Our MRMS may one day roll with fire and scent of heavenly rose and all in what demographic experts predict to be the most populous country in the world. That is, they statistically find that — due to the one child policy in China, too — INDIA is going to exceed China in population in about 5 more years or so. Surely it would be no accident to launch our MRMS in INDIA, God-willing, since the support may grow to be the greatest on that land than on any other. There is also a chance that it may start in Texas, USA.
To help with whatsoever Our Divine Heavenly Father and Our Human Immortal Heavenly Mother may will — feel free to invoke St. John de Britto, a great martyr and Jesuit. He is the only saint that I ever learned of who was consecrated to St. Francis Xavier and at an early age due to a serious illness he had [The saint he was cured by, St. FX, is reputed to have brought back from the dead more than any other saint — see the famous book Saints Who Raised the Dead… or this site: http://www.miraclesofthechurch.com/2010/10/raised-from-dead-saints-who-brought.html ]
St. John de Britto is also only of very few saints ever known to have been martyred in India. A tremendously informative and gracious program on him has been put together on this website made in India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XuSdhSgolo There you’ll see how he is called “the Red Sand Martyr.” I have adopted him as my favorite missionary not only for the future but the present, wheresoever God has me placed. Feel free to invoke him for our MRMS, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever God may wish it to plant, grow, flower and spread.
Finally, as China was mentioned above, feel free to invoke the great Chinese Mystical Rose Archbishop Joseph Zheng who built the following famous Sanctuary in Her honor: see — http://www.lngplants.com/CatholicChina.html
Bishop Joseph Zheng Changcheng of Fuzhou, though gravely ill, has continued working to develop the popular Marian shrine in his diocese in southeastern China. Rosa Mystica Sanctuary, which Fuzhou Diocese inaugurated in 1993, houses Our Lady of the Rosary Church, a library and a guesthouse. It is located in Changle, about 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) southeast of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province.
Bishop Zheng, 94, was diagnosed with cancer {but now deceased} of the esophagus in June, but he continued to plan and add new exhibits to the shrine until his health deteriorated in September, Sister Zheng Wenying told UCA News Oct. 16. Her convent manages the shrine and has a convent in the complex. Three days after the “open-church” bishop was hospitalized in Fuzhou on Sept. 22, construction work began on the “Science and Religion” gallery he designed. The prelate asked the contractors to finish before the end of October, the month traditionally devoted to the rosary, when pilgrimages peak. The hilltop shrine, formerly called Rosary Hill, features sculptures depicting the Stations of the Cross, carvings associated with the mysteries of the rosary, statues of the blessed mother and gardens. The new gallery, near the shrine entrance at the foot of the hill, features portraits of 13 well-known scientists, accompanied by plaques bearing information on them and their respective views on religion. The scientists include Isaac Newton and James Watt. Bishop Zheng wrote all the accompanying text. The plaque for Albert Einstein includes the quotation: “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” The exhibit tells visitors that the Catholic faith is rational and closely connected with science, Sister Zheng explained. Bishop Zheng, who has a special affection for the blessed mother, told UCA News in September that one of his last wishes is to have the Holy Father approve the shrine as a pilgrimage site and the church as a basilica.
According to Sister Zheng, local Catholics and those from other provinces flock to the shrine for pilgrimages in May and October. Tens of thousands already have come this month, many of them for the Oct. 7 feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the diocese’s patronal feast. All 26 diocesan priests celebrated the feast-day Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Church with about 3,000 Catholics attending. It was the first time since Bishop Zheng was ordained bishop of Fuzhou in 1991 that he did not preside at the Mass. It has been held at the shrine since it opened in 1993. Pilgrimage activities at the shrine climaxed on Oct. 13, the day commemorating the last of the six times the blessed mother appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. On that day, more than 5,000 Catholics from Fuzhou and nearby dioceses in Shanghai city, and Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces visited and prayed at the shrine, Sister Zheng said.
To help with whatsoever Our Divine Heavenly Father and Our Human Immortal Heavenly Mother may will — feel free to invoke St. John de Britto, a great martyr and Jesuit. He is the only saint that I ever learned of who was consecrated to St. Francis Xavier and at an early age due to a serious illness he had [The saint he was cured by, St. FX, is reputed to have brought back from the dead more than any other saint — see the famous book Saints Who Raised the Dead… or this site: http://www.miraclesofthechurch.com/2010/10/raised-from-dead-saints-who-brought.html ]
St. John de Britto is also only of very few saints ever known to have been martyred in India. A tremendously informative and gracious program on him has been put together on this website made in India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XuSdhSgolo There you’ll see how he is called “the Red Sand Martyr.” I have adopted him as my favorite missionary not only for the future but the present, wheresoever God has me placed. Feel free to invoke him for our MRMS, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever God may wish it to plant, grow, flower and spread.
Finally, as China was mentioned above, feel free to invoke the great Chinese Mystical Rose Archbishop Joseph Zheng who built the following famous Sanctuary in Her honor: see — http://www.lngplants.com/CatholicChina.html
Bishop Joseph Zheng Changcheng of Fuzhou, though gravely ill, has continued working to develop the popular Marian shrine in his diocese in southeastern China. Rosa Mystica Sanctuary, which Fuzhou Diocese inaugurated in 1993, houses Our Lady of the Rosary Church, a library and a guesthouse. It is located in Changle, about 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) southeast of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province.
Bishop Zheng, 94, was diagnosed with cancer {but now deceased} of the esophagus in June, but he continued to plan and add new exhibits to the shrine until his health deteriorated in September, Sister Zheng Wenying told UCA News Oct. 16. Her convent manages the shrine and has a convent in the complex. Three days after the “open-church” bishop was hospitalized in Fuzhou on Sept. 22, construction work began on the “Science and Religion” gallery he designed. The prelate asked the contractors to finish before the end of October, the month traditionally devoted to the rosary, when pilgrimages peak. The hilltop shrine, formerly called Rosary Hill, features sculptures depicting the Stations of the Cross, carvings associated with the mysteries of the rosary, statues of the blessed mother and gardens. The new gallery, near the shrine entrance at the foot of the hill, features portraits of 13 well-known scientists, accompanied by plaques bearing information on them and their respective views on religion. The scientists include Isaac Newton and James Watt. Bishop Zheng wrote all the accompanying text. The plaque for Albert Einstein includes the quotation: “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” The exhibit tells visitors that the Catholic faith is rational and closely connected with science, Sister Zheng explained. Bishop Zheng, who has a special affection for the blessed mother, told UCA News in September that one of his last wishes is to have the Holy Father approve the shrine as a pilgrimage site and the church as a basilica.
According to Sister Zheng, local Catholics and those from other provinces flock to the shrine for pilgrimages in May and October. Tens of thousands already have come this month, many of them for the Oct. 7 feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the diocese’s patronal feast. All 26 diocesan priests celebrated the feast-day Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Church with about 3,000 Catholics attending. It was the first time since Bishop Zheng was ordained bishop of Fuzhou in 1991 that he did not preside at the Mass. It has been held at the shrine since it opened in 1993. Pilgrimage activities at the shrine climaxed on Oct. 13, the day commemorating the last of the six times the blessed mother appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. On that day, more than 5,000 Catholics from Fuzhou and nearby dioceses in Shanghai city, and Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces visited and prayed at the shrine, Sister Zheng said.
Another new project under construction at the shrine is a series of head-and-shoulder portraits of St. Peter and all the popes in unbroken succession since him, expressing the diocese’s full communion with the pope and Roman Catholic Church, Sister Zheng said. The portraits are being placed on a wall beside Our Lady of the Rosary Church.
