Friday, May 31, 2019

WE HAVE A NEW CANDIDATE FOR SAINTHOOD!



Praise God, we Filipinos have a new candidate for sainthood.

A story in https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/696309/pinoy-teen-is-a-step-closer-to-sainthood/story/?featured reported that the Vatican has declared Filipino teenage Darwin Ramos a "Servant of God."

A post on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) website said the declaration, which is the preliminary process for sainthood, was issued on March 29 by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints Cardinal Angelo Becciu.

Other steps towards sainthood are declarations of Venerable, Blessed and Canonization.

The CBCP reported that Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao initiated the process for the canonization at the request of The Friends of Darwin Ramos Association.
“The Vatican has given us the go signal to go deeper in his life how he lived his faith and how he gave witness to Jesus to whom he was very close,” Ongtioco said.

Ramos, who was born and raised in the slums of Pasay City, worked as a scavenger to help increase the family income. He was later diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. As the disease progressed, his muscles weakened until he could no longer stand.

Despite his condition, he participated in charity work for street children. In 2006, he was baptized. The following year he received his first communion and the sacrament of confirmation. In 2012, his condition worsened.

He was brought to the Philippine Children’s Medical Center in Quezon where, despite his condition, he thanked everyone for helping him. On Sept. 23 that year, he died at the age of 17.

My only comment: Let us all pray, AS ONE NATION, for the sainthood of Darwin. And let us pray to him to help heal and save us, and our beloved country, from the forces of evil who wouldn’t stop from trying to tear us apart as a race.
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