First Professions Bring Joy to Holy Cross in East Africa
Author: General Administration
Three novices professed First Vows at the Holy Cross Novitiate at Lake Saaka on Sunday, July 16. Twelve new novices will be officially received on July 21.
Three novices professed First Vows at the Holy Cross Novitiate at Lake Saaka on Sunday, July 16. Twelve new novices will be officially received on July 21.
Holy Cross Parish in the Diocese of Nongstoin, Meghalaya, was officially inaugurated and blessed on May 21, 2017.
Formators from Brazil, Chile, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru spoke primarily about the region's two Novitiates as they gathered in Campinas, Brazil, for three days.
Fr. Marc Valentin, C.S.C., who is the brother of Fr. Paul Valentin, C.S.C., is the first Holy Cross priest ordained in France since 2008.
Fr. Jimmy Mathews, C.S.C., helps us get to the heart of the matter on this Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the patronal feast of the Holy Cross priests.
On May 19, 2017, the Most Rev. Theotonius M. Gomes, C.S.C., Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, presided at the Mass inaugurating the new Novitiate in Sagardi, Barisal.
Of the seven newly professed, four are from the Vicariate of Tamil Nadu and three from the Province of South India.
Fr. Neary and Br. Zaydak receive the Final Vows of the three men in a Mass outside the new McCauley Formation House in Kenya on Saturday, May 20.
Fr. Wack, a member of the United States Province, will be ordained and installed as the Bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee on August 22, 2017.
Cardinal Ezzati of Santiago, Chile, consecrated the chapel on May 18, and the Superior General, Fr. Epping, presided at the Mass of Dedication on May 20.
Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C., celebrated the Mass of Final Profession for five seminarians, who were then ordained deacons the next day.
The United States Province celebrated its anual Ordination Mass on April 22, 2016, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
On Wednesday, April 12, Mr. Jean Pierre Sagesse, C.S.C., professed Final Vows in Cap-Haitien. The following day he was ordained a deacon.
The five brothers professed their Final Vows to Br. Chester Freel, C.S.C., in a Mass at the District Center near Cape Coast, Ghana.
Fr. Ruben Manuel Gomes, C.S.C., and Fr. Nicholas Nitarson Nokrek, C.S.C., are the newest priests for the Sacred Heart of Jesus Province.
Br. Ronald Almeida, C.S.C., invites us to reflect on the mercy that shines forth in the life of St. Joseph, so as to imitate it in our own lives.
On February 2, 2017, Pope Francis appointed the Most Rev. Moses Costa, C.S.C., the first Archbishop of the newly elevated Archdiocese of Chittagong.
The Connecticut high school marks Catholic Schools Week in the United States by celebrating its Holy Cross Heritage.
On the Feast Day of the Congregation's founder, Br. Gomes became the latest final profession for the St. Joseph Province.