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Charism to Charism: Precious Blood Community Collaborates with Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth
Voices of Charity, a publication of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) featured collaborative efforts between the sisters' community and Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Since 2014, Precious Blood Volunteers have had placements at Cristo Rey Kansas City...
Anniversary Celebration at Warrensburg
The Precious Blood community in the surrounding areas gathered at Sacred Heart Church in Warrensburg to celebration the anniversary of the founding of the community. We began our time with prayer which included readings from scripture and Saint Gaspar as well as a...
Introducing the 2019-2020 Precious Blood Volunteers: Caitlin Caminade
Caitlin will be serving at KC CARE Health Center in Kansas City, Missouri. She will be living in community at Gaspar Mission House in Kansas City. She grew up in Cebu City, Philippines and Lubbock, Texas. She graduated in May from the University of Texas at Austin...
Introducing the 2019-2020 Precious Blood Volunteers: Keven Cheung
Keven will serve at KC CARE Health Center in Kansas City, Missouri and will live at Gaspar Mission House. He was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in May of 2019 with a bachelor's degree in Pre-Professionals Studies and...
Convener / Sponsor Training – Saint Charles
Over the weekend, a special training was held for the Companions who were discerned the community to serve as Conveners and Sponsors for the next three years. The training with prayer that spoke of the power of fire and the power of the light of Christ. Throughout...
Companions celebration at Sonnino House
On Sunday, July 7th, Northern California Companions gathered at Sonnino House in Berkeley for a belated feast day celebration. They also had two other reasons to celebrate. Timothy Guile made his first covenant with the community. Timothy began formation in San Rafael...
Winds of Change
Then he breathed on them and said: “Receive the Holy Spirit…” John 20, 22 Dear Friends, I wonder if the sirens were blaring that first Pentecost when the disciples were gathered and “suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind”? This noise,...
Hero of Small Deeds
by Koby Buth, Precious Blood Volunteer at KC CARE Heath Center Growing up, I regularly attended youth ministry events titled something along the lines of, “Be a Hero for Jesus!” The message I heard at those events usually went something like this: “Jesus calls us to...
Companion Day at Sorrowful Mother Shrine
Everyone is welcome to the Companion Day at the Sorrowful Mothers Shrine to be held on Sunday, July 28, 2019. The day begins with Mass at 11:00 am followed by a meal and presentation. This year Br. Juan Acuna, C.PP.S. will share information about the New Creation...
Go Back to the Drawing Board
by Gabino Zavala, Justice and Peace Director Last week the Trump administration announced a new immigration plan with family visas greatly reduced and no mention of Dreamers. This plan is not the just and comprehensive reform of our immigration system that we as a...