The Church has a special process to honor people who have lived exemplary saintly lives. When someone is being considered a saint an inquiry will be started. You need someone like a lawyer or advocate or whatever to do the work. If the person considered seems worthy, he is referred to as Servant of God. The person doing this has a lot to do and needs to make a living so he needs to be paid. That's why you see members of religious orders being assigned to work on proving the Servant of God worthy of advancing.
During this process, the life of the Servant of God is examined. Miracles are needed. The next step for a Servant of God is to be advanced to Venerable. In order to move up, a miracle needs to be proven. The miracle needs to be an answer to prayers specifically to the Venerable. If accepted the Venerable is advanced to Blessed.
This is where we are with Blessed M. Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P. Please pray for Blessed Lataste to be canonized. It would be perfect for him to be canonized during the year of St. Joseph since he offered his life for St. Joseph to be made patron of the Church. Please pray.
O Lord of all that is good and holy. You see those of us who love and serve You faithfully. If it be Your Will, I ask you to glorify Your faithful friar, Father Marie Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P. he exemplified Jesus' teachings on mercy, forgiveness, and love. He taught the forgotten, the poor, the marginalized, and the imprisoned, that all Your people are loved equally by You. Pere Lataste said that the prisoner was loved the same as a priest, in Your eyes. His clear and courageous preaching of Your Truths converted many hardened hearts to embrace the Faith. His love for the Blessed Mother moved many to love Your Son. He inspired the lives of the women prisoners in Cadillac, France, to establish the Dominican Sisters of Bethany. He gave his all for You, zealously bringing people to You. His will was to do Your Will.
Lord, if it be Your Divine Will, I ask you to glorify Your loving and faithful servant, Father Marie Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P.
I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord and Savior. Amen
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