Parishioners from Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish celebrated their parish feast day May 31 with an outdoor procession. The colorful, prayerful parade around the church displayed the parish’s multi-cultural make up with large groups of Hispanic and Vietnamese parishioners.
Fr. John Lavin, a Redemptorist priest who has spent more than 40 years ministering to immigrants in the U.S. as well as serving in missions in Puerto Rico and Colombia, recently discussed the problem of illegal immigration on a Boston radio station.
Father Joseph Tobin, a Redemptorist of the Denver Province and former Superior General, was named May 31 to a team of bishops and priests assigned by the Vatican to meet with clergy in Ireland. The Apostolic Visitation comes in the aftermath of several reports that revealed the extent of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in that country.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered the commencement address May 27 to the graduating class of St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, MD. The school is part of St. Mary’s Parish , which has been staffed by the Redemptorists since 1853.
On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI gave his consent to the Chaldean Synod of Bishops’ canonical election of Redemptorist Father Beshar Mati Warda as Archbishop of the Chaldean Diocese of Erbil, in Northern Iraq.
Redemptorist Fr. Albert "Otto" Stoeckel, a native of Buffalo, NY, who spent more than 30 years as a missionary in Dominica, died May 13 at Holy Redeemer Retreat House in Eggleston, Dominica. He was 99.
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"The first few months in Tafara were a mixture of highs and lows. We had very little money, only one car, and we could never find our way out of the Indian quarter of Town, which we thought was the best and cheapest place to shop.
The end of the college academic year for many means final exams and packing up to leave for the summer. It’s no different for our Redemptorist students who finished their classes at St. John’s University in New York this week.
"Blessed be your name forever, O Lord. May you be blessed through this food that you grant us this day. May it make us humble and courageous servants of the Gospel of Christ, the Redeemer and Lord, the head and model of a renewed humanity.
The Redemptorists and the Diocese of Roseau, Dominica, mourn the death of Father Albert "Otto" Stoeckel, who passed away May 13. He was 99. Father Stoeckel was born August 15, 1910, in Buffalo, NY. When he was about four years old, his family moved to Toronto, Canada.
Most Rev. Michael Brehl, Redemptorist Superior General, recently visited our confreres in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He offers an eyewitness account of conditions there, and shares how the Redemptorists are assisting those who’ve lost everything.
Five young men recently spent a weekend experiencing first-hand the Redemptorist way of life, and praying about whether they might be called to take that road, too. The group participated in a Come & See Weekend, held at the Redemptorist Mission House in the Bronx, NY.
Please remember in your prayers Redemptorist Father Alfonso Amador who died April 29 in Puerto Rico. A funeral Mass was celebrated May 1 at the Church of St. Augustine (Iglesia San Agustín) in Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico.