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C.PP.S. Today Page 2: Missionaries Carry the Message No Matter What Direction They Travel, Mission- Aries Have the Same Message SPRING 2019 C P P S TODAYMISSIONARIES OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD Paying Them Fr. Antonio Baus, C.PP.S., at St. James the Less Back In this issue of C.PP.S. Today Page 2: Missionaries Carry the Message No matter what direction they travel, Mission- aries have the same message. Between the Lines by Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S., provincial director of the Cincinnati Province. Page 3: Paying Them Back When Fr. Antonio Baus, C.PP.S., came to minister at a parish in Columbus, Ohio, he saw Fr. Antonio it as a way to pay back the many Missionaries Baus at St. who went to Chile. James the Less. Page 10: What We Know About the Call The CARA Report reveals interesting facts about the way young people respond to God’s call. Call and Answer by Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S., director of vocation ministry. Page 11: A Regular Saint for Regular People One of our own Missionaries, Venerable John Merlini (1795–1873), takes a step toward canonization. His life was a great example of humility, commitment and faithfulness. Page 15: Chapter and Verse News about C.PP.S. people and places. Venerable John Page 17: One to Send, One to Receive Merlini Our covenant with God requires two-way communications. At Our House by Jean Giesige, editor of C.PP.S. Today. C.PP.S. is an abbreviation of the Latin name of the Congregation, Congregatio Pretiosissimi Sanguinis, Congregation of the Most Precious Blood. SPRING 2019 C.PP.S. Today is published by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, (Society of the Precious Blood), Cincinnati Province, 431 E. Second St., Dayton, OH 45402 937-228-9263 [email protected] cpps-preciousblood.org On Facebook, Missionaries of the Precious Blood Cincinnati Province On Twitter, @cppscincinnati 1 Missionaries Carry the Message hroughout the history of the Congregation in the United States we Thave been known by a variety of names: Society of the Precious Blood. Fathers and Brothers of the Precious Blood. Sanguinists. Even, jokingly, the “Bleeders.” Our official name is the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s quite a lengthy name! We now use Missionaries of the Precious Blood as our preferred name. This name highlights two very important components of our identity. From our foundation in 1815 we have been missionaries. Our founder, St. Gaspar, gathered a group of priests to go out to give missions in the towns of the Papal States to bring a message to them. The message was that of the redeeming power of the Precious Blood of Christ. St. Gaspar, and all who follow after him, are dedicated Missionaries of the Precious Blood. In this issue of C.PP.S. Today, we highlight two Missionaries who, in different times and differentays, w have followed in the footsteps of St. Gaspar. The Venerable Giovanni Merlini was the third moderator general of the Congregation. Fr. Emanuele Lupi, C.PP.S., explains how Merlini’s cause for canonization is proceeding. Merlini was a quiet, humble and hardworking person. Merlini never traveled to the far reaches of the Earth preaching the Gospel, but through his leadership the Congregation ventured out of Italy and experienced great growth in North America. Merlini knew that the message of the Precious Blood had to flow over the entire world and into the hearts of the people of God. Fast forward 200 years and we have an example of another type of Missionary. We often think of missionaries as going from Europe or North America to those areas of the world most in need of priests and religious. Fr. Antonio Baus, C.PP.S., is a member of the Chilean Vicariate who has turned this upside down. He has Between come from Chile to minister to the people of S. James the Lines the Less Church in Columbus, Ohio. The parish has by Fr. Jeffrey had an increase in Hispanic members and so needs Kirch, C.PP.S. ministers who can speak Spanish. The direction of travel might be different, but the work is the same. Preach the Gospel. Minister to those in need. Proclaim the redeeming power of the Precious Blood. Missionaries can take on a variety of forms. This issue highlights very different examples of how we are missionary by our very nature. How will you serve as a missionary today? 2 Paying Them Back Fr. Antonio Baus, C.PP.S., came to serve in the U.S. as a way to say thank you to Missionaries who served in 3 Chile. r. Antonio Baus, C.PP.S., has parents’ home. It was a ministry Fbeen the pastor of St. James that he did conscientiously and the Less Parish in Columbus well, keeping the successful for a little less than a year. He school on track, its eye on the doesn’t know yet if there is any prize of educating young sure-fire way to knit together the people for a life of service and, two segments of the parish—the possibly, success. Anglo Americans who have lived Then he gave all that up: his in Columbus’ North Linden important ministry at the school, neighborhood and have been a the leisurely Sunday lunches part of the parish for years and with his parents along with the years, and the many Hispanics chance to see his brothers and who now call the parish and their children if they stopped in neighborhood their home. He at his parents’ house. He gave suspects the secret formula might up Chilean food and music. He involve food. gave up the view of the Andes, “We had a food festival here, glimpsed from Santiago streets, and everybody brought in food the comfort of the familiar, and from their own country. Food friends he’s known forever. from 10 different countries He set it all aside to follow a was sold in our cafeteria,” he missionary call to the United said. “Everybody shared their States because he believed he own heritage through the food could do some good in a parish they brought, and it was better here. And because he felt he was than words.” paying a debt. Often, it’s at the table when people come together. At a Growing Up with the C.PP.S. family’s kitchen table. At the table of the Lord. Fr. Tony grew up among Fr. Tony has known that Precious Blood Missionaries from early on. The oldest of four serving in Chile. He went to brothers, his family memories school at San Gaspar, which often center around his parent’s Missionaries from North America table in Santiago, where the founded in Santiago. He admires family still resides. Long grown, the sacrifices they made to leave he still made a point of visiting their familiar world and travel to his parents for Sunday lunch a country without knowing the whenever possible. This was language or the culture. fairly easy when he was the Missionaries of the Precious director of San Gaspar School in Blood first came from the U.S. to Santiago, a short drive from his minister in Chile in 1947, when 4 it must have seemed to them like Like many parishes in they were going to the ends of transition, St. James the Less has the earth. been grappling with its identity “Nowadays we have Skype, and the best way to make people we have Facetime, we have a lot from diverse cultural groups feel of ways to communicate with at home in the parish. People who the people back home,” Fr. Tony have lived in the neighborhood said. “I can’t imagine what it was forever love the parish. People like for those American priests who have moved in more when they first went to Chile. recently want to love it. Everyone They committed to spending should feel welcome and valued. five years there. The only What’s the best way to get that communication was by mail— message across in a way that snail mail—and they’d have to everyone will understand? wait almost a month for a letter “Many people here have to go up to North America and a welcoming attitude—but come back down.” some are resistant and may feel Although he has much somehow invaded,” Fr. Tony better means of communicating said. “That’s understandable, with the people back home, Fr. but when they look around, Tony took on a similar journey, they don’t see a lot of young traveling as a missionary to a Anglo-American families with different hemisphere. “For me, young children. The young this was a way to pay back the families are mostly Hispanic. So many Missionaries (from North people realize we’re in a time America) who gave the best of of transition. It’s a challenge to their young years to work and bring people together.” serve and minister in Chile,” he said. Serving With a Brother Fr. Tony was serving on the provincial council for the It’s not Fr. Tony’s first time Missionaries when he learned to spend a significant amount of about St. James the Less and its time in the U.S. In 1987, when he need for a bi-lingual pastor. He had been ordained for a year as was intrigued. The parish was a priest from the Missionaries’ founded in 1947, the same year Chilean vicariate, he was sent to that C.PP.S. Missionaries first the Catholic Theological Union in went to Chile. He appreciated Chicago for advanced study.
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