Follow the Star is a new event at St. Charles Center this year that we hope will help draw all into the beautiful story of Christ’s birth at Christmas. It includes the Stations of the Nativity, a festival of trees, a model train display and more. Beginning on...
Missionaries of the Precious Blood were reminded that they carry a unique heritage, and that the people of Sonnino, Italy remember. Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S., was the homilist during a Mass celebrated on the Solemnity of St. Gaspar, October 21, at St. Charles Center...
Today the Church honors St. Gaspar del Bufalo, our founder. St. Gaspar was born in Rome on January 6, 1786, on the feast of the Epiphany. His parents named him after the magi: Gaspar Melchior Balthazar del Bufalo, quite a mouthful for a newborn. From early on, St....
By Fr. Ben Berinti, C.PP.S. As we celebrate the feast day of our founder, St. Gaspar del Bufalo, the Missionaries in this country do so, for the first time, as the United States Province. That should give us a jolt of energy, since this is our invitation to rebirth,...
By Fr. Harry Brown, C.PP.S. In prescientific times, people worried when they had to face diseases. They regarded sickness, leprosy and fever as caused by evil spirits. God had to intervene and show his mighty strength. Healing stood for expelling evil spirits. Jesus...
Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S., is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ordination this year. Fr. Chriszt, a native of Cleveland, was incorporated as a Missionary of the Precious Blood on June 30, 1978, and was ordained on June 12, 1982, at Immaculate Conception...
