C I R C U L A R

No. 84, Series of 2022

TO : THE CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAY FAITHFUL OF THE

ARCHDIOCESE OF LIPA

RE : DEATH OF POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI

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We join the Holy Mother Church in mourning the death of Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI. He passed away on December 31 in his residence at the
Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. He was 95 years old.

While saddened by his death, we remember and celebrate his life as a

highly gifted theologian but most of all as a “humble worker in the vineyard
of the Lord.”

Let us commend his soul to the merciful love of the Father through the
intercession of Our Lady of Caysasay, our Queen and Mother, and St.
Joseph, patron saint of our Archdiocese.

Given this 31st of December in the year of our Lord two thousand and
twenty-two at the Chancery, Lipa City.

✠ Gilbert A. GARCERA, D.D.

Archbishop of Lipa

Rev. Fr. Jayson N. ALCARAZ

Chancellor