Holy Cross Province NewsFebruary 2016

February Birthdays

3 Francis Cusack28 Enno Dango

Professions27 Chris Gibson Tu-Jin Paul Kim

Updates...• The Inter-Provincial Council Meeting will be held in the Dominican

Republic, February 22-26.

• Provincial Visitation for St. Paul of the Cross Community, Detroit, is February 2-4 and Holy Family Community, Birmingham, is February 17-22.

• Don Senior has written a new book: The Gift of Administration: New Testament Foundations for the Vocation of Administrative Service. It is available through Liturgical Press and Amazon.

• The Chicago Community of Passionist Partners (CPP) resumed their monthly meetings in January at Chicago Korean Martyrs Catholic Church, where Tu-Jin Paul Kim is pastor. The group usually meets on the third Wednesday each month.

• Upon recommendation of last summer’s Provincial Chapter, the Shrine Committee held its inaugural meeting January 27-28 at St. Vincent Strambi Community in Chicago.

• During his sabbatical, Bob Crossmyer is pursuing course work this semester offered through the Hesburgh Program at Catholic Theological Union.

• Joe Mitchell recently updated Lent 4.2, to heed the call of Pope Francis to care for our common home, “Laudato Si.” Liturgical Press has obtained the rights to the seven week faith formation program, and has been promoting it for use this Lent. More information is available on their website: www.Lent42.org.

• Our retreat centers in Holy Cross Province are presenting programs for the Lenten season. For more information, please visit them at: passionist.org/retreats.

St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

LOOKING FORWARD...

February 5 Solemn Commemoration of the Passion February 10 Ash Wednesday

February 14 Valentine’s Day

February 15 Presidents’ Day (USA)

February 27 Feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

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Vocations...

So Long...and Welcome...

St. Vincent Strambi Community held a welcoming ceremony for Phillip Donlan, who began his residency on January 11.

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On the road to his next mission appeal, Blaise Czaja experiences

a bout of ‘brain freeze’ from his Icee.

Chris Gibson (l), Phillip Donlan and John Schork represented the Passionists of Chicago at the closing liturgy for the Year of

Consecrated Life on January 24, at Holy Name Cathedral.

Chris Gibson blesses Phillip during the ceremony.

Phillip Donlan, Chris Gibson and John Schork at the

welcoming ceremony.

A farewell luncheon for Alfonso San Juan was held by his Christ the King Family. With the help of Blaise Czaja, Alfonso moved to Louisville in January. Your Christ the King Family will miss you, and your Sacred Heart Family welcomes you, Alfonso!!!

Alfonso is settling in to his new home in Louisville.

Here he is with (l-r): Leonard Kosatka,

Alfonso, Ron Corl, John Monzyk and

Kay Woodward, who works part time at the monastery.

Alfonso’s farewell with everyone at

Christ the King.

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Configuration of Jesus Crucified...The major superiors, provincials and vice-provincial of the members of the Configuration of Jesus Crucified held their annual meeting in the provincial house in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, which lies to the north of both Rio de Janeiro and Saõ Paulo, Brazil. The configuration is made up of: Holy Cross Province, St. Paul of the Cross Province, Our Lady of Peace Vice-Province, Cristo Rey Province, Calvary Province, Exaltation of the Cross Province and Immaculate Conception Province.

The host province, Exaltation of the Cross, is two years old and is composed of three former regional vicariates in Brazil. The provincial superior, Giovanni Cipriani, was an excellent host, and the collaboration of others in the community made for a fraternal and enjoyable stay.

Formation issues received most of the discussion time because the configuration has combined/shared its formation efforts at every level leading to ordination. In a similar way, the fund for solidarity in formation is the one which sees the most movement, since there are also plans underway to host configuration-wide meetings for those who are in their first years of ordained life, and for those who are in initial formation, leading to ordination.

Francisco Murray, Argentina/Uruguay, was elected the new President of the configuration. Our gratitude to Moises Rios of Puerto Rico, whose term as President was completed with this meeting.

In addtion to the President, elections were also held for chairpersons for a three-year term: Joe Moons, United States, chair of the financial commission; Amilton Manoel Da Silva, Brazil, chair of the formation commission; and Carlos Saracini, Argentina, chair of the personnel commission.

The annual meeting in 2017 will take place in Calvary Province, Saõ Paulo, Brazil.

(l-r): Aurelio Miranda, Brazil; José Ramón Montañez, Puerto Rico; Joe Moons, United

States; and two participants of the meeting with the laity.

Members of the configuration and Passionist Laity who met on the first day.

Bob Joerger, United States and Giovanni Cipriani, Brazil.

Sunday evening Mass at the Passionist Shrine of St. Paul of the Cross.