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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