By Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S. Ever since March we have all been learning how to do what we do in news ways. Teachers are discovering how to adapt their teaching to video chat and distance learning. Companion groups are adapting to Zoom as an imperfect substitute...
By Fr. Angelo Anthony, C.PP.S. On this Gaudete or Rejoice Sunday, we hear from John the Baptist, a very important figure in our Advent journey. The Gospel begins, “There was a man sent by God to give testimony to the Light” (John 1:6). John the Baptist is an important...
Fr. James Smith, C.PP.S., is a first-year student at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, Calif., and lives in the Missionaries’ Sonnino Mission House. He hopes to obtain a doctoral degree in theology, focusing on pastoral theology and care. From 2016–20,...
By Brother Matt Schaefer, C.PP.S. When I was born, both my mother and I were sick. I was sick enough that I was rushed to Children’s Hospital in Columbus by two nuns in a taxi. Fearing that I would die, one of the nuns baptized me on the way. Despite my parents’...
December 3 is the Feast of St. Francis Xavier, who is the patron of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. By Fr. Matthew Keller, C.PP.S. St. Francis Xavier is the patron saint of our Community, and for other missionary religious communities as well. An image...
By Fr. Tim McFarland, C.PP.S. We have many ways of marking time. There is the calendar year, the fiscal year and the academic year. If this isn’t enough, this Sunday, we begin a new Church liturgical year. Like the other “new years” we observe, this new liturgical...
