Please refrain from raising banners or waving flags. In the name of the father and son and the holy spirit, peace be with you. The holy mother church, grant to enter liness blessed serra among the saints so he may be invoked as such by ll the christian faithful. Serra was born in 1713. He entered the order of the francis cans when he was young. And he was ordained as a priest in 1737. He was a professor of philosophy at Madrid University and he had the reputation of being a great teacher and breecher. And preacher. In mallorca. By the end of 1740, he offered to leave his native country because he felt that he should be a missionary in the new world. He spent eight years in the ugged region of the sierra gorda in mexico where he preached to the indians. During part of that time, he was a superior of the five francis an missions in the region. He held several posts for another eight years at the seat of the seat of the francis cans francis can missions in mexico city. During that time he preached in a great number of domestic fissions missions in many areas of mexico. Elected superior of the group of francis cans designated to replace the jesuits that had been expelled from their missions in lower california. The ars later, he joined expedition to extend the spanish border northward and to occupy upper california. From the 17 from 1769 until the eath in 1784, he was superior of the francis can missions in upper california. Ring his tenure as superior, Nine Missions for founded along the california coastline involving several indigenous roups. He endeavored to bring together to the Mission Campus Indigenous People that inhabited nearby. He hoped to share with them, slowly and in a voluntary fashion the tenets of catholicism. He very often fights the military leadership of the on the best ways to interact with the indigenous individuals. He once even traveled to the mexican capital to personally persuade the viceroy to have a ilitary commander dismissed. Thousands of the Indigenous People were confirmed and baptized during serras tenure in california. Although many perished as a result of the spanish incursion in the area. Serra made a great number of issionary trips to california. Involved in these hard travels until the very end of his life. Despite illnesses and physical ailments that he had and that exhausted his fortitude. , 1784 at august 28 carmel. Ion in st. John ified by 1988. I on september 25, ope francis [speaking foreign language] pope francis [speaking foreign language] pope francis [speaking foreign language] [applause] most holy father in the name of the holy church i thank your holiness for making this proclamation and humbly request that you decree that the apostolic letter concerning the act of canonization be drawn up. Pope francis we so decree. [applause] pope francis by your ineffable mercy we have been pleased through the labors of your serra to int junipero welcome many to your church and open our hearts to you, to always carry before all people the image of your only begotten son who his and reigns with you in the yubity unity of the holy spirit, one god, forever and ever. Speaking foreign language] the word of the lord. [note] reading from the letter of st. Paul to the philippines. Brothers and sisters, roice in the lord always. As i say it again, rejoice. Your kindness is being known to all a, the lord is near. Ve no anxiety at all and everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving. Y your request known to god, then of peaced government that surpasses all understanding with all your heart and mind in christ jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things, keep on doing what you ave received and heard and seen in me, then gods peace will be with you. [speaking foreign language] word of the lord. Interpreter the lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the holy gospel ccording to matthew. Lory to you, o lord. The 11 disciples went to gal lee galilee to the mountain to which jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped. Ut they doubted. Then jesus approached and said in heaven power and on earth has been given to me. Go there for it and make disciples of all nations. Baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and f the holy spirit. Teaching them to observe all and i have commanded you behold, i am with you always. Til the end of the age glory to the lord,. Ou, glory Jesus Christ Pope francis rejoice in the lord always. I shall say it again. Rejoice. These are striking words. Ords which impact our lives. God tells us to rejoice. He practically orders us to rejoice. This command resonates with a desire we all have for a fulfilling life. A meaningful life. A joyful life. It is as if paul could hear hat each one of us is thinking in his or her hearts. And to voice what we are feeling, what we are experiencing. Something deep within us invites us to rejoice and tells us not to settle for placebos which simply keep us comfortable. At the same time though, we all know the struggles of everyday life. So much seems to stand in the way of this invitation to rejoils. Our daily routine can often rejoice. Our daily routine can often lead us to a kind of glum apathy. Hich gradually becomes a habit ith a fatal consequence. Ur hearts grow numb. To guide ant apathy our lives. Or do we . We dont want the force of habit to rule our life. Or do we . So we ought to ask ourselves, what can we do to keep our hearts from growing numb, from becoming an he is that advertised . How do we make the joy of the gospel increase and take deeper root in our lives . And jesus gives us the answer. He said to his disciples now and he says it to us now, go , the joy of the gospel is something to be experienced, something to be known and lived only through giving it away. Through giving ourselves away. The spirit of the world tells us to be like everyone else. To settle for what comes easy. Faced with this human way of thinking, we must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and for the world. It is the responsibility to proclaim the message of jesus. For the source of our joy is an endless desire to show mercy, the fruit of our own experience of the power of the fathers nfinite mercy. Out to all, proclaim by anointing and anoint by proclaiming. This is what the lord tells us today. He tells