MISSIONARIES OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD Th e No. 34 - April 2013

Couf the p New Covenant Reflecting Our “Histories” by Fr. Francesco Bartoloni, C.PP.S.

ith this edition of we The Cup Wbegin reflecting on the celebra - tion of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Congregation, a date that is not far off. The interna - tional commission for the celebration of the bicentennial of the Congre ga- tion has planned three years of reflec - tion and prayer for this celebration. The theme for the first year examines the history that we have already lived but which has not yet come to an end. The theme is: Not only do we have a history to remember and to share, but also a great history that is yet to be completed. The central reason for the bicentenni - al celebration is certainly to give spe - cial thanks to God for the charism that God, through us and our commitment,

See page 36 St. Gaspar del Bufalo (statue in San Felice, Giano)

NOTE The Foundation: 1815 FROM EDITOR Selections from “Historical Sketches of C.PP.S.” by Fr. Andrew Pollack, C.PP.S., The articles in this edition as compiled by Fr. Mark Miller, C.PP.S. of The Cup for the most part are excerpts taken t has been said that before reality, ecclesial organization which eventu - and edited from longer Ithere must be a dream. This is true ally led to the official establishment of histories submitted by the for the Missionaries of the Precious the Community. respective units of the Blood. While St. Gaspar del Bufalo is Gaspar was supported in his early C.PP.S. the Founder of this Society of years with a small group of priests The selections made and Apostolic Life, his dream of becom - who also believed in the dream. These their editing is the sole ing a missionary took several years were primarily Father Bonanni, who responsibility of the editor before it became a reality and he also invited Santelli and Gonnelli to of The Cup , Barry Fischer, attributes much of this success to sev - join him in establishing what was ini - C.PP.S. eral of his fellow missionaries who tially called the Holy Alliance. Gaspar were involved primarily in a non- See next page Paul Church in Albano was ac - vince Pope Pius VIII to rescind and T Continued from front page h was invited to become a part of this quired; it was through the influence return all the privileges which he had e dream of a missionary society. Father of Cristaldi that the name Precious removed from Gaspar. C Blood was approved for our Com - u Francesco Albertini was another per - And so, through the many trials and p sonal companion who offered much munity, and it was through the influ - misunderstandings from those within o support along the way and was influ - ence of Cristaldi that Leo XII the Church, through the exiles and f ential in developing the devotion of changed his mind of removing the imprisonments from those outside the t the Precious Blood. Another was name of the Community and at one Church, Gaspar was finally able to h e Bellisario Cardinal Cristaldi, who point said to Gaspar, again after bring his dream into reality on Cristaldi’s intervention, “I under - N worked closely with Pope Pius VII August 15, 1815 when the Society of e and later with Leo XII, but never stand why you have so many ene - the Missionaries of the Most Precious w joined the Com munity. However, he mies, but do not be alarmed, Leo XII Blood came into being. While the C is for you.” o was its most outspoken confidant dream of a missionary community v and came to the rescue of the Com- What is then intriguing is that the began in Rome, it was officially real - e n munity on more than one occasion enemies of Gaspar were trying to ized in San Felice in Giano. a n when the Com munity was being con - persuade the Pope to make Gaspar a In the beginning, the Community t fronted from the powers within the Bishop and send him as the Nuncio was looked upon as being made up

St. Gaspar del Bufalo, Cardinal Bellisario Cristaldi, Don Gaetano Bonnani, Don Francesco Albertini

Church. The dream of being mission - to Brazil. But Cristaldi again inter - of Houses. Each House had its own ary was nurtured first in the vened and persuaded the Pope to superior and took care of the ordi - Holy which became the allow Gaspar to pursue his dream of nary affairs, mostly through what Alliance Gospel , a private and being a missionary. After the death was called House Congressus. Workers Enterprise unofficial formal missionary society of Leo XII, Pope Pius VIII heard However, the real Superior was the by the end of 1813. unfavorable reports and he publicly Moderator General, assisted by his It is unclear when Cristaldi met rebuked Gaspar, withdrew the usual Definitorium; the latter being com - Gaspar, the Canon of St. Mark, but subsidy and cancelled all the special prised of the officials of the principal in April of 1814, Gaspar preached a faculties. house which was supposed to be in Retreat to the lawyers of the Curia, Gaspar was so overwhelmed that, as Rome. There was a bond of union of whom Cristaldi was a member. he himself admits, all the motives of between the Mission Houses, but This seemed to have been the occa - religion were necessary to keep him - they were subject to one center of sion for a special relationship self under control. In this painful and government. Once elected, the between Cristaldi and Gaspar. It was humiliating situation he sought the Moderator General remained in through the influence of Cristaldi comfort of his friend, Cardinal office for life and he enjoyed full that the monastery of San Felice in Cristaldi. Through the work of authority limited only by the Rule. Giano was acquired; it was through Cristaldi and his relationships with He decided in matters of admission, 2 the influence of Cristaldi that the St. other Cardinals, he was able to con - government, and the distribution of offices and assignments. However, T he had the right to delegate his pow - h e ers to any member, and to invest UPCOMING EVENTS with vicarious authority especially in C u the case of far-off places. p Since there was no House initially XX GENERAL ASSEMBLY o f established in Rome, the House in Collegio Preziosissimo Sangue Albano was seen as the principal t Via Narni, 29 - Roma h house of the Community. While the e dream of beginning a missionary N Community was fulfilled, two other e July 8-19, 2013 w dreams of Gaspar were not fulfilled until after his death. The Rule was C o approved on December 17, 1841, v The main agenda will be the election e almost four years after his death, and n six months prior to that, July 27, of the new leadership team for the period 2013-2019 a n 1841, the Society was given a house t in Rome with a Church attached, San Salvatore in Campo. This became the ning. When we look at the history of members of the suppressed house of Domus Primaria of the Community the development of our Community, Trois Epis had begun to work in until the middle of 1858. we see that we have gone through 1873; 2) the Romagna or Flaminian Three months later, the General several stages of development. Province including the houses in Curia met for the first time in the Certainly the Italian stage of our northern Italy; 3) the Neopolitan house next to Santa Maria in Trevio. Community is the first and father of Province which included the houses Actually, this house was given to the any further foundations of our in southern Italy; and 4) The Community by the friend of Father Community throughout the world. American Province already existing Merlini, Pope Pius IX, in January, On August 29, 1894 a decree of the (the California Province had been 1854. This house then was declared Sacred Congregation of Bishops and erected “provisionally” in 1869 and the Primary House of the Congre- Regulars indicated that “after the suppressed in December 1874.) It gation. The General Moderators and Director General has been chosen (by was at this time that Provincial the Curia resided in this house for the Holy Father), a division of the Superiors were called Provincials the next 90 Years. The remains of St. Congregation into Provinces shall and not Vicars Provincial. Gaspar were brought to this Church take place, and a method of holding In the first General Chapter (April in 1861. General Chapters and elections of 14-17, 1896), it was decided that, During this time foundations outside Major Superiors will be prescribed although the American Provincial of Italy were made in Switzerland, by the S.C. of Bishops and Regulars.” should enjoy real jurisdiction and France, the United States and Thus on August 3, 1895, the Com- authority, the European Provincials Germany by non-Italian members munity was divided into four would be limited merely to presiding who had joined the Community in provinces: 1) the Roman Province, at Provincial Chapters, convoked by Rome, among them was Fr. Frances which, besides houses in central the General Curia, for the sole pur - de Sales Brunner. While we have Italy, was to include the house in pose of electing a delegate to the grown accustomed to thinking about Baumgaertle in Bavaria and four sta - General Chapters. For all practical our Community in terms of Provin - tions in the USA(Bronson, Sturgis, purposes there was no change; the ces, Vicariates, and Missions, this White Pigeon, and Three Rivers in Moderator General continued to be was not true from the very begin - the Diocese of Detroit, where former the Provincial. N

