Rattled nerves and a few stray bits of plaster were, for the most part, the only damage suffered by Redemptorist communities and churches in the Baltimore Province during Tuesday’s rare earthquake that was felt up and down the U.S. East Coast.
Redemptorists in the English-speaking Region of the Caribbean celebrated earlier this week with three students who took the next steps in their vocations with the Congregation. During a special Mass August 16, Baltimore Provincial Kevin Moley accepted the final vows of Alistair Elias, and the first vows of Calvin Auguiste and Ashford St. Romain.
With a Eucharistic procession, flags, prayers, songs and a bilingual Mass, the Catholic communities of St. Michael/St. Patrick and Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Hispanic community from nearby Our Lady of Pompei, celebrated a new beginning Sunday in Baltimore.
Last Saturday, August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration, two men took their next steps in their formation as Redemptorists. Anthony Michalik and David Verghese professed vows of poverty, chastity and obedience for the first time during Mass at the Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia.
From New City Press: We yearn for communion with one another because of God’s yearning for communion with us. Father Billy reminds us that communion, according to John Paul II’s Novo Millennio Ineunte , lies at the very heart of the Christian message.
Anthony Michalik, from Ephrata, PA, and David Verghese, from Leonardtown, MD, will profess their first vows with the Redemptorists on August 6 during a Mass at the Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia .
Parishioners of St. Michael Church in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore bid farewell to their church last Sunday . After more than 150 years, the church is closing due to the high cost of repairs and shifting demographics.