Cardinal Tagle Cites Significance of Blessed Takayama

*Cardinal Tagle distributing Communion in Kobe, Japan*

►In a Eucharistic Mass with Japanese Catholics in Kobe, Japan on Feb. 3, 2016, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said the Philippines, especially Manila, and Japan are linked through a “bridge of faith and martyrdom.”

Justo Ukon Takayama (1552-1615), Japan’s most illustrious Christian, died in Manila in 1615, while San Lorenzo Ruiz (1600-1637), a Filipino, was martyred in Nagasaki in 1637.

“Martyrdom is the deepest link between our two churches.” (Photo shows Cardinal Tagle distributing Communion beside statue of Blessed Justo Ukon Takayama.)

Cardinal Tagle Concelebrates Takayama Mass in Osaka

*Cardinal Tagle (center) concelebrating the Takayama Beatification Mass with Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.*

On Feb. 7, 2017, Cardinal Tagle concelebrated the Mass during the Beatification Ceremonies at the Osaka-jō Hall, Kyōbashi, Osaka (Japan), which was presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS), on Pope Francis’s behalf.◘

Dr. Ernesto A. de Pedro
Takayama Trustee

Prayer for Blessed Takayama’s Intercession

The final condition for Ukon Takayama’s canonization is that miracles be obtained through his intercession.

Let us therefore address ourselves to our saintly brother and ask Divine Providence to grant us through his intercessions what is impossible to man, be it a miraculous cure or something else which God Almighty alone is able to do. Let us have great confidence in the powerful intercession of this distinguished Servant of God, who will not fail to reward the heroic deeds in His Service by granting us our request, even if it would call for a great miracle. Favors obtained through Blessed Ukon Takayama’s intercession should be reported to the Bishop of your diocese so as to be presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

The following prayer may properly serve the purpose and ought to be addressed to the Lord by as many as possible, whenever human means fail to help us in our needs.

PRAYER

God, in Your Wonderful Providence, You have chosen Justus Ukon Takayama to be a singular promoter of Your Kingdom, and an undaunted witness to the Catholic Faith -- Reward, we beseech you, his zeal for Your Glory, and graciously grant us what we humbly ask through his intervention.

Grant us also that following his example, we may bravely bear all trials for the sake of our holy Catholic Faith. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Cardinal Tagle Concelebrates Takayama Mass in Osaka

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