Holy Cross Province News

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Birthdays13 Alex Steinmiller20 Hugo Esparza-Perez30 Ken O’Malley31 Pat Brennan

Professions3 Alfonso San Juan15 Jack Conley

October 6 Blessed Isidore DeLoor October 9 Blessed Innocent Canoura Arnau October 20 Feast of St. Paul of the Cross (USA), Founder of the Passionists

LOOKING FORWARD...

Updates...• Alex Steinmiller celebrated his 50th Jubilee of Profession and

Bob Crossmyer celebrated his 25th Jubilee of Ordination in Birmingham on October 5.

• Tu-Jin Paul Kim moves to Chicago October 8.

• The celebration of 160 years of the Passionists in America will be held Sunday, October 20, in Jamaica, New York. Joachim Rego, Superior General, and Don Webber will attend.

• Chris Gibson joined the editorial staff of Horizon magazine, the quarterly publication of NRVC.

• Don Senior completed another guided tour of Israel and Jordan with 36 people.

• St. Vincent Strambi is hosting a “Come and See” program on the last weekend in October for several vocation prospects from Chicago, Louisville, Birmingham and Nashville. Please keep these men in your prayers.

• The University of St. Thomas in Houston, published a feature article on our own Glenn Bisquera. You can read the article here: MAFC Grad Becomes a Passionist for Christ

October 2013

St. Paul of the Cross

• The Provincial Council meets October 1-2, via Skype.

• Leadership meeting October 14, in Sierra Madre.

• The ALS and PRCB meet October 15-17 in Sierra Madre.

• The CMSM/Praesidium Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, October 27-31.

We Meet Again...

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Holy Cross Province1420 Renaissance Drive, Suite 312

Park Ridge, IL 60068 Submit news to Claire Smith

csmith@passionistmonastery.orgAddress changes to Loretta Ciesielski

loretta@passionist.org

Christ the King has a new shed on the property. It will be used for a

community carpenter shop and a green screen studio by Blaise Czaja.

Welfen Xavier, Febin Barose, Rajan George, Ajesh Mathew and

Vimal Backiyaraj profess Final Vows on Sunday, October 6, and will be ordained to the Diaconate on Monday, October 7.

Congratulations to them and St. Thomas Vice Province!

Holy Name Golf Tournament...

The dedication of the CTU archives to Ken O’Malley has been finalized with a

plaque honoring him.

Holy Name Passionist Retreat Center’s 19th Annual Golf Tournament was held on Tuesday, September 24. The tournament was a huge success. raising $56,800 to benefit the scholarship fund and programs at the retreat center. One hundred twenty golfers enjoyed a warm, sunny day on the golf course. John Schork and Cedric Pisegna played, and Carl Hund and Joe Moons worked on the tournament. A barbecue dinner and auction topped off the big event.

Mary Kay Tortorice and Joe Moons at the tournament.

Everyone was lined up and ready to go!

The School of Meditation...The Passionist Earth and Spirit Center’s School of Meditation is open! Joe Mitchell guided more than 120 Beginning Meditation students in an Orientation retreat on Saturday, September 21. The School of Meditation is a year-long program. Joe was also featured in the September 27 issue of the Louisville Courier-Journal about the meditation program at the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center. See the article/video here: For many, meditation is key for fighting stress, finding peace

Chicago Monastery Estate Sale...An estate sale was held at the Chicago monastery (Harlem Ave.), September 5-7. Xcentric Estate Sales handled the entire sale for us. It was a great success!!!

Browsing the Christmas decorations.

Many thanks to Xcentric Estate Sales for handling the details

and managing the sale.

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Farewell, not Good Bye...

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Family and friends of Fr. Clemente Barrón, CP and of Casa Pasionista Guadalupe, along with the Community of Passionist Partners of San Antonio gathered on Saturday, September 14, at the Oblate School of Theology, to say farewell to Clemente and to celebrate his 37 years of service in San Antonio. Don Webber, Sebastian MacDonald, Ken O’Malley and Alex Steinmiller attended. Sebastian and Alex previouisly served in San Antonio. Clemente arrived in Chicago on Sunday, September 22, to begin his new ministry as Spiritual Director at the Province Development Office.

Welcoming everyone.

Ricardo and Beatriz Riojas offered their van to Clemente in his move to Chicago.

They drove Clem’s car and safely delivered it to him a few days later.

More than 250 people gathered for one last chance to say farewell at the

reception following Mass.

Clemente’s grand-nieces and nephew did a great job with the readings and Prayers of the Faithful during Mass.

Clemente with Benita Huerta, who was there when Clemente and Arthur Carrillo

first arrived in San Antonio.

The chapel was standing-room only.