Passionist News Notes St Paul of the Cross Province

May 2020

Volume 5

Number 5

Day May Birthdays 1 MAGUIRE, William

RAMOS, Jonathan

2 LOPEZ GALARZA, Luis Alfredo

3 LANDRY, Francis

4 RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, ANIBAL (ANDY)

5 SEDLEY, Joseph

21 MORAN, Michael

23 OMOLO, Gilbert

24 NALEPA, Richard

25 RECANA, Brando

26 FITZGERALD, Timothy

27 SENA, Angelo

Day May Ordinations

2 DUNN, Stephen

MCEACHERN, Bernard

3 BONEY, Vincent

4 RICCARDI, Salvatore

12

SEGOTTA, Vincent

POWERS, John

JOERGER, Robert

13

GREENE, Michael

RUTTLE, Paul

LANDRY, Francis

WARD, Mark

BURKE, Richard

14 AWARD, Richard

DOUGLAS, John

16 TIEDEMANN, Neil

17 MONACO, David

FRECHETTE, Richard

18 CARBONNEAU, Robert

WIERICHS, Paul

19

GRACE, Peter

WOLANSKI, Edward

KERBER, Justin

21 OMOLO, Gilbert

25 COONEY, Theophane

26

BONACCI, Thomas

WARE, Donald

CHENOT, Paul

VEREB, Jerome

28 GILLETTE, James

ESPARZA-PEREZ, Hugo

29 NALEPA, Richard

30

SEDLEY, Joseph

KRISTOFAK, Terence

VITALI, Theodore

SALVAGNA, Michael

BARRY, James

31

VAETH, Paul

FINNIGAN, Francis

BRISLIN, Thomas

BRACKEN, Jerome

DOUGHERTY, Charles

Don Giuseppe Corbari, parson of the Church of Robbiano in Italy, holds Sunday mass as he looks towards selfie photographs sent in by his congregation members in Giussano on March 22, 2020.

Rev. William A. Mentz wears a mask and gloves while distributing pre-packaged communion to the faithful attending mass while sitting in their cars in a parking lot in Moosic, Pa. on March 22, 2020.

Priests adapt to Corona Virus Outbreak

General Superior’s Message on Palm Sunday from Rome

Pope’s special Urbi et Orbi blessing: ‘

God turns everything to our good’

Complete News Article

Video

We taped a Good Friday Meditation on The Seven Last Words with: Fr. Edward Beck, Karen Cavanagh, Roberto Chiotti, Fr. Enzo Del Brocco, Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz, Sunny Hostin, Liseli Lugo, Fr. Jim O’Shea, Michaela Pereira and Jimmy Smits. Jimmy Smits reads the Passion Narrative and then our participants comment on how they experience these words in their own lives. I hope it will help your own prayer, meditation, thoughts during this difficult time of pandemic and isolation. Here is the YOUTUBE link to view our group’s meditation:

GOOD FRIDAY: THE SEVEN LAST WORDS Please feel free to share with your family, friends…and with anyone you think may benefit from these words. In hope for the renewal and rebirth that await us, Father Edward L. Beck, C.P.

The Passionists Good Friday Meditation on the Last Words by Fr. Edward Beck, C.P.

Congregation History guides Passionists

through the present and to the future

By Fr. Rob Carboneau, C.P.

At this time, as so many are dying, grieving, or simply want something that may help them in their prayer I am offering the following Bill of Rights for the Deceased to anyone who would like to pray with it or to share it with anyone these choose, friends, family members, Pastors for Bulletins, Newsletters of Retreat Centers, emailing it all and any, Blogs, Websites, Diocesan Newspapers, and any other format they chose.

I ask only that retain my name as the author as a way to celebrate the Passionist Community, and Mission we vow to keep alive Christ Crucified in word and deed.

1. The right to be remembered. 2. The right to be remembered as they truly were not as we wish they had been. 3. The right to be prayed for and prayed through for they are where God is. 4. The right to be judged by God alone for only God knows the hearts intent.

By Fr. John Powers, C.P. jpowers@cpprov.org

A Bill of Rights for the Deceased

(after-living)

by Fr. John Powers, C.P.