this spirit, the pursuit and intensification of dialogue between Christians and Muslims must be considered important, in both educational and cultural dimensions. Thus all forces can be mobilised in the service of mankind and humanity so that the younger generations do not become cultural or religious blocs opposed to one another, but genuine brothers and sisters in humanity. Dialogue is the tool which can help us to escape from the endless spiral of conflict and multiple tensions which mark our societies, so that all peoples can live in serenity and peace and with mutual respect and harmony among their component groups.
To achieve this, I appeal to you with all my heart to heed my words, so that, by means of encounters and exchanges, Christians and Muslims will work together in mutual respect for peace and for a better future for all people; it will provide an example for the young people of today to follow and imitate. They will then have a renewed confidence in society and will see the advantage in belonging and taking part in its transformation. Education and example will also be a source of hope in the future for them.
5. This is the ardent hope I share with you: that Christians and Muslims continue to develop increasingly friendly and constructive relationships in order to share their specific riches, and that they will pay particular attention to the quality of the witness of their believers.
Dear Muslim Friends, once again I give you my warmest greetings on the occasion of your festival and I ask the God of Peace and Mercy to give you all, good health, serenity and prosperity.
Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran
President
Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata
Secretary
Sep
28
St Thérèse of Lisieux
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Our Lord does not come down from Heaven every day to lie in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to him-the heaven of our souls, created in His Image, the living temples of the Adorable Trinity.
– St Thérèse of Lisieux
Sep
28
Lorenzo Ruiz
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![[Saint Lorenzo Ruiz]](http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintl17.jpg "23kb jpg holy card of San Lorenzo, artist unknown; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do no write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Laurence Ruiz; Lawrence Ruiz
- Memorial
- 28 September
- Profile
- Chinese father, Filipino mother, both Christians. He learned Chinese and Tagalog from them, Spanish from the Dominicans whom he served as altar boy and sacristan. Professional calligrapher and documents transcriptionist. Member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. Married layman, and the father of two sons and a daughter.For unknown reasons, Lorenzo was accused of murder. He sought asylum on board ship with three Dominican priests, Saint Antonio Gonzalez, Saint Guillermo Courtet, and Saint Miguel de Aozaraza, a Japanese priest, Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz, and a layman named Saint Lazaro of Kyoto, a leper. Only when they were at sea did he learn that they were going to Japan during a time of intense Christian persecution.Lorenzo could have gone to Formosa (modern Taiwan), but feared the Spaniards there would hang him, and so stayed with the missionaries as they landed at Okinawa. The group was soon exposed as Christian, arrested, and taken to Nagasaki. They were tortured in several ways for days. Lawrence and the Japanese priest broke at one point, and were ready to renounce their faith in exchange for release, but after their moment of crisis, they reclaimed their faith and defied their tormentors. First canonized Filipino martyr.
- Born
- c.1600 at Binondo, Manila, Philippines
- Died
- 29-30 September 1637 at Nagasaki, Japan by being crushed over a period of three days while hanging upside down; body burned, ashes thrown into the Pacific Ocean
- Beatified
- 18 February 1981 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II
- Prayers
- Novena Prayer to…
- Readings
- Governors: “If we grant you life, will you renounce your faith?”Lawrence: “That I will never do, because I am a Christian, and I shall die for God, and for him I will give many thousands of lives if I had them. And so, do with me as you please.”
Philippine Pastoral Center/Chapel of San Lorenzo
Sep
28
Luke 9: 18 - 22
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18 Now it happened that as he was praying alone the disciples were with him; and he asked them “Who do the people say that I am?”
19 And they answered, “John the Baptist; but others say, Eli’jah; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen.”
20 And he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
21 But he charged and commanded them to tell this to no one,
22 saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
