Posted on 11/23/2014 6:05:56 AM PST by marshmallow
Vatican City, Nov 22, 2014 / 05:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Two new Indian Catholic saints to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday were known for their deep spiritual life and their intercession in helping families, say two Catholics who find deep inspiration in their sanctity.
Fr. Isaac Arickappalil C.M.I. told CNA Nov. 14 that the canonization of the soon-to-be saint Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara is “an inspiration for all of us.” He said the Nov. 23 canonization is an inspiration for the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, the order which Bl. Kuriakose founded, as well as for the Church in India as a whole.
“It gives us inspiration to be more spiritual,” the priest said, calling the canonization a time “to re-dedicate ourselves for the cause of the church, for the service of human beings and also (the) glory of God.”
The priest is a member of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, which Bl. Kuriakose founded in 1836. It is the first Catholic religious order founded in India. Fr. Arickappalil also serves as director of the Chavara Institute for Interreligious Studies in Rome, which is named after the religious order’s founder.
Bl. Kuriakose also founded an order of religious sisters called the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel.
This congregation will also receive a new saint, Bl. Euphrasia Eluvathingal, during the Nov. 23 canonization. Bl. Euphrasia, who died in 1952, served as the superior general for the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel for three years.
Among Bl. Euphrasia’s devotees is Sister Mary Julit C.M.C., who came to Rome from India in order to help the postulator of Bl. Euphrasia’s cause prepare for the canonization. The sister echoed Fr. Arickappalil’s excitement for the canonization of both her founder, as well as her order’s previous superior general.
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Two new saints from India.
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If you read to the end, it says 4 other saints are also being canonized today, but their names are not given. They were Italian.
**The two new saints are from the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an India-based Eastern Catholic Church in union with Rome.**
That ecumenical council that sought to unite world wide Catholic Churches was the greatest NON-story that the lamestream media has ever ignored.
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