The Congregation of Holy Cross was out in full, international force promoting its life and mission at the Vocation Fair at World Youth Day held in Panama City, Panama, from January 22-26. Reflecting the universality of the event itself, eleven members of the Congregation from around the world made up the Holy Cross team. They …
It was a particularly festive and joyful ringing in of the New Year for the Congregation of Holy Cross in East Africa in 2019. Gathered in Jinja, Uganda, for its annual assembly as is its custom following Christmas, the Holy Cross community celebrated the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the Congregation to the region. …
July 16, 2018, was a day of great grace and overflowing joy at the Holy Cross Novitiate at Lake Saaka in Fort Portal, Uganda. Twelve novices, 11 for the Society of Priests and one for the Society of Brothers, made their First Profession of Religious Vows. They had completed their canonical Novitiate year under the accompaniment …
This past May was a time of celebration for the Congregation’s District of East Africa, which includes Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. On Saturday, May 19, the weekend of the Feast of Pentecost this year, five members of the growing District made their Final Professions of Religious Vows in a celebration at the Congregation’s Bishop McCauley …
The Congregation of Holy Cross’s District of East Africa is the fasting growing sector of the Congregation. The addition of two more parishes in 2017 to its list of pastoral responsibilities is a concrete sign of that growth. Both new parishes are in Tanzania. The first is St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Nyasaka-Mwanza, and …
The celebrations this year of St. André Bessette’s Feast Day were even more joyous this year in the Congregation of Holy Cross’s District of East Africa. On the January 6, the feast of the Congregation’s first canonized saint, Fr. Prosper Atukwatse, C.S.C. and Fr. Joseph Owori, C.S.C., were ordained to the priesthood. The Ordination Mass …
