VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3, FaLL 2013 A PUBLICATION OF THE REDEMPTORIST OFFICE FOR MISSION ADVANCEMENT REDEMPTION To preach the Gospel ever anew Learn how Redemptorists are forming the next generation of priests and brothers. Stephen M. Kessinger/Courtesy Year for Redemptorist Vocations August 1, 2013-November 9, 2014 PROVINCIAL’S PREFACE also essential that we love both our voca- to make the Good News a living part of tions and the people that we serve. their world. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan was Let us pray for an increase of voca- once asked how to attract more vocations tions in the Church, especially for more to the priesthood. His reply was, “By hav- Redemptorist priests and brothers. ing joyful priests.” I agree 100 percent with Many thanks for your prayers and sup- that. We need priests and brothers who are port. May God bless you now and always. joyful, kind, forgiving and loving in their Sincerely in Christ, vocations. Every day we meet people who live lov- ing lives. They bless and teach us by their example. We are made better by them and Very Rev. Kevin Moley, C.Ss.R. Redemptorists are called to go out and we are grateful to them. Every day we also Provincial Superior preach the Good News of Jesus Christ. meet people who struggle with pain and There is no more wonderful task than this, suffering. To them we reach out and strive to share the Good News. Redemptorists receive a solid education — we graduate with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s of divinity after Redemptorists announce Year for Vocations an additional four years studying theology. On August 1, the feast of our founder, date must be shaped and formed by the We are also taught how to live in communi- St. Alphonsus Liguori, Redemptorists Missionary vision of the Congregation. ty, and grow as healthy human beings and around the world opened a special year ‘He will know that he belongs to and dedicated men of God. By the time we take focused on promoting the Redemptorist willingly participates in the mission our final vows or are ordained priests, we missionary vocation. TheYear for Pro- of a world-wide Congregation that are expected to be well prepared to serve motion of the Redemptorist Missionary takes seriously the challenge of being the people of God. Vocation continues through November alert to the signs of the times, and We do this because we know that we need 9, 2014, the anniversary of the founding making vital apostolic decisions that good and professional men to complete the of the Congregation. respond ever anew to our call to mis- tasks that the Church has given to us. It is In announcing the year in May, sion’ (Decisions of the XXIV General Superior General Michael Brehl wrote, Chapter, 6.17).” “We know that ‘the vitality with which Father General encouraged all Plentiful Redemption © 2013 the Congregation pursues its apostolic Redemptorists and their missionary mission depends on the number partners throughout the world to work Plentiful Redemption is distributed and quality of the candidates who together during the year to promote the quarterly to friends and collaborators seek admission to the Redemptorist Redemptorist mission and vocations. of the Redemptorists. We aim to tell community’ (Const. 79). Such a candi- the story of God’s bountiful love and inspire our readers to partner with us to continue spreading the Good Archbishop Tobin receives pallium in Rome ceremony News to all people, especially the Congratulations to Indianapolis poor and most spiritually abandoned. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin who received the pallium from Pope Redemptorist Office for Francis in June. The pallium is a Mission Advancement liturgical garment made of wool 107 Duke of Gloucester St. that is worn by bishops who lead Annapolis, MD 21401-2526 major metropolitan dioceses. The pallium is given to the bishop by Toll free: 877-876-7662 the pope, and is a symbol of col- redemptorists.net laboration and fellowship with the Holy Father. Archbishop Tobin is Editor: a Redemptorist and former two- Stephanie K. Tracy term Superior General of the [email protected] Order. He was appointed to lead the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Executive Director: in 2012. James C. Link John Shaughnessy/Courtesy The Criterion John Shaughnessy/Courtesy [email protected] 2 Vatican II priest: Going to the people Editor’s Note: During this Year of I began to resent the isolation that my seminary formation Faith, we present a series of reflections had demanded of me. I knew it was not right. As a 24-year-old from Redemptorists who began their re- young