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April 2018 issue of the Chronicle, pdf edition
Click to download the current issue (April 2018) of the Chronicle Please note that we’re now publishing new Chronicle articles on the province’s primary website, redemptorists.net. You’ll find them on our People & places category page: https://redemptorists.net/category/people-places/
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Click to download back issues of the Chronicle: April 2018 November-December 2017 September-October 2017 July-August 2017 May-June 2017 Please note that we’re now publishing new Chronicle articles on the province’s primary website, redemptorists.net. You’ll find them on our People & places category page: https://redemptorists.net/category/people-places/
» Read moreChronicle articles are now published on redemptorists.net
We’re now publishing new Chronicle articles on the province’s primary website, redemptorists.net. You’ll find them on our People & places category page: https://redemptorists.net/category/people-places/
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Provincial archivist presents paper in Rome Dr. Patrick Hayes of the Baltimore Province and another provincial archivist recently took part in a University of Notre Dame history conference in Rome. During a session focused on North Atlantic communities in Rome during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dr. Hayes presented the paper “Footprint on the Esquiline: The Legacy of Father […]
» Read moreArchbishop of Lahore, Pakistan, visits Philadelphia church
Our Lady of Lourdes: continuing the journey
By Annette C. Silva First a little history. Seaford, located in Sussex County, is often called “lower, slower Delaware” by northern folks. Our Lady of Lourdes, part of the Wilmington Diocese, was created in the 1940s as a small Catholic mission in a downtown storefront. By 1948 there were enough Catholic families to build a church. In 1970 our Hispanic […]
» Read moreNew parish hall for St. James the Greater
On April 4, St. James the Greater Parish in Concord, N.C., celebrated the dedication of its new Our Lady of Guadalupe Hall. Having seen a 40 percent increase in parishioners in the past three years, the community badly needed more space for faith formation, youth and young-adult programs, Bible studies, and other needs. Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte led the […]
» Read moreA growing Hispanic ministry at St. Gerard’s
By Father Mike Houston Hispanic ministry at St. Gerard’s in Lima, Ohio, has been growing at a slow and steady pace. For the past three years we’ve had a weekly Sunday liturgy in Spanish. Both Father Mike Sergi and I currently celebrate Mass in Spanish with the help of the officially retired but still active Deacon Elias Peña. Regular Sunday […]
» Read moreRedemptorists come to Our Lady of the Hills
By Father John Murray, C.Ss.R. In January 1857, three American-born Redemptorists, Isaac Hecker, Nathaniel Hewitt, and Francis Baker, preached a mission in the cathedral of St. Augustine, Fla. After closing the mission, the fathers traveled to the cathedral in Charleston, S.C., to join their confreres, Clarence Walworth and George Deshon, who had already opened a mission there. The next Redemptorist […]
» Read moreStudents gather in Canandaigua
Redemptorist students from throughout North America met at Notre Dame Retreat Center in Canadaigua, N.Y., May 21 through 27, along with confreres in formation and vocation ministry. During the annual gathering, each day began with a two-hour workshop by Father Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R., on the life and times of St. Alphonsus. At the closing Mass, Father Stephen Rehrauer, provincial for […]
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