We all are the Priestly People of God. Together, we are leaders in responding to the emotional and spiritual needs of Priests and Brothers. July 2013 - Vol. 29 No. 7

We celebrate with many religious communities the journey that our newest members take to final vows and ordination. Pope Francis addressed seminarians, novices and other young people on their vocation path as they took part in the Year of Faith pilgrimage “I Trust in You”. (Translation provided by Zenit)

Good evening! This is not right. We must learn to close the door from inside! And if I’m not sure, I must think, must take time, and when I asked Archbishop Fisichella if you understood Italian and he I feel secure in Jesus, I understand, because no one is secure told me that you all have the translation. I am somewhat calmed. without Jesus! When I feel secure, I close the door. Have you I thank Archbishop Fisichella for his words and I also thank understood this? What is the culture of the provisional? him for his work: he has worked so much not only to do this When I came in, I saw what I had written. I would like to say a but for all that he has done and will do in the Year of Faith. word to you, and that word is joy. Wherever there are consecrated Thank you so much! However, Archbishop Fisichella said a persons, seminarians, women and men religious, young people, word, and I don’t know if it’s true, but I take it up: he said that there is joy, there is always joy. It’s the joy of freshness; it’s the joy all of you wished to give your life forever to Christ! Now of following Jesus; the joy that the Holy Spirit gives us, not the you applaud, celebrate, because it is the time of nuptials... world’s joy. There is joy. But where is joy born? However, when the honeymoon is over, what happens? I heard a seminarian, a good seminarian who said he wanted to serve Some will say: joy is born from the things one has, and so, Christ, but for ten years, and then he would think of starting the search for the latest model of the smartphone, the fastest another life... This is dangerous! However provisional, but scooter, the car that attracts attention... But I tell you, really, this is dangerous because one does not gamble one’s life once I feel badly when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model and for all. I marry as long as love lasts; I will be a nun but for car: but this can’t be! You are thinking this: but, Father, a “short time,” for “some time,” and then I’ll see; I will be a must we now go on bicycles? The bicycle is good! Monsignor seminarian to become a priest, but I don’t know how the story Alfred goes on bicycle, he goes with his bicycle. I think a car will end. This is not right with Jesus! is necessary, because so much work must be done here and there, but choose a more modest bicycle! And if you like a I will not reproach you, I reproach this culture of the lovely one, think of how many children die of hunger, think of provisional, which beats us all, because it doesn’t do us good: this alone! Joy is not born, does not come from the things one because a definitive choice today is very difficult. In my time has! Others say it comes from the most extreme experiences: it was easier, because the culture favored a definitive choice to feel the thrill of the strongest sensations; youth likes to live be it for matrimonial life, or the consecrated or priestly life. on the knife’s edge, it really likes this! Others think it comes However, in this age a definitive choice isn’t easy. We are from dressing more fashionably, from victims of this culture of the provisional. I would like you to entertainment in the most fashionable think about learning to close the door of our interior cell from places – but in saying this I’m not inside. Once a priest, a good priest, who didn’t feel he was a saying that nuns go to such places, good priest because he was humble, felt himself a sinner and I say it of young people in general. prayed much to Our Lady and said this to Our Lady – I will Others, yet, from success with girls say it in Spanish because it’s a lovely poem: “This afternoon, or boys, go perhaps from one to the Lady, the promise is sincere. Just in case, don’t forget to other. It’s this insecurity of love, leave the key outside”. But this is said thinking always of which isn’t secure; it’s a “test” of love.” love for the Virgin; it is said to Our Lady. However, when one And we could continue... You also are always leaves the key outside, because of what might happen... in contact with this reality which you can’t ignore. (continued) We know that all this can extinguish a desire, can create very wet covering has been emotions, but in the end it’s a joy that remains superficial, it thrown over his/her life, a doesn’t go deep down, it’s not a profound joy: it’s the inebriation heavy covering that pulls of a moment that does not render us truly happy. Joy is not the them down... something inebriation of a moment, it’s something else! is wrong! But please, let us True joy doesn’t come from things, from having, no! It’s born never have nuns, never have from the encounter, from the relation with others. It’s priests with the face of a born from feeling accepted, understood, loved and from “pepper in vinegar,” never! this acceptance, this understanding and this love, and not But with the joy that comes because it’s of interest for the moment, but because the other, from Jesus. the other is a person. Joy is born from the gratuitousness of an Think of this: when joy is encounter! And from hearing it said: “You are important to me,” lacking in a priest – I say not necessarily in words. This is beautiful... And it is this, in a priest, but a seminarian fact, that God makes us understand. In calling us God says to also -- when joy is lacking us: “You are important to me, I love you, and I count on you.” in a nun, when she is sad, Jesus says this to each one of us! you can think: “But it’s Joy is born from here, the joy of the moment in which Jesus a psychiatric problem.” No, it’s true that it could be, it could looked at me. To understand and to feel this is the secret of be, certainly. It happens that some little ones get sick. It can our joy. To feel loved by God, to feel that for Him we are not happen, but in general it isn’t a psychiatric problem. Is it a numbers, but persons; and to feel that it is He who calls us. To problem of dissatisfaction? Well, yes. But what’s at the bottom become priests, Religious is not primarily our choice. I don’t of that lack of joy? It’s a problem of celibacy. I shall explain. trust the seminarian or the novice who says: “I have chosen this You, seminarians, nuns, consecrated your love to Jesus, a great path.” I don’t like this. It’s not right! But it is the response to a love. Your heart is for Jesus, and this leads us to make the vow call and to a call of love. I hear something within me, which of chastity, the vow of celibacy. However, the vow of chastity makes me restless, and I answer yes. The Lord makes us feel and the vow of celibacy do not end at the moment of the vow; this love in prayer, but also through so many signs that we can they go on. It’s a journey that matures, which matures towards read in our life, so many persons that He puts on our path. And pastoral paternity, towards pastoral maternity, and when a the joy of the encounter with Him and of His call leads not to priest is not the father of his community, when a nun is not closing ourselves but to opening ourselves; it leads to service in the mother of all those with whom she works, they become the Church. sad. This is the problem. Given this, I say to you: the root of sadness in pastoral life lies, in fact, in the lack of paternity Saint Thomas said “bonus est diffusivum sui” – it’s not too and maternity that comes from living this consecration badly, difficult - Latin! – Good diffuses itself. And joy also diffuses which instead should lead us to fruitfulness. We can’t think of itself. Don’t be afraid to show the joy of having answered priests or nuns who aren’t fruitful: this isn’t Catholic! This isn’t the Lord’s call, of the choice to love and witness His Gospel Catholic! This is the beauty of consecration: it is joy, joy! in the service of the Church. And joy, real joy, is contagious; it infects... it makes us go forward. Instead, when one comes However, I don’t want to embarrass this holy nun [he turns to across a seminarian who is too serious, too sad, or a similar an elderly nun in the front row] who was behind the barrier, novice, one thinks: but something is wrong! The joy of the poor thing, she was in fact suffocated, but she had a happy face. Lord is lacking, the joy that leads one to service, the joy of the It did me good to look at your face, Sister! Perhaps you have encounter with Jesus, which leads one to the encounter with many years of consecrated life, but you have beautiful eyes, you others to proclaim Jesus. This is lacking! There’s no holiness in smiled, you didn’t complain about the pressure. When you find sadness, there isn’t! Saint Teresa – there are so many Spaniards examples such as this, many, so many nuns, so many priests who know her well – said: “A sad Saint is a sorry Saint!” It’s who are joyful, it’s because they are fruitful, they give life, life, not much... When one comes across a seminarian, a priest, a life. They give this life because they find it in Jesus! In the joy of nun, a novice, with a long, sad face, who seems as though a Jesus! Joy, not sadness, pastoral fruitfulness. To be joyful witnesses of the Gospel we must be genuine, coherent. And this is another word I wish to say to you: authenticity. Jesus so castigated hypocrites: hypocrites, those “Joy does not simply happen to who think low. Those who have – to say it clearly, a double face. us. We have to choose joy and It doesn’t cost to speak to young people of authenticity, because young people – all of you – have the desire to be authentic, to keep choosing it every day.” be coherent. And it makes all of you ill, when you see in us – Henri J.M. Nouwen priests who aren’t authentic and nuns who aren’t authentic! This