Lent is More than Checklist

Our director of vocation ministry, Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S., offers these insights about having a meaningful Lent: So I was preparing a talk recently for a group of high school youth, and I shared with them a story from the beginning of my second year of...
Candidate Advances in Formation

Candidate Advances in Formation

On February 4, the feast of St. Maria de Mattias, Eduardo Fredy Campos, C.PP.S., was definitively incorporated into the C.PP.S. It was the first definitive incorporation here in Colombia in more than ten years. Fredy has been with us for quite some time. He is a...
Happy Birthday, Fr. Len Kostka

Happy Birthday, Fr. Len Kostka

Happy 104th birthday to Fr. Leonard Kostka, C.PP.S., the oldest living Missionary of the Precious Blood in the world. Fr. Len was born in 1914, raised in Detroit (he remains an ardent Tigers fan), and ordained in 1940. He served as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War...
The Great and Holy Fast

The Great and Holy Fast

Fr. George “Yuri” Kuzara, C.PP.S., has biritual faculties for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He serves as pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Mishawaka, Ind. He offers this fascinating look at the way the liturgical season leading up to Easter is...

Discernment Retreat in Lent

Are you or is someone you know discerning a call to religious life as a priest or brother? The Missionaries of the Precious Blood invite men age 18 or older to a Lenten Discernment Retreat on March 16-18 at the C.PP.S. House of Formation in Chicago. The retreat, which...

Fr. Harry Brown on his feet

Fr. Harry Brown, C.PP.S., is up and walking and determined to get back to his ministry at the Sorrowful Mother Shrine in Bellevue, Ohio. Fr. Brown, who fell in his apartment at the shrine on December 14, had surgery to repair a broken femur and has since been...
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