3 T h e ARRIVAL IN AMERICA: 1843 C u p icolaus Brunner was born on by Fr. David Hoying, C.PP.S. ny arrived in Cincinnati by river - boat on December 31, 18 43. o NNovember 10, 1795. He f departed from his parent’s home on April 12, 1838 at Albano, Italy . Bishop Purcell, because of his brief t at Müm lis wil, Canton Solothurn, h After a period of probation he made but clarifying encounter with the e Switzerland, in 1809 for schooling his profession on September 17, Missionaries, was not overly imp - at the Benedictine Abbey of Maria- N ressed by Father Brunner ‘s band, e s tein. He was sixteen when he en - 1838. Father Brunner was charged w and harbored concern for their lack tered the novitiate of the mona stery with establishing a German -speaking of education. Nevertheless, Father C on June 12, 1812, taking the name house of the congregation, which he o Brunner was given charge by v of Maria Franz Salesius. He pro - did at his school in Löwenberg . e Bishop Purcell , of the troubled n fessed his vows on June 13, 1813 at Thirteen of his students eventually a parish of Saint Alphonsus in Peru, Maria stein, and was ordain ed sub - became Missionaries of the Precious n Ohio , after first intending him to t deacon and deacon at Of fen b urg , Blood. Brunner, at the time, was minister in Mercer County . [Knapke Baden, on Septem ber 17 and also engaged in the preaching of II , p. 23] Other German settlements September 19, 1818. The next year, missions throughout Switzerland, in northern Ohio were additionally also at Of fen burg , he was ordained Baden, and Alsatia. He opened given to Father Brunner, and in to the priest hood on March 6. He another house in Alsatia in 1841. 1845 he took up work among the devoted himself to teaching at Because of difficulties encountered German settlers of Minster and Mariastein and to missionary work in his work, particularly from civil in the area . Seeking a more austere authorities, Father Brunner desired Mercer County . The parishes taken life , he entered the Trappist abbey at to relocate. over there were well -established and viable institutions. One of the Ölenberg in Alsatia on July 21, In 1842, Brunner wrote to Father first missionaries to minister in 1829. There he was invested with Johann Martin Henni, Vicar General west-central Ohio was the the Trappist habit on July 26, 1829, of the Diocese of Cincinnati , whom Dutchman, Father John the Evang - and on July 17, 1830 he took he had met in 1835 when Henni had elist van den Bröck. solemn vows. With the suppression returned to Switzerland for a visit of mo na stic houses in the July home. In July 1843, Father Brunner Several Sisters of the Precious Revolution he was exiled to was invited by Bishop John Baptist Blood came from Löwenberg in Switzerland on September 8, 18 30. Purcell to tend to the German immi - 1844, and Father Brunner began the Here, he became engaged in the grants in the Diocese of Cincinnati . founding of a series of convents in work of preaching missions. He accepted this invitation with the Ohio and Indiana , numbering up to In 1832 he purchased the Castle approval of the Moderator General, ten houses. Near Thompson in 1850, Löwenberg at Schleuis, Canton Father Biagio Valentini. Father Brunner founded the Shrine of the Graubünden, Switzerland, founding Brunner, and a group of fourteen, Sorrowful Mother and called the there a school for boys. A communi - sail ed from LaHarve , France , leav - place Maria Steig or Mary’s Way . ty of sisters was also formed at ing on October 20 aboard the vessel Father Brunner governed the Löwenberg , the Sisters of the . Bishop Purcell , who coinci - Vesta priests, brothers, and sisters as one Precious Blood. On a second jour - dently was in Europe at the time, community , with each foundation ney to Rome in January 1838, accompanied the group for a short consisting of both a convent for the endeavoring to give himself over time, until they reached England. sisters and a house for the priests for mission work in Africa , he prov - Because of multiple delays, Purcell and brothers. The existence of this identially encountered a priest of booked passage on a steamer and double or mixed order lasted in the Missionaries of the Precious arrived two weeks ahead of Brunner America until 1887. Father Brunner Blood, and thereupon determined to and his band. By way of New made several trips to Europe , in enter that congregation. Father Orleans, where they landed on 1849-1850, 1852-1853, and 1855- 4 Brunner entered the congregation December 21, Brunner and compa - 1856, outwardly for the repair of his glorification of God. That which T drew Father Brunner to the h e Missionaries of the Prec ious C Blood was Saint Gaspar’s u ni que u blending “of community li fe with p giving missions … that is, an o f active apostolate based on per sonal t holiness. [Gerlach, p. 5] It matched h precisely Brunner’s most in timate e self -defining hope . Brun ner ’s chal - N e lenge was bringing these visions to w fruition in a foreign wilderness C making its own demands. o v The particular element that was e n Brunner’s contribution was the spir - a n it of the Benedictine vow of stabili - t ty . With it, Brunner intuitively translated Gaspar’s vision of com - munity into the rough -hewn reality of the frontier . In Ohio , the mission house was clothed in the habit of the self -sufficient convent, and the preaching of missions became the pastoring of parishes , many of great expanse and some with settlers, especially in northern Ohio, need - ing re-evangelization. By this one surety , the community house or mis - sion house , from which members went forth to minister, the congre - gation endured. Those little log Fr. Francis de Sales Brunner – Sorrowful Mother Shrine in Bellevue, Ohio houses in the woods were familial and havens of refuge. The glue by health, but as well , to solicit mem - is painted with broad strokes of bril - which Brunner kept the mission bers and aid for his missionary liant but incongruous pigments, as of house together was the primacy of activities. In 1857, he took his an impressionist painting. Close the congregation . fourth and final trip. He died on observation reveals the contradic - Love for and promotion of the con - December 19, 1859 at Schellen berg , tions of his life , but as observed dis - gregation , fulfilling its needs and Liechtenstein, after having founded tantly in a wide and comprehensive solicitous for its welfare , was para - there his eleventh and last house, glance , the genius of his exemplary mount . Brun ner ’s insistence that the Convent of Mary’s Imma culate life cannot but be recognized. vocations were primarily to the Heart, in 1858. The intensity of Brunner ’s personal - community and upon which person - Father Knapke describes Father ity was derived from his singular al salvation de pended, rather than to Brunner ‘s personality as fascinating , desire through personal sanctifica - the priesthood or brotherhood , evi- formidable, eccentric , and yet saint - tion to fulfill the will of God . In pro - denced this . The other sign was the ly , for he possessed an austere sanc - found humility he faced the chal - baffling ra pi dity by which Brunner tity , an impulsive temperament, a lenges presented to him as the means brought a sound economic founda - domineering presence , and a pro - ordained by God for his sanctifica - tion to the community and its found humanness. [Knapke II , pp . tion, acting not for any sense of self expanding institutions; he doing so 351-2] Father Brunner ’s personality accomplishment, but alone for the much with so lit tle. N 5 T h e CINCINNATI PROVINCE: 1965 C u p or a Society of Apostolic Life, by Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S. education, Calumet College has the community is at the service of the distinction of being the most ethni - o F f apostolate. The Cincinnati Pro vince grams, ministry at the College also is cally diverse college in the Midwest has had a rich and varied history in pastoral in nature. A robust campus (of the USA). Through the decades, t h the apostolate. Respond ing to the ministry program, anchored by the the College has made a concerted e needs of the Church in 19th century Kairos retreats, which began in the effort to educate its students in the America, the early missionaries principles of Catholic social teaching. N early 1980s, serves the religious e began the pastoral care of parishes. needs of the students. Hoping that they will serve as leaven w This has continued through the In 1951, responding to the needs for for the Kingdom, these principles C decades. The Province’s experience Catholic higher education in the are taught in and outside of the class - o in parochial ministry has been urban areas of northwest Indiana, room. This commitment to justice is v marked by smaller numbers in recent e Saint Joseph’s College began offer - also seen in the lives of the C.PP.S. years, but there is still a decidedly n ing classes in Hammond, Indiana. Brothers who minister at the a Precious Blood flavor to our parishes. n This initial effort eventually grew to College. t The apostolic work of the Province become Calumet College of St. Jo - When both colleges were founded, has never been exclusively pa roch i- seph in 1973. The college, from the the exercise of oversight was done al. From the beginning of Brunner’s ministry, the Congre gation has served in various apostolic fields including mission preaching, chap - laincies, and education. In 1889 Bishop Joseph Dwenger, The Pro vince had its beginning at the C.PP.S. convinced the community to time of Second Vatican Council and its begin a college in Rensselaer, In - diana. Saint Joseph’s College has history has been a journey of living the had a great influence on the A merican vision of the Council. Province and this continues to this day. By the time of the founding of the Cincinnati Province in 1965, the college had over 1,000 students, including C.PP.S. seminarians, and community members served in all capacities at the Co llege. Beginning in 1968, Saint Joseph’s College began admitting women and in 1969, the College replaced its tra - ditional general education program with a nationally recognized Core program which takes its inspiration St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana (photo credit: Fr. Tim McFarland, C.PP.S.) from the Second Vatican Council, especially . In addi - very beginning, sought to educate through the Provincial administra - Gaudium et Spes tion to the undergraduate, liberal arts those working in the steel mills and tions. As the world of higher educa - curriculum, the College also began other industries as well as their chil - tion grew in complexity, it was clear offering Master of Arts in Church dren. Much of the history of Calumet that the provincial councils could no Music and Liturgy in 1960. Under College of St. Joseph is tied to the longer effectively govern the col - the leadership of Rev. Lawrence history of the region. In 1975 leges. Beginning in the late 1950s lay Heiman, C.PP.S. the Rensselaer AMOCO, an oil refinery, donated boards of varying configurations Program in Church Music and itís research and development build - were set in place to offer advice and Liturgy grew in stature and reputa - ing in Hammond to Calumet Col lege guidance for the colleges. By 2005, tion. In 2011 the College added a to use as an academic building. both colleges had been canonically Master of Business Administration As opposed to Saint Joseph’s Col lege alienated from the Province. degree and in 2013 the Board of which is located in a rural area, The Pro vince maintains sponsorship Trustees approved a Master of Calumet College is located in the of bo th institutions, assuring their ca- Science in Forensic Science pro - industrial heartland of the Chica go tholicity and maintaining certain re- 6 gram. In addition to academic pro - area. Due to its location and quality served powers and responsibilities. N T h KANSAS CITY PROVINCE: 1965 e C u A SPIRIT OF RENEWAL by Fr. Joseph Nassal, C.PP.S. comradeship” and “dialogue must p stay and keep alive our fraternal In January, 1966, the Provincial o spirit,” he encouraged at least two f Council announced the creation of Founder. Quoting Pope Paul VI, periods each day of “strict silence” ten districts to discuss and carry on Father Schaefer wrote, “Counciliar t be observed. h the work of the province in local renewal is not measured so much by e areas. As the renewal of Vatican II called changes in customs or in outward N It is of particular importance that the for the revitalization of religious life, e criteria as much as in a change of w recommended reading material for certain mental habits, of a certain much of the dialogue at district and community meetings during the late C the first district discussion was the interior inertia, of a certain resis - o 1960s was focused on the Revision v “Decrees of the Second Vatican tance of the heart to the truly e Council,” specifically “On the Adap - of the C.PP.S. Constitutions in pre- n pa ra tion for a Special General a ta tion & Renewal of the Religious n Life,” “On the Ministry and Life of Chapter called by the Moderator t Priests,” and “The Church in the “ The Pro vince General for the fall of 1969. One of Modern World.” Since the birth of had its be - the major changes in community the Kansas City Province coincided gin ning at government supported by 74% of the with the last session of the Second the time of the members of the Kansas City Vatican Council, the two events have Province was to reduce the term of Second Vatican Provincial from six years to four been closely intertwined from the Council and its beginning of the province. Vatican II years. 51% of the members were in certainly helped to shape the spirit of history has been a favor of a “wider representation in renewal that has marked the Kansas journey of living Community government” by intro - City Province since its inception. the vision of the ducing a provincial senate, while 87% favored retaining the model of In announcing his first canonical vis - Council.” Provincial Council “as consultors itation of the Province that would without designation of function, with begin in January, 1967, Father the right to choose a secretary and Schaefer captured this spirit of Christian spirit. The first change, treasurer from outside the Council.” renewal that was sweeping the most important of all, is what is ordi - Church at the time by asking “each narily called conversion of the Following the principle of subsidiar - of the ten districts in the Province” heart.” Father Schaefer assured the ity envisioned by Vatican II, the to “study a specific portion of the members that the provincial council Congregation moved toward a revi - C.PP.S. Constitutions” in the light of “will endeavor to continue our sion of community law that included the Vatican Council’s decree, renewal” with added guidelines and the Constitution, the General Statu- . Perhaps picking questionnaires based on the district tes, and the Provincial Statutes. As Perfectae Caritatis up on some resistance among the reports. outlined by the Renewal Committee of the Cincinnati, Kansas City, and members in the province concerning * * * Pacific Provinces, “A great deal of the renewal authored by the Second The spirit of renewal sparked by the community law, previously handled Vatican Council, Father Schaefer Second Vatican Council was reflect - on the level of the Con stitutions, will wrote, “This is not a rebellion” ed in the community retreats held now be a matter of provincial legis - against old traditions in an effort to annually during the summer at Pre - lation to be called the Provincial change things for the sake of change; cious Blood Seminary and at least Statutes.” this is a re-study to bring about one venue in the northern part of the Renewal. province for the members serving in In a letter to the province on the Wisconsin and North Dakota. In THE PASSING occasion of the Feast of St. Gaspar in 1967, Father Schaefer announced OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS 1967, Father Schaefer reflected further that while “there is a certain need for Father Daniel Schaefer, first provin - on the spirit of renewal inspired by the fraternal association and brotherly cial of the Kansas City Province and 7 T h e C u p o f t h e N e w C o v e n a n t

Members of the newly formed Kansas City Province (April 20, 1965)

former Moderator General of the A VISION OF RENEWAL action the vision of Vatican II is r oot - Society of the Precious Blood died AND RECONCILIATION ed in our founder’s charism of rene w - on November 27, 1991. In eulogiz - The 34th Provincial Assembly was ing the church.” ing Father Schaefer, his classmate, held May 2-5, 2011 at Kearney, MO. As the Kansas City Province looks Father Robert Lechner of the Several topics were identified as forward to its future, the vision of Cincinnati Province, said if Father “signs of life” in the district and our founder, St. Gaspar, a vision of Schaefer had written his memoirs, companion meetings during the renewal and reconciliation, is at the he might have called it, “A Hitchhi- course of the year. The three areas heart of our mission. It is a vision ker’s Guide to the World of Post- that the Assembly desired more that requires us to proclaim the Vatican II.” focus and dialogue at the Assembly Precious Blood of Jesus described so “Dan, like all of us, was stretched to aid the discernment were: rela - eloquently in Pope John XXIII’s between our American inheritance of tionship to the Cincinnati Province; opening reflection at Vatican II as rugged individualism and a more the utilization and purpose of “the medicine of mercy.” As priests, authentic sense of community,” Precious Blood Center in Liberty; brothers, companions and volun - Father Lechner said. Dan began with teers, we are, in Gaspar’s words, and support each other’s ministries a no-nonsense God and faced life “people of the Spirit” who embrace through Commu nity Life. with no-nonsense. First of all, hon - our mission to open windows and esty. No phoniness, no fake, no Father Joseph Nassal was elected doors, establish safe and sacred sham, the old rugged truth. And then provincial director. “In his opening spaces to listen and to learn, and to tough love. Not only for others but address to the Assembly, provincial be ministers of reconciliation and for himself. These belong to the Dan director Father Joe Nassal reflected ambassadors of hope in a broken 8 Schaefer legacy. how our commitment to put into Church and wounded world. N T h PACIFIC PROVINCE: 1965 e C u he story of the Missionaries of by Fr. Jerome Stack, C.PP.S. founder of the American Province, p the Precious Blood in the west - Father Francis de Sales Brunner. His T o ern United States begins just over boarders, St. Joseph’s College, out - beloved college had closed in 1879 f twenty years after the Congregation side Eureka, in Rohnerville. In 1872 for lack of funds, but on his return to t was established in the United States. enrollment attendance had increased California in 1886 he reopened it. h The first Precious Blood Missionary to more than 100 students. Although he continued to give mis - e arrived in San Francisco, California, Although the school had been sions and occasional lectures N in the fall of 1865. Father Patrick throughout Northern California to e intended to contribute to the support w Hennebery (sometimes spelled of the new novitiate in Eureka, by raise additional funds, the college Henneberry), a native of Ireland, 1876 it was heavily in debt. It was a finally closed in 1889. Father C Hennebery died while giving a mis - o preached his first mission in St. mission near to the heart of Father v Mary’s Cathedral in that city on Hennebery and there was nothing he sion in Virginia City, Nevada, in e 1897, and he is buried there. n September 24, 1865. It was such a would not do in order for it to suc - a success that Archbishop Alemany The Missionaries of the Precious n ceed. He traveled through many of t gave him permission to travel the northern counties of California Blood returned to the west coast of through the mining districts in the giving missions and conferences to the United States in 1953. The hills of California to continue giving raise funds. He gave lectures in San Province of the Pacific was estab - these missions. Francisco and Sacramento, and he lished with the division of the In 1867 Hennebery was given the traveled all over the world giving American Province in 1965. In con - parish in Eureka, California, with all missions and retreats. For the next tinued to be a vibrant missionary of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties five years he gave more than 120 presence in the west until a decline in his parish. The hope was that it missions in Australia, going from in the number of members led to the would become a center and a novi - there to New Zealand, and to suppression of the province in 2005. tiate for the Precious Blood Commu- Tasmania. In 1883 he traveled to (The basis for the history of the nity. The California Pro vince with Capetown, South Africa, then to Pacific Province was a document Hennebery as provincial director Zanzibar, Mauritius, the east coast of prepared by Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. was established in 1869 and was Africa, and on to Bombay in 2003. The final text was a collab - directly under the general curia in (Mumbai), India. He spent two orative effort using material and sug - Rome. By the summer of 1870 the months in India, traveling two thou - gestions from former C.PP.S. Pacific Community consisted of three sand miles giving missions, before Province members Joseph Brown, priests, seven seminarians and three departing for Rome. While in India James Franck, Gary Luiz, James brothers. A year later, Hennebery he met Father Joseph Brunner, S.J., Sloan and Ronald Wiecek. The final had built and opened a school for the brother of his mentor and text was edited by Jerome Stack.) N

