Another Sunday, another Filipino Saint to celebrate, San Pedro Calungsod!
Please join the community in celebrating our second Filipino Saint.
San Pedro Calungsod, was a Catholic Filipino-Visayan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, proselytized and forcefully converted the indigenous people of Guam, in many cases without consent, which led to them being martyred in 1672.
While in Guam, Calungsod preached Christianity to the Chamorros through catechesis, while baptizing infants, children, and adults through colonization. Through Calungsod and San Vitores's missionary efforts, many native Chamorros were forced to convert to Catholicism. He remains a contentious figure in Chamorro history and scholarly research for his involvement in the Spanish–Chamorro Wars, where the indigenous Chamorro peoples were brutally decimated through colonization and genocide.
Calungsod was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II, and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on October 21, 2012. ~ Wikipedia
Schedule:
11:30AM - Rosary
11:50AM - Procession Assembly
12:00Noon - Holy Mass
1:00PM - Reception & fellowship
Thank you in advance to our reception donors. Everyone is welcome to bring their favorite food to share. Please let us know.
PS: There will be a 2nd collection at church and donation box during reception for the victims of the earthquake in Cebu, Archdiocesan Shrine of Santa Rosa de Lima Church in Daanbantayan, Cebu will be the recipient of our donation. Maraming Salamat.
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