News from the Vineyard

  • PRIVATE AUDIENCE OF THE PRIOR GENERAL AND THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF

    PRIVATE AUDIENCE OF THE PRIOR GENERAL AND THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF

    On the 24th June 2024, the 45th anniversary of his Priestly Ordination by Saint John Paul II, Monsignor Gilles Wach, Prior General of our Institute, was received in private audience by His Holiness Pope Francis, accompanied by Monsignor Rudolf Michael Schmitz, Vicar General of the Institute, and by Canon Louis Valadier, Provincial of …
  • A WORD FROM THE SISTER ADORERS: RENOVATIONS IN NAPLES

    A WORD FROM THE SISTER ADORERS: RENOVATIONS IN NAPLES

    There has been significant work done for the novitiate in Naples, Italy, called the House of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Leaking windows have been replaced, and the facades on one side of the house have been completely redone. Part of the basement is currently being transformed into a large pantry, and the building attached …
  • TWO NEW PRIESTS ORDAINED

    TWO NEW PRIESTS ORDAINED

    Always with thanks to God, two new priests for eternity have been ordained at Gricigliano, the Institute seminary near Florence, Italy on the feast of St. Francis de Sales. His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke ordained Canon Morrow and Canon Ringeval las Monday. Hopefully one or both will visit us soon.
  • FIVE NEW POSTULANTS FOR THE SISTERS ADORERS

    FIVE NEW POSTULANTS FOR THE SISTERS ADORERS

    Five new postulants arrived at the novitiate of the Sister Adorers of the Royal Heart in Naples, Italy last month, including three Americans, one from Germany and one from France. Postulancy is an year of discernment during which the young lady begins to learn the life of a Sister Adorer. On the Feast …
  • ARCHBISHOP FRANÇOIS BACQUÉ RIP

    ARCHBISHOP FRANÇOIS BACQUÉ RIP

    Of your charity, please offer prayers for the Eternal rest of the soul of Archbishop François Bacqué, Apostolic Nuncio and friend of the Institute, who died suddenly in Rome on 9 November 2023. Born in Bordeaux on 2 September 1936, he was ordained a priest on the 1st October 1966. In 1988, Pope …
  • COUNT WOLFGANG WALDSTEIN RIP

    COUNT WOLFGANG WALDSTEIN RIP

    Of your charity, please add to your prayers the Eternal rest of the soul of Count Wolfgang Waldstein, Governor-General of the Society of the Sacred Heart (secular branch of the Institute), called to God at about noon, 17 October 2023, at the age of 95.

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