Provincial Newsletter, August 2015, Volume 1

August 2015
Volume 1
Number 7
Day
Passionist News Notes
St Paul of the Cross Province
Birthdays
4
BONEY, Vincent
6
GREENE, Michael
10
WARD, Mark
14
FRECHETTE, Richard
14
DOUGHERTY, Charles
20
CHENOT, Paul
21
JOERGER, Robert
22
VEREB, Jerome
22
SKORKA, Terence
26
PAPA, Dominic
28
KRAWCHYK, Matthew
Update on North Palm Beach
by Fr. Damian Towey
JUBILARIANS Years Professed
70
15
Ronan Callahan
15
Paul Chenot
16
Peter Grace
17
Justin Kerber
50
18
John Michael Lee
19
Claudio Piccinini
20
Donald Ware
21
Edward Wolanski
Day
Professed
12
ROGERS, Joseph
16
STOMBER, Michael
18
MORAN, Michael
22
PARLAVECHIO, Gus
