Today, October 23, 2011, World Mission Sunday,
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will canonize at Saint Peter's Basilica three faithful:
GUIDO MARIA CONFORTI,
archbishop of Parma and founder of the Pious Society of Saint Francis Xavier
for Foreign Missions (Xaverian Missionaries);
archbishop of Parma and founder of the Pious Society of Saint Francis Xavier
for Foreign Missions (Xaverian Missionaries);
LUIGI GUANELLA,
priest and founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Charity (Guanellians)
and of the Institute of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence; and,
priest and founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Charity (Guanellians)
and of the Institute of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence; and,
BONIFACIA RODRÍGUEZ DE CASTRO,
founder of the
Congregation of the Servants of Saint Joseph.
Because of these three gifts for our Church and our Faith,
we shall hear again the sweet formula of Canonization
from the very mouth of the Vicar of Christ:
we shall hear again the sweet formula of Canonization
from the very mouth of the Vicar of Christ:
“For the honor of the Blessed Trinity, the exaltation of the Catholic
faith and the fostering of Christian life, by the authority of our Lord
Jesus Christ, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and our own, after
due deliberation and frequent prayers for divine assistance, and having
sought the counsel of many of our brethren in the Episcopate, we declare
and define that Blessed Guido Maria Conforti, Blessed Luigi Guanella and Blessed Bonifacia Rodriguez Castro are Saints and we
enroll them among the Saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated in
the whole Church as Saints.”
