Work in the SVD vocations department last year was the most challenging on record. All our planned meetings, activities and events had to be cancelled. Like everyone else in Covid time we had to figure out new ways to go about our work. Meeting with prospective vocations is deeply personal and relational and we had […]

Jennifer Rodrigues, who is one of our “Wordnet Champions”, initiated the idea of having a special celebration at Wordnet to remember the thousands who have died but whose lives we haven’t been able to celebrate with prayer or a funeral Mass because of the pandemic. Such a Mass would offer a needed opportunity to mourn […]

Covid-19 has created a tragic situation which we have all had to face: loss of health, of loved ones, of housing, property and employment. It has brough high levels of stress to everyone, especially to the poor, the socially vulnerability, people of color, immigrants, homeless, women and children, the elderly and the homeless. As a […]

I don’t think that even one of us has not been affected by the pandemic this year. This includes MinisterioBiblico Verbo Divino (MBVD). At MBVD we sell bibles and other books related to the bible. Our biggest day of the year is when we open our booth at the LA Religious Congress. But it didn’t […]

Our new Bishop Alberto Rojas of the San Bernardino Diocese celebrated a special Eucharist for the religious men and women in the Diocese on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, streamed from Wordnet Studios.   On this, his first visit to Wordnet, the Bishop was assisted by Fr. Biju Thomas, SVD, President. Sr. Mary […]

Our over-65ers at the Divine Word Residence in Riverside have finally gotten their first Moderna vaccinations. There are a few sore arms but only smiley faces. This is a great relief. Our situation at the Residence was worrisome because we have retirees and oldtimers living alongside more youthful confreres (in their 40s & 50s) who […]

After 75 years of missionaries returning from the global East, West and South (and a couple from the north) with suitcases, steamer-trunks and arms brimming with the relics of their past mission experiences, we are finally on the verge of implementing that impossible dream of having a “mission museum”. It may not have a “mission […]

Since May 2017, a community of about 30 families of the Syro-Malabar rite have been gathering to celebrate Mass with Fr Soney Sebastian and Fr Biju Thomas, at Christ the Redeemer Church in Grand Terrace. It is the latest Eastern Rite Catholic Community to be welcomed in the Diocese of San Bernardino. For many years […]

Greetings and well wishes from St. George Parish in Fontana. SVDs have been serving this parish since 2013 and we have been growing ever since. Currently, we have 2251 registered families who strive to follow Christ’s gospel of love, leadership and collaboration as brothers and sisters in God’s family. That’s the good news! The bad […]

Fr. Mel and his team of helpers were at it all day the 23rd and until mid-afternoon on the 24th. By then the chapel and especially the dining room were resplendent. As you entered the dining room for Christmas Day Dinner a huge sparkling tree seemed to rush up and greet you. It reached all […]