Brazil – Knowing and Spreading Salesian Holiness

Brazil – Knowing and Spreading Salesian Holiness
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30 June 2016

(ANS – Sao José dos Campos) – During a Mass presided over by Pope Francis in Santa Marta, in the Vatican, the Holy Father explained that sanctity “cannot be bought. Neither can it be gained with the best human strength. The simple holiness which all Christians are called to is a path that can be walked only if it is sustained by four unavoidable elements: courage, hope, grace and conversion”. One of the amazing things in Saints is that “they teach us to live ordinary life in an extraordinary way”. After the first Seminar on the promotion of the causes of beatification and canonization of the Salesian Family, which was held in Rome in April, other similar events were organized in various parts of the world, with the aim of making Salesian Holiness known.

Last June 8th, for instance, Fr. Silvio Cesar da Silva, the parish priest of the Salesian presence of Sao José dos Campos, Province of Brazil-Sao Paulo, gathered about 200 faithful in the Pastoral Centre of his parish to speak to them of the processes of beatification and canonization of the Saints of the Salesian Family.

The event was a reproduction of the seminar that was held in Rome last April and served to invite the faithful to spread the knowledge of the causes of the saints of the Salesian Family.

In Brazil, for instance, venerable Rudolf Komorek, SDB, who spent his life in the missions of Brazil, is relatively well known. He was affectionately called “the saintly father” and some witnesses said of him: “We never saw a man pray so much”.

“We are used to asking the intercession of venerable Fr. Rudolf for our projects. But how much do we know of his story? We must do our best that devotion to Fr. Rudolf be more popular and more accessible to all. The entire community needs to know and spread this cause,” explained Fr. Cesar da Silva, who was appointed new Vice-postulator of the cause of Fr. Komorek.

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