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Offline poche

Re: The Coyote Saint
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2018, 10:54:14 PM »
Quote from: klasG4e on July 07, 2018, 10:14:03 AM
Welcome to Novus Ordo World where a saint is reported to help people break the border law of another nation, a law which is neither immoral nor unjust.  Strange story indeed, made even stranger in view of what has been reported ( http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-immigrants-saint-20140713-story.html) about him: "Unlike St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Romo Gonzalez, who died a martyr at age 28, never paid particular attention to immigrants. In fact, in 1920 he wrote a play titled "Let's go north!" that warned migrants against traveling to the States. He worried that they would lose their values." Lose their values indeed!  Yes, the stories of men (and sometimes women) leaving their spouses and children behind in Mexico and ending up in adulterous affairs, drugs, and jail/prison are legion.  They have not only lost their values, but often their families as well.  (As for the spouse and children left back in Mexico, Guatamala or wherever -- they are often made more vulnerable to falling into serious sin without the presence of their spouse or father or mother.)

I can remember Francis detesting the thought of the U.S. building a wall when it was pointed out that the Vatican has an immense wall surrounding it that has been standing way longer than the U.S. has existed.  I haven't head about any plans to tear down the Vatican's wall.
If it is a saint helping someone cross the desert in safety then he is acting under the law of God, not the law of man.
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Re: The Coyote Saint
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2018, 11:00:45 PM »
Quote from: Truecharity on July 07, 2018, 07:14:33 PM
Attributing a moniker of a criminal nature to a saintly person, is just wrong.
Doing the Will of God is not criminal.
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Re: The Coyote Saint
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2018, 11:02:46 PM »
The popularity of the priest has soared since he died in 1928. Many Mexicans who have headed north or returned home tell inspirational stories about being spared through St. Toribio's intervention.

Luciano González López, 45, who returned not long ago to his hometown of Teocatilche from Denver, tells such a tale.

Last year, he said, he and two other men were on their way to Colorado in search of work, when they got lost in the smoldering Arizona desert.

They walked for nearly two days without water, he said, when suddenly they saw a shadowy figure standing next to what looked like an ocean.

"It wasn't an ocean," he said. (They were, after all, in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.) "But the sight of this man next to an ocean gave us enough hope to follow him out."

With tears rolling down his cheek as his son Benito put an arm around him, he went on:

"When I told my wife back in Mexico, she responded: 'It was St. Toribio, the migrant-smuggling saint, leading you to safety. I had been praying to him for your well-being.'"

"Suddenly, everything made sense. It was a santo coyote who saved us."

http://www.banderasnews.com/0607/nr-migrantssaint.htm
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Re: The Coyote Saint
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2018, 11:55:04 PM »
Such stories – and such faith – have made St. Toribio's hometown a thriving destination for tourists and religious pilgrims. A few years ago, The New York Times described Santa Ana de Guadalupe as "once a dying village of 400 cattle farmers." Today, the remote town attracts hundreds, sometimes thousands, of visitors each week. Many are Mexicans living in the U.S. who are home for a visit. Many are migrants about to head north.

A new, larger church is under construction. Street vendors do a brisk trade hawking everything from religious medals to pirated CDs, including one compilation of Mexican folk songs heralding St. Toribio's works.

"He was killed years ago, but his soul is still very much with us today," said Juana Romo, a 79-year-old vendor who identified herself as a cousin of the dead saint.



http://www.banderasnews.com/0607/nr-migrantssaint.htm
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Re: The Coyote Saint
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2018, 02:29:25 AM »
Father Romo was killed on Feb. 25, 1928, by Mexican soldiers during the Cristero War, a popular uprising against the anti-clerical provisions of the 1917 Mexican Constitution. In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized him and 24 other Catholics martyred in the war.

"He was a priest with a sensitive heart, an ardent homilist," according to the Vatican's official Web site. "A lover of the Eucharist, he often prayed, 'Lord, do not leave me, nor permit a day of my life to pass, without my saying the Mass, without receiving your embrace in Communion.' "

http://www.banderasnews.com/0607/nr-migrantssaint.htm

I think that is a good plan, Lord do not leave me, nor permit a day of my life to pass without my going to mass, without receiving your embrace in Communion.  
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