Mount St. Joseph Boarding School in Rohnerville, California (c. 1871) 9 T h e ATLANTIC PROVINCE: since 1928 C u p any streams flowing together by Fr. Phil Smith, C.PP.S. Mt. Carmel Church in Chicago. eventually form and mold a Another missionary, Father o M f new identity, a river , and by the time Vincenzo Tripi, after his arrival from the river ends, what started as a Fantozzi and Ottavio Zavatta minis - Italy, died shortly afterwards and is t h small trickle becomes a deep, wi de, tered to the Italian-speaking immi - buried in New York. e waterway or in some cases a torrent. grants in the Chicago area: East Father Antonio Velardi, the Mo - N Such is the history of what we today Chicago and Gary, Indiana. derator General on October 29, 1928 e know as the C.PP.S. At lan tic w By 1922, the Procurator General of decreed the establishment of the Province. The historical records the Missionaries, Father Joseph and C show that C.PP.S. Missio naries came “Italo-American Delegation” o Schaeper, conducted a visitation of set statutes to help govern the com - v from Spain, Argen tina, Italy and the the missionaries and a new era munity’s growth. Father An tonio e United States, blending together n a their various traditions to become n t the Atlantic Province in the last thir - teen years of the twentieth century. Fathers Edoardo Ricciardelli and Pasquale Renzullo first arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1904, travelling from Italy, to minister to the Italian- speaking immigrants. Father Ric - ciar delli became pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Chicago, while Father Renzullo was asked to establish a parish complex in Chicago Heights, a section of the greater Chicago area. This became known as St. Roch’s Parish. In 1911, Father Michael Marti niano arrived from Italy, settling in Brooklyn, New York. Here, in true missionary fashion, he ventured forth preaching missions and helping the Italian immigrants as they settled in their new country. His “home”

was Our Lady of Solace Church. It Chicago, September 15, 1922 – The Members of the Delegation. was from there that he travelled to From left to right: Father Edoardo Ricciardelli, Father Michele Martiniano, various areas giving comfort, solace, Father Giuseppe Schaeper, Father Ottavio Zavatta, Father Nicola Santoro and providing for the spiritual and physical needs of these immigrants, opened for them. Centres were Santoro was appointed the first supe - many of whom knew no English. He established: one in Chicago, with rior of the delegation. By 1930, the ministered in this way until 1933. Father Ricciardelli as superior, Diocese of Ro chester, New York Religious persecution forced the Father Santoro became superior in requested the assistance of the mis - group of C.PP.S. Missionaries to Niles, Ohio, and Father Zavatta in sionaries and the Church of the leave Mexico in 1914 and not desir - East Chicago, Indiana at Sacred Precious Blood was entrusted to their ing to return to Italy, they preferred Heart Church. It should also be care. Father Sebastian Contegia- to continue their ministry in the noted that besides their normal como, its pastor, remained with that “New World”. Fathers Ottavio parish ministries, these early mis - parish until his death in 1982. Over Zavatta, Riccardo Fantozzi and sionaries also were responsible for 50 years of missionary service to that Nicola Santoro came to the United giving missions and retreats. faithful community! States with Father Santoro becoming In 1923, Father Angelo Della January 1941 opened with the pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Vecchia arrived from Spain and European countries at war and 10 Niles, Ohio. Fathers Riccardo became the superior of Our Lady of though the United States would not officially enter the conflict until establishing new lives away from by the cultural and societal influ - T December, the community in North their native land. Hence, there ences of the New World. This was a h America continued to experience its developed a strong commitment to daunting task as each community e own problems: January 11, 1941, minister to the immigrants, helping house had its own flavour, its own C them balance their Italian back - u Father Santoro died and the leader - personality due to the members p ship of the delegation passed into the ground with the customs and tradi - residing there. However, the mem - tions of North American. Many of o hands of Fr. Angelo Della Vecchia, bers commitment to form communi - f who be came the superior at Our these Italian immigrants began with ty, despite the geographical dis - very little financially and materially. t Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in tances between the houses, strength - h e Chicago. The C.PP.S. Missionaries helped ened the members resolve to build a These early years when the founda - them overcome various adversities unity among each other in the “bond N e tion was being formed, several con - to keep the faith alive despite the of charity ”. w clusions can be made. On the one daily hardships. The missionaries Thirdly, the principle apostolic min - hand, from 1904 until the beginning C walked in solidarity with the suffer - istry was working with the Italian o of World War II, the emphasis was ing and poor of those years, teaching v on working with the immigrant immigrants and, to a lesser extent, e and encouraging the faithful to keep n Italian population who was settling the preaching of missions and a looking ahead to the good that was in the cities of the United States: pri - retreats. Already in these early years n surely meant to be. t marily Chicago, New York, and there was an attempt to preserve a Niles, Ohio. There was a spirit of Secondly, the missionaries them - healthy balance between the needs collaboration and co-operation selves, likewise formed a new self- of the ministry while remaining among the missionaries to aid this identity, founded on the missionary faithful to the original charisms of influx of newcomers who were spirit of St. Gaspar but forged also St. Gaspar. N

TEUTONIC PROVINCE: 1922

THE ORIGINS by Fr. Willi Klein, C.PP.S. the Province. Fifty members were OF THE TEUTONIC PROVINCE conscripted to the German armed Before Franz Sales Brunner, C.PP.S. Maria Baumgärtle, Germany (1871), forces, and in Austria, all houses were expropriated. Many of the (1795-1859) founded the American Feldkirch, Austria (1919), and priests became pastors, substitutes or Province in Ohio in 1844, he sent Lindenberg, Germany (1922). The hospital chaplains in order to avoid missionaries from Switzerland newly established Teutonic Province doing military service; communica - (Löwenberg) to Trois Epis in Alsace adopted the constitution of the tion between the remaining houses (1842). Later (1871) these went to C.PP.S. and the American Praxis. became very difficult. Maria Baumgärtle in Germany. In The next decades were characterized The following statement was made 1858 he sent the first missionary by a strong growth of the Province. in the commemorative volume “In from Ohio to Schellenberg in New houses were established: Memory of the Centenary of Papal Liechtenstein; his task was to find Kufstein, Austria (1923), St. Korneli, Confirmation 1841-December 17- candidates for the USA Province and Austria (1926), Klagenfurt, Austria 1941” (published in 1941 during the to prepare them, and at the same (1929), the Xingu Vicariate, Brazil war!): “We had to stand by and see time be the spiritual director of the (1930), Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia how all that was built up with great Sisters who had also been sent there (1934), Salzburg, Austria (1934), Vi - effort by the first Provincial Director by Brunner. la vi cosa, Portugal (1934), Fribourg, in a period of 30 years, was snatched Switzerland (1938), and the Iberian In 1905, Gregor Jussel, C.PP.S. away from us in a period of five (1871-1958) from the American Vicariate, Spain and Portugal (1939). years, after we had been successful Province came to Schellenberg with At the beginning of World War II in strengthening its foundations to the intention of founding a new (1939-1945), the Teutonic Province some extent. One simply has to say Province there. He trained mission - had about 150 members and 14 hous - to oneself: God gave it to us and God aries and established houses so that es in different countries. has taken it away from us… The best in 1922 the Teutonic Province could consolation is that all the members be established. The new Province WORLD WAR II AND were able to make enormous contri - consisted of 12 members, 2 students ITS EFFECTS ON THE C.PP.S bution to the dioceses suffering from and 40 pupils living in four houses: World War II (1939-1945) caused a a shortage of priests, and for that rea - Schellenberg, Liechtenstein (1858), massive break in the development of son a larger number were called 11 T h e C u p o f t h e N e w C o v e n a n t

Fr. Gregor Jussel, C.PP.S., founder of the Teutonic Province – the Pilgrim Church in Maria Baumgaertle, Germany

upon to lead parishes, what had not ) support from the American were killed in the war (5 missionar - author been possible earlier.” Province. Without their help, it ies) and many others left the The following comments can be would have been very difficult for us Province to join a diocese. Some of found in a later commemorative to survive…” (pages 13-15). the houses were returned to us and issue – “150 years: Missionaries of Andrew Pollack, C.PP.S., said in his some new ones were founded (new: the Precious Blood” published in lecture entitled “The Congregation Traunstein, Germany, 1949; 1965: “The period of national social - of the Missionaries of the Precious Sprockhövel, Germany, 1949; istic regime and the second world Blood” delivered at the C.PP.S. Salzburg-Parsch, Austria, 1955; war caused a decline in our Province Workshop 1980 in Rome: “The Stadl Paura, Austria, 1955; as it did in all other church commu - Teutonic Pro vince had to be com - Neuenheerse, Germany, 1957). nities, which can be felt even to this pletely rebuilt: confiscated houses In 1987, the independent Iberian day. Fifty members of our Province regained, new ones established, and a Province was established in Spain were recruited to the armed forces… flock of a bout one hundred priests, and Portugal. By and by our centers for training scattered in the army and throughout In 1983, the first house was estab - priests were expropriated and their Austria and Germany, to be brought lished in Poland, and in 2003 the furnishings and equipment made together again. As a start, these Polish Province was established. unusable to a large extent. In 1945, priests who returned from the army The first House established in the only houses we still had were in were gathered at the re-gained Croatia (1989) was assigned to the Baumgärtle and Lindenberg. The Kufstein retreat house for a year’s Polish Vicariate in 2001. members were scattered over vari - rehabilitation and refresher courses. Today, the Teutonic Province has 31 ous dioceses. They had to be But then these had to be loaned out to members (1 of them in formation) in appointed as substitutes so that they the dioceses, because all of these Germany and Austria, 10 in Brazil were able to perform pastoral work. men could not be kept busy in the (five of them are Brasilians, two in Community life of the members was houses that remained to the Province. formation), who live in 8 communi - stopped, very seldom were we able This would cause a problem later on ties in Germany (Maria Baumgärtle, to get together for retreats. for the Province: these men would Neuenheerse, Traunstein), Austria Communication between the mem - not be able to adapt to community (Kufstein, Salzburg), Liechtenstein bers was very limited… After the life and would leave the Society” (Schellenberg) and Brazil (Altamira, end of World War II, the entire (C.PP.S. - Studien, Bd.5, Beiträge Belem). Five active members are Province had to establish on a new zur Geschichte C.PP.S., page 297). carrying out their service alone, in basis… For several years, we were After 1945, the number of members various parts of Austria and able to get (financial: was reduced since some members Germany. N 12 comment of the T h IBERIAN PROVINCE: presence since 1898 e C u SPAIN by Fr. José Luis Morgado, C.PP.S. became a residence for the minor p seminarians who studied in the sem - The foundation of the Iberian o inary of Evora. From there came the f Province (at the beginning a The Congregation was born and first Portuguese priests: Joaquin Vicariate) took place in 1898 in the grew in the very fountain of life t Farinha and Edmundo Alves. h Casa del Sol, in Cáceres. Following which is the Blood of Jesus, divine e the apparently miraculous cure of a On March 23, 1939 the Moderator and precious and it spread far and N niece of the writer De Maitre (on General Colagiovanni wrote to the e wide to water the empty fields, the w October 7, 1842 in Nice, France) arid lands, the human landscapes director of the Teutonic Province that said province should be in C attributed to the intercession of St. where conflict and division bring out o Gaspar del Bufalo, a Spanish exiled charge of the Iberian Vicariate. Otto v sorrow and passion, hunger and ex - e , Don Vicente de Obando ,y Grünwald served as Vicariate n Carlist treme poverty. Director from 1939-1946. During a Solis, III Marques de Obando was Between 1898 and 1939 the Iberian n the Second Republic and the civil t impressed. He lived in Turin in Italy Vicariate was under the supervision war, numerous priests had been mur - and named the Missionaries of the of the general curia. The Casa in dered and the new priests from the Precious Blood as the beneficiary of Caceres was served by the Italian Teutonic Province had to take over the Casa del Sol at the death of his missionaries. wife which occurred in May of 1898. the work of the parish and chaplain - The decade of 1909-1919 was prom - cy in places where the priests had In 1867, a priest from Caceres, is ing. A new house opened in Va - disappeared. In 1946, Pablo Bauss - Tomas Palomar, on a pilgrimage to lencia de Alcantara in 1910 and the mann was Vicariate Director until Rome, informed the major superiors missionaries took over the church of 1960. of the Congregation about the gift of St. Peter of Alcantara. For twelve A minor seminary was established in which they were beneficiaries. The years the missionaries lived in rented Caceres that eventually had 100 stu - Moderator General, Fr. John Mer- houses. In 1911 two missionaries, dents. Of them 20 were eventually lini , received him. The general curia Zavata and Arrache, went to Mexico ordained priests. In 1953-54 the of the C.PP.S. accepted the gift on to open a mission and bring into the school in Fuente de Cantos (Badajoz) August 30, 1898 and paid 40,000 province three more members. was opened. pesetas as inheritance tax to the The decades 1919-1939 were a Bishop of Coria. This money had struggle to survive, due to political been gathered from various houses problems, the civil war (1936-1939) PORTUGAL and individual members of the and the difficulties between the In 1922 D. Manuel Mendes da C.PP.S. Congregation and the bishop of Conceicao Santos was named arch - The first C.PP.S. Missionary, Coria. The effort of Fr. Varrone was bishop of Evora. He found the situa - Bartho lomew Corradini, came to commendable. He came from Italy tion of the Church to be a mess with Spain in November of 1898, and to Caceres in 1919, and became the regard to the clergy. It would be nec - became responsible for the Parish of Vicariate Director in 1926. He con - essary to renew the clergy in order St. Francis Xavier, as well as for the centrated his efforts on forming for the Christian life in the archdio - Casa del Sol. Missionaries of the Precious Blood cese to be reborn. He went looking That year, 1898, was the year when from their youth. Varrone sent the for congregations who might want to Spain lost its empire. The country seminarians to study in Rome. One work in the diocese entrusted to him. was in grave crisis. Every effort was was ordained. There were no other Among the institutes contacted were made to defend the last colonial bas - personnel to found other houses in the Missionaries of the Precious tion which it ended up losing. The Spain. Blood. army was defeated; the government In 1930 Varrone sent Fr. Carinci to Fr. Carinci was the principal advo - in shambles; the nation was broken. Portugal. He accepted a foundation cate for the foundation and he asked The people defended themselves as in Vila Vicosa, with a parish and the Moderator General to seriously best they could, caught as they were chaplaincy. Priests of the Teutonic consider that foundation since it was between a rock and a hard place. Province were sent there. The house a diocese lacking clergy. 13 T h e C u p o f t h e N e w C o v e n a n t

