Heart of the Christian Life Pope Benedict XVI
Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass. By Pope Benedict XVI. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2022. P.117. Pope Benedict XVI (Georg Ratzinger, Maria Ratzinger, was a Cardinal and President of the Pontifical Commission of Doctrine of Faith under Pope John Paul II until he became the Pope of the Catholic Church. The […]
Rest in Peace – Brother James Eugene Blee SSS
Born in Londonderry, Derry, Ireland, on August 18, 1928, Brother “Eugene” Blee SSS died in the early morning of October 2, 2023, at Regina Health Center, Richfield, Ohio, where he had been a resident for several years, after a difficult medical procedure and inability to recover from it. Click here Br Blee’s Obituary Click […]
Welcome International SSS Religious! & Saint Ann Shrine Established as a Diocesan Shrine!
Welcome International Religious! At the beginning of September, the Province of Saint Ann welcomed three new international members to our province and began their orientation for these special ministers. First, we hoped to have two seminarians from Vietnam study in our province for four years and then give back four years of service. Unfortunately, due […]
Father Dominic Long SSS Installed as Pastor of Saint Vincent de Paul Parish in Holiday, Florida
On Sunday, September 24, 2023, the Very Reverend James Ruhlin, Pastor of Saint Michaels in Hudson and of the West Central Deanery, Vicar Forane, and representative of Diocese of Saint Petersburg, Bishop Gregory Parkes installed the Congregation’s Vietnamese priest Dominic Long SSS as pastor of Saint Vincent de Paul Parish. The date was chosen because […]
News from the CEE
Today [15 August 2023], Very Reverend John Thomas Lane SSS, Provincial Superior of the Province of Saint Ann for the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (SSS), announced a historic decision with the USA Provincial Council: the appointment of two women to serve as the co-directors of the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing, a mission of the […]
Philippine Province Member Father Mark del Rosario SSS Installed as Pastor of Saint Joseph Downtown, San Antonio
On Saturday, July 29, the vigil of the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Filipino-American Father Mark del Rosario SSS became the new pastor of the historic Riverwalk church of Saint Joseph Downtown in the Archdiocese of San Antonio….The Provincial Superior of the Philippine Province, Very Reverend Roel della Cruz SSS, and the provincial secretary, Fr […]
Pastoral Visit with the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament and Associates in Connecticut
Our religious community of women has witnessed Eucharistic life since 1947 in this hardworking, highly educated city [of Waterville] in central Maine. Many of our own Blessed Sacrament men religious came from this region, their vocations attributed to these faithful women. … [M]eeting the Superior General Sister Fe Manalo SSS, in Rome during an International […]
Celebrating the Eucharist – in Florida and Ohio
We share with you photos from the celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ in two of our parishes – Saint Vincent de Paul Parish in Holiday Florida and Saint Paschal Baylon Parish in Highland Heights, Ohio. Father Dominic Long Carrying the Eucharist in Procession in Holiday, Florida Processing with […]
Pastoral Visitation in Ohio – May, 2023
Traveling to visit our other communities and Associates of the Blessed Sacrament across the country has been a joy. Not to be outdone or forgotten, I have completed a canonical visit of our parish and communities here in Northeast Ohio through May. …We have three homes for our religious here, the one that is attached […]
Celebrating “Internationality” in the Province of Saint Ann
On April 28 and May 2, we welcomed two international priests back to the Province of Saint Ann – USA. Blessed Sacrament (SSS) Father Joselito (Lito) Hitosis came from the Philippines after a vacation from his previous assignment in Hilo, Hawaii arriving in Holiday, Florida, to be the new parochial vicar … for the parish […]