man, I gave my first catechism lesson and felt so discon- ligious and/or priestly lives in the years nected from those seventh-graders, so “out of it.” I cried, I wept during or immediately after the Second for shame and in anger. Vatican Council. I was glad when I was finally a Redemptorist priest who could go out and preach the Gospel of Jesus to real people in the real By Rev. Thomas Deely, C.Ss.R. world. The freedom was great. The new openness in our Church I was ordained in June 1965. The was wonderful. Second Vatican Council, begun in 1962, What weren’t so great were the selfish and worldly values that closed as I was ordained. assaulted our Church. The windows were open. The fresh air was One of the purposes of that Council was to “open the win- coming in. But in also came the poisoned winds of doubt, of a de- dows of the Catholic Church and allow the fresh air of renewal sire for pleasure and comfort. In came the tempting message that to enter into it.” A lot of fresh air did enter. We were no longer the Cross, that suffering and sacrifice, were a waste of time. So out “locked into the seminary.” We could now get out and meet the of those same windows, through which that fresh air had poured, people and be involved in apostolic work. jumped many who decided that following Christ as a religious, a Before the Vatican Council there seemed to be a belief within priest, a missionary might not bring them all that they personally the Church that if you locked up a seminarian, got him to pray desired. and be silent, and not care much about what was happening in In the 48 years I’ve lived as a priest since the Council, I have the world, that the supposed happy result would be a holy semi- now realized why our superiors were so worried about pro- narian who would go out into the world full of prayer, the Word tecting us from the world. They were, in many ways, correct. of God and holy devotions, and who would win the world for Fidelity as a Redemptorist priest has not been any easier than it is Christ. for any good individual Catholic or married couple. Fidelity takes I never really believed that. Neither, I think, did those who prayer, humility, and a generous acceptance of the Cross and of called for the Council to bring the Church to a new and fresh the crosses in our lives. encounter with the modern world. As the spirit of the Council Let me end quoting a young Passionist nun who gave the best gradually changed the attitudes and the rules of our seminary and shortest vocation talk I’ve ever heard. She said, “If I had it to formation, we gradually began to see what youth like ourselves do over again I’d still choose to be a nun!” The same goes for me were doing in the world. as a Redemptorist priest. It was the Sixties! They were fighting for civil and human Fr. Deely professed vows as a Redemptorist in 1960 and was rights. They were protesting a most unwise war in Vietnam. They ordained in 1965. He is currently ministering to migrant workers were struggling to undo poverty and injustice both in the U.S. and immigrant families in and around Esopus, NY. and throughout the world. Courtesy The author (above) celebrating the sacraments with some migrant farm workers in upstate New York. Fr. Robert Wojtek (at left) with some parishioners Stephanie Tracy/ROMA K. at an immigration rally in Washington, D.C. 4 NEWS & NOTES Redemptoristines relocate, pioneer Plentiful Redemption wins three awards Plentiful Redemption VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2, SUMMER 2012 new form of community living A PUBLICATION OF THE REDEMPTORIST OFFICE FOR was honored for excel- MISSION ADVANCEMENT The Redemptoristine Nuns moved to their new home lence in writing and REDEMPTION at the Carmel of the Incarnation in Beacon, NY in June. design by the Catholic Having established their community more than 50 years Press Association at ago in Esopus, NY, they had been living in temporary quar- their annual confer- ters for the last year. ence in June. In its first Six Redemptoristines year in the competi- Contact the will reside in this lovely tion, the newsletter Redemptoristines monastery nestled in won three awards in its Redemptoristine Nuns woods at the foot of Mt. category in the national 89 Hiddenbrooke Dr. Beacon. Three nuns who competition. Beacon, NY 12508-2230 [email protected] require special care have Based on editions rednuns.org settled into Meadowview printed in 2012, Plenti- facebook.com/rednunsesopus Assisted Living at Wart- ful Redemption won Still Our Perpetual Help Fr. Philip Dabney blesses a woman with the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help during the weekly novena at Mission Church, Boston.