“Casa del Sol” in Caceres, Spain

Fr. Carinci came to Portugal on Vicosa. In 1938 the responsibility able. It was not until 1955 that the January 9, 1930 and on August 11 of for this foundation had passed from Missionaries of the Precious Blood the same year was named associate, the Italian Province to the German took over the parish of St. Bartho - with full faculties, to Fr. Isidoro Province. lomew, the parish house and the Ribeiro, who took charge of St. The German priest, Fr. Robert parishes of St Romao and Bencatel. Bartholomew in Vila Vicosa and St. Rinderer, ministered in Vila Vicosa. Fr. Adalbert continued in his work at Romao, some 3 miles from the city. On October 28, 1938 two other the seminary of Vila Vicosa until On December 8, 1931, The Moder- German missionaries joined him: Fr. 1948. When he found out that his ator General of the Missionaries of Adalbert Stummbilig and Fr. Paul mother was very sick, he left the Precious Blood sent to the arch - Baussman. From the initial group of Portugal in 1948. Until 1954 there bishop of Evora the decree of the seminarians, three frequented the were no C.PP.S. missionaries in Holy See, dated November 6, 1931, diocesan major seminary in Evora Portugal. authorizing D. Manuel Mendes da for studies while belonging to the Conceicao Santos to give C.PP.S. Two of them would become In 1954 Fr. Edmund Alves moved ad nuntum the parish of St. the first Portuguese Missionaries, from Spain to Vila Vicosa and admit - Sanctae Sedis Bartholomew to the Congregation of Frs. Edmundo Alves and Joaquin ted three students. They lived with the Precious Blood. Thus the pres - Farinha Cardoso. the diocesan seminarians, just as a ence of the Missionaries in the When the concordat wa signed in group of our seminarians had done Diocese of Evora was confirmed as 1940, foreigners were not allowed to years before. its first community in Portugal. exercise the office of pastor in The C.PP.S. community of Vila Fr. Luis Carinci, the guiding spirit of Portugal. So Fr. Adalberto resigned Vicosa at that time was composed of the Congregation in Portugal, as pastor. The archbishop asked him three priests, two Portuguese: dreamt of a new Portuguese Pro- to stay as a professor and spiritual Joaquin Farinha and Edmund Alves, vince. So it would be necessary to director of the diocesan seminary of form new members. In October of St. Joseph in Vila Vicosa. The arch - and one German, Christopher 1936 he went to Proenca a Nova to bishop promised that the parish of Mulbhauer. With this community preach, where he recruited a group St. Bartholomew would be given began the permanent presence of the of nine young men . These became once again to the missionaries when Missionaries of the Precious Blood 14 the first C.PP.S. students in Vila Portuguese missionaries were avail - in Vila Vicosa till the present. N T h ITALIAN PROVINCE: 1942 e C u THREE ITALIAN PROVINCES: by Fr. Michele Colagiovanni, C.PP.S. Reverend Father Angelico d’Ales- p 1895-1937 sandria, Apostolic Visitor, oversaw the implementation of this Decree . o By Decree of the Holy See, of annoyed various dioceses and rec - f August 3, 1895, three Provinces in On July 20, 1942, the Director tors of seminaries who saw that can - t Italy (the Roman, Neapolitan and the didates they had deemed unsuitable General , Don Lorenzo Colagio- h Flaminian) were formed. This e being ordained and who then went vanni, issued a circular letter in proved to be an unfortunate choice on to boast to them of what they had which one reads, among other N given the results. The smallness of e done! things: “Now that the work of bring - the Provinces, their proximity to the ing our Rule into conformity with w The visit of the Director General, General Administration and the poor the Code of Canon Law is finished, C Don Antonio Velardi, in 1936 credibility of the operation, ensured on the first centenary of the memo - o revealed a great deal of confusion. v that in fact every question would be rable decree of Gregory XVI, we are e The very composition of the General referred to the General and the three - offered the opportunity to proceed to n Curia without representation of the a fold division into provinces the desired structuring of our Houses foreign (non-Italian) provinces was n remained what in truth it was: a fic - in Italy. Until now these houses have t an alarming fact. tion of law. remained under the immediate gov - Already in the Third General ernance of the General Curia, above Chapter a forceful argument had THE APOSTOLIC VISITATION: all because of their proximity to the developed, precisely because the 1937-1942 center of the Institute, despite the Italian representation appeared to be For this reason and because of the division into three Provinces devoid of juridical justification. In serious disorder caused by the hap - (Roman, Neapolitan, Flaminian), fact, the tiny and tenuous Italian hazard acceptance as members and repeated attempts to give these provinces came into existence only priests who never integrated into the three Provinces a greater juridical when General Chapters were held. spirit of the Institute, which sowed foundation. The fact that the foreign This made it necessary, or at least an discord among the ranks, on Provinces have been empowered attempt was made, to validate their November 25, 1937, a Decree was with effective jurisdiction ends up continuing existence, to give “broad - issued from the Sacred Congregation making the privileged state of the er powers and a greater autonomy to of Religious, signed by Vincenzo Italian Houses more abnormal and the Provinces of our Institute in Card. La Puma , which removed Di- calls for an equal canonical arrange - Italy.” Effectively this was meant to rec tor General Velardi from office ment for them. The nominal exis - give them power that they did not and imposed a new General Admini- tence of three Italian Provinces is have and never did have. stration . suppressed by the Holy Apostolic They were given jurisdiction by a Decree issued on the anniversary of the death of Gaspar del Bufalo, December 29, 1928, to become effective on January 1, 1929. It was signed by Don Antonio Velardi, who had become director general because of the serious disability of Don Giacinto Petroni. It was counter - signed by Don Isidoro Oberhauser, secretary general. Unfortunately, the events that fol - lowed brought the three Provinces to anarchy and the entire Institute to undergo the Apostolic Visitation, because the dream of greatness (in numbers) led some members to receive seminarians expelled from seminaries and diocesan priests who were discontented and who had defected for other reasons. The General Administration indulged this pursuit of proselytism and this Students in Albano (October 1899) 15 Visitation to give way for the forma - and channel them toward a brighter Giuseppe Quattrino was elected T h tion of a single Province. future. Italy, from which the Congre - Provincial Superior . Also elected e “In agreement with the Most gation has its life and development, were four Councilors. C Reverend Apostolic Visitor, we have must regain its place of honor among Don Raffaele Bernardo was elected u the other provinces. ” p decided to call the First Chapter of Provincial Treasurer but for personal the Houses of Italy in order to pro - The Chapter took place with the war reasons he did not accept. The ses - o ceed with the election of the in the background. The expedition to sion was suspended. When it recon - f Provincial and his Curia. The Russia was in progress, as yet going vened, the Visitor announced that the t Chapter will take place in our House favorably, but one would have to Provincial Chapter had ended and h e in Albano, beginning on September know from the precedent of Napo- declared that he was reserving the 1 of this year, and all Missionaries leon how little by little it would be naming of the Secretary and N e who have completed at least five ever more difficult to provide for the Treasurer of the Province to himself, w years from the imposition of the troops on the frontlines that were adding that until a new order was Holy Crucifix or who will complete C being pushed forward. This is the forthcoming, the Treasurer General o five years within the current year detail that reveals the drama of the Don Giuseppe Cosimi would also be v will take part. moment. In preparing for the Cha - e assuming the duties of Provincial n “No one, except for a grave cause, is pter, every person eligible to vote Treasurer. a was to bring along his ration card. n to excuse himself from being pre - With the First Provincial Chapter the t sent. new Italian Province of the “It goes without saying that after the THE BIRTH OF THE ITALIAN Congregation of Missionaries of the next Chapter the Institute holds out PROVINCE: 1942 Most Precious Blood was estab - the promise of having creditable The Chapter for the election of the lished juridically, in place of the structure and consistent develop - first “true” Provincial met in Albano three Provinces, into which Italy had ment. Therefore those who will be on September 3-4, 1942 with Most been divided previously . voting, we are certain, will give Reverend Don Lorenzo Colagio - On September 6, the first meeting of proof of their understanding and of vanni presiding. The Apostolic the historic Council of the Italian the seriousness. Visitor Most Reverend P. Angelico Province took place. The General “The Houses of Italy are deposito - D’Alessandria, OFM, is present. The Administration, now freed from its ries of a noble tradition. Many of members at the Chapter number 38. immediate management of the these were opened by the Blessed After the Apostolic Visitor declared “Italian” problems could carry out [Ga spar] and have known not only that he and the Most Reverend its role as a moral guide with preach - his holiness and also that of his Director General with his Council ing, while Don Giuseppe Quattrino Missio naries. One need not destroy ( ) were renouncing active revealed extraordinary tactical and Definitorio such a lofty patrimony, but rather and passive voice, the number of strategic ability, along with an preserve and enrich it. We are confi - voters is 35. The elections took place unequaled human charisma, that per - dent that the next structure will in the Chapel of the Boarding mitted the newborn Italian Province unleash very considerable energies School. The Very Reverend Don to rise out of the rubble of war. N

PROVINCE OF POLAND: presence since 1983

rom almost 30 years the mission by Fr. Wojciech Czernatowicz, C.PP.S. “The community of Prayer of Fand charism of the Congregation Precious Blood” was printed by of the Missionaries of the Precious Missionaries. This began the spread - Blood has been realized in Poland 1980’s . It was officially established ing of the spirituality of the Precious through diverse means of evange - as a Mission in 1983 , and then Blood throughout Poland. The lization: preaching retreats, days of became a Vicariate in 1994 and Union of the Precious Blood (USC) recollection , parish missions, and finally , a Province in 2005. for the laity was created, particularly pilgrimages, as well as diverse During the General Assembly of the through letter contacts and the mail - works of charity, service for abused Adorers of the Blood of Christ and ing of our prayer-books. The regular persons, and through the formation during the Interprovincial meeting of meetings for groups of boys and in spirituality for the laity, particular - the C.PP.S. in 1979 in Rome , Fr. Win - girls began in 1980. ly within the framework of the fried Wermter initiated his first conta - On April 25, 1983, Fr. Anton Union of the Precious Blood (USC). cts with the ASC Sisters from Poland. Loipfinger, the Provincial of the The C.PP.S. Missionaries began At the turn of 1980/81 in Rome the Teutonic Province, visited the USC 16 their activity in Poland in the early first Polish prayer-book entitled groups in Poland. He also came to Zbigniew Lesiczka and Br. Henryk T Czubat. 31 persons formed the Vica - h riate at that time : 5 priests, 2 deacons, e 4 brothers, 5 seminarians and 15 can - C u didates. p On November 23, 1993, Fr. Tadeusz o Panasiak of the Vicariate died. f Since 1996 to the present, the new t headquarters of the Publishing h e House became the Mission House of St. Laurence in Czestochowa . N e POMOC legally began to function as w Publishing House since 1998. C In December 1997 a new Mission o v House in Labunki near Zamosc was e n acquired thanks to the effort of the a USC members who obtained a run- n down XIXth century mansion along t Retreat Day in Poland (1981) with the adjoining land. The House was consecrated to the Holy Spirit. In December 1998 a travelling hos - study the possibility of a foundation vocational promotor; and Br. Henryk pice began. The team was composed of the Congregation in Poland . Czubat, responsible for brothers. by a doctor , nurses, a psychologist After the General Assembly in July Since 1991 we distributed 10 thou - and priests, who visited the ill in 1983, at the end of his term as Vice- sand copies of our monthly periodi - their houses , offering care and sup - General , Fr. Winfried went directly cal “POMOC ” which had appeared port to their families as well. to Poland, armed only with a three – earlier as an internal letter to mem - On November 29, 1998 the Parish of month tourist visa. He came to bers of the USC. St. Gaspar in Czestochowa came Poland under the pretext of visiting During the10th jubilee of the USC in into being. the ASC Sisters . He began his doc - Poland , the all-Night Vigil on From August 24-31, 2001 in the toral studies at the Academy of Decembre 21-22, 1991 at the Shrine Catholic Theology in Warsaw. Shrine of the Precious Blood in Meanwhile he awaited the official of the Black Madonna in Czesto cho- Czestochowa, the first European decision of the Assembly of the wa was held. Since then, these vigils Meeting of C.PP.S. Seminarians was Teutonic Province to establish the have taken place every year on the organized. Mission. last Saturday before Christmas Eve. On May 1, 2005 the Polish Province In June 1987 John Paul II made his The solemn erection of Polish of the Congregation of C.PP.S. was third pilgrimage to Poland . On June Vicatiate of C.PP.S. took place on erected by Fr. Barry Fischer , Mode - 9, during his visit to Lublin, the Pope November 7, 1993 by Vice- rator General, who also preached the ordained 50 deacons from all of Moderator General Fr. Genaro retreat for all the members the Poland. Among them, was our own Cespites in presence of General C.PP.S. in Poland. The first Province Wojciech Czernatowicz . Councillor Fr. Barry Fischer, who Dire ctor in Polish history was Fr. earlier conducted the visitation. They Jaro slaw Jablonski. On July 18, 1989 the Congregation also dedicated on October 31 , the St. In August 2007 the Missionaries of received state recognition , which Joseph House in Swarzewo. Present C.PP.S. for the first time led a pil - permitted our public activity in for the occasion were the Provincial grimage on foot from Warsaw to Poland. Director , Fr. Josef Epping , and Czesto chowa. All members of the Polish Mission Province Councillor , Fr. Andreas met on September 26-27 th to elect Hasenburger , as well as the diocesan In October 2008 in Czestochowa , their first Polish Council. Fr. animators of the of USC. At this time thanks to the initiative of Fr. Damian Wermter was Provincial Delegate. the first Council of the newly formed Siwicki , the “Gaspar Youth Days ” Those elected to the Council were: Vicariate was elected: Fr. Winfried was organised. Fr. Karol Michalski as Vice Delegate Wermter – the Director of Vicariate; In March 2010 Fr. Wojciech Czerna - and Economist; Br. Mark Tyczynski, Fr. Boguslaw Witkowski , the Vice to wicz, who for over twenty years ful - responsible for formation of semi - Director and Treasurer; Fr. Grzegorz filled different ministries outside of narians; Br. Zbigniew Lesiczka , as Ruchniewicz , Secretary, and Br. Poland, returned to his homeland. N 17 T h e C u BICENTENNIAL p o f C.PP.S. FOUNDATION t h e 1815 - 2015 N e w C o v e n a n t 2012-2013: The Past: A glorious history to remember 2013-2014: The Present: Our reconciling presence 2014-2015: The Future: Our response to the Cry of the Blood

