News from the Vineyard

  • 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.
  • THE GENERAL CHAPTER IN PHOTOS

    THE GENERAL CHAPTER IN PHOTOS

    The General Chapter was held at the beginning of September. An important week in the life of the life of the Institute. The commencement – The Veni Creator Renewal of commitment to the Institute taken by the Canons The Masses Mass with Monsignor Wach, the Prior General on the feast of the beheading …
  • 2023 ORDINATION PHOTOGRAPHY

    2023 ORDINATION PHOTOGRAPHY

    With due credit to the seminarians of Gricigliano who took these beautiful photographs, we are pleased to present a chronicle of the 2023 Ordinations in Florence. Presentation of the Cassock and Incardinations Minor Orders conferred by His Lordship Bishop Madega, Bishop of Mouila in Gabon Major Orders conferred by His Grace Archbishop Cordileone, …

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