is, first of all, a responsibility of adults, of formators. It is up to you, formators here present to give an example of told me everything I’ve done,” and everyone knew this woman’s life. Always tell the truth to your confessor. This transparency “Joy is the infallible sign of will do you good, because it makes one humble, all of us. “But the presence of God.” Father, I have continued in this, I’ve done this, I’ve hated” -- no matter what it is. Tell the truth, without concealing, without – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin half words, because you are talking to Jesus in the person of the confessor. And Jesus knows the truth. He alone always forgives you! However, the Lord only wants you to tell him what He coherence to the younger ones. Do we want coherent young already knows. Transparency! people? Let’s us be coherent! Otherwise, the Lord will say to us It’s sad when one finds a seminarian, a nun who today confesses what he said of the Pharisees to the people of God: “Do what with this priest to clean the stain; tomorrow goes to another, to they say, but not what they do!” Coherence and authenticity! another, to another: a pilgrimage to confessors to conceal the However, you also, in turn, must seek to follow this way. I truth. Transparency! It’s Jesus who is listening to you. Always always say what Saint Francis of Assisi affirmed: Christ has have this transparency before Jesus in the confessor! However, invited us to proclaim the Gospel also with the word. The this is a grace. Father, I have sinned, I’ve done this, this, this... phrase goes like this: “Proclaim the Gospel always, and, if with all the words. And the Lord embraces you, kisses you! Go, necessary, with words.” What does this mean? It means to and sin no more! And if you fall once again? I say this from proclaim the Gospel with the authenticity of life, with the experience. I have found so many consecrated persons who fall coherence of life. However, in this world in which riches do into this hypocritical trap of lack of transparency. “I’ve done so much evil, it’s necessary that we priests, that we nuns, that this,” humbly, as that publican who was at the back of the all of us be coherent with our poverty! However, when you Temple: “I’ve done this, I’ve done this...” And the Lord covers find that the first concern of an educational, parochial or any your mouth: He it is who covers it.” But don’t you do so! Have institution is money, this doesn’t do good. It doesn’t do good! you understood? From sin itself grace abounds! Open the door It’s incoherent! We must be coherent, authentic. to grace, with this transparency! On this path, we do what Saint Francis said: we preach the The saints and the masters of the spiritual life tell us that the Gospel with our example, then with words! But first of all is our daily practice of the examination of conscience is very useful, life in which others must be able to read the Gospel! Here, too, even indispensable, to help us grow in authenticity in our life. without fear, with our defects which we try to correct, with our What is happening in my soul? Thus, we must be open with limitations which the Lord knows, but also with our generosity the Lord and then with our confessor, with our spiritual Father. in allowing Him to act in us. With our defects, our limitations This is so important! and – I add something more – with our sins. I would like to For our witness to be credible, coherence is essential. But it’s know something: is there someone here in this room who isn’t not enough. We also need cultural preparation; I stress cultural a sinner, who has no sins? Let him raise his hand! Let him raise preparation, to give the reason for our faith and our hope. The his hand! Nobody! Nobody! From here right down to the end... context in which we live calls constantly for this “giving reason,” all! But how do I carry my sin, my sins? and it’s something good, because it helps us to take nothing I want give you this counsel: be transparent with your confessor, for granted. Today we can take nothing for granted! This always. Tell him everything; don’t be afraid. “Father, I have civilization, this culture. We can’t. However, it’s also certainly sinned!” Think of the Samaritan woman, who to prove, to tell timely; it requires good, balanced formation that unites all the her fellow citizens that she had found the Messiah, said: “He dimensions of life, the human, the spiritual, the intellectual dimension with the pastoral. There are four fundamental pillars in your formation: spiritual formation, that is, the spiritual life; the intellectual life, studying to “give reason”; the apostolic life, to begin to go out to proclaim the Gospel; and fourth, community life. Four. And for the latter it’s necessary that the formation be in community in the novitiate, in the priory, in the seminaries... I always think this: the worst seminary is better than no seminary! Why? Because community life is necessary. Remember the four pillars: spiritual life, intellectual life, apostolic life, and communal