Three new half hour interviews were taped at Wordnet studios on May 23, 2019. Jack Knight was the host for all the three interviews. Deacon Michael Bellinder was one of the interviewees. Deacon Michael defeated death twice with his faith and forgiveness. It happened at his work place when he and another coworker were held […]

Three of the theologians/deacons were ordained by the laying of the hands by Bishop Curtis J. Guillory, SVD on May 25th Saturday at the Holy Spirit Chapel, Techny in the presence of a large number of family members, friends, invited guests and confreres. They are Charles A. Moat, Jr., assigned to USW province, Bau Van […]

In the Kumeyaay Nations of Barona, Viejas and Sycuan, the crowning of Mary is one of the most and popular yearly celebrations  of the Catholic Mission Churches aside from the Powwows where Native Americans from all over the United States gather together to celebrate their life and culture. May Crowning started way back in the […]

Our Lady of Rosary Cathedral has opened its facilities to refugees. In the last few weeks many refugees crossing the border and brought over by the border petrol have been given place for short stay at the church facility. Duong Nguyen the pastor of the Cathedral informs that so far they have been able welcome […]

Every year Queen of Angels Catholic Church at Riverside, California has many spiritual activities during the Holy week. One of such is acting out of the passion of Jesus. There are two important days during the Holy Week when the Gospel reading is dramatized. The first is on Palm Sunday and the second is on […]

USW media Center Wordnet Productions has been working hard to set up a 24/7 streaming channel. The channel (WordNet TV – www.wordnettv.net) has been going on successfully for the last one year. There are a lot of new programming as well as programs by other well known producers featuring on the channel. Mission Minute is […]

There was a great presence of the Divine Word Missionaries at the recent Religious Education Congress, Los Angeles. Ministerio Biblicao Verbo Divino (MBVD) the Bible apostolate program of our province had its booth at the LA congress along with the Editorial from Spain. They distributed a large number of Bibles and bible related books during […]

On March 14th the local superiors, dimension coordinators and the provincial council members gathered at Riverside residence to discuss on the 2018 General Chapter document. Everyone except three was present for the meeting. Soney presented a power point on the Chapter document to help the members with the discussion and planning. Later the participants were […]

Frt. Akhil Thomas from INM has been appointed to USW by the Generalate. Akhil is completing his diaconate and theology program in Pune, India. He will be ordained sometime this year. After his ordination we would begin the process of getting visa to come to the province. We welcome Akhil to USW.

On January 15th majority of the province members gathered at Divine Word Residence to celebrate Founders Day and Province Christmas celebration. The celebrations began with the Eucharistic celebration presided by the Provincial Soney Sebastian. During his homily he spoke about the importance of family by giving reference to the influence of family and family traditions, […]