News from the Baltimore Province
By Jim Link | Mary Weaver, the Province’s communications director, and I have been working with Fathers Allman, Dabney, Gargani, Kingsbury, and Murray to promote the icon’s 150th anniversary of being entrusted to the Congregation. I write to ask you to put two dates on your calendar and let you know we’ll be sending you some promotional materials. Departing on […]
» Read moreBy Father Gene Grohe, C.Ss.R. | After much searching in places near the Mount, thanks mainly to the efforts of Tom Travers and a friendly real estate agent, Bill Fitzgerald, who was a student at St. Mary’s in North East and Suffield, we found a beautiful, well-built modular home on Peters Lane, directly across from the north entrance to the […]
» Read moreBy Father George Blasick | To get onto the Delmarva Peninsula, you have several choices: two bridges crossing the Chesapeake Bay, the ferry from southern New Jersey, or five routes crossing the canal from the north. (That’s it, unless you’re flying in.) So the Delmarva is almost a kingdom unto itself, and smack in the middle of it is the […]
» Read moreBy Father John Kingsbury, C.Ss.R. | Exodus 19:3-8a; John 2:1-11 | I was asked to do a homily on the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help through the eyes of the Scripture passage about Our Lady at Cana. For this reflection I will focus specifically on the right hand of Mary that is rather central in the icon—the hand […]
» Read moreDear confreres: We in the communications office wanted to let you know that a high-quality image of the restored OMPH icon is available for your use in bulletins, posters, and other print jobs. You can download the file in two large formats: a CMYK tif, suitable for professional print jobs and an RGB jpg, suitable for copy jobs, web use, […]
» Read moreIn June several confreres celebrated jubilees. The two photos below, shot by Patrick Hayes, feature Father Francis Skelly, who
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | May 1, 2015 | Journeys ended, journeys begun: to go where we have never been, to be beyond our past, moments of lifting up, transcending death, rising in transparent light to the fullness of God’s presence. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
» Read moreOn April 20 Deacon Calvin Auguiste ran the Boston Marathon for the second time, finishing in 3:38. He ran this year’s marathon after a schoolmate from Boston College gave him her entry. Colleen, a married mother of two grown children, shares classes with Deacon Calvin and Deacon Jacky Merilan and has run the Boston Marathon several times. She had previously […]
» Read moreDownload lists of confreres celebrating significant anniversaries of profession and ordination. Addresses are included.
» Read moreBy Father John McKenna, C.Ss.R. | Holy Week | Our multi-ethnic parish celebrated together the Sacred Triduum with great faith, devotion, and enthusiasm. The Mass on Holy Thursday was celebrated in our four languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese. The readings were done in Spanish and Chinese; the Gospel proclaimed in English. Jesus gave two great commandments at the Last […]
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