Bienvenidos a una conversación con una Hermana Franciscana.Contemplative Dimension of Religious Life.Junipero Serra, a Franciscan theologian and scholar, abandons his homeland at the age of 37 and sails to America to found missions in the unexplored region of California. Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious Serra: Ever Forward Never Back: With Arash Shahabi, Diego Antolini, Bret Boyle, Dan Mazer.Even in the martyrs and saints, as the liturgy reminds us, it is ‘(God’s) power shining through our human weakness.’ It is the strength that inspired Father Serra’s motto: ‘Always forward, never back.'” These words of the great missionary, Saint Paul, remind us that our strength is not our own. He went on to say: “’In Him who is the source of my strength I have strength for everything’ ( Phil. Pope John Paul II visited Carmel in 1987 and called Father Serra the Apostle of California. Julian Lopez, a friar at the Carmel Mission. Fermin Lasuen, who succeeded him as the president of the missions of Baja and Alta California and Fr. Three other life-size bronze sculptures are nearby: Fr. Catholic Christian Family Movies and Religious Educational Programs and Films Serra: Ever Forward Never Back Item 97522D This EWTN original docu-drama, filmed on location in Spain, Mexico, and California, presents the life and heroic missionary activity of Blessed Junipero Serra. The cenotaph depicts a life-side bronze statue of Father Serra lying in death, with his bare feet resting on a grizzly bear, the symbol of California. You can see the cell where he died and his tomb and an impressive cenotaph (monument). Here are the missions he founded:ġ769 – San Diego de Alcalá 1770 – San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo 1771 – San Antonio de Padua 1771 – San Gabriel Arcángel 1772 – San Luís Obispo de Tolosa 1776 – San Francisco de Asís 1776 – San Juan Capistrano 1777 – Santa Clara de Asís 1782 – San Buenaventuraįather Serra died and is interred today at the mission in Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo). It is always a thrill to be traveling in California and stumble across the roadway today. In 1769, he arrived in San Diego where he established his first mission.įather Serra established nine missions himself, and twenty-one others were eventually established on the El Camino Real. He was born on the island of Majorca, Spain, where he became a Franciscan friar. Of course, moving forward recklessly to a blind notion of progress isnt. Father Serra (1713-1784) is the founder of the California missions and the great evangelizer. Junipero Serra, added this sub-title to the book: The man who never turned back. Junípero Serra during his visit to the US this Fall. Today came the exciting news that Pope Francis will canonize Bl.

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