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Archbishop's Message at Fr Gabby's Funeral...

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Pray for Ukraine...

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The Lenten Journey by Fr Denis McBride CSsR...

Starting Sunday 6th March 2022

Join Father Denis McBride who will be leading a FREE online retreat, which will be based on his book Journeying with Jesus, A Companions Guide. Fr Denis details the outline of his 6 week retreat below.

Due to the overwhelming popularity of this course, this book has now sold out. However if you would like to join our free 6 week course, Fr Denis' book, Journeying with Jesus, A Companions Guide for Groups is still available for ONLY £4.95, so you can purchase your copy in advance and enjoy a more powerful experience as you journey with Fr Denis throughout his 6 week Lent retreat.

Each Sunday, starting March 6th, Fr Denis will lead us through his book, Journeying with Jesus, A Companions Guide, each video will be added up each Sunday, but don't worry each of the 6 videos will be added and left up throughout the Lenten season, so you can re-watch at your leisure. More details will follow shortly.

The Lenten Journey | Retreat with Fr Denis McBride CSsR
In the Wilderness | Week 01

Fr Gabriel Maguire CSsR Requiem...

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Fr Gabriel CSsR being carried shoulder high by his confreres.

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Requiescat in pace.

Vivat in aeternum.

Fr. Andriy Rak, CSsR, Provincial Superior of Lviv Province, Ukraine...

Pray for Ukraine,

Pray for Peace,

Pray for Ukrainians

Pray for the Redemptorist Family in Ukraine

CSsR, OSsR, MSsR

Watch the short video (3 minutes) below.

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March CSsR N Western Newsletter...

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Pray for Ukraine...

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Pray for Ukraine

- Pray for Peace

- Pray for Ukrainians

- Pray for the Church

- Pray for the Redemptorists

Ukraine: Redemptorists provide shelter for the needy...

February 25, 2022

In the past few days, we have heard from several Confreres in Ukraine, as well as from the Missionary Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer (Gars). Fr. Andriy Rak, C.Ss.R, the Superior of the Province of Lviv, has told me that so far, all are safe.

They are remaining close to the people among whom we serve, and in fact, they are welcoming refugees into our homes and churches to share what we can with them. These refugees include children as well as older persons. On Friday, we received the following pictures from our house in northeast Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.

We continue to pray for them and for the many people who have been displaced by the bombs and airstrikes. We will continue to keep the Congregation updated as best we can. The situation is very unstable and changes by the hour.

Fr. Michael Brehl, C.Ss.R.
General Superior

PERSECUTION SUFFERED BY REDEMPTORISTS IN MADRID...

1. PRESENCE OF REDEMPTORISTS IN THE CITY OF MADRID

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On February 15, 1863, three Italian Redemptorists arrived in Madrid from Barcelona (PP. Victor Loyodice and Gil Zanonni and H. Luis Zanichelli), to establish the Congregation of the Blessed Redeemer in Spain. They were invited by the Madrid priest D. Andrés Martínez Novoa, Coadjutor of the Parish of S. Sebastián on Atocha Street; he took care of all the preparations, and in his house, located at the back of the parish, they stayed until October 11, 1863 when the first Redemptorist Community of Spain was created in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).

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The Redemptorist Missionaries settled again in Madrid in 1869, seeking refuge from the persecution suffered in their Spanish homes during the revolution of 1868. Pilgrimage through several houses in Madrid, they went to settle in 1870 next to the church of S. Pascual, on Paseo Recoletos. They remained there until in 1879 Cardinal Moreno granted them the Church of Santa Bárbara, then called de las Salesas. This was the first canonical residence that the children of S. Alfonso had in Madrid. In it they remained until in 1892 when the Redemptorists opened two residences in the capital of Spain.

Brother PASCUAL CSsR... Spanish Madrid CSsR Martyr...

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Childhood of José Joaquín

Echalecu is a small town and capital of the Navarre Valley of Imoz. There, in the Zapatañenea house, located on Calle de San Esteban, lived at number 19 a Basque-speaking couple of farmers, called by Miguel Francisco Erviti Erviti and Micaela Insausti Nuín; he was from the same town; she from the neighboring town of Muzquiz.

On November 15, 1902, at 1 in the morning, they joyfully welcomed the birth of their eleventh child, a boy who was baptized the following day in the Parish Church of San Esteban Protomártir with the name of José Joaquín. He would come after this last of the sons.

On September 5, 1904, José Joaquín received the sacrament of Confirmation in the neighboring Parish of San Cristóbal de Beiz from the Archbishop of Pamplona, D. José López de Mendoza, who was on Holy Pastoral Visitation in the Archpriesthood of Larraun, to which Echalecu belongs. Since another brother was called Joaquín, everyone knew José Joaquín by the name of José.

The priest of Echalecu, D. Pedro Juan Erviti y Ciganda, created in 1903 a foundation with his personal patrimony , dedicated to offering free primary education for local students. José, as he was known, could benefit from this offer from the priest, at the same time that he began a life of piety and helped at home taking care of the cattle: “my job was to help at mass, go to school and take care of the cattle ” (Curriculum vitae, p. 1). At the age of seven he lost his mother, and his life felt empty. In addition to going to school, and taking care of the cattle and helping at the Eucharist, he acquired the habit of frequent confession and communion, which he never abandoned: every week as a child and every month as an adult. This life of piety generated in his heart the desire to embrace the vocation of special consecration to God.

New Spanish CSsR Martyrs...

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On October 22nd of this year, we will celebrate, in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, the Beatification of Fr. Vicente Renuncio Toribio C.Ss.R. and companions martyrs. In total, twelve confreres of our Redemptorist charism. The ceremony will be presided over by the Cardinal Prefect for the Causes of Saints, Marcello Semeraro.

The twelve martyrs, six priests and six coadjutor brothers, members of the two Redemptorist communities of Perpetual Help and Saint Michael the Archangel in Madrid, were all assassinated between July 20 and November 7, 1936, at the beginning of the bloody religious persecution that took place in Spain until 1939.

See short biographies of 12 Redemptorist martyrs