3-day prayer, film and book launch mark Sin’s 1st death anniversary

Three days of masses, new film and book, music concert and free medical service will be some of the highlights of the commemoration of the first death anniversary of the late Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, who died June 21 last year. The Archdiocese of Manila commences on June 19 the triduum, originally a three-day prayer before a Catholic feast is celebrated. On the same date will be launched in Sta. Ana, Manila a new film on video entitled “Pamana ni Cardinal (The Cardinal’s Legacy)". “Cardinal Sin passed away on June 21, 2005, leaving behind a legacy of heroism, patriotism, holiness and committed service. His death was mourned by a country, which he helped lead out of the tyranny of Martial Law through a peaceful revolution known as People Power," Manila's Archdiocese said in a statement. Balanga Bishop Socrates Villegas, Sin’s protégé, will lead the celebration of the first mass at the Cardinal Sin Village in Punta, Sta. Ana in Manila. He will then bless the new “Our Lady of Grace" building, an 84-housing unit structure for the poor. A free medical clinic, livelihood seminar and a novena mass concert follow. Sin had put up the Cardinal Sin Village through his Serviam Foundation to provide better living for the poor. The community has a school that now has 160 students from preparatory to Grade 1. On the second day, Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes will lead the launching of the book “Remember, I Love You All Very Dearly, Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, The Final Journey" at the EDSA Shrine. The book chronicles Sin’s wake and funeral as well as features messages, homilies and testimonies from people who worked and collaborated with the influential Catholic leader. On the third day, the Archdiocese of Manila, where Sin served as archbishop for 29 years, will remember him in a morning Mass to be celebrated by Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, together with other bishops and members of the clergy at the Manila Cathedral. Sin, also known as Jaime Lachica Sin, died of renal failure at age 76. The Aklan-born archbishop had become a spiritual leader for the country’s more than six million Catholics, having led them into two bloodless revolutions, in 1986 and 2001. GMANews.TV