By Br. Warren Perrotto, MSC ( Pennsylvania Community, Center Valley, PA) Today we celebrate our 164th anniversary of our Foundation. In 1854, in a small town in France, called Issoudun, Fr. Jules Chevalier (1824/1907), who from his seminary years felt a profound call to dedicate his life to the service of missions. He had a deep…
Fr. Césaire Souissa Mounda, MSC, was born on Oct. 24, 1980, in Figuil North Cameroon, Africa. His father, Munda Dieudonné was a Police Commissioner. He died on Oct. 22, 2001. His mother is Asta Antoinette. Fr. Césaire was the third of seven children. He completed primary school and then entered the high school seminary at…
It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of our brother and friend, Fr. Cesaire Souissa Mounda, MSC. Fr. Cesaire, age 38, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, November 25th. Fr. Cesaire was ordained on June 29, 2013. He was a member of the Francophone African Union based…
10/1-James Baker, Bradenton, FL – $50.00 10/2-Margaret Berger, Aurora, IL – $50.00 10/3-Fr. James Bump, Belle Vernon, PA – $100.00 10/4-Paul Savino, Flushing, NY – $50.00 10/5-Laverne Herlofsky, Robbinsdale, MN – $50.00 10/6-Ruth Schepis, S. Easton, MA – $50.00 10/7-Constance Mumment, Walkerton, IN – $50.00 10/8-David Pfannenstiel, Hays, KS – $50.00 10/9- Stephaine Klopfenstein, Ontario,…
Today is the feast day of the seven MSC martyrs. Blessed Fathers Antonio Arribas, Abundio Martín, José Vergara, Josep-Oriol Issern and Brothers Gumersindo Gómez, Jésus Moreno and José del Almo were beatified in May 2017 and are the first members of our Congregation to be declared blessed. These seven Missionaries of the Sacred Heart lived…
By Fr. Mike Miller, MSC Secretary General - Rome, Italy.
On Saturday, Oct 13, seven members of the General House community and an MSC guest spent a day of community fun starting with a three-hour high-speed train ride, 300 kph, to Milan Italy.
We first visited the Duomo, Milan’s Cathedral, where St. Ambrose preached, and St. Augustine listened, finally. On the right-side wall as you enter, chiseled on a very large marble slab are the names of all the titular bishops on this major church extending back to the first century. St Ambrose is the eleventh. Literally carved in stone is the apostolic succession of bishops visible to the eye.
Duomo: MSC, Frs. Roberto, Hans, Ben, Mike, Jean Jules, Aris and Quy.
We not only marveled at the religious artistic engineering of the flying buttresses, chiseled statues and sculptures from ground level, but from the roof top we saw the majestic view of the city and the attention to detail on the roof where only a hardy few see the complexity and simplicity of this beautiful testimony to God’s grandeur.
At trattoria. Jean Jules, Hans, Ben, Roberto, Aris, Quy, Mike, Hermas, all MSC, only one local draft beer each, delicious.
After a delicious lunch in a trattoria near the Duomo, we visited the Basilica of St. Ambrose, plus a spectacular fort castle from the Middle Ages. All are very impressive sites.
Fr. Roberto and Fr. Hans
Fr. Mike and Fr. Roberto
The hut façade with the entrance portico.
Fr. Mike
St. Ambrose interior.
Pulpit in St Ambrose.
Chapel of the Sacred Heart
Returning on the high-speed train, we arrived home safely, physically tired but spiritually renewed in our Catholic faith.
We are delighted to welcome Father Herman Pongatung, MSC, who arrived to the United States from Indonesia last month. Father Herman professed his first vows on January 9, 1986 and was ordained on January 9, 1993. He is working in Watertown, New York as Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick and St. Anthony Parishes. Welcome Father Herman!
By Fr. Mike Miller, MSC, Secretary General – Roma, Italy On a pleasant blue-sky Sunday, October 14, I had the privilege of attending the canonization of seven new saints, among them St. Pope Paul VI and St. Oscar Romero, at a 10:15 Mass in St. Peter’s Piazza, with thousands of pilgrims from all over the…
9/1-Barbara Corey, Framington, MA – $50.00 9/2-Mary Leitem, Butler, PA- $50.00 9/3-Lisa Corrion, Auburn, MI – $50.00 9/4-Cyndi Wallis, Reno, NV – $50.00 9/5-Lance Zaremba, Nutley, NJ – $100.00 9/6-Rita Murray, Morton, PA – $50.00 9/7-Patricia Leatherwood, Aurora, IL – $50.00 9/8-Anthony Walczak, New Castle, PA – $50.00 9/9-Ricardo Reyna, Aurora, IL – $50.00 9/10-Jose…
8/1-Erwin Vetter, Gladstone, MI – $100.00 8/2-Carroll Scoville, Mentor, OH – $50.00 8/3-Edward and Bernadette Novick, Gurnee, IL – $50.00 8/4-Leonard Fournier, Pawtucket, RI – $50.00 8/5-Ronald Tipul, Park Ridge, IL – $50.00 8/6-Anthony Garbauski, Worth, IL – $50.00 8/7-Donnis Allman, Newton Centre, MA – $50.00 8/8-Billy Covington, New York, NY – $100.00 8/9-Lisa Davis,…