by Javier Moran, C.Ss.R. and Matthew Allman, C.Ss.R.
Thursday, July 14th, 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in the Redemptorists’ North American Conference. Nine young men from the units of Canada, the United States, and Mexico began their novitiate together in the former St. Alphonsus Seminary in Tlalpizahuac, Mexico, just outside of Mexico City.
On July 23, 2022 at 10 a.m., Brian Vaccaro, C.Ss.R., was ordained through the imposition of hands and the invocation of the Holy Spirit by The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington. The ordination took place at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington D.C.