Blessed St. Alphonsa - She is the First Woman Saint of India, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1986 and Canonization on 12th October 2008 in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI
Oh, my Blessed St. Alphonsa, you have been graciously chosen from our midst to be united with Jesus Christ, our savior, in the misery of his passion, death and resurrection. You have grown to the heights of holiness and have been crowned with heavenly glory. Help us in our trials and tribulations.
Oh! Daughter of sufferings, obtain for us the grace to lead a holy life, following your example, in total submission to the will of God. Be with us, transforming all our sorrows into a holy sacrifice in union with Christ Crucified, in reparation to our sins, for the sanctification and salvation of the whole world. Amen
There are so many things we can learn from them. We just need to recognize our call to holiness. There are enough opportunities, enough suffering, enough challenges and, above all, enough grace for all of us to be passionate about God as the saints are.
Let's have faith on all Saints and praise their holiness. And let's pray to them to spiritually enrich our life, so that we can be an example to other's, even though we can't be a Saint like them.
14 comments:
As an Indians we should proud of this. It’s an excellent blog from Prettina. I really admire your written skills.
thanks much for it i will be re visiting it regulary its has good and encouraging message!!
Hey.. preety... nice Work.. !! Do u read Bible regularly ?
Yes i do try to read Bible daily morning, to explore and to know about our Lord deeply. Certain part of the bible inspires me a lot.
Thanks for the encouraging comment
May God Bless You
Prettina.. such a wonderful job u r doing.. Mother mary's blessings be with u always..
Thanks a lot for posting about the first women saint of India. Did u know any saint in india before(male)?
Its a blessing to read your blog for me from the day you started writing.And may our blessed mom bless you abundantly always. Keep posting...Ave Maria.
Thanks Maria Arul for your inspirational comment.
You asked about any other Indian Saint. According to my knowledge from other sources I would like to share some information about the First Saint from India.
In the 19th century, Saint Gonsalo Garcia (1556–1597), born in Vasai near Mumbai to an Indian mother and Portuguese father, was declared a saint. In 1627, he was venerated by Pope Urban VIII and on June 8, 1862 Garcia was declared a saint by Pope Pius IX.
There is a Gonsalo Garcia Church in Vasai that was built in 1942 and renovated in 1957. If you get a chance to visit Mumbai try to visit this holy church.
The feast day of this Saint occurs on Feb 5th and is celebrated for a week in his honour.
I hope this information gives a brief picture of the First Saint of India - Blessed Saint Gonsalo Garcia.
May God Bless You
Thanks a lot for your kind reply.
I found a brief info about him here...
Saint Gundisalvus Garcia
https://www.sqpn.com/saintg95.htm
And the photo of church in vasai here...
http://www.geocities.com/unitedit/churches/VasaiChurches.htm
Keep posting about Saints visited to india.
Praise Jesus
Ave Maria
God Bless you
with prayers...arul
nice writings pretti..may God bless U always..take care :)
Good work prettina..keep it up.May the spirit of God help you to do more and more writings so that whoever visit your blog get informed about the Saints and Catholic faith and grow well in faith on ur LORD.
Praise the LORD
Beatiful photograph at the top. Is this the actual photo of St.Alphonsa? Can you please tell us where did you get it?
is it the original photo of St. Alphonsa, pls do reply, pls
Yes, its the same holy Saint. got from web source only.
Just came back home after visiting all the places in kottayam ralated to st Alphonsamma..Just was searching to get some web articles related to her and your blog turned up.. nice articles frnd.. hope i will put some pictures from the places in my blog pixelshots soon... cu around..
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