A Class Act - The Redemptorists, Denver Province

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Sharing HOPE Since 1960, thousands of apostolic-minded people from around the country have enrolled to help ensure that those men in training realize their dream of becoming Redemptorist Priests or Brothers. Their perseverance in prayer and personal sacrifice is manifest today in the hundreds of Priests, Brothers and seminarians that represent the Denver Province around the globe. The original idea for the program came about in 1954, when Julia Flanagan, the sister of Fr. Joseph Flanagan, started the St. Joseph Auxiliary in Kirkwood, MO, site of our former minor seminary. She recruited people from all over the St. Louis area to donate a dollar a month to help support the Redemptorist seminarians at St. Joseph College. At one point the Auxiliary numbered over 1,000 members! In the fall of 1959, the new St. Joseph College was opened near Edgerton, WI. The following year, the St. Joseph Auxiliary became the Co-Redemptorist Association with Father Thomas William Murphy its first director. Over the past 50 years, the Co-Redemptorist Association has grown and prospered due to the tireless efforts of Redemptorists, Religious, and lay people who labored faithfully together to build this remarkably successful fundraising apostolate. Special thanks must be paid to former directors Fr. Thomas William Murphy, Fr. James Kelly, Fr. Frank O’Neill, Fr. Leo The Very Reverend Thomas D. Picton, C.Ss.R. Provincial Superior, Denver Province 2 HOPE A Time to Celebrate In June we celebrate a very significant anniversary. It will be 50 years since the creation of the Co-Redemptorist Association, arguably the longestrunning seminarian support program of its kind in the country today. Hirsch, Fr. Jack Willett, Fr. Bernard Rooney, Fr. John Paul Andree, and Fr. Peter Schavitz. Brother Robert Ruffing and staff members Rosemary Andrews and Lois Schenfeld also deserve to be recognized for their years of dedicated service. We also remember Marion Carpenter, Sophie Wechselberger, Brother James Bohr, Mary Davenport and Sister Mary Dolores Musial as special members of the Co-Redemptorist family. And, on behalf of our men in formation, thank you to our many Co-Redemptorist benefactors who are making it possible for these men to persevere in their vocations. For those who don’t know, we offer the Co-Redemptorist preaching program, where Redemptorists visit parishes around the country to talk about the program and to invite others to become Co-Redemptorists. If you would like to schedule a Co-Redemptorist preaching event in your church, please call our Mission Advancement Ministry at 866.788.0343 and ask for Mary Pelikan. She’ll make it happen! On the back cover you’ll find the Co-Redemptorist preaching schedule for the next few months. If your parish happens to be on the list, we would encourage you to attend and to bring a friend or family member. Our Church needs more Redemptorist Priests and Brothers, and we need you to help them persevere in their vocations. Thank you. Volume 1, Issue 4 Spring 2010 Hope, published by the Redemptorists of the Denver Province’s Mission Advancement Ministry, is distributed quarterly to friends and supporters of the Redemptorists. With this publication, we hope to inspire an even larger following of friends and supporters eager to help because they know our cause is all about providing love and hope to the poorest of the poor. PUBLISHER Very Reverend Thomas D. Picton, C.Ss.R. Provincial Superior Editor Bruce Crane Director Mission Advancement Ministry Joseph A. Roos Letters to the Editor: Hope Redemptorists/Denver Province Mission Advancement Ministry 1230 S. Parker Road Denver, CO 80231 Toll Free: 866.788.0343 Denver: 303.565.5450 Email address: advancement@redemptorists-denver.org redemptoristsdenver.org poorandmostabandoned.org Keep God’s Earth Green Receive Hope by Email Let us know by sending your email address to: bcrane@redemptorists-denver.org Follow the Redemptorists on Facebook Moving? If you have moved and would like to continue receiving Hope magazine, please send your new address to advancement@redemptorists-denver.org.
The Birth Of A Priest Fr. Paul J. Coury, C.Ss.R. One of the great Easter experiences of my own life, as a Redemptorist, took place after celebrating my first Mass in my home parish of Holy Redeemer in Detroit, Michigan. After Mass I was led to our parish hall. There was a line of people that extended into the street. I thought it was the line for food and coffee. I was told that these people were actually lined up to receive my first blessing! So there I stood for three hours blessing each person who came forward to congratulate me. These were people who knew my family or who knew me since I was a small child. Some of them were classmates; others were just parishioners who were honored to have a new Priest from their parish. Many of them who came forward told me that they were Co-Redemptorists. I re- Redemptorist headline news Haiti Relief Shortly after the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, the Mission Advancement Ministry in Denver established an online fundraising drive to help the 40 Redemptorists stationed in Haiti get food, water and medical supplies to the poorest of the poor caught up in this deadly natural disaster. As of March 31, we have raised $40,355. SeeloS CenteR DeDiCation On January 30, 2010, nearly 200 guests gathered at the new Seelos Welcome Center, in New Orleans, LA, to take part in the official dedication and blessing of the new structure. Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans presided at the blessing and dedication ceremony. The building is named for Blessed Francis X. Seelos, C.Ss.R., the great Redemp- 3 HOPE alized that it was their sacrifices and their prayers that brought me to this moment. I felt so very humbled to realize how many people of my parish had a stake in my life. I knew then that I was connected to these wondrous people by a thousand golden threads of love and caring. They truly gave birth to my Priesthood. The beauty of life is that we do not give birth to ourselves. Someone else has to give birth to us and it is to these people that we owe a great debt of thankfulness. St. Alphonsus Liguori, our founder, said that “at the birth of Jesus, joy was set free and now freely roams the universe.” It is this joy that I felt knowing that so many people, like you, had supported me through the years by these “golden threads.” You have all given birth to my Priesthood! torist Priest (1819-1867) who spent most of his time in New Orleans caring for the poor, sick and neglected. While caring for yellow fever victims, he contracted the disease himself and died there from it on October 5, 1867. His cause for canonization is under consideration. seelos.org 2010 SCRupulouS anonymouS RetReat Slated for May 14-16, 2010 and presented by Fr. Thomas M. Santa, C.Ss.R. at the Redemptorist Renewal Center in Tucson, AZ. For more information, visit desertrenewal.org and click on “Events Calendar” or call 520.744.3400. BRitiSH loyaliSt wHo onCe fougHt CatHoliCS emBRaCeS CatHoliCiSm A member of a banned Loyalist paramilitary organization that waged a 30-year campaign of violence against Northern Ireland’s Catholics has become a Catholic. The revelation that Ian Stewart, a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, is Catholic came in Belfast Crown Court February 26 during the trial of nine men charged with murdering a fellow Loyalist paramilitary member. While the Ulster Volunteer Force is party to a cease-fire agreement, it claimed responsibility for the murder of 381 Catholics during a violent campaign against the minority Catholic community that began in 1965 and ended with the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. The court was told that Stewart, 35, became Catholic after receiving spiritual advice from Redemptorists at the Clonard Monastery in Northern Ireland. Redemptorist REFLECTION Easter is a season of new births. Let us take the time to give thanks to God for those who have given birth to us, either physically or spiritually. Let our joy be set free to roam the universe! Superior of the Redemptorist Community Renewal Center at Picture Rocks, Cortaro, AZ desertrenewal.org On the Cover Photo: Fr. John Paul Andree, C.Ss.R. with his mother, Loretta, who just celebrated her 87th birthday in March. Loretta Andree is one of the original members of the Co-Redemptorist Association. Father John was its director from 1983 to 2005. Photo by Focal Point Studio of Photography (Farmington, MI). Saint: St. Alphonsus Liguori founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) in Naples, Italy in 1732. He is a Doctor of the Church and the official patron of moralists, confessors, vocations and people who suffer from arthritis. Contents 4 A Class Act 6 The Apostolate Today 7 A Labor of Love 8 Membership Drive 10 St. Joseph Mass League 12 Rachel’s Vineyard 15 Jubilarians 16 The Music of Mary HOPE 3
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