The relic is a fragment of the pope’s garment with his blood.[/caption]
Today [Oct. 22], on the feast of our namesake Pope Saint John Paul II, JPCatholic installed a first-class relic of the patron saint in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Chapel on campus in Escondido. The relic is a fragment of the pope’s garment with his blood, which he was wearing during the 1981 assassination attempt.
The relic was installed following a special Mass and reception for the saint’s feast day. It was given to JPCatholic earlier this year by the Diocese of Sacramento with the approval of Bishop Jaime Soto. The gift was coordinated by Fr. George Snyder from St. Clare Catholic Church in Roseville.
In addition to the relic, the Diocese gave JPCatholic a box previously owned by Pope John Paul II, which he used to store some of his vessels for Mass. Both items will be on permanent display in JPCatholic’s chapel, alongside a signed copy of his book Crossing the Threshold of Hope.
Last year, JPCatholic also received a second class relic of John Paul II, which will continue to remain in the chapel.
St. John Paul II, pray for us.
They just need the business class relic and economy class relic to complete their set.
I’m not really big on relics, but, are you a Catholic?
Or what junior high do you go to?
A relic with a Saint’s blood (from an assassination attempt) deserves more respect.
John Paul II had three virtues that made him John Paul II the Great, humility, simplicity and holiness. He was Pope from 1978-2005. John Paul II credits Our Lady of Fatima from saving his life from an assassins bullet on May 13, 1981.
John Paul II we love you!
John Paul II was anointed of God. When he came to Dodger stadium, I was struck by the presence of the Holy as he entered.
How I deeply miss “Papa Wojtyła”!
And, Pope Benedict.
Would love to see and to venerate this relic. Pope St. John Paul II has had many miracles attributed to his intercession. Pope Francis has recently excommunicated at least three priests, who publicly stated that he is an “anti-pope,” not legitimate– similar to recently-excommunicated Abp. Vigano. One of them wrote a book about his views. Not a smart thing to do– continuous, heavy public papal criticisms by a lone priest or prelate will just get you kicked out of the Catholic Church– even if some of your views are correct. The Augustinian monk and university professor of Biblical studies, Martin Luther, almost lost his life due to that, long ago. Local German aristocracy protected him from being burned at the stake, after being excommunicated and declared a heretic. Then, Luther simply established his own church. Later, the Catholic Church had a Counter-Reformation, and held the Council of Trent, and tried to correct some of its “wrongs.” Maybe someday, our modern Church might hold another Council, and try to correct some of its “wrongs.” One of the worst things, is that the Pope and Church continue to be dangerously unreliable about punishing and ousting clerical sex abusers. That, to me, is one of their most dangerous problems. The Church leaders really seem to be indifferent to that problem, no matter what they try to do or say. What is going on with the evil and dangerous clerical rapist, Marco Rupnik? Vatican leaders also seem to be just strangely indifferent to the subject of sin and evil, the holiness of God and the Sacraments, and Christ’s extremely painful and tragic, willing Sacrifice on the Cross for our Salvation. Do the top Catholic clerical leaders really believe in it? And the necessity of repentance of sin? And it is a great danger, for top Vatican leaders to support the phony Chinese Communists in a “secret deal,” for a phony Chinese Catholic Church, and betray millions of suffering, authentic Chinese Catholics. And to cruelly abandon Chinese faithful Catholic martyrs, Cardinal Zen, Jimmy Lai, and others— who may go to their deaths, in prison. That is absolutely horrible.
Abp. Vigano seemed to start down a perilous path of no return, when he was all upset, trying to expose the horrific clerical sex abuse evils of Theodore McCarrick in the Vatican– and no one would listen. Vigano then called for the pope to resign. That’s a big “diplomatic no-no,” for the pope. Poor Vigano! And then things just got worse and worse, until poor Vigano got himself excommunicated. Not sure if poor Abp. Vigano, who is elderly, started to go to pieces, even may have nearly had a mental breakdown, or PTSD, over the awful McCarrick situation. He even went into hiding for awhile, and was unreachable, saying that he feared for his life. Oooh– what if McCarrick was never publicly exposed– and what if he had even been elected pope, instead of Pope Francis? Awful! “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”