life. These four, you should build your vocation on these four. And here I would like to stress the importance, in community life, of the relations of friendship and fraternity that are an integral part of this formation. Here we arrive at another problem. Why do I talk about relations of friendship and fraternity? So many times I’ve found communities, seminarians, encounter with Jesus, towards transcendence; the other towards others to proclaim Jesus. These two go together. If you just do “A joyful heart is the normal one, it’s no good. I think of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. This result of a heart burning with nun was good... She wasn’t afraid of anything, she went out on the streets... But this woman was also not afraid to kneel down, love. She gives most who gives for two hours, before the Lord. Don’t be afraid to go out of with joy.” – Mother Teresa yourselves in prayer and in pastoral action. Be courageous in praying and in going to proclaim the Gospel. I would like a more missionary Church, one that is not so Religious or diocesan communities where the most common tranquil. A beautiful Church that goes forward! Over these short prayer is gossip! It’s terrible! They “skin” one another... days so many men and women missionaries have come to the And this is our clerical, religious world... Excuse me, but it’s morning Mass, here at Saint Martha’s, and when they greeted common: jealousy, envy, to speak badly of another. Not just me, they’ve said: “But I’m an elderly nun, I’ve been in the Ciad speaking badly of superiors, this is classic! But I tell you that for forty years, I’ve been here and there...” How beautiful! this is so common, so common. I have also fallen into this. I’ve But have you understood that this nun passed these years like done it so many times, so many times! And I’m ashamed! I’m this, because she never ceased to encounter Jesus in prayer. It ashamed of this! It’s not right to do so: to go and gossip. “Have is necessary to go out of oneself, towards transcendence to you heard... Have you heard...” But such a community is a hell! Jesus in prayer, towards the transcendence of others in the This does no good. apostolate, in work. And because of this, the relation of friendship and of fraternity Make your contribution to a Church such as this: faithful to is important. Friends are few. The Bible says this: friends, one, the way that Jesus desires. Don’t learn from us, from us who two... But fraternity among all. If I have something against a are no longer very young; don’t learn from us that sport that sister or a brother, I say it to her/his face, or I say it to her or we, the elderly, often engage in: the sport of lament! Don’t him who can help, but I don’t say it to others to “soil” him/her. learn from us the cult of the complaining goddess. She is a And gossip is terrible! Behind gossip, under gossip, there are goddess that is always lamenting. But be positive, cultivate the envies, jealousies, ambitions. Think of this. Once after spiritual spiritual life and at the same time, go out, be able to meet exercises I heard a person – a consecrated person, a nun... This people, especially those most scorned and disadvantaged. is good! This nun had promised the Lord that she would never Don’t be afraid to go against the current. Be contemplatives speak badly again of another. This is a beautiful, a beautiful and missionaries. Have Our Lady always with you, pray the path to holiness! Not to speak badly of others. “But, Father, Rosary, please... Don’t abandon it! Always have Our Lady with there are problems...” tell them to the superior, to the bishop, you in your home, as the Apostle John had her. May she always who can remedy it. But do not tell it to him who can’t help. accompany you and protect you. And pray also for me, because Fraternity: this is important! But tell me, would you speak badly I am also in need of prayer, because I’m a poor sinner, but we go of your mother, of your father, of your siblings? Never. And forward. why do you do so in consecrated life, in the seminary, in the Go forward with joy, with coherence, always with the courage presbyterial life? This alone: think of it, think of it... Fraternity! to tell the truth, the courage to go out of oneself to meet Jesus This fraternal love. in prayer and to go out of oneself to meet others and give them However, there are two extremes in this aspect of friendship and the Gospel, with pastoral fruitfulness! Please don’t be “spinsters” fraternity, two extremes: both isolation as well as dissipation. and “bachelors.” Go forward! A friendship and a fraternity that will help me not to fall Now Archbishop Fisichella said that yesterday you recited the into isolation or dissipation. Cultivate friendships, they Creed, each one in his/her own language. However, we are all are a precious good: however, they must educate you not to brothers, we have the same Father. Now, each one in his/her shut yourselves in but to go out of yourselves. A priest, a man language, recite the Our Father. Let us recite