The Parish of Good Shepherd & St. Joseph May 3rd, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Easter

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3 Mulberry Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Phone: 845.876.4583 Fax: 845.876.7884 Email: [email protected] Website: www.gsrhinebeck.com Pastor Catechetical Program Rev. Douglas Crawford Ms. Eileen Doyle

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China’s first saint was martyred on a cross in

by Courtney Mares

Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre

hina’s first canonized saint was martyred by Hubei. In 1886 he invited the Canossian Daughters of C suffocation on a cross in Wuhan, the epicenter of Charity to Wuhan to provide social service and in 1880 today’s coronavirus pandemic. established the Hankou Catholic Hospital, which laid the foundation for the development of the Wuhan No. 2 St. Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, a Vincentian missionary Hospital (1955) and subsequently the Central Hospital of priest from France, was betrayed by one of his Wuhan (1999).” catechumens for money, bound in chains, tortured, tied to a wooden cross and strangled to death in Wuhan in 1840. Another nearby coronavirus facility, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, can trace its roots back to an infectious Dr. Anthony Clark, a professor of Chinese history, diseases hospital founded by Franciscan missionaries in spent time in Wuhan researching the life of Perboyre and 1926, the Father Mei Memorial Catholic Hospital of St. Francis Regis Clet, another 19th-century Vincentian Hankou. priest martyred in Wuhan. It was named for Fr. Pascal Angelicus Melotto Clark told CNA that Wuhan’s martyr saints are (1864-1923), a Franciscan missionary friar from Italy particularly suitable intercessors for those suffering from martyred in Wuhan, who took Fr. Mei Zhanchun as his COVID-19 today. Chinese name. He was kidnapped for ransom and then “Sts. Perboyre and Clet were both killed by shot in the stomach with a poisoned bullet in 1923. strangulation; they died because they could not breathe,” “I am happy to die for the Chinese,” the mission- he said. “How could they not be appropriate intercessors ary priest said at his death, according to the Franciscan for this particular illness?” Order’s website. “I lived in China for the Chinese and now “Among the torments against Perboyre were I am happy to die for them.” continued beatings on his lower back and he was forced to The Father Mei Memorial Catholic Hospital of kneel on broken glass. He certainly knew the agonies of Hankou was staffed by Franciscan Sisters of Christian physical suffering, and would be a good comfort for those Doctrine until missionaries were expelled from China in who now suffer from this virus.” 1952 after the Chinese Communist Revolution. Wuhan, now infamous as the origin of the “The Catholic community of Wuhan has suffered coronavirus, was once an outpost for Catholic missionaries greatly during the era of Chairman Mao and the Cultural who founded Catholic hospitals in the city. Revolution, and through that time they hid the tombstones Outside of Wuhan Central Hospital, where of Saints Perboyre and Clet to protect them, because of coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang died, is a statue their deep devotion to those martyrs,” Clark said. of Italian missionary, Msgr. Eustachius Zanoli, “While I was there I visited the seminary where photographed by New York Times correspondent, Chris the two tombstones are now displayed for veneration; the Buckley. Catholics of Wuhan have a great devotion to the Eucharist The plaque beneath the bust reads in Chinese and and to the Vincentians, such as Perboyre and Clet, who English: “Monsignor Eustachius Zanoli, from Italy, was died for them, and shed their blood on the soil of that the first Bishop of Roman in Eastern city,” he added. cont’d Many missionaries left for China in the 19th centu- The first “patriotic bishop” named by the ry with the knowledge that they would never return. Communist government in China in 1958 was from Wuhan. Dong Guangqing, who died in 2007, was president “I don't know what awaits me on the path that of Patriotic Catholic Association of Wuhan and vice opens before me: without a doubt the cross, which is the president of the National Administrative Committee of the daily bread of the missionary. What can we hope for better, Chinese Catholic Church. going to preach a crucified God?" St. Perboyre wrote in a letter during his journey to China. Today, Catholics in Wuhan have a particular devotion to St. Francis and the Sacrament of Penance, Perboyre’s remains were eventually moved to Clark observed. to the Vincentian motherhouse. Today his tomb is located in a side chapel in the same church where St. Vincent de Catholics in Wuhan are “known to make long lines Paul’s incorrupt body is located. He was beatified in 1889 near the confessionals of priests who are most faithful to by Pope Leo XIII. the authentic teachings of the Church; they are a beautiful witness,” he said. “St. Thérèse of Lisieux had a special devotion to Perboyre and kept a holy card dedicated to him in her “It is rare to find a church without a statue of St. personal prayerbook,” Dr. Clark pointed out. Francis, and sometimes a devotion to St. . The faith there is strong, and has even flourished especially At Perboyre’s in 1996, St. John Paul during times of persecution,” Clark added. II said: “Along the streets where he had been sent he found the Cross of Christ. Through the daily imitation of his “I have indeed heard from some Catholics during Lord, with humility and gentleness, he fully identified with this time, and they are, like all of us, turning to the Lord him. … After being tortured and condemned, reproducing and his mercy as we all confront our own frailty,” he said. the Passion of Jesus with extraordinary similarity, he came “I recently heard from a Wuhan Protestant who remarked like him to death and death on a cross.” on the sadness of witnessing elderly members of their church passing away. The trauma within Wuhan's Christian St. John Paul II canonized St. Francis Regis Clet in community has been greatly aided through the powerful October 2000, along with 33 other missionaries and 87 faith of Christians in that area.” Chinese Catholics martyred under the Qing Dynasty (1644- 1911). Michael Fu Tieshan, a bishop of China’s state-run www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chinas-first-saint-was-martyred-on church, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, called -a-cross-in-wuhan-82107 the canonization a “public humiliation” in an interview with state-run television, AP reported at the time.

Good Shepherd Pray for the Sick

Mary Jacoby In addition to daily prayers for our friends who received a Anna Enright Brooks Lyman Cara Molnar Prayer Shawl, Prayer Shawl Ministry members unite Julie Harding Judy Maroney Joseph Murphy themselves with others throughout the world praying for Pamela Harding Edward Menti Catie Sorrentino our Holy Father’s monthly intentions. We invite parish- Father of goodness and love, hear our prayers for the sick ioners to join with us as we pray this month: ‘For members of our community and for all who are in need. Deacons – We pray that deacons, faithful in their service Amid mental and physical suffering may they find consola- to the Word and the poor, may be an invigorating symbol tion in your healing presence. Show your mercy as you for the entire Church.’ Friends, please also include with this close wounds, cure illness, make broken bodies whole and intention, those suffering from the (physical, emotional, financial, free downcast spirits. May these special people find lasting and spiritual) effects of the coronavirus and all our healthcare health and deliverance, and so join us in thanking you for workers. “I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know all your gifts. We ask this through the Lord Jesus who my sheep, and mine know me.” -Friends, take comfort in healed those who believed. Amen. that…Read Ps 23 A Prayer for Vocations - May 3rd God our Father, You made each of us to use our gifts in the Body of Christ.

We ask that You inspire young people whom You call to the priesthood and consecrated life to courageously follow Your will.

Send workers into Your great harvest so that the Gospel is preached, the poor are served with love, the suffering are comforted, and Your people are strengthened by the sacraments.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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