And Jesus began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered with him many people, so that he entered into a boat, and sat in the sea; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land. And he taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine.
“I now freely choose the Christian life sealed by the evangelical counsels, by making for life the vows of chastity, of poverty, and of obedience, together with the vow and oath of perseverance, according to the spirit and way of life proper to the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.” With those words, Elton Letang, 37, from Giraudel, Dominica, will profess his final vows as a Redemptorist August 7 during a Mass in Newtown, Dominica.
"The ways of holiness are many, according to the vocation of each individual. If there is a Hall of Fame of saints, all of us are called to prepare a personal exhibit." Redemptorist Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, in his homily on the close of the Neumann Year in June, held up St. John Neumann as an example of the missionary holiness to which everyone in the Church is called.