the Our Father. religious, a woman religious can never be an island, but must And we also have a Mother. In our own language we say the always be a person ready for encounter. Friendships that are Hail Mary. enriched by the different charisms of your Religious Families. It’s a great richness. We think of the beautiful friendships of so During this talk with the novices and seminarians, Pope many Saints. Francis asked if he had more time. The Archbishop working with him answered “if you speak like this, we will be here As the Holy Father continued his conversation with the novices until tomorrow, absolutely”. Pope Francis responded with and seminarians, he said “I think I must make some cuts, “you say until tomorrow? Then let’s bring a sandwich because your patience is great!” They responded “Noooo!” and Coca Cola for each one if it is until tomorrow” this I would like to say to you: go out of yourselves to proclaim demonstrated the naturalness and great affection that Pope the Gospel, but to do this you must go out of yourselves to Francis holds for future religious and priests. encounter Jesus. There are two ways out: one towards the Congratulations! It is with great pleasure that we announce the acceptance of final vows from three Servants of the Paraclete. Our Congregation has been growing with the entry of men from Vietnam, Ghana, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Presently our houses of study are located in Tagaytay City, Philippines, Paranaque, Philippines and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Traditionally the Congregation accepts the final vows from members in written form as well as within a final vow ceremony. Father David Fitzgerald, Servant General, is seen in the photos accepting the simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience from the three new members. The final vow ceremony is filled with symbolism. Lying face down on the floor (prostrating) is seen as a total submission and giving of one’s life to Christ. Priests likewise do this during the ordination ceremonies.

Happy faces of our newly final professed Brothers: Camillus Gudito sP, John Baptist Trinh Van Hoan sP and Anthony Vu Duc Long sP

Binding hands in accepting Brother John Baptist’s final vows

Brothers promising their final vows in ceremony

Giving their life to God

Reading their final vows aloud St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

St. Margaret Mary was born at Lhautecour, France on July 22nd 1647 and died as a Margaret Mary held nothing back from her Visitation Nun at their Convent in Paray-le-Monial on 17th Oct. 1690. She was 43 years superior and mistress – she told them all old. Her parents were simple, good and very devout Catholics. From early childhood that was happening in her life. She tried to Margaret had an intense love for the Blessed Sacrament. She was a chosen soul who had tell them the meaning of these appearances a great love for silence and prayer rather than childish amusements. of the Lord to them but as she said herself, She received her First Holy Communion at the age of nine. She practiced severe corporal “It was difficult for me to understand the mortifications. Margaret was paralyzed for four years and at the end of this time she made meaning of it all.” They conveyed to her that a vow to the Blessed Virgin Mary that if she was cured she would become a religious. She “extraordinary ways were not fitting for the was cured! Daughters of Holy Mary.” Margaret Mary was much grieved about this but in obedience she Trials were frequent in her young life. Her father and two brothers died when she was was acting as a good religious. She says, “I young. There were other trials in her family which plunged the family in poverty. With tried to turn away from this way but in vain.” these trials Margaret found more and more consolation in the Blessed Sacrament and the good Lord made His presence more and more felt when she was praying before the Soon after this, as she was praying before Blessed Sacrament. the Blessed Sacrament, the Sacred Heart of Jesus appeared to her again and penetrated He also gave her sensible feelings of His great protection. He appeared to her as the her body and soul with His divine love. She says, “He asked her to lay her head upon His Crucified one and she was not terribly surprised at this because like other young saints, divine breast and He opened up to me the marvels of His divine love and the inexplicable apparitions were made to young children and they thought this was normal. secrets of His Sacred Heart” (Her Autobiography). He told her, “My Divine Heart is so When Margaret was seventeen the family property was recovered and her mother felt inflamed by love for humanity and for you in particular that I must have a means of that she should go to dances with the chance of meeting someone suitable and get spreading this abroad to the whole world.” Then He said to Margaret Mary, “I have married. Margaret felt that by doing penance and practicing other austerities that this chosen you to spread this