On what would have been St. John Neumann’s 201st birthday and the 160th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop, the traveling relics of our saint paid a special visit to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on March 28.
After an 18-month celebration of the life and legacy of St. John Neumann, the Redemptorists will close the Neumann Year on June 23 with a special Mass and reception in Philadelphia. Tickets are required for the reception and are now available for purchase on our website at redemptorists.net/store .
Happy Birthday, St. John Neumann! To celebrate our fellow Redemptorist’s 201st birthday, we’re happy to announce the winners of the second annual St. John Neumann Essay Contest. This year we asked Catholic school students in grades 6-12 to reflect on the topic, "Why is it important to learn about and live my faith?"
(Click here for complete readings. Audio option. Courtesy, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. ) A story worth repeating: Rabbi Mordecai approached his students with the following question. “When can you tell when the night ends and the day has come?” A pause among his students and then finally one young man responded, “Rabbi, when you look in the distance and can tell the difference between a dog and a goat.” The Rabbi shook his head, no.
( Click here for complete readings . Audio option. Courtesy, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. ) Traditionally during Lent, especially on the Fourth Sunday in Year A, we hear the story of the man born blind, from the Gospel of John.
One of the ways that Jesus witnessed to the love of God during his life on earth was in ministering to the sick. While most of us are impressed with Jesus’ physical cures; how he cured blindness or leprosy or raised people from the dead, Jesus also made people well in a spiritual way.
St. Clement Mary Hofbauer isn’t well known in the United States, but the Redemptorists may not have come to this country when they did if it hadn’t been for him. As we celebrate in 2012 the 180th anniversary of the arrival of the Redemptorists in the New World, we offer special thanks to God for the life and legacy of St. Clement, who died on this day in 1820.
Fr. Thomas Maceda, a longtime missionary, teacher and pastor, died March 13 at the St. John Neumann Residence at Stella Maris in Timonium, MD. He was 74. Click here to read the full obituary. A funeral Mass will be celebrated March 14 in the main chapel at Stella Maris at 7 p.m. A wake service will be held March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn, NY.
(Click here for complete readings. Audio option. Courtesy, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. ) I am blessed! Many years ago I had the opportunity to enter into a wonderful, life-giving friendship with the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, PA.
The Redemptorists are honored to bring the relics of our confrere, St. John Neumann, to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on March 28. Exposition of the reliquary of St. John Neumann coincides with the 201st anniversary of his birth (March 28, 1811) and the 160th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop (March 28, 1852).
Redemptorist missionary, Rev. Thomas Gregory Maceda, remembered as a cantor-priest who was always available and always on time, died March 13, 2012 surrounded by the confreres in his religious community who were praying the rosary for him at St. John Neumann Residence, Stella Maris in Timonium, MD.
It’s almost 8 a.m. on a brisk, gray weekday morning in late fall. A steady stream of parents and children hurry across Lehigh Avenue toward Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary School. Down the street, the homeless line up at one of the local missions, waiting for breakfast.
(Click here for complete readings. Audio option. Courtesy, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. ) We’ve all seen them, perhaps in passing or for some it’s an ongoing love affair. I speak about the craze in television programs such as “The Biggest Loser,” “Extreme Makeover” (there are two versions, one dealing with humans and the other with homes).
Easter Mass Enrollment Cards Those enrolled will be remembered in an octave of Masses celebrated by the Redemptorists in Rome in front of the original icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. The octave begins on Easter Sunday.
Catholics in the Boston area have tuned in to their local Catholic cable channel since the early 1980s to view the weekly Perpetual Help Novena from the Redemptorists’ Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help .