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...
Brother Daniel Eisenman, C.PP.S., died at 9 a.m. on Sunday, November 15, 2020, in Mercer Community Hospital, Coldwater, Ohio, of complications from COVID-19. At 88, he was the oldest living religious brother in the Cincinnati Province of the Missionaries of the...
Fr. Robert Kunisch, C.PP.S., died at 7:50 a.m. on Sunday, December 8, 2019, in the infirmary of St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio, where he made his home. He had been in failing health recently. He was 89. Fr. Kunisch was born in Toledo on August 19, 1930, to...
My mother died five days before Christmas last year. This past Independence Day, I went to my brother’s home to pick up the remnants of my parents’ estate. I unpacked Dad’s footlocker from his Air Force days, which contained Mom’s afghans, his anniversary watch from...
By V. Rev. Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S. There seems to be an overarching theme in the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter. In one way or another the image of sheep comes up in the readings. In the Psalm we sing that “We are his people, the sheep of his flock.” In the...
