Father Raymond Hober, SVD, 92, passed away on August 3, 2024, at 6:45 p.m. at the Techny Residence, as announced on social media by the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) or the Divine Word Missionaries.
On July 28, during his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis reflected on the day’s Gospel from Saint John, which recounts the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
Patron Saint of doubters, architects, blind people, builders, geometricians, masons, surveyors, and theologians. Saint Thomas is represented by a spear because he was a carpenter and a ruler to symbolize his martyrdom.
The first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, with 14 other blessed will be canonized, according to the College of Cardinals who formalized the approval in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace for an Ordinary Public Consistory on Monday morning.
Pope Francis will lead at an Ordinary Public Consistory on July 1, when Cardinals who are in Rome are set to approve the canonization of 15 Blesseds, according to Vatican News.
Pope said, "We must not miss the opportunity to think and act in a new way, with mind, heart and hands .. to direct innovation toward a configuration centred on the primacy of human dignity."
