Happy 70th Anniversary, Father Ernest!
On September 22, 2026, Father Ernest Falardeau SSS celebrated 70 years of ordained ministry as a priest of Jesus Christ. Father Ernest has lived at Regina Health Center, Richfield, Ohio, for the last two years, serving in our praying ministry there.
Father Ernest has written three books, numerous articles, and contributions to encyclopedias, and has received several national awards for his work with Eucharist, Communion, and Ecumenism. Congratulations, Father Ernest!
We Celebrate with SOAR! 40 Years of Grants
The New York Blessed Sacrament Community joined honorees Auxiliary Bishop of New York (and our Manhattan region bishop) and Sister Kathleen Lunsman IHM, now the former president of SOAR!, to honor them and the organization’s commitment to serving religious communities like the SSS. SOAR! stands for “supporting our aging religious.”
Convent of the Sacred Heart Trains & Welcomes New Communion Ministers
Since 2000, Father John Kamas SSS, and now Father John Thomas Lane SSS, have served as chaplains to this all-girls school, from kindergarten through high school, near Saint Jean Baptiste. (There are 750 students.) This is a Religious of the Sacred Heart School, with a few sisters still serving as tutors and on the school boards.
Each year, the chaplains train a few of the students to be ministers of Holy Communion. Inspired by Father Kamas and his retirement, the largest group of girls in the school’s 145- year history decided to show their faith and gratitude by becoming Communion Ministers.
Saint Vincent de Paul Celebrates its Annual Name Day
Each year around the feast day of Saint Vincent de Paul, the fine people of the parish in Holiday, Florida, celebrate with an International Festival. This year, it fell on Sunday, September 27, 2026. For this year’s celebration, they also bid a fond farewell to Father Joselito Hitosis, SSS (Father Lito), in gratitude for his 3 years of service to the parish as its parochial vicar and local SSS leader for the past two years.
Additional articles:
-Welcome Our New Aggregation Member
-Reminders – Save the Date
-Rest in Peace
-NEO Aggregation Cleans Up SSS Cemetery Plot
-Uncle, Brother Matthew, Welcomes Sister’s New Baby
-Question: Is There a History Book of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament to Share?
-News from our SSS Province in Australia
