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Fr Jon Hansen, CSSR Appointed Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith
By MC Havey, Archivist Since moving to Inuvik as pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish in 2015, Fr. Jon Hansen, the next Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith Diocese, has raised the awareness of the missions...
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The Edmonton-Toronto Provincial Commission for Partnership in Mission
By Anne Walsh The Edmonton-Toronto Commission for Partnership in Mission met at 426 St. Germain Ave. in Toronto on the weekend of January 5-7, 2018. This early January meeting time has become the...
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Rise Up 2017
By Fr. David Purcell, C.Ss.R. “Dominion from sea to sea….” These words, taken from the prophet Jeremiah and engraved on the tower of our Federal Parliament building, were a perfect title for our...
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Christmas & New Year’s in the Far North
By Fr. Mark Miller, C.Ss.R. Over the past couple of years I have been delighted to hear the stories of the confreres who have made the trek to Inuvik at either Christmas or Easter in order to help Fr....
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Vocations - The London Chinese Catholic Community, Couples for Christ and The...
By Fr. David Purcell, C.Ss.R. “Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts.” (Acts 2:46). “… to Philemon our...
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Table for Two
By Fr. Ed Eherer, C.Ss.R. Toronto. Just before Valentine’s Day, 20 married and engaged couples sat down to a candlelit dinner-for-two, accompanied by romantic music playing in the background. The menu...
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Bishop Jon Hansen, CSsR: Gift to the Church
By Fr. David Louch, C.Ss.R. I was one of eight Edmonton-Toronto Redemptorists who participated in the ordination of our confrere Jon Paul Christian Hansen as the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of...
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Fr. Joe Murphy is Turning 100!
By MC Havey, Archivist In May 1918, two important events occurred. On May 5, 1918, Michael Joseph Patrick Murphy was born in Halifax. Two weeks later on May 19, a Province for the English-Canadian...
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English-Canadian Province Began on May 19, 1918
By MC Havey, Archivist On May 19, 1918, Rector Major Fr. Patrick Murray signed the rescript in Rome, canonically establishing a Canadian province for English-speaking Redemptorists under the name of...
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Canadian Redemptorist War Chaplains Immortalized in Ottawa
By MC Havey, Archivist The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa has accepted the archives’ donation about the 31 war chaplains from the Toronto Province. The information of their military service and...
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Fr. Joseph Michael Patrick Murphy, C.Ss.R. - May 5, 1918 - December 2, 2018
By , Fr. Mark Miller, C.Ss.R. On Tuesday morning, Dec. 11th, the body of Fr. Joe Murphy was brought to St. Alphonsus parish in Edmonton for the Mass of Christian Resurrection and a celebration of his...
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At the Shrine of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré
By Fr. David Purcell, C.Ss.R. Grace and peace abound, for those who make the pilgrimage to Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré for her novena and the feast day on the 26th of July. I invite vocation inquirers to come...
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Novitiate Year Begins in Lima, Ohio
By Fr. Ed Eherer, C.Ss.R. 2019-2020 Novitiate Community in the Redemptorist Chapel, Lima Ohio: (Left to Right) Dai Ho, Joseph Nguyen, Steven Urban, Fr. Ed Eherer CSsR (Director of Novices), Fr. Chuong...
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Fr. Charles Duval Becomes the First Provincial Superior of the Province of...
By Fr. David Purcell, C.Ss.R. Welcome to the inauguration of the Congrégation du Très Saint Rédempteur Province du Canada – Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer Province of Canada! On the 1st of...
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90th Anniversary of German Congregation at St. Patrick's Church
by Virginia De Witt, Archivist On Sunday October 6, 2019, ninety years to the day of their founding, the parishioners of St. Patrick’s German Congregation gathered for Mass and the “Kirchweihfest” – a...
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Redemptorist Historical Studies History Conference - Seelos Award Winners and...
By MC Havey Two historic precedents were set last week at the Seelos award ceremony during the triennial conference of the Redemptorist Historical Studies of North America in Oconomowoc. In receiving...
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Bishop Jon Hansen on Redemptorists and Race
By Virginia De Witt, Archivist The North American Redemptorist History Conference, held at Oconomowoc, focused on the topic of Redemptorists and race this year. Bishop Jon Hansen offered his...
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First Provincial Chapter for the Redemptorist Province of Canada
By Fr. Ray Douziech, C.Ss.R. Queen of the Apostles Renewal Centre has been the site for many of our Redemptorist assemblies and chapters. However, the gathering from October 14 to 18 was particularly...
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Fr. Thomas Ralph McQuaid, C.Ss.R. - March 1, 1932 - October 22, 2019
By Fr. David Purcell, C.Ss.R. (A special thank-you to Virginia DeWitt and Fr. Mark Miller for their contributions to this article.) Fr. Ralph McQuaid, C.Ss.R., was born on March 1, 1932, in Detroit,...
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