Formation Facilitator Workshop / Welcome Our Newest Associates
Associates Formation Facilitator Workshop By Mary Muehle We are familiar with the quote, “It takes a village to raise a child.” As an Associate community, we can rephrase this quote to say that “it takes a team to form an Associate.” The Lord continues to call more men and women to the life of an […]
CTU Annual Board, Trustee, Congregational Leaders & Banquet / Provincial Offers the Keynote Address / Blessed are the Peacemakers Annual Fundraising Gala
CTU Annual Board, Trustee, Congregational Leaders & Banquet Share Successes and Joys By Father John Thomas Lane SSS The annual Board of Trustees and Congregational Corporate leaders’ meetings of Catholic Theological Union (CTU) took place on April 26 in Chicago. This is an opportunity for the provincials, their delegates, and other key stakeholders who support […]
Reconnecting with Our History in the Southwest USA!
by John Thomas Lane SSS The Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (SSS) first came to the southwestern United States in 1948 with the mission to start a Blessed Sacrament Shrine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our first priests began this shrine and were quickly applauded for their pastoral zeal and interactions with the lay people to […]
Congratulations, Father Thomas Smithson SSS! / The General is Coming!
Congratulations, Father Thomas Smithson SSS! The tremendous pastoral service and hospital chaplaincy of Father Thomas Smithson SSS is being honored at Women’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was nominated, along with six other hospital staff members, for a new service wall. The “Why?” The award is presented to him and the others for their tireless […]
Houston Associates Join for a Retreat Day Followed by Parish Mission
On March 22, 2025 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Houston, Texas, the Spanish- speaking and English-speaking Associates enjoyed a retreat day. For the English-speaking group (29 attended), Father Lane gave an icebreaker and brief history of the Project of Life and its return to the title Saint Peter Julian Eymard gave the document. He […]
The Congregation’s History in San Antonio, Texas / 125th Anniversary in San Antonio / Nocturnal Adoration Society
The Congregation’s History in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas The Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament began ministering in Saint Joseph Parish, Downtown San Antonio, on October 4, 1982…. In 1868, German settlers built the present-day church. They chose San Antonio’s main, busy street, East Commerce, which, in the 1800s, was a center of activity […]
Sixty Years of Faithful Service: Brothers Thomas Mella SSS and Michael O’Leary SSS
Sixty years ago, Brothers Thomas Mella SSS and Michael O’Leary SSS professed a life in the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament on March 19, 1965, in Barre, Massachusetts (Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts). Brother Thomas joined the Congregation from his Brooklyn, New York City home.He primarily mainly served the Congregation in our parishes as a sacristan. […]
Catholic Schools Week at SPB / Province Associates Quarterly Meeting / Father Superior General and General Consultor to make their Canonical Visit to the USA
Catholic Schools Week at Saint Paschal Baylon Every Catholic Schools Week across the country interesting events celebrate the beauty of our formation in these hallmark schools. Saint Paschal Baylon, Highland Heights, celebrated with a few extra events, including Vocation Days. On Monday, January 26, the…PSR students were able to hear a panel representing the vocations […]
Opening the Jubilee Year! / 125th Anniversary Year Celebration Begins “at the Beginning”
These articles summarize two jubilee celebrations by John Thomas Lane, SSS, Provincial: one for the Jubilee Year of Hope and the opening of our own Diocesan Shrine of Saint Ann to the public as a pilgrimage center for 2025 and the Diocese of Cleveland. The other is opening up the 125th-anniversary celebrations of the Blessed […]
Father Norman Pelletier’s Retreat Presentation / Rule of Life Retreat Summary Document
Father Norman Pelletier’s Retreat Presentation Highland Heights, Ohio By Rosalie Lewis, Associate at Saint Paschal Baylon Parish On December 7, 2024, 25 Associates met for our annual NE Ohio Retreat. Our presenter, Father Norman Pelletier SSS, started the day at 12:30 PM with his first talk on the difference between reliquaries and monstrances. … We […]