us, a christian finds joy in mission. Every to people of nation. Christian experiences joy in following a command. Go forth and proclaim the good news. A christian finds renewed joy in answering a call. Go forth and anoint. Jesus sends his disciples out to all nations, turnover people. We too to every people. We too are part of all those people of 2,000 years ago. Jesus did not provide a short list of who is or who is not worthy of receiving his message. Is presence. Instead, he always embraced life as he saw it. In faces of hunger, sickness and sin, in faces of wounds, of thirst, of wariness, doubt and pity. Far from expecting a pretty life, smartly dressed and neatly groomed, he embraced life as he found it. It made no difference whether. Was dirty, unkept or broken jesus said, go out and tell the good news to everyone. Go out and in my name embrace life as it is and not as you think it should be. Go out to the highways and byways, go out to tell the good news fearlessly, without rejudice, without superiority. Without condescension. To all those who have lost the joy of living. Go out to proclaim the merciful embrace of the father. Go out to those who are burned by pain burdened by pain and failure, who view that their lives are empty and proclaim the folly of a loving father who wants to anoint them with the oil of hope, the oil of salvation. Go out to proclaim the good deceitful error, illusions and falsehoods do not have the last word in a persons life. Go out with the ointment which soothes wounds and heals hearts. Mission is never the fruit of a perfectly planned program or a well organized manual. Mission is always the fruit of life which knows what it is to be found and healed. Encountered and for given. Mission is borne of a constant expression born of a constant expression of gods merciful anointing. The church, the holy people of , translate thus far in history, so often traversed by conflict, injustice and encounter n order to her children, our brothers and sisters. And faithful people of god are not afraid of losing their way. They are afraid of becoming selfenclosed, frozen into elites, clinging to their own security. They know that had selfenclosure in all of the many forms it takes is the cause of so much apathy. So, let us go out. Let us go forth to offer everyone the life of jesus christ. The people of god can embrace everyone because we are the disciples of the one who knelt before his own to wash their feet. Is eason were here today that many other people wanted to respond to that call. They believed that life grows y giving away and it weakens in isolation and comfort. We are heirs to the bold missionary spirit of so many men and a women who preferred not to be shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security. Within habit which is make us el safe, while at our door people are starving. We are indebted to a tradition, a chain of witnesses who have made it possible for the good in of the gospel to be and generation both good new. And today we remember one of those witnesses who testified to the joy of the gospel in these land. Lands. Father Junipero Serra. He was the embodiment of a church which goes forth, a urch which sets out to bring everyone the reconciling, tendserness of god. Tenderness of god. Junipero left his native land and its way of life. He was excited about blazing trails, going forth to meet many people, learning and valuing the particular customs and ways of life. He learned how to bring to birth and nurture gods life in the faces of the native of everyone he met. Junipero sought to defend the dignity of the native community , to protect it from those who have mistreated and abused it. Mistreatment and wrongs which today still trouble us. Especially because of the hurt which they cause in the lives of many people. Father serra a had a motto which in serra a had a motto which in serra had a motto which inspired his work. He worked and lived by. Keep moving forward. For him, this was the way to continue experiencing the joy of the gospel, to keep his from from going numb, being anesthasized. He kept moving forward because his brothers and sisters were waiting, he kept Going Forward o the end of his life. Today, like him, may we always be able to say, forward. Lets keep moving forward. [applause] let us pause for a few oments and reflect in silence. My brothers and sisters pope francis my brothers and sisters, let us turn to god our father in prayer. He heard and answered the prayers of the son he loved so much. Let us trust that he will hear our petitions. Speaking foreign language] let us pray to the lord. Children everywhere, may they be blessed with Current Health and family. We pray to the lord. [speaking foreign language] we pray to the lord. [speaking foreign anguage] we pray to the lord. [speaking foreign language] we pray to the lord. [speaking foreign language] we pray to the lord. Pope francis loving father, you know the many different needs your people have in this life. Hear us and answer the prayers of all who believe in you. Through christ our lord. Men. Pope francis the mysteries of the passion of the lord that we celebrate through christ our lord. The lord be with you. Lift up your hearts. Let us live, let us give thanks to the lord our god. It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always understand everywhere to give you thanks, lord, holy father, almighty and eternal god, through christ our lord. For, as on the festival of san Junipero Serra a, you bid your church rejoice, so too you strengthen her by the example of his holy life. Teacher by his words of preaching and keep her safe in answer to his prayers. And so, with a company of angels and saints, we sing the hymn of the appraised, as without end we acclaim. Pope francis by the power of the working of the holy spirit, you give life to all things and make them holy. You never cease to gather the people to yourself, so that from the rising of the sun to its setting, your sacrifice might be offered to your name. Therefore, o lord, we humbly implore you, by the same spirit graciously make holy these gifts we brought to you for consecration. That they may become the body and wlood of your son. Blod of your son, our lord, jesus christ. And whose command we celebrate these
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