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19 T h e VICARIATE OF BRAZIL: 1929 C u p FIRST STEPS by Fr. Michael Rohde, C.PP.S. themselves to the Mission of the Xingú. The missionaries who came o “Green Hell!” This is the name f given to a region of more than 4 mil - to the Xingú had to put up with great t lion sq. km. (1.6 million sq. mi.) the largest river in the world. After a obstacles and difficulties, innumer - h brief stop in Santarém, they came to able trips through treacherous waters e located in the north of Brazil. It is a region full of rivers and streams, a Manaus on January 23, 1930. A few and in the middle of an insidious N e region of green, virgin forests. In days later, Fr. Rinderer woke up with jungle always ready to take its vic - w this region of Amazonia, in the State a fever and a headache. His condition tims; the construction of chapels and C of Pará, the Vicariate of the kept getting worse. On February 4, churches for liturgy; building o he celebrated Mass for the last time. v Missionaries of the Precious Blood schools to teach people on the pri - e was born. The initiative was an He died the morning of February 22 . mary and intermediate levels; n a answer to the request of the bishop After the death of his companion, Fr. preaching and catechizing Christians n t of the Diocese of Santarém, Bishop Marcus stayed alone in Manaus until who were almost abandoned, and

River Boat – “St. Gaspar” Visiting the Indigenous Villages

Amando Bahlmann, a friend of Fr. May 17. He then traveled to Porto de helping the indigenous people, Gregory Jussel, the founder of the Moz, his final destination, arriving defending their rights and helping mother province. The bishop asked there on May 24, the Feast of Our them in their basic needs. This was for help from the Missionaries of the Lady Help of Christians, the the daily work of our Missionaries. Precious Blood to give pastoral Patroness of our Congregation. Fr. With the beginning of the Second attention to a part of his diocese Schawalder was the only priest in an World War and the entry of Brazil called the “Region of the Xingú. immense area with a radius of more into the conflict between the great The first two Missionaries, from the than 500 miles. powers of the US and Europe against Teutonic Province, Frs. Marcus He immediately wrote a letter to his Germany, the Missionaries had to Schawalder and Johann Rinderer, set Provincial in Europe, asking for confront other challenges. There is out from the port of Le Havre in more Missionaries. But only around the famous story of Brother Franz France for the new world on October the beginning of 1931 did Fr. Knesti who had to walk more than 22, 1929 and arrived at the city of Clement Geiger and the lay brother 40 miles, the distance between the Belém on November 11. They stayed Francis Keil arrive. They went to cities of Victoria in the Xingú and in the diocesan administrative center Altamira, where on January 17 they Altamira, because no one would for two months, to learn Portuguese founded the first mission house in give him a ride because he was of and to get to know the city of Belém, that city. German origin. All the missionaries its surroundings and its people. From The Teutonic Province did not hold had to put up with a great limitation 20 there they continued their journey on back anything to give the best of on their movements. Only Fr. Eric Krautler, C.PP.S., of since the only means of transporta - boat or canoe. Since there was nei - T Austrian descent, had freedom of tion was by boat. ther electricity nor any infrastructure h e movement and could travel to the There were no roads, and the native for communication, it was practical - southern part of the country to look C people lived in the jungle. There ly impossible for the priests to com - u for help and the necessities to con - were almost always violent conflicts municate with each other and collab - p tinue the work in the mission. Many between the people along the rivers oration in the apostolate was very o f missionaries went hungry. With the and the indigenous tribes. In the 1 9th difficult. end of the war, it was possible to re- century many people came searching t establish contact with the mother Contact with the indigenous tribes h for rubber called black gold. They e province in Germany and so other was also important. In 1971, two invaded the land of the indigenous N Missionaries could set out for Brazil. blood brothers, diocesan priests people and this was the cause of e Among them was Fr. Emerich from Austria, Antonio and Carlos w many violent and bloody conflicts. Trebula in 1949. He died the follow - Lukesch, had the first contact with C Missionary work meant travelling to o ing year in the far-away mission sta - any of these tribes, like Cayapò and v tion of St. Felix on the Xingú. On serve the people along the rivers. e Assurini. They eventually wrote a n May 19, 1948 Fr. Clement Geiger They would visit the mission posts grammar book and the catechism of a and celebrate the sacraments. The n was ordained bishop in Cincinnati in the Church in the language of t Missionaries had to constantly con - the United States. Cayapó. front the dangers of the rivers with Also Fr. Eric Krautler, C.PP.S., later THE SETTING the waterfalls and violent currents, the bishop of the Xingú, after Bishop OF THE MISSION the animals and insects, exposing them to all kinds of illnesses, like Clement Geiger, had many contacts The mission of the Xingú takes in an yellow fever, malaria, dengue fever with these tribes. He left a lot of area of some 140,000 square miles, such that the Brazilian Vicariate, in and hepatitis. information in books like: “A terms of geography is the largest These were all common in the Moringa Quebrada” (The Broken land mass of the C.PP.S. In the region. There were trips that often Pitcher) and “Sangre Nas Pedras” beginning there were few people liv - took months and in total solitude. (Blood on the Rocks). These writing ing in the region and they lived on Usually, the only company the are important in the field of religion the shores of the rivers and creeks, Missionaries had was the pilot of the and sociology and ethnology. N

CHILEAN VICARIATE: 1947

wo years before its foundation by Fr. Antonio Baus, C.PP.S. Fr. John Wilson and Fr. John Kostik Tin 1947, Fr Alberto Hurtado SJ landed at Santiago de Chile on was on a visit to several institutions September 16, 1947. in the United States searching for to consider a pastoral work in Chile PASTORAL OPTIONS guidance on his new ministry among since the Province was committed to (1947 -1962) the poor . From the Catholic Univer- send some priests to another country Pastoral options taken by the sity of Washington, on October 31, in South America (Editor’s note : Fr Chilean Vicariate between 1947 and 1945, he wrote a letter to Father Hurtado was canonized by Pope 1962 reflected those developed in Joseph Marling, the American Pro - Benedict XVI, in October 2005). the States , and confirmed and vin ce’s Director , outlining his pro - Thereafter , between December 13, approved by the Chilean Church and ject of an Agricultural School in 1946 and January 5, 1947, Fr. Mar - its authorities . Such options can be Chil e for children expected to work ling himself , together with Fr Geor - synthesized in four areas: 1) De- in agriculture and to prepare teachers ge Spaeth and Fr. John Wilson, velopment of pastoral parish min - in order to prepare others for work in undertook an exploratory mission to istry , both in cities and towns, as this field. several countries of South America well as in rural communities; 2) De- In his answer to Fr Hurtado , on No - and the Caribbean , which concluded velopment of educational ministry , vem ber 15, 1945 the Provincial with the decision of founding the in connection with the parish , in argued that it would not be possible Chilean Vicariate. For this purpose , accordance with pastoral patterns 21 experienced in the States ; 3) Pre - T h ferential work for the poor , while e considering accessibility to better C resourced parishes in order to u p finance the community’s expenses ; 4) Building infrastructures for the o f development of ecclesial activities . t These four options have been widely h promoted during the foundation e period . N was a pastoral e Parish ministry w activity well known by North C American priests . However , while in o v the States the community was com - e mitted in urban areas of more or less n a large cities , her principal interest and n resources aimed to cover the needs t of rural German migrants in the State of Ohio . Bishops of Chilean dioceses offered the Congregation some parishes, Commissioning at St. Charles Seminary for Fr. John Wilson & Fr. John Kostic, C.PP.S. (1947) most of them located in poor areas . But in the 1950’s the Chilean Bishops rather came from different parts of ion’s acceptance of “Santo Domingo sought to strengthen the Catholic the city and , on the other hand , de Guzmán ” Parish , in a middle- Church’s structure and institutions . schools were state-funded . In mid- level socioeconomic area of the city, Thus , the emerging Vica r iate decided sixties and early-seventies it was and is the reasoning behind the con - to accept parish jurisdictions , includ - decided to free themselves up from sequent acceptance of the chaplaincy ing in many instances, the building of that onerous responsibility by means in “Hospital del Salvador ”. houses, temples and parish schools, of a progressive hand-over of the In 1948 , the Vicariate takes over “San both in Santiago and in the South of schools to diocesan bishops, who José ” Parish , in Garín , at that time a the country . would continue operating them with poor and semi -rural area of Santiago. Emphasis placed on building and their own apostolic staff . However , Later on , in 1961, “ Preciosa Sangre ” providing infrastructure appears to the Chilean Vicariate had imple - Parish is founded in Valdivia , also with be significant, with members of the mented their initial project of pro - the purpose of providing assistance to Vicariate seen to be greatly involved viding the country’s Church with the poor segments of the population, in this work, especially during the required infrastructure, particularly affected by the earthquake that struck first 15 years . in poor areas . Regarding schools, all the city in 1960. “ Nuestra Señora de la Infrastructure development and of them were transferred, with the Preciosa Sangre ” Parish, previously implementation involved the alloca - exception of Saint Gaspar College, included in “San José de Garín ” juris - tion of a great amount of economic as this had always been a private and diction, is founded in 1962 . resources mostly from generous con - independent school, as well as serv - Located as well in a modest area, this tributions of benefactors in the ing the middle class environment parish hosted numerous migrants States . Much of these contributions which provided the opportunity of helped to subsidize Vicariate’s nume - working with potentially influential from other parts of the city and a vast rous building projects of those years, subjects, together with the possibili - population coming to Santiago from including temples and parish houses , ty of attracting vocations . the south of the country in the late schools and a minor seminary . fifties with the hope of attaining bet - On the other hand , The preferential ministry for the ter livelihoods . Rural parishes of educational pervades the whole history of would follow United States poor Riachuelo, Rio Negro and Purranque ministry Chilean Vicariate; however , since the patterns , with activities related to beginning it has been considered use - have been taken over by the Con - and financed by the parish . This ful to work also in more affluent gregation at a historic moment char - model was not applicable in Chile areas in order to help finance the acterized by a widespread precarious as , on the one hand , students were community’s expenses . The above situation and poverty of the Chilean 22 not necessarily parishioners but statement explains the Congre gat - agricultural sector. N T h PERUVIAN MISSION: 1962 e C u n 1947, the former American by Fr. Joseph Deardorff, C.PP.S. On December, 1961 and on the occa - p Province of the Precious Blood sion of the mission sending ceremo - I o Missionaries established a Vicariate ny of Fr. Gerald Dreiling to Chile, f in Chile and , after a long time , dis - Alta, was delighted to know that Fr. the Provincial strongly encouraged t cussions were held on the feasibility Byrne was personally interested in the community to look at what was h of other foundations . With this pur - the project and had decided to submit happening in Latin America, espe - e pose, in April 1961 the Provincial it to the attention of his Council and cially regarding progress of commu - N of the General Mo dera tor . e himself decides to undertake an nism and Fidel Castro’s empower - w exploratory trip to Perú, thus opening On June, 1961 Fr. Byrne wrote a let - ment . His speech reflected the gen - C the way for a possible presence of the ter to Fr. Buehler indicating that the eral background of the Cold War , o American Province in our country . Council was somewhat in doubt leading to think that the progress of v e In response to the invitation of the regarding the opening of a mission in communism could be offset by the n Apostolic Nuncio of Perú, Msgr Ro - Perú, for fear of weakening the Chi- evangelizing presence of the a n molo Carboni, Father Byrne accept - lean Vicariate whose pastoral re quir e- Catholic Church. It was a strong t ed to visit Lima for a meeting with ments were still to be met . For this invitation to look towards new fron - Msgr Alberto Dettman, Bishop of the reason he had communicated to the tiers in the Congregation’s aposto - Diocese of Ica. The Bishop , very Bishop that the Congre gation could late in Latin America . much concerned with the need of not accept the opening of a mission in In March, 1962 Fr. Byrne decides to more priests for the City of Chin cha Chincha until Sep tember, 1962. organize a new exploratory trip to Perú, with the aim of visiting Chincha in order to have a direct contact with pastoral work of the diocese; however, in late February Bishop Joseph Marling, C.PP.S., for - mer provincial recently returned from Perú, reports that the Bishop of Ica had not waited for Precious Blood Fathers but had assigned Chincha to another religious com - munity , and that the only available area left was an old neighbourhood located in the poorest part of the city, with just a cottage as a church . In spite of this dissapointment, the Provincial moved forward and asked Fr. Pablo Buehler for a meeting in Lima in March, 1962. Having reached Lima some days before , on March 20 Fr. Pablo went to meet Fr. John Byrne, the provin - cial, at the Airport . On that same day they had an interview with the Apostolic Nuncio of Perú, Msgr Romolo Carboni, who offered them the parish of the mining town of La Oroya, located at 4,000 meters above sea level. However , Fr. Byrne emphas ized the need of being in a lower place with a better climate . Fathers Thomas Sweeterman and Joseph Herber with the new trailer-camper which provided both transportation and lodging in the apostolate to some The Nuncio invited them to consider thirty villages in the Province of Yauli parishes in Nazca, Huacho and Truj- 23 illo, even if his preferential option La Oroya because, as Fr. Juan Byrne who was accompanied by Fathers T h was La Oroya. As a result of this y Pablo Buehler, said : “ If lay people Guillermo Beuth, José Herber, Leo e meeting, the next day Fr. Buehler can live there for economic reasons , Matusicky, and Guillermo Frantz. C and Fr. Byrne made a six hour trip missionaries could do it for spiritual Fathers David Kettleson, Ricardo u p by train to the city of La Oroya, benefits ”. Thus, the Congregation of DeCavitt and Leonardo Kistler home to the steel foundry of the the Precious Blood Missionaries arrived a year after . Later on , in o f Cerro Pasco Corporation . Waiting would be in charge of four parishes , 1964-1967, Father Edgar Jutte, the in the railway station of this mining or a whole Province . brothers Eugenio and Jerónimo t h town, located 185 km east of Lima, On October 31, 1962, Fr. Pablo Schmidt, José Hinders and Tomás e was the Titular Bishop, Msgr Buehler presented himself to Fr. Brenberger started their missionary N Mariano Jacinto Valdi vieso, resi - Jauregui, the parish priest, who the activity in the province . e w dent in Huancayo. next day, on the Feast of All Saints Vatican Council II was held by that made a public presentation of the time . Our missionaries were engag- C On March 22 they had a meeting in o Huancayo with Msgr Jacinto Valdi - new missionaries in the Temple of ed in implementing it through parish v e vieso, Jack D’Arcy, staff director of the Immaculate Conception of meetings , a catechetical centre and a n Cerro de Pasco Corporation and Ms Oroya Antigua. Later on , during a motorhome, that allowed them to a n Ana Hickey, representative of the private Mass in the Hospital’s chapel reach the most distant places of the t catholic community , who spoke the General Vicar of the Archdiocese province . about the urgent need of spiritual of Huancayo presided over an instal - It was as well a time of great confu - assistance for La Oroya. lation ceremony . sion, and some Missionaries left the In the last days of their visit they The Peruvian Mission started under priesthood, while others returned to accepted the pastoral commitment in the direction of Fr. Pablo Buehler, the States. N

VICARIATE OF TANZANIA: 1966

ith missionary zeal like St. by Fr. Eugene Nchimbi, C.PP.S. Catholic evangelization was lacking WGaspar Del Bufalo, the moth - there due to the British policy that er Province of Italy, under the direc - set apart the upper area of the rift tion of Don Giuseppe Quattrino Salaam in Tanzania on May 19, valley (escarpment) for the Anglican (1942-1966), decided to open a 1966. They were welcomed by the Church, with its base at Kilimatinde; Mission outside Italy and Europe . White Fathers , who arranged for the Northern part of Singida was Don Ernesto Guer rieri, the successor their trip to Dodoma to meet the given to Lutherans . of Don Quattrino in guiding the Passionist Fathers. The missionaries The first C.PP.S. Missionaries were Province (1966-1976) supported the were responding to the invitation able to visit areas around Manyoni opening of a mission in Tanzania. from the Diocese of Dodoma and in and Itigi but they were not allowed The idea of extending to Africa and particular to the request made by by Anglicans to open up a permanent evangelizing African peoples was four Christians from Manyoni to residence for fear of Catholicism in possible due to the good relationship Bishop Jeremiah Pesce. this area. However, Muslims living that existed between Fr. Joseph Their short stay in Dodoma was fol - in Manyoni, who had learned how Montenegro, C.PP.S. and Fr. Dino lowed by a language study course in influential and service-oriented Gioia, C.PP.S. with the Passionist Kiswahili. After this necessary cul - Catholic missionaries were, pre - Fathers, who for decades had been tural orientation for their pastoral ferred Catholics to Anglicans and so working in Dodoma, Tanzania. With work in Tanzania, they returned to welcomed the Precious Blood the consent of the office of Propa - Dodoma and asked Bishop Jeremiah Missionaries. They provided them a ganda Fide and with an invitation Pesce to send them to a place where place believed to host magic powers from the Passionists, the C.PP.S. the gospel was not yet preached. As and the nearby hill was often used missionaries came to Dodoma. a result they were sent to Manyoni, a for traditional sacrifices to deities or place that had little previous expo - libation ( . Three missionaries (Fr. Joseph Mon - matambiko ) te negro, Fr. Dino Gioia and Br. sure to Christianity. It should be noted that there were Franco Palumbo) travelled by ship Manyoni bordered the diocese of only two parishes in the area but at a 24 from Italy and landed at Dar es Tabora, Iringa and Dodoma itself. far distance (Makiungu and Dung ’unyi). So the C.PP.S. mission - T aries who landed in Tanzania on h May 19, 1966 had the task of engag - e ing in first evangelizing to the inhab - C u itants of Manyoni and surrounding p places. The Manyoni house was o officially opened on February 11, f 1967. We have served there contin - t ually since its opening. h e …The number of the faithful N (Christians) has increased from 50 to e more than 10,128. Manyoni Parish is w composed of 18 sub-stations includ - C ing Manyoni itself. These are the o v fruits of the life of the Missionaries e n of the Precious Blood, preaching the a Gospel not just with words, but by n t their lives and deeds. The mission in Manyoni was the only work of the community until 1973, when the decision was made to open a new parish in Itigi . The Itigi Parish was founded by Fr. Peter Milambo (of Tabora diocese) who sent Simon Joseph to Itigi to be its first catechist. He arrived at Itigi on August 1954 from Igalula Tabora. At that time there were only 4 Christian Catholics at Itigi ; all of them immigrants. First C.PP.S. Church in Manyoni, Tanzania As that time there were no dedicated places for worship (church or with parishners from Bagnolo Mela, Fr. Joseph Montenegro was called chapel). So they decided to have in Brescia (Italy). In addition to a back home to Italy. In 1983 he was their prayer meetings in the home parish church they constructed sent to open a new mission in India. of one of the Christians. Two years Maktaba building and Amani Home later 33 people were baptized, the craft; creating the pastoral center A DREAM fruits of Simon Joseph. As the seen today. number of Christians increased, The Missionaries of Precious Blood During the time of establishment of they decided to build a small came to Africa to establish a new Itigi , the first windmill was con - church just like a native house mission as remembrance and cele - structed and installed, thus, marking (tembe) They got priestly spiritual bration of 150 years since the birth . the beginning of the C.PP.S. Water services from the priests of of the Society of the Precious Blood Project in Tanzania. In the first phase by St. Gaspar del Buffalo in August Dung’unyi parish or Igalula . The of the establishment of the mission 15, 1815. Under capable leadership coming of the Missio naries of the at Itigi , Fr. Mario Dariozzi was with the initial vision has developed and Precious Blood to Manyoni was Br. Umberto Reale. Meanwhile, Fr. born great fruit. also a blessing for them, since they Dino Gioia, Fr. Jo seph Montenegro, also were served by the C.PP.S. and Fr. Domenico Altieri remained In a 2010 workshop at Ven. Merlini Missionaries. at Manyoni. Formation House in Dodoma, the In 1968 Fr. Joseph Montenegro built During this time Fr. Vincent Boselli Vicariate members expressed their a new church which was later reno - completed his theological studies at dream to become a Province in the vated by Fr. Mario Dariozzi in 1974. St. Paul’s major seminary at Kipala - year 2015 to coincide with the 200 th Still later, further work was led by pala-Tabora in Tanzania and was anniversary of the foundation of the Fr. Vincent Boselli, in collaboration ordained in 1977. In the same year , Congregation. N 25 T h e VICARIATE OF INDIA: presence since 1988 C u p he foundation of the Congre- by Fr. Dr. John Bosco, C.PP.S. DCL taka State, to our Precious Blood gation in India is the fulfillment Missionaries . This was our first o T f of the dream of our founder St. parish community in India. The t Gaspar . He wanted to go to India to seminarians did their philosophical parish consists of St. Paul’s Higher h preach the Good News following in studies at Dharmaram College . Primary School and St. Paul’s Boys e the foot-steps of St. Francis Xavier . Later , construction of a new Study Home (orphanage) and Mercy N e This news reached the Holy Father , House began at Balaji Nagar . On Home for elders . w Pope Pius VII, who summoned him May 16, 1990 the foundation stone In the following years other parish C and commissioned him to preach the was laid by Fr. Joseph Montenegro in communities were started at Sadras- o v Gospel to the “scattered sheep of the presence of Fr. Duraisamy Narala Kalpakkam and in Pozhichalur . On e Israel” in the Papal States, in crisis n and others. This new Study House, May 15, 1996, Peter Gali, the first a following the French revolution. He named “St. Gaspar Bhavan” was seminarian to complete all his for - n t accepted the mandate of the Pope as inaugurated on July 1, 1991. mation in India, was ordained a God’s will and renounced his per - priest. In the year 2000, the Pious sonal wish to join the Jesuits and to Union of the Precious Blood was THE INDIAN MISSION go to India. founded . The Indian Mission was approved by Nevertheless, the dream of St. In 1999, a three story building com - the Italian Province in the Business Gaspar has become a reality through plex, called Merlini Nilaya , was Assembly “De Negotiis” on January his sons, through the Missionaries of completed. Its purpose was to sup - 29, 1990. The first two candidates , the Most Precious Blood of the port the future economic needs of Amaladoss and Antony Paikard , Italian Province. the C.PP.S. It was given to a lay per - were ordained priests by Pope John son to run the Hostel for college stu - Paul II in June 1990, and returned to dents. From May 8-11, 2000, a THE INITIAL STAGE India after completing their workshop on the Precious Blood Licentiate studies. In May 1991, The C.PP.S. presence in India had a Spirituality was conducted by Fr. another four seminarians were humble beginning . Fr. Joseph Mon - Barry Fischer, as part of our Jubilee ordained priests by Pope John Paul II te negro first visited India in 1982 Year celebrations . with a group of volunteers from at the Vatican. Italy. They came to Bangalore to In 1993, at the request of the Indian help the Adorers of the Precious Missionaries, the Italian Provincial THE INDIAN DELEGATION Blood (ASC) build a school . Fr. Director, Fr. Pietro Battista , named The Indian Mission was raised to Montenegro returned to India in Fr. Joseph Montenegro as the Di- Delegation with the approval of its 1983 and contacted many priests to rector of the Indian Mission as well Statutes in the year 2000 and Fr. help him find candidates for our as the Rector of the Seminary. At Joseph Montenegro was appointed Congregation. that time all the Indian Missio naries as the Delegation Director. Fr. lived together at St. Gaspar Bhavan. Amaladoss and Fr. Jayasingh David In 1986, Fr. Duraisamy Narala, from were elected as councilors in a meet - the Diocese of Vellore , began his The First Popular Mission was con - ing of all the Indian Missionaries on formation in our Congregation and ducted in July 1993 . Fr. Michael November 15, 2000 at St. Gaspar undertook licentiate studies in Peters was the Director of the mis - Bhavan . Spirituality at the Angelicum in sion and was accompanied by Fr. Rome. After his incorporation into Duraisamy Narala and Fr. John As the number of seminarians in- our Congregation in 1988, he retur- Bosco, together with the sisters creased the St. Gaspar Bhavan was ned to India with Fr. Joseph Adorers of the Blood of Christ no longer adequate to house all the Montenegro. Together they prepared (ASC). candidates . And so, land was pur - a rented house in Koramangala, On January 15, 1995, the Archidio - chased at Kithaganur in Bangalore Bangalore, to serve as the first cese of Bangalore entrusted St. and the cornerstone for a new House Formation House of the Mission, Paul’s Church, Marikuppam , in of Studies was laid on March 17, 26 with Fr. Duraisamy as Rector. The Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) in Karna - 2000 by Fr. Peter Battista, Provin- T h e C u p o f t h e N e w C o v e n a n t

Community members gathered at St. Gaspar Ashram after the first Vicariate Elections in 2003 cial Director. The new Study House, THE INDIAN VICARIATE shram, Fr. Amaladoss was elected named St. Gaspar Ashram , was The members of the Indian Dele - the first Indian Vicariate Director. blessed by the Most Rev. Dr. gation, during the Assembly in April There were 23 incorporated mem - Ignatious Paul Pinto, the Archbishop 2002, requested that the Indian bers in the new Vicariate . of Bangalore on April 20, 2002. Delegation be elevated to the status … Today the realization of St. of “Vicariate”. This request was de - All our theology students moved Gaspar’s dream is being lived finitively approved at the Major through the lives and ministries of from St. Gaspar Bhavan to the St. Superiors Meeting in Niagara Falls more than 100 C.PP.S. members. Gaspar Ashram . St. Gaspar Bhavan (Canada) in September 2002. From our origins in Bangalore the became the study house for the phi - Later that year the Vicariate Statutes C.PP.S. presence today has spread losophy students and for those in were also approved. On February 19, to several States where our Missio - Intensive Formation. 2003 the Decree for the erection of naries exercise ministries in parish - Fr. Joseph Montenegro also moved the Indian Vicariate was proclaimed es, schools, orphanages and elderly to St. Gaspar Ashram as the Local by Fr. Barry Fischer, the Moderator homes, in preaching missions and Director and Rector of the new com - General. During the Assembly held retreats , as well as serving in differ - munity . that same day at the St. Gaspar A- ent Diocesan offices . N 27 T h e CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION: presence since 1975 C u p he origins of the C.PP.S. pres - by Fr. Barry Fischer, C.PP.S. Besides the original parish in La Labor, the Community accepted the o Tence in Central American, is f undoubtedly due to the single-mind - pastoral responsibility of a second Christ parish. It also serves various t ed determination of one man: Fr. parish in Santa Rosita, near the h outlying communities. Some years e Paul Aumen, a veteran Missionary newly built seminary . The parish later, the Adorers of the Blood of who had previously served in Chile was named “Our Lady of the N Christ from the United States sent e for eighteen years. Back in the States Precious Blood” . Another veteran w Sisters to work in the parish. They for a few years , his heart still missionary who had served years C built an Institute “Maria de Mattias” o yearned for the missions. In 1975 he before in Chile and in Perú, came to v to provide a good education for the left for Guatemala, a country mired become the first Pastor. His name e youth and also numerous Health n in war and with an illiteracy rate of a Clinics throughout the area. was Fr. Guillermo Frantz who unfor - n 78%. He was convinced that the tunately, after only ten months in t As the number of seminarians grew, country’s poverty and lack of priests Guatemala, died following an opera - Fr. Pablo decided to build a seminary made it perfect mission territory for tion to correct a brain aneurism. He near the Jesuit-run Landivar Univer- the C.PP.S. is buried in the local cemetery in sity where the students could study Santa Rosita. Fr. Aumen set out on a tireless cam - theology. paign to establish a Guatemalan mis - As more members were ordained The name of the village where the sion. He worked among the poor, priests, the Missionaries began to seminary was located was called “St. serving in a large parish in one of the look elsewhere to establish them - Gaspar,” after one of the Three Wise colonies of the capital city, from selves. Fr. Fischer took the seminar - Men of the Epiphany! Over the years which some seven villages were also ians to conduct a Holy Week retreat the Missionaries would introduce the served. A prime concern of Fr. Pablo in the highlands about four hours locals to our own “St. Gaspar del was vocational recruitment. He distant from the Capital city, in the Bufalo.” received young men and established Parish of St. Michael in the town of In order to assist the growing a seminary. Eventually he sent two Tucurú. The inhabitants mostly work Mission, the Chilean Vicariate seminarians, Noé Lemus and and live on coffee plantations and would send several of their men to Candelario Yocuté to Chile for their are very poor. The parish had been help in the formation of our seminar - theological formation. He was a gift - without a priest for some time. The ians. Fr. Joe Navarette, our first ed writer and his accounts of his people were so happy with the mis - Chilean ordained for the C.PP.S., mission adventures captured the fas - sionary presence in the town and in was sent in 1985. He dedicated him - cination of the community members the many mountain communities self to the seminarians, while Fr. in the States as well as generous visited during the mission, that they Pablo, Fr. Noé, and Fr. Candelario benefactors who supported his requested the Bishop to invite the served mostly in rural ministry and efforts. Approval of the mission Missionaries to come to Tucurú to in preaching of missions in the coun - finally came in 1985 . The Chilean work. tryside. Vicariate assumed responsibility for Bishop Gerardo Flores of the the Mission . The following year Fr. In 1989, Fr. Navarette returned to Diocese of Las Verapaces visited our Noé Lemus became the first native Chile and Fr. Barry Fischer replaced community in Guatemala City and Guatemalan ordained in the him as Director of Formation. He extended a formal invitation. The Congregation. worked with the seminarians to develop a formation program, based C.PP.S. accepted and Fr. Gerardo on the Profile of a Missionary of the Lemus was sent as the first pastor. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT Precious Blood. Later on, Fr. Israel To attend to the needs of the people, The first parish built was in La de la Fuente also came from Chile to several schools were built in the 28 Labor and was called Blood of support the formation program . mountain villages with the financial support of our Precious Blood Parish native speaker of the Q’eqchi lan - elected Moderator General. Fr. Noé T in Florence, Italy. Fr. Mario Dariozzi guage, he has done much to promote Lemus then became the first native h e and parishioners visited several the indigenous culture and to pre - Guatemalan to be named the C ti mes and continue to support the serve their customs. A radio station Mission Director. u p education of children to this day. was also founded in the parish. Today there are fourteen incorporat - o Thanks to the generosity of benefac - In all the places of ministry in our ed members in Guatemala and a f tors from the United States, a mater - Central American Mission, the edu - handful of seminarians preparing for t nity clinic was also built in Tucurú to cation of the laity is of primary membership in the C.PP.S. Even h e provide proper health care and run importance. In the far-away, isolat - though small in number, the Central N programs to educate the people in ed mountain villages, the catechists America community also has lent e w the mountain villages on health care are the ones who keep the faith alive, their human resources to serve the as the ordained minister might only needs of the Congregation in other C issues . o visit their village every few months lands. v The pastoral needs in this impover - e or even only once a year. Access to Fr. Marco Tulio Recinos volunteered n ished area of the diocese of Cobán a were enormous, and it wasn’t long these villages is often only possible to minister in the Brasilian Vicariate n t before we were offered a second on footpaths, complicated by rain for a number of years and Fr. parish in the same valley. The parish and muddy conditions. Armando Rivas is now in Colombia of St. Catherine of Alexandria in La Fr. Paul Aumen returned to the where he first served as Director of Tinta covers a very large area with States in 1992 and Father Barry the Latin American theology pro - numerous mountain villages. Fr. Fischer was named the Mission gram, before recently being named Darío Caal became its first pastor. A Director until 1995 when he was the Mission Director. N

First Community House and Church in La Labor, Guatemala 29 T h e MISSION IN MEXICO: first arrival, 1912 C u p by Frs. René Cerecedo and Ronald Wiecek, C.PP.S. o f istorically speaking, this is the second attempt to Pacific. With missionary zeal, two members, Fr. Ronald t Hestablish a mission in Mexico. Wiecek and Fr. René Cerecedo Alarcón explored the h e The first attempt to found a Mexican mission was made possibility of establishing a foundation in Mexico, with Fr. René accepting a parochial ministry assignment in N by members of the Spanish Vicariate of the Italian e Province. Fr. Joseph Arrache, a priest of the Diocese of 1996 in Mexico City. w Buenos Aries, Argen- On December 2, C o tina had joined the 2007, in the presence v Congregation in e of the Atlantic Provin - n Spain, in 1909. ci al Direc tor, Fr. Ma - a n In 1912, he arrived in rio Cafarelli and other t Mexico with Fr. members of the Ottavio Zavatta. C.PP.S. community; Subsequently, they Fr. Ronald Wiecek were joined by several and Fr. René Ce re- other members from cedo Alarcón and the Spain and Italy. candidates who were We accepted two in the formation pro - parishes, one in gram at that time, Fr. Monterrey, Nuevo Francesco Bar toloni, Leon and the other in the Moder ator Ge ne- ral, declared that our Mexico City. presence in Me xico is This effort was offi - an official mis sion of cially recognized as the Con gregation of the Vicariate of the Missio naries of Mexico with the the Precious Blood. appointment of Fr. Fr. Ronald Wie cek Arrache as the Vicar was ap pointed the for Mexico. first Director of the The letter of appoint - Mexican Mission. ment from the When we celebrated General Curia was our 100 anniversary dated January 1 5, Parish of the Sacred Heart, Mexico City of our first arrival as 1913. Missionaries of the However, with the revolution of 1913, all foreign priests Precious Blood in Mexico on September 29, 2012, the were expelled from the country. Our priests went to candidates Germán Santiago Esteves and Gregorio United States and began to work among the Italian Hernández Cortez made their definitive incorporations immigrants in the areas near Chicago, Illinois and as Missionaries of the Precious Blood in the presence of Cleveland, Ohio. Effectively, this created a delegation Fr. Jeffrey Finley, the Provincial Director of the Atlantic or mission of the Italian Province. This grew to become Province. the Atlantic Vicariate of the Italian Province and later This is a very short history of our modern missionary attained the status of being the Atlantic Province. work in Mexico. We are planting seeds little by little, The modern effort to establish a C.PP.S. presence in hoping to be able to continue to work and spread the 30 Mexico has its roots in the former Province of the charism of our founder, St. Gaspar del Bufalo. N T h CROATIA: presence since 1988 e C u ather Willi Klein, Missionary of by Fr. Ilija Grgi , C.PP.S. Croatian Marian shrine, and p the Precious Blood, born in ć Ludbreg – The Shrine of the Most F o Bern, Switzerland, arrived in the for - Precious Blood. He then visited f two other candidates start a novitiate. mer Yugoslavia for the first time in Banja Luka and Bishop Alfred t On the Feast of the Immaculate 1979, on the occasion of the 100 th Pichler. Together with Fr Willi, they h Conception of the Blessed Virgin e anniversary of the work of the had prayer meetings with USC Mary in 1989, msgr Franjo N Sisters Adorers of the Precious members from various parishes. In e Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, w Blood in this territory. Father Klein Belgrade they visited Catholic consecrates the chapel and the reno - returned to these areas many more parishes and the Serbian Orthodox C vated and adapted parish house for o times to preach retreats and renewal. Church of St. Mark. The visit of v the Missionaries . e The believers’ interest in the spiritu - Father General was a large step for - n Fr. Willi was active in Bosnia and ality of the Precious Blood was vast ward in God’s work in these parts. a Herzegovina and Croatia, visiting n and the idea of an arrival of the This modest, but highly dynamic t various parishes and towns, holding Missionaries of the Precious Blood development of the C.PP.S. mission spiritual renewals, spiritual exercis - to these areas was conceived. in the territory of former Yugoslavia es, and sometimes even public mis - In the mid 1980s, the Bishop of will be disturbed by war, whose sions in collaboration with ASC Banja Luka, msgr. Alfred Pichler, inevitability is becoming more and Sisters from the Yugoslav Province. officially requests the General Curia more obvious. On May 31 st , 1989 Fr. Anton to send C.PP.S. missionaries to In July or August, 1992 the parish Loipfinger, Moderator General from Bosnia. The reply of the General house, our first mission house in Rome visited the Mission and stayed Curia was positive, and the Director these parts, was set on fire and for one week. During his stay in of the Teutonic Province give Father destroyed by members of the what was then Yugoslavia, he met th Willi permission to make trips to Serbian army. On October 6 , 1992, with Cardinal Franjo Kuhari, visited Bosnia. the Congregation gives back the Our Lady of Marija Bistrica – a administration of the parish to the At the April 5 th -6 th , 1988 assembly of Diocese of Banja Luka. the Teutonic Province Council, the th beginning of activity of the C.PP.S. On February 28 , 1991, Ilija Grgi, mission at the Diocese of Banja Luka who was finishing the eighth grade was authorized. On April 26 th , 1988, in elementary school at the time, the Moderator General and His applies as a candidate. He perse - Council approve and give blessing to vered in his intentions and is now a the Mission of the Teutonic Province C.PP.S. priest. in Yugoslavia and confirm Fr. Willi Despite health issues, Fr. Willi Klein Klein’s leadership and responsibility. is today actively involved in human - Following the arrival of the C.PP.S. itarian aid for displaced people, to Nova Topola, restoration contin - refugees, hospitals, schools and ued on the parish house and spaces other institutions. He also comes and inside it for the work of the commu - visits communities and holds spiritu - nity of Missio naries. The Bishop of al exercises and renewals in Croatia, Banja Luka entrusts the Missionaries Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. with the administration of the Parish (Note: The development of the of St. Joseph in Nova Topola. Congregation with its spirituality and Reverend Marko Laštro, candidate charism in these parts are evidenced for the Congregation of Missionaries by the definitive incorporation in of the Precious Blood, was appointed October 2012 of three young men, parish priest on June 10 th , 1989. On bringing to five the total number of Fr. Willi Klein celebrating Mass in wartorn October 9 th , 1989, Father Laštro and Bosnia after the war of Balkans C.PP.S. members in the Mission.) N 31 T h e GUINEA BISSAU: presence since 1999 C u p n the year 1988, two Adorers of by Fr. José Luis Morgado, C.PP.S. in Ingoré enjoyed a great vitality the Blood of Christ passed through after the arrival of the two o I f Portugal. They were coming from Missionaries. The young people of Guinea Bissau on their way to because of that the C.PP.S. seminary the residence had more contact with t h Rome. They wanted to get to know opened in Bissau in October of 2001. them . A group for those interested in e the Missionaries of the Precious Later, in October of 2004, a residence religious vocations was formed N Blood in Portugal and at that time was built in the neighborhood of which eventually gave rise to the e were seeking the collaboration of Bissakil, close to the capital, where opening of the seminary. w Portuguese C.PP.S. missionaries in formation continued. The C.PP.S. Fr. Joaquin Cardoso Pereira, in C Guinea. Their conversations were priests worked with the parish of Brá charge of the seminary, continued o not successful. v and in 2005, at the request of the with responsibility for the parish in e In October of 1996, two Adorers of Bishop of Bissau, Don José Cam nate, Ingoré, where he went on weekends. n a the Blood of Christ came to Spain. they took over the parish of Safin, During the week, he taught in a pub - n They were Emma Zordan, the t Provincial at that time and Esperia Sulis who was in charge of the Mission of Ingoré. They contacted the Provinc ial of the Iberian Province, Fr. José Peral, who told them that they should go to Portugal to speak with Fr. Joaquin Cardoso Pereira. When they were with him, they invited him to do a vocational presentation in the Mission of Ingoré. He accepted and went to Guinea Bissau on December 30, 1996. He stayed there one week and then returned to Portugal to give a report about all he had seen. In August of 1997 he returned to Guinea Bissau for one month. Then at the Provincial Assembly of Dec - em ber, 1997 the opening of a new mission field in Guinea, under the care of the Iberian Province, was approved by an absolute majority . Due to the military events of 1998 in Community members in Guinea Bissau (2003) Guinea, the actual opening of the new mission field was possible in some 10 miles from the city. At pre - lic school, forming the students in November of 1999. The Mission aries sent there are two communities, one the Portuguese language; he did the arrived on the seventh of that month in Bissakil for the formation of same at the major seminary of in Bissau. From Spain there came Fr. future Missionaries. Here two Bissau. Francisco Gil García and from Tanzanian priests, Frs. Wenscelaus Today there are six students in the Portugal Fr. Joaquin Cardoso Pereira. Bamugasheki and George Mwual - major seminary. Of these, three are They took official possession of the uko work. And there is the parish of in temporary profession, and one is Mission and Parish of Ingoré, to the Safín, where Frs. Joaquin Cardoso in the last year of formation. north of Guinea Bissau, on Pereira, from Portugal, and Lima da Since 2003 the Mission has been November 12 of that same year. Silva, the first C.PP.S. Guinean enriched by the presence of two At the Mission of Ingoré there was a Missionary, ordained in 2011. Missionaries from the Tanzanian residence for students. The newly From the beginning, the Missionar- Vicariate and this has furthered the arrived priests took responsibility for ies were concerned with human for - C.PP.S. activities in Guinea Bissau. it. Some of the students had shown a mation. They opened several schools Today they are the ones in charge of desire of one day becoming Missio - and they do catechetical work in the formation of the future C.PP.S. 32 naries of the Precious Blood and more than 20 villages. The Mission Missionaries in that country. N T h MISSION IN COLOMBIA: 2005 e C u FIRST CONTACT by Fr. Barry Fischer, C.PP.S. derator General and the Curia gave p permission to implement the process Each unit of the C.PP.S. had its o unique origin. One could say the of founding a C.PP.S. mission in f C.PP.S. first went to Colombia months there were frequent commu - Colombia. nications between the Moderator t because of the internet. In 2002 Fr. h General, Fr. Silva, and Angelmiro. e Luis Humberto Silva Silva, a dioce - THE OFFICIAL OPENING san priest of the Archdiocese of As communications continued On Sunday, April 3, 2005, in a con - N Bogotá, first made contact with the between the Kyrios Foundation and e celebrated Mass presided by Bishop w Missionaries. He was the founder of the Community, Frs. Gaynor and Pizarro, the Congregation was for - the Kyrios Foundation, a school to Aurelio Chipana from Perú made an C mally received in the Archdiocese of o educate lay people in the faith. Fr. exploratory trip to Bogotá in Bogotá . Among the concelebrants v Silva had a strong devotion to the October, 2003 . And in March 2004 e were Father Barry Fischer, Moderator n Precious Blood since childhood and Fr. Barry Fischer, the Moderator General, Father Angelo Anthony, a passed this devotion on to the lay General also visited and while there n Provincial Director of the Province of t people in Kyrios. In an Internet preached a day of retreat for the Cincinnati, Father Dionisio Alberca, search he discovered that there was laity. Then in July 2004 Fr. Dionicio Director of the Peruvian Mission, already a men’s religious congrega - Alberca, the director of the Peruvian Father Donald Theiman of the tion in the United States founded on Mission, Fr. Abelardo Ibaceta and Chilean Vicariate , and Fathers Darío the same spirituality. He made con - Fr. Ernest Ranly made a formal visit, Caal and Abel Cruz, from the tact, first with Fr. Dennis Chriszt, during which an agreement with Fr. Guatemalan Mission. A large number who put him in touch with C.PP.S. Silva Silva and the Kyrios Founda - of lay persons from the Kyrios Missionaries in Perú, specifically Fr. tion was reached . Meanwhile Foundation participated in the Mass Jim Gaynor. Shortly thereafter on a Angelmiro was ordained a priest by and the festivities that followed . trip to Rome in October members of Bishop Hector Javier Pizarro, Apo- the lay group also contacted our stolic Vicar of Trinidad (Casa nare), General Curia . They left a package in August of 2003, who promised to OUR FIRST MISSIONARIES for the Moderator General including release Fr. Angelmiro to the The new mission is a foundation of the curriculum of a young man, Congregation, if the Missiona ries the Cincinnati Province. The Angelmiro Granados of Bogotá, established themselves in Colombia. Peruvian Mission was asked by the who wished to be ordained a priest During the General Assembly in Provincial to oversee the new unit, in the Congregation. In the ensuing Rome, September, 2004 , the Mo- while the Province would provide the financial support. From the beginning, our presence was a col - laborate effort. The first two Missionaries in Colombia were Fr. Ernie Ranly of the Peruvian Mission and Fr. Abelardo Ibaceta of the Chilean Vicariate. At first the Missionaries stayed at the Kyrios Center, but when students began to arrive, the C.PP.S. purchased their own house which served both as a Center House as well as a formation house for our candidates .

