Quarterly Associates Meeting Features Uganda Foundation
In this 125th Anniversary year, the Province of Saint Ann has placed a strong emphasis on its rich history, with a particular focus on the missionary spirit that has permeated the province. The USA men founded communities which became provinces in Australia, the Philippines, Great Britain and Ireland, Vietnam, and Uganda. Both in Vietnam and Uganda, due to political reasons, our men were deported. In 1994, under the leadership of Father Norman Pelletier SSS, Superior General, and with the support of SSS men from the Philippine province, the foundation of Uganda was able to return and reopen. (Now the Ugandans are on their own with three communities and part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Province.)
Canonical Visit of Father General Ends in Orlando
From August 3 until September 12, 2025, the Province of Saint Ann (USA and in Scotland) and the Province of Our Lady of the Assumption (Philippines – in Colorado and Hawai’i) welcomed Father General Philip Benzy Romician, SSS. We have been reading about his visit in the past few Grapevines, and due to a special arrangement to visit all the Associate groups across the United States and the Province of Saint Ann, Father Benzy arranged a special day to come for a visitation for the Associates of the Diocese of Orlando on his way back to Rome. His canonical visitation had brought him to the Hawaiian Islands; he needed to return to Rome somehow, and so it happened with a layover day in the Diocese of Orlando on September 11.
Photo above: (Left to Right) Father George Dunne SSS, lead organizer for the day, and Orlando leader Diana McGinty, Father Benzy, Deacon Jim Ferruzzi, and Monsignor John Bluett
Also – Other articles in this Grapevine Issue
-Teaching Our Children Well
–Testing the Waters – October 2026 Eymard Pilgrimage?
