3 Community of St. John Brothers to be Ordained
PRINCEVILLE, IL -- The Community of St. John will gain three new priests at an ordination liturgy for the religious community to be celebrated Saturday, Aug. 25, at 10:30 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Church, 218 First St., Bradford. The ordaining bishop will be Bishop Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio.
Those preparing for ordination are Brother Nathan Cromly, CSJ, Brother Peter Pitre, CSJ, and Brother Michael Therese Scheerger, CSJ.
"With the ordination of our brothers, we rejoice that three more men will become ‘other Christs’ in a world that has such need of Jesus’ saving action," said Father Joseph Mary Brown, CSJ, prior of St. Joseph Priory in Princeville, where the novitiate for the Community of St. John in the U.S. is located.
"The ordination of a priest is always a great grace and joy for the church, as well as for our own religious community," said Father Joseph Mary, "because by it Jesus is present among us in a new way through the priest, and through the instrumentality of the priest he continues to lead his children to the Father."
The Community of St. John was founded in 1975 at Fribourg, Switzerland, by Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, OP. The community is recognized as a religious congregation under the bishop of the Autun Diocese in France, where the motherhouse is located. It is active in more than 20 countries, and has more than 500 priests and brothers, 350 contemplative Sisters and 150 apostolic Sisters.
Besides St. Joseph Priory, which was established in the Diocese of Peoria in 2000, other priories in the U.S. are based in Laredo, Texas, and Orange, N.J. Twenty brothers, eight of whom are priests, currently reside at the three U.S. priories.
Via the Catholic Post.
Please join me in prayer for these three Brothers from my community as they are ordained as priests.
Those preparing for ordination are Brother Nathan Cromly, CSJ, Brother Peter Pitre, CSJ, and Brother Michael Therese Scheerger, CSJ.
"With the ordination of our brothers, we rejoice that three more men will become ‘other Christs’ in a world that has such need of Jesus’ saving action," said Father Joseph Mary Brown, CSJ, prior of St. Joseph Priory in Princeville, where the novitiate for the Community of St. John in the U.S. is located.
"The ordination of a priest is always a great grace and joy for the church, as well as for our own religious community," said Father Joseph Mary, "because by it Jesus is present among us in a new way through the priest, and through the instrumentality of the priest he continues to lead his children to the Father."
The Community of St. John was founded in 1975 at Fribourg, Switzerland, by Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, OP. The community is recognized as a religious congregation under the bishop of the Autun Diocese in France, where the motherhouse is located. It is active in more than 20 countries, and has more than 500 priests and brothers, 350 contemplative Sisters and 150 apostolic Sisters.
Besides St. Joseph Priory, which was established in the Diocese of Peoria in 2000, other priories in the U.S. are based in Laredo, Texas, and Orange, N.J. Twenty brothers, eight of whom are priests, currently reside at the three U.S. priories.
Via the Catholic Post.
Please join me in prayer for these three Brothers from my community as they are ordained as priests.
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