abroad.” would suffice and perhaps she would not now have to become a religious nun but this did The human heart is the center of our humanity where we can meet God and love Him not satisfy the Lord. Her destiny was to become a religious sister. with our heart and soul. As Jesus is God and man He can love us with a human heart. In On May 25th 1671 she entered the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial in France where another vision Margaret Mary saw His Sacred Heart all aflame and he took her heart and she was subject to many trials to test her vocation. This Congregation of Sisters was placed it in his and then gave it back to her flaming with love. Ever after this her own founded by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jeanne de Chantal. She pronounced her vows in heart was aflame with love for God and for humanity. What a wonderful mystery this is November 1672. She had a delicate constitution but she was an intelligent and gifted and you can see how much Jesus loves us to do this for us. Let us praise Him! person with good judgment. She did much penance and chose for herself what was most St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was fortunate to have as her Spiritual Director St. Claude de repugnant to her nature for mortification of the flesh. la Colombeir SJ. This was I’m sure a great blessing for her from the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1673 Jesus appeared to her in a unique revelation to reveal to her the secrets of His Margaret Mary continued to love and spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus until Sacred Heart. When she told her superiors of this, her Mistress told her that in this she died. She died a very holy death on Oct 17th 1690 praising the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Congregation it was best to follow ordinary ways by ordinary means. But Jesus had something extraordinary to reveal to her. In 1830 a Vatican Commissioner was sent to Paray le Monial to study her heroic virtues prior to her Beatification and her tomb was opened and inspected. Her body had decayed The Blessed Lord appeared to her frequently when she was praying in chapel even with and her bones were dry but to their surprise her brain was fully intact. This was a great other members of her community, but they were unaware of this. He acted as her director. sign from God that this holy simple soul, who had been maligned in life by some for He was preparing her for the mission He wished for her, which was to establish and being silly and attention seeking when she started having the visions, was blest by God. spread devotion to His most Sacred Heart. Her brain that received all those wonderful and loving messages from the Sacred Heart Jesus appeared to her with his Sacred Heart visible and burning with love for humanity. was kept completely intact almost 200 years after her death. It is still intact and in a Around his heart there appeared a crown of thorns and his heart was aflame with love. beautiful reliquary at Paray le Monial in the beautiful chapel where Jesus appeared to her. When she asked what was the significance of the crown of thorns He answered, “This is Pope Leo XII said that “Paray le Monial was the place of the fullness of love and the town the sign of the pain that I still suffer for humanity who still does not recognize my love for beloved in heaven.” them, after all that I suffered for them on Calvary and during my passion and death on the Everything regarding the appearances and revelations to Margaret Mary were minutely cross.” Margaret too had much to suffer because of this. She suffered in her community examined until the Sacred Congregation of Rites passed a favorable vote on the heroic but because of her obedience and charity to all, and of what she suffered in reparation in virtues of this servant of God. In March 1824, Leo XII pronounced her Venerable and on the crucible of suffering, her mission began to take effect on those who persecuted her. Sept. 1864, Pius IX declared her Blessed. Her body rests under the altar in the Chapel at Margaret was inspired by Jesus to establish the Holy Hour and He asked her to pray lying Paray le Monial in France. St. Margaret Mary was canonized by Benedict XV in 1920. prostate with her face to the ground from eleven till midnight on the eve of the First What a story of Love – the Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who gave all that He could Friday of each month. He wanted her to share in the sadness He felt in the Garden of for the salvation of each of us and yet who is given so little in return for so great a Love. Olives when the apostles abandoned Him in His agony. Jesus told her in one of her visions, Sacred Heart of Jesus give us the grace to love thee! “My Divine Heart is so inflamed by love for humanity and for you in particular that it must spread this abroad and I have chosen you to spread this devotion abroad.” Brother Bernard Scollin sP

image courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/ Bro. Carl Evers s.P.

