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Companions are lay associates of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. To learn more, visit www.preciousbloodus.org/companions. Welcome to the newest members of the Precious Blood family!
Marywood Companions: Carol Lassen, Susan Martin, John Baker, Mary Cmar, Roger Didion, Clayton Miller, and Mary Bumb
Cleveland Companions: Jean Kotsybar and Paulette Prokop
O God, You created me for a purpose, a specific task for the Church and humanity. You have always known the work I was cut out for, a work which only I can do and no other. If I do not accept this work, it will never be done. Therefore, I have a job to do. Make clear to me your will, and I will follow you in whatever task this may be. I know I can do all things in you, my strength. Amen.
Fourth Degree for Fr. Pleiman
Fr. Ken Pleiman, C.PP.S., received his fourth degree from the Knights of Columbus on February 3. Fr. Pleiman, who is in ministry with Dayton’s Region Seven parishes, also serves as chaplain for K. of C. Council 500 in Dayton. “The Knights encouraged and endorsed my...
Friday, Third Week of Easter: April 20
Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel, and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name. (Acts 9: 15-16) St. Paul was the most unlikely convert to the Church. We can also say he...
Thursday, Third Week of Easter: April 19
Now there was an Ethiopian … Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him. (Acts 8: 27-31) Life flows...
Wednesday, Third Week of Easter: April 18
I am the Bread of Life, he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never thirst. (John 6: 35) These simple yet profound words of Jesus are echoed over and over in the Gospel of John, as he continually wants to draw us daily into a closer...
Companions Volunteer at Columbus Food Pantry
Companion Pat Woods (Columbus) didn’t expect to find another job when she retired from her job as a data processing application specialist. Then she saw a notice in January 2002 that the food pantry at her parish, St. James the Less in Columbus, needed a pantry...