EARLY SETBACKS St. Gaspar often said that “good works are born amid thorns.” And so it was in Colombia. Gradually the relationship between the C.PP.S. and the Kyrios Founda- tion, both intent on maintaining their Fr. Humberto Silva, Fr. Barry Fischer, Fr. Ernest Ranly, Fr. Angelmiro Granados, Fr. Abelardo Ibaceta, y Fr. Mauricio Restrepo own identities, became strained and 33 challenging. Eventually they decid - Colombia to help our fledgling Most recently, in 2012 the Mission - T h ed to go their separate ways, Mission. The first to come were Fr. aries accepted the pastoral responsi - e although some members of Kyrios Magnus Tegete and Oscar Makala . bility of Our Lady of the Al ps Parish. C would eventually form part of the About the same time, our C.PP.S. Fr. Armando Rivas is the pastor and u initial C.PP.S. lay group who wished Fr. Angelmiro Granados is the Vicar. p Missions in Latin American decided to share our spirituality. to establish a common theologate in Fr. Angel also does youth ministry in o a school. f Fr. Mauricio Restrepo, C.PP.S., a Colombia, with Fr. Armando Rivas Colombian-born priest joined the of the Central American Mission , as Our mission in Colombia continues t Congregation, after making his year h director. A house of formation was to evolve and there is again a small e of special formation at the C.PP.S. purchased for the seminarians who group of young men in vocational General House in Rome and in the N studied at the Jesuit sponsored discernment. Peruvian Mission. He was a very tal - e Javerian University in Bogotá. The Missionaries of the Precious w ented, charismatic young man with Blood trust that God has a plan and great hopes for the future of the new C that the mission will grow in God’s o mission. His sudden death of a heart OUR APOSTOLATES v attack at the age of 37 in 2008 was a Fr. Juan Carlos Barajas, of the Chilean time, along God’s path. They contin - e ue to discern how to bring a message n devastating blow. Meanwhile the Vicariate, recently joined the small a eyesight of Fr. Ranly began to dete - band of Missionaries and is lending of reconciliation through the Blood n of Christ to this strife-torn country t riorate seriously and eventually he important support to the lay groups as returned to the United States. From well as in vocation promotion and in which had lived through sixty years there he continued to write on publishing works on spirituality. of armed civil conflict . Precious Blood spirituality and his Our Missionaries minister at Mon- Today they minister in parishes, works were published in Colombia . serrate, a famous mountainside schools, hospitals, shrines, and in the Death struck the Mission again shrine just outside of Bogotá, where preaching ministry. Wherever the when , on May 29, 2009 , Fr. they preside at Mass and hear the Missionaries hear the cry of the Abelardo died suddenly of a heart confessions of the many pilgrims blood, they nourish the people with attack while doing ministry in the who frequent the shrine. Many the redeeming love of God and the hospital. Missionaries from the Colombians go there to find recon - hope which springs from the spiritu - Vicariate of Tanzania came to ciliation and healing. ality of the Precious Blood. N

MISSION IN VIETNAM: 2007

t the 24 th Provincial Assembly by Fr. Joseph Nassal, C.PP.S. his projections for the future. In his Aheld in Excelsior Springs, presentation, Lac reviewed geo - Missouri, June 12-15, 2000, the main graphical and diocesan statistics, item on the agenda for business was meeting with several of their bishops. societal and political background, the “Vietnam Project.” Father Lac In September, 1997, the Vocation and dioceses where he considered a fit Pham gave a history of the project Formation directors proposed to the with the C.PP.S. charism and spiritu - reflecting how in October, 1995, he Council that “the community sponsor ality, and a proposal to sponsor a expressed an interest in missionary one, possibly two, Vietnamese voca - third student to study in the U.S. In ministry. He recalled that the council tion candidates, to be educated in the March 25 issue of the New Wine asked him to undertake a study to Kansas City beginning in January, , Father Lac “refutes the rumor Press determine whether there was a call 1998.” While the provincial council that the Kansas City Province…is for the Precious Blood charism in agreed to the proposal, it was clear starting a mission in Vietnam.” He Vietnam. Father Lac Pham also exp - “that this is not laying the ground - refers to the development so far as “a ressed a desire to return to Vietnam work for a Vietnam mission.” The sponsorship program to assist stu - and assist in a refugee ministry with Council wanted district discussions dents from Vietnam” who “follow - those who fled as he did as a young to take place “for development of ing completion of studies…will boy in the fall of Saigon in 1975. ownership” of the possibility of a return to Vietnam to serve the people On July 18, 1997, the Community mission in Vietnam “with open input in their local churches.” In this arti - held a sending ritual at St. Francis from all the mem bership.” cle, Father Lac announced the Xavier Church in St. Joseph, Mis- On March 5, 1998, Father Lac Pham arrival of the first student who was souri as Father Lac left for a four-five met with the Provincial Council to coming to the United States to study month stay in Vietnam. During that discuss his experience in Vietnam, English. He will live in community 34 time, he traveled to various dioceses his meetings with the bishops, and at Gaspar Mission House. Tran Binh Trong arrived on April 2, 19 98. official decree at a Mass with the com - C.PP.S., Mission Director, served as T During the 1998 Assembly, Father munity. In his homily, Father Fischer translator for Fathers Fischer and h Lac shared a slide presentation of his said, “Our Congrega tion contributes to Urbanic. Fr. Dien began his studies e Vietnam experience. In September the renewal of the Church through the with the Society in 1988. He was a C 1998, the first Vietnam Project bud - Ministry of the Word. Gaspar dreamt of member of the South Vietnamese Air u p get was approved. In October 1998, having a thousand tongues to go Force who fled the country in 1975 Father Lac suggests the community throughout the whole world preaching after the fall of Saigon. Fr. Dien became o f set up “a non-profit organization… to the Good News of God’s redeeming acquainted with the Missio naries of the sponsor the Vietnamese students.” To love. Today our Missio naries preach in t Precious Blood through Fr. Lac in h educate the community about many tongues, in English, Spanish, Chicago. He was ordained on June 28, e Vietnam, Father Lac wrote a series of Portu guese, Itali an, Polish, Croatian, 1997, and after spending several years N articles in the Ger man, Tamil, Swahili, and today we serving in parishes in the province, he e New Wine Press. w At the Assembly in 2000, the province add Vietnamese!” was appointed Dire ctor of Formation gave “a vote of confidence to continue Father Fischer added, “As we grow for the Vietnam Mission on January 21, C o the Vietnam project” and “authorized in Vietnam, our young missionary 2007. In the fall of 2010, Father Dien v the Provincial Council to spend up to community will also be discerning returned to the United States to study in e n $75,000 for the purpose of acquiring a how to carry out this ministry of the the In stitute of Religious Formation in a place of formation in Vietnam for can - Word in concrete ways and commit - Chicago to adapt the province’s forma - n t didates for our community.” At the ments. We will discern the cry of the tion policies for the mission. He 2006 Provincial Assembly, the mem - blood and how best to respond to returned to Vietnam in the fall of 2011. bers voted unanimously to “petition the this cry in our apostolic community.” The first seminarian from the Vietnam Moderator General, his council, and the Also during this liturgy, Father Mission to be Definitively Incorpora ted major superiors of the Congreg ation, to James Urbanic, C.PP.S. received the was Nhan Bui 2008. Three more semi - raise our presence in Viet nam to the commitment of three pledged candi - narians – Loi Ngu yen, Tam Hoang, and level of a mission.” This was granted dates, bringing the total number of Truc Minh Vu – were Definitively on January 21, 2007, when Father candidates who were pledged to the Incor por ated at the 2012 Provincial Barry Fischer, C.PP.S., Modera tor Society to six in 2007. Assembly. All four are currently com - General of the Society of the Precious Father Dien Truong, C.PP.S., presided pleting their studies for the priesthood Blood, traveled to Viet nam and read the at the Mass and Father Lac Pham, in Chicago. N

The Mass in Ho Chi Ming City officially opening the Vietnam Mission 35

T Continued from front page h has given to the Church and to the e world. Another reason for the cele - C bration is to thank so many persons u p on every continent and in every o nation who live this charism along f with us and who support us by wit - t nessing to our charism and handing h it on. Finally, through reflection and e prayer we wish to understand better N our role in today’s world and to com - e w mit ourselves more deeply to be per - sons who are welcoming and recon - C o ciling in a world wounded and torn v e by divisions and injustice. n This edition of takes a look a The Cup n at our history, both that which has t been our past as well as that which ry is the present of the past.” This is histories, but rather they point to the have not yet been accomplished. You an interesting definition. Certainly “history” of the Congregation, as will find a brief account of the begin - the past has great importance, and “people” to whom God has entrusted nings of each of the units of the we celebrate it well in the articles a charism to be carried out for the Congregation. Some of these have a that you will read, articles that recall good of the Church and of the world. long history while other have a histo - a heroic past with the witnesses who Part of the plan for celebrating our ry which begins more recently. All of established the various units on a bicentennial is to write a “history” of them, however, have a glorious his - solid and certain foundation. This is the Congregation, but this “history” tory, created by persons who have not, however, an end in itself. Me - is made up of many “histories.” known and continue to know how to mory is always oriented to practice, They witness to the vitality of the receive the charism of the Congre- to the transformation of personal or gation and who have lived and still Congregation, they are a sign of social reality. Through action we are live that charism where they carry the faithfulness with which it has creating memory. This memory now out their ministry. They incarnate it maintained the charism which the has become a claim on what we do in the hearts and lives of many per - Lord had given to it through our now, by our conduct in the present sons as a witness for the Church and Founder, Saint Gaspar. At the same and in the future. For this reason, the for the well-being of the world. time they also witness to the cre - word “today” is so important and ativity in which the charism has Celebrating history is an act of love, meaningful. A memory transforms been embodied and carried out in because it becomes memory and history in relation to the situation the course of time and in the situa - prophecy. To read history from the that we are living today. tions in which the Congregation perspective of memory means to The “histories” of the units of the has lived and developed. These speak of the freely given love of Congregation that you will read in “histories” speak of fidelity, but of God. What is significant about mem - this articles are naturally not finished a creative fidelity. N ory is not principally an exclusive relationship with the past. Its prima - ry connection is with the present and Next Issue: October 2013 with planning for the future. Saint Augustine explains it with a short but very expressive phrase: “Me mo - “XX General Assembly”

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