We conclude our week touring our mission in México by learning about the work of Family Rosary in the country from the ministry’s Director, Fr. David Scheidler, C.S.C. Family Rosary is a part of Holy Cross Family Ministries, which was founded by Servant of God Fr. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. By promoting prayer and building up families, it is a key part of our ministry in México. Read More

Continuing our week exploring our mission in México, we hear today from the soon-to-be newest finally professed member of our community there. On March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, Mr. Jorge Armando Morales, C.S.C., will profess forever the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the Congregation of Holy Cross. He shares the hope he sees for the future in our work in his native land. Read More

Deacon Matt Kuczora, C.S.C., continues our week of exploring our missionary work in México by introducing us to our formation program in the country, which so far has formed three indigenous Mexican priests with more in the pipeline. Fresh off his Final Vows and Diaconate Ordination here in the States, Matt went to serve as the Candidate Program Director in Monterrey. Read More

Fr. Marin Hernandez Campos, C.S.C., the Pastor of San José Parish in Taman, San Luis Potosí, continues our week of exploring our missionary work in México by introducing us on the Spes Unica blog to the poor, rural parish where he serves. Holy Cross took pastoral responsibility for San José just over a year ago, making it the most recent expansion of our mission in México. Read More

Fr. Alfredo Olvera Ledezma, C.S.C., continues our week of exploring our missionary work in México by introducing us to the parish of Nuestra Madre Santísima de La Luz. Affectionately known as “La Luz”, this thriving and dynamic parish is at the heart of the Holy Cross mission in México, as it also serves as the home of our formation programs in the country.  Read More

This week our blog posts will focus on our mission work in México.  In order to understand our ministry there today, we first need to look back to the beginning of our presence in México. In today’s post, Fr. Pete Logsdon, C.S.C., who served in our mission there for over two decades, chronicles the history of Holy Cross in México.

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“As I reflect upon the reality of our people and the anxiety and uncertainty under which they live now here with the drug cartels of Mexico, I think of Mary and Joseph and the people of Israel living in anxiety and uncertainty under the presence of the Roman army in their land,” writes Fr. John Herman, C.S.C., pastor of La Luz Parish in Monterrey, Mexico. “The people of Israel had endured so many difficult times as they waited for centuries for the Messiah to come.” Read More

Rev. Mr. Matt Kuczora, C.S.C., ordained a deacon just four weeks ago at Moreau Seminary, filed this post on the ordination of Rev. Mr. Carlos Augusto Jacobo de los Santos, C.S.C., at our parish in Monterrey, Mexico. Matt is spending his diaconate year with our Holy Cross community in Mexico.  As deacons, Carlos and I will be called upon to bring hope and comfort.  Read More

This weekend in Holy Cross we are blessed to have a doubleheader of ordinations.  First, today, Saturday, September 18, Deacon Alfredo Olvera Ledezma, C.S.C., will be ordained to the presbyerate in La Luz, our Holy Cross parish in Monterrey, Mexico. 

Then on Sunday, September 19, Brother John Britto Antony, C.S.C., will be ordained to the deaconate at Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales Church, which is another Holy Cross parish, in Bennington, VT. Read More