1 Kings 17:10-16 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 By Brother Brian Boyle, C.PP.S. Walter Payton. The Chicago Bears. The person and the professional football franchise are inseparable. Walter Payton played running back for the Chicago Bears from 1974–87. I could share...
In honor of National Vocation Awareness Week, we’re sharing the stories of some of our Missionaries’ vocational call. In one block of his hometown of Winamac, Ind., St. Peter Catholic Church was on one corner, the rectory on another, the convent on another, and the...
It seems fitting that during this, National Vocation Awareness Week, we ask our vocation director, Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S., to tell his own vocation story: The story of my call is a great story of God’s patience. I was slow to listen, and good at ignoring the...
In the first reading today from Deuteronomy, Moses tells the people to fear the Lord, keep the commandments and in doing so, we will have a long life. The word fear in the biblical sense means to have a healthy respect for the Almighty. We are not God. God is God....
A fellow Precious Blood priest, Fr. Marvin Steffes, C.PP.S., was a man of hands-on spirituality with no fluff. He so often observed “most people are going to be saved because they are so ignorant.” I know he included the two of us. The Epistle to the Hebrews says we...
Missionaries, Companions, CPPS Sisters and friends of the Precious Blood Communities gathered at St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio, on Monday, October 22 to celebrate the feast day of St. Gaspar del Bufalo, founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Fr....
