The following was written by Fr. Harry Brown, C.PP.S., who at age 90 is still in active ministry at our Sorrowful Mother Shrine in Bellevue, Ohio. Shrines are important within the life of the Church—especially in today’s pandemic world and political turmoil era. They...
Fishers of Men (Ravenna) “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” (Luke 5:8) By Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S. When I was ordained a deacon, then Bishop Allen Vigneron began his homily saying, “Steve, it is good that you picked as your first reading the...
By Sister Anita Fearday, ASC St. Maria De Mattias, whose feast day and birthday is February 4, is the foundress of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ. She was born in 1805 in Vallecorsa, a mountainous village about 56 miles southeast of Rome. Fr. Giovanni Merlini, a...
By the time you read this, Fr. Tim Knepper, C.PP.S., should be halfway through an intensive course on becoming a spiritual director. It requires a lot of reading and a fair amount of writing, which Fr. Tim was dreading because, as he puts it, “my writing skills are...
Brother Nick Renner, C.PP.S., was named the no-till educator of the year for 2021 by the Ohio No-Till Council at its annual conference on December 8 in Plain City, Ohio. Brother Nick, who manages the Community’s farmland around St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio,...
