Our dear patron saint, Lorenzo Ruiz, God's favor is upon you. Because you served him in life and offered this same life to glorify Him, we are honored to hold you dear in our hearts and to call you our brother and friend in Heaven.
We thank you for your quiet presence in our lives, as you continue to show us merit in one's ordinariness. We fervently seek to bring your name across the faithful's hearts, so that, like the Blessed Mother, who was your model of discipleship, we may also, at the end of our lives, embrace the eternal joys of heaven.
Through your intercession, St. Lorenzo Ruiz, may God favor us in our quest to further our dream of raising Bethel, this house of God, to be declared a Diocesan Shrine, where the union of Creator and creation is forged into one in piety. We pray that a Shrine in your name, St. Lorenzo Ruiz, may bring us all to follow Christ in your example of" ... to live our faith in action and to become fierce defenders of Christianity."
We ask this in the sweet and holy name of Jesus Christ. AMEN.
St. Lorenzo Ruiz, PRAY FOR US.