On November 17, 2022, Fr. Benjamin Alforque, MSC, related his personal encounter of Christ in his Truth Talk presentation on Faith and Culture. Immediately, one may ask, how do these two words work together? Fr. Ben teaches us that Faith and Culture help to balance the influence of our response as Christians and human beings. […]

It has been said that for us to see our own culture clearly, we must first try to understand another culture and then attempt to look at ourselves from that vantage point. From my own long experience as a missionary and anthropologist I know this to be very true. In our excellent SVD formation I […]

My name is Thong Dinh Tran. I am a seminarian from Divine Word Missionaries (CTU) in Chicago. I greet you from Holy Rosary Cathedral where I am doing my CTP training this year. It has been almost five months since Fr Duong Nguyen, my supervisor at Holy Rosary, welcomed me to his parish. I have […]

St. Jude Syro-Malabar Mission celebrated the Feast of their patron Saint St. Jude on 30 Sunday at Christ the Redeemer Church, Grand Terrace. It also marks the 5th anniversary of the mission. St. Jude Syro-Malabar Mission celebrated the feast of St. Jude its patron saint on Sunday with Holy Qurbana (Mass), unveiling and publishing of […]

“Memories are so beautiful,” as the song goes. And it is so very true!  This was proven once again amid the bright lights, glitzy shows and glamor of Las Vegas by members of my novitiate class and others who were with me at various points in the process of my SVD formation.  We were all […]

Some treasures are very hard to replace.  This is what Sr. Pat is to all of us who know her.  On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, Wordnet Productions said farewell to a treasured friend, board member, executive director, manager, producer, and speaker.  For 40 years, Sr. Pat Phillips has been a part of the Wordnet family […]

From Oct 10 – 14 twenty-four “first fives,” of the three US provinces, i.e., those in their first five years of their first official appointment, met at the Divine Word Retreat Centre, Bay St. Louis, MS. Our USW “first fives” included Binh Quang Le Quang, Ricardo Gonzalez, Charles Moat Jr, Fransiskus Santoso and Akhil Thomas. […]

Webster’s Dictionary tells us that “Celebration is a noun. An event, usually a social one, when people come together to show happiness or appreciation for something that has taken place.” I invite you to travel with me back in time to St. Michael’s Mission House in Conesus, New York. The date is September 7, 1964.We […]

“By reading the scriptures we open our hearts to the prompting of the Holy Spirit who helps us grasp the word, make it our own and announce it to the world” (Con. 407) The Biblical Pastoral Ministry is one of the characteristic dimensions of our Society. It is a call to all of us to […]

From the emergence of Covid-19, in the year 2020 to the present moment, it has been difficult for all of us. The situation has impacted our SSpS sisters and the SVD brothers and priests, as well as the communities which we serve. Then , when everything seemed to improve, the tragic war in Ukraine brought […]