Welcome Father Jaime, SSS!
Father Jaime (James in English) served in Puerto Rico for nine years with our SSS Community there. Unfortunately, with two SSS men dying of COVID-19, this mission closed, and Father Jaime is coming to our province for four years with a ‘convention of transfers” between the two provinces. He will serve as a parochial vicar […]
SSS Celebrations for the Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ / Youth LITE Retreat in Liverpool, England
SSS Celebrations Across the Country for the Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ Each year, the Church’s solemnity for the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ awakens and shares our Eucharistic charism and the gift of processions with the Blessed Sacrament. We continue the tradition of our holy founder, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, […]
Northeast Ohio Celebrations for Our Jubilarian Priests / Vicar for Clergy Makes Pastoral Visit to Our Community
Northeast Ohio Celebrations for Our Jubilarian Priests Three of our well-known priests celebrated their anniversaries of being ordained priests this past week. On May 17, Father Norman Pelletier SSS, celebrated 55 years of ordination. On May 23, Fathers Paul Bernier SSS and William (Bill) Young SSS celebrated 60 years of ordination. For our “60-year-olds,” we […]
Setting up the Novitiate in Houston, Texas
It has been several years since our province has had the gift of novices discerning a vocation as a religious of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (SSS). … We had a combined English-speaking novitiate with the provinces of Australia, Great Britain, and Ireland, ending in 2011. God has blessed us with interest in our […]
1st Meeting of the Sacramentinos Americas Conference / Eugênio Barbosa Martins SSS Ordained 12th SSS Bishop
1st Meeting of the Sacramentinos Americas Conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil The first meeting since the General Chapter of the Sacramentinos Americas Conference (SAC) took place at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Province (Argentina-Brazil-Chile) headquarters (Emmaus Center) in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan city of Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais (between the […]
LITE: Hawaii and Northeast Ohio; Welcome, Father Rosario Pushparaj SSS!
Reflections by the Life in the Eucharist Team Hawaii Our Associates of the Blessed Sacrament in Ohio and a co-director of the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing (CEE) share their recent travels and retreat from February 28–March 5, 2024. First Thoughts by Tom Anderson On his way to the General Chapter meetings in Vietnam, Provincial Superior […]
Brother Gary LaVerdière SSS Celebrates 60 Years / Celebrating Lunar New Year
Brother Gary LaVerdière SSS Celebrates 60 Years of Religious Profession On Sunday, February 11, 2024, the Provincialate, Northeastern Ohio SSS communities and Saint Paschal Baylon parish, Highland Heights, honored and celebrated the sixty years Brother Gary LaVerdière SSS has been a religious brother of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. … We are grateful for […]
Father Thomas Smithson SSS Appreciated; SSS Indian Father Gnanasekar Becomes Pastor
On Saturday, January 27, 2024, the Corpus Christi parish community (Houston, Texas) celebrated Father Thomas Smithson SSS and thanked him for his 10 ½ of devoted service to our parish. (Father Tom is the longest serving SSS pastor and second longest pastor of our parish, second only to the founding pastor, Msgr. Cornelius Flynn, who […]
A Christmas Time Pastoral Visit and Welcome to Matthew Vlastelica
With the opportunity to come and pick up our new postulant Matthew Vlastelica and help move him to Highland Heights and northeast Ohio to begin the next stage of formation, his postulancy, it was also an opportunity to drive and visit our three Associate groups with the newly appointed spiritual advisor, Father Ravi Earnest Sebastin […]
Recent Pastoral Visits to New York and Hawai’i
During October, I had opportunities to have one short pastoral visit in New York City and one longer one in the state of Hawai’i on two of the islands. October 9 – 11, I visited briefly with the leadership of the Congregation of Notre Dame, the sisters who have worked side-by-side with the Blessed Sacrament […]