Carl Evers was born in Borken-Westphalen in Germany of God.” Br. Carl was a late vocation. He had been a very on May 29th 1908. His father was Theodore Evers and his successful business man and had climbed to the top of his mother’s maiden name was Anna Mary Nordick. He had profession. He had a providential encounter with our Founder, 7 brothers and 1 sister. He went through grade school in Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald and he was guided by his Spiritual Germany in Borken Westphalen and in the year 1926 he and Director to join the Servants of the Paraclete. his family left Germany and immigrated to the USA. He was naturalized in 1939. At the age of 13 he became an apprentice When he heard of the work that we do he was thrilled and he in a General Department Store and received special training in joined us on October 2nd 1968 at the age of 60. This was a salesmanship. He was bright and before entering religious life daring and decisive step for a man of 60 but as I said above he he was President of Sunray Films Inc. He was president of this had been praying for priests since 1950. Besides Jesus called firm from 1938 until Oct. 1962 when he applied to join the him! He was living in North Olmstead, Ohio at the time. Servants of the Paraclete. From the beginning Carl was an excellent religious brother. While he was still a layman he went to daily Mass and was He loved the religious life. He was stationed at our House in always a devout Catholic. His parents were very much opposed Rome in the Appia Nuova in 1968 until Oct. 1969 when he to him becoming a religious brother but he had the vocation was appointed to our House Oasi Eucharistica in Montopoli, and he pursued it to his satisfaction. He always had a great some miles from Rome. He was the Assistant Superior until devotion to Our Blessed Lady and especially to Our Lady of 1980. Br. Carl served at our Villa Louis Martin in Jemez Fatima. When he eventually became a religious brother he Springs in the early 1980’s became Br. Carl of Our Lady of Fatima. He also founded the Br. Carl’s vocation history resembled that of the rich young Ohio Guild of Our Lady of Fatima with members who offered man in the Gospel story! Carl left all to follow Christ in help for priests and who prayed for them. religious life. Serving the hidden Christ in priests & religious Br. Carl spoke English, German and Flemish. Carl loved sports brothers in need is one of the notable characteristics of a and reading good books. He had a gift for writing letters to his Servant of the Paraclete. The ministry of service to priests & friends and acquaintances and whenever possible he promoted brothers was a daily reality to Br. Carl, be it preparing rooms the messages of Our Lady of Fatima. He loved the Saints and for guest priests, helping with the cooking, driving, grocery once when I was visiting him in Rome he took me to visit the shopping, serving Masses, sacristan, household repairs - Br. Shrine of St. Maria Goretti in Netunno in Italy where there is Carl sP did it all with determination and a holy passion. an American cemetery. It was the site of one of the landings for The closing years of his life was marked by suffering – all of American troops during WWII and where there are thousands which he offered up in reparation for priests and religious. of young American men buried. He prayed much for the Church and for the Congregation Carl served in the U.S Army Air Corps for one year. Br. Carl of the Servants of the Paraclete. His last years were spent in had a brother, Fr. Sebastian Evers OFM, who was with the Mount Alverna Home in Parma, Ohio a Franciscan/Christian Franciscans and worked in Brazil. Community dedicated to loving service. He died on May 3rd 2000. Since 1950 – which was a Holy Year – he promoted “Prayers Br. Bernard Scollon for Priests” He had a great love of the priesthood because of confession and the Eucharist and the spreading of “The Word

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If you are requesting a specific date, please allow us enough time to send the stipends to our priests. Thank you # Return to: Servants of the Paraclete • PO Box 9 • Cedar Hill, MO 63016

DEVELOPMENT Marian Wolaver • 636-274-5226 x303 • [email protected] OFFICE PO Box 9 • Cedar Hill, MO 63016