Provincial Update No. 08 September 2019


Called to Cast Fire “Summoned by the love of God manifested in Jesus Christ and celebrated in the Eucharist, I intend to respond to God’s gift with the gift of myself…” ( SSS ROL, 102). When God calls, that is beyond human capacity and limitation. Every call offers relationship and entails participation. It was God’s […]

Provincial Update No. 07 August 2019


TWO MORE SONS OF EYMARD WERE ORDAINED PRIESTS On the 3rd, of August 2019, two more sons of Eymard were ordained priests. Rev. Fr. Ssenkasi Denis, SSS and Rev. Fr. Nsambu Herbert, SSS, were ordained priests at our Lady of sorrows Cathedral in Masaka Diocese.  This memorable celebration was presided over by the new bishop […]

Provincial Update No. 06 June 29, 2019


Santa Cruz Parish in Manila celebrates 400th Anniversary Santa Cruz Parish in the City of Manila, Philippines is located in the busiest commercial district in this city. It is notably the very first church administered by the American Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers in the Philippines since 15th August 1957. Fr Rosaire Morin was the […]

Venerable GIOVANNI NADIANI


Blessed Sacrament Brother1885-1940 by Daniele Bolognini The Venerable Giovanni Nadiani was born on 20 February 1885 at St Maria Nuova, near Bertinoro (Forli). He had an older sister and brother. When he was three years old his mother died and his father, an anticlerical republican who ran a grocer’s shop-restaurant, married his wife’s sister. After only […]

Venerable LODOVICO LONGARI


Blessed Sacrament Father TO LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE EUCHARISTThe Venerable FR. LODOVICO LONGARI, was born in 1889 at Mondine (Cremona), the eleventh child of his Christian parents. He entered the Seminary of Crema at the age of twelve (1900). In 1912 he was ordained to the priesthood and was appointed secretary to his […]

SSS POLA ANNUAL RETREAT


On the eve of the second Vespers of the Second Sunday within the Octave of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, a chorus of voices echoing with joy and thanksgiving as the Sacramentinos gathered in prayer to mark the start of the Annual Provincial Retreat. A week-long gathering for pastoral update, spiritual exercises, rotating bond adoration, prayer, […]

Eukaristiya – May 2019


At Evening Prayer II of the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, the Sacramentinos gathered in prayer to mark the beginning of the Annual Provincial Retreat at the Carmelite Spirituality Center, Tagaytay City (April 28 – May 4, 2019). This was a week-long gathering for pastoral update, spiritual exercises, rotating bond of adoration, prayer, […]

Provincial Update No. 05 April 04, 2019


ROME – Pope Francis has made it easier for a religious order to dismiss a member who leaves the community without permission, stays away and does not communicate with his or her superior. In a document titled Communis Vita (Community Life), the pope amended the Code of Canon Law to include an almost automatic dismissal […]

Eukaristiya – March 2019


Great Love and Great Suffering The forebodings of human experiences offer such dynamic apertures which serve as the opening and closing spaces between the person and oneself, between the person and the neighbors, and between the person and the Creator. In this sense of coherent connectivity, only the power of love and power of suffering […]

Provincial Update No. 04 February 28, 2019


A Journey of God’s Love It is not how short or how long the formation years are. It is how we responded and cooperate with God’s Grace in our formation. Formation is indeed on-going. There is such thing as FOREVER in the formation! Remember, GOD’S GRACE is LOVE! Let us contemplate on this: “In our […]