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Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 18, 2023

Letter from the Superior General for the Feast of St. Clement dedicating a year to Community Life

Rome, 15th March 2023 Feast of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Missionaries of Hope in the footsteps of the Redeemer A YEAR DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY LIFE Const. 21-75; GS 026-049; Lk 6,12-16 . Dear Confreres, Formandi and Lay Associates of our Mission, With joy we celebrate the feast of St. Clement Maria Hofbauer, a Missionary who evangelised with enthusiasm. “Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel” (1 Cor...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 18, 2023

General Government meets English speaking Major Superiors

About 30 Major Superior of our Congregation have been participating in a one-week formation meeting organized by General Government in Rome. It started last Monday, March 6, with the Eucharist in the Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help and has continued through the next four days, when the participants were presented with several topics connected with their leadership ministry for their Units and...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 17, 2023

Online Meeting of the General Council with the Coordinators of the Conferences

Fr Rogério Gomes, the Superior General, and the Council had a 3-day online meeting with the 5 Conference Coordinators. This meeting was from the 27th of February to the 1st of March 2023. The Meeting was held for 3 hours each day via zoom. The objective of the meeting was to plan for the 3rd Phase of the XXVI General Chapter which will soon be held in each of the 5 Conferences. The meeting began with a...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 17, 2023

Online Meeting of the General Council and the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian-speaking Major Superiors

The Superior General, Fr Rogério Gomes, and the General Council had an online meeting with the Major Superiors of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian-speaking Major Superiors from the Units of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Madagascar, and Europe. The online meeting was for 4 hours each day for 4 days (20th – 21st and 23rd – 24th February). The Meeting was well attended and the participation...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 17, 2023

One year on from the start of the war, Archbishop Shevchuk remembers Redemptorist prisoners

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in a video link with a group of journalists a few days before the first anniversary of the conflict, said: “A blind, absurd and sacrilegious war”. Archbishop Shevchuk also reports that in all the occupied regions – “17% of the country” – there is not a single priest left: “Neither Greek Catholic nor Latin… Some have been expelled, others imprisoned”, says...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 5, 2023

World Youth Day, Lisbon 2023

From August 1st to 6th, 2023, the next World Youth Day, Lisbon 2023, will take place in Lisbon, with the theme: “Mary rose up and went with haste”(Lk 1:39). The Redemptorist communities located in the outskirts of Lisbon, namely Buraca, Damaia, and Venda Nova, are preparing to welcome young people from different parts of the world at this important meeting of Catholic youth. It is our desire...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Mar 5, 2023

“A great light” among the young people in Albania!

“I looked forward to this celebration with more joy than my birthday! “. I begin this chronicle with an expression from the performance that the young people of the Redemptorist Parish “St. Alphonsus” of Kamëz prepared for Christmas. I begin with this phrase not out of place, as it highlights the importance of Christmas for the Albanian people. Indeed, it was not always so easy for us Albanians to...

Posted by Cssr Admin on Dec 25, 2022

Christmas 2022 – Letter of the Coordinator (20.12.2022)

Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests. Luke 2, 14 . Dear confreres, Dear sisters, Dear partners in mission, The angels’ message of peace to the shepherds, which is part of the Christmas message, does not correspond at all to the reality of us in Europe this year. Since February, the war that Russia has started against Ukraine has taken on terrible...