Wherever in the world you are, you can have access to emergency services just by dialing a few numbers on your telephone. One dials 911 and gets immediately connected to emergency service. How often does our prayer take the form of dialing 911—praying when we face an...
By Fr. Jerome Stack, C.PP.S. One of the more prominent and memorable chapters in the life of St. Gaspar del Bufalo, founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, is his ministry with the brigands in the Papal States south of Rome. Gaspar and his Missionaries took...
A message for the Solemnity of the Assumption from our Provincial Director Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S. We have many reasons to celebrate on August 15. We mark this date as the foundation day of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. On August 15, 1815, St. Gaspar del...
St. Gaspar called each of us to be “a furnace of charity.” We shouldn’t be afraid to go beyond what we think we are capable of doing, for in God all things are possible. By Fr. Denny Kinderman, C.PP.S. St. Paul prayed to the Father that the Ephesians (and ourselves)...
Solemnity of Saint Gaspar By the V. Rev. Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S. One of the joys of living in Rome was exploring the hundreds of churches in the city. Some are gigantic architectural wonders like Saint Peter’s and others are smaller, less ornate, and less well known....
