Last Sunday, 28th September, we commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of the Most Rev. Laureano Castán Lacoma, ‘The Bishop of the Work of the Church’.

“The Lord Bishop is not the first Bishop who has come to The Work of the Church, or the Bishop who has received me; no!: He is the one I have been searching! always, to be my Shepherd and my support;

[…] the one whom God predestined from all Eternity to be the Bishop of The Work of the Church; the one who was to be the father of your souls, with me and united with me; the one who was to bring complete perfection to The Work of the Church.

Because any group in the Church without a Bishop is not a perfect Church group; and in the union of our souls, and in the encounter of our souls, we rest, and we feel the need to be thus united in carrying out The Work of the Church, and to seek souls for God to whom we can communicate all the loving message from the heart of God to our souls, for all men.

The drama of the Church had pierced his soul; I expressed the tragedy of my Church… and in the union of love for the Church, and in the need to help the Church, and in the urgency of our souls, since we needed to help the Church and raise Her up as best we could, God made us launch ourselves into the search for the Glory of God…”.

(Mother Trinidad of the Holy Mother Church)

The Eucharistic celebration was presided over by the Most Rev. Julián Ruiz Martorell, Bishop of the Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, in the parish church of St. Ginés, where he is buried in accordance with the express wishes of his last will.

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We remember with deep affection and veneration this ‘Good Shepherd’ whom many of us had the joy of knowing.

A Shepherd ‘after God’s own heart’ (Jer. 3:15), who loved his flock and led it with affection, dedication and pastoral zeal to ‘green pastures and still waters’ (Ps 22), but above all, a successor of the Apostles who, like St John, knew how to rest his head on the Master’s chest and, in prolonged prayer before Jesus in the Eucharist, he made the painful feelings of Jesus, the High and Eternal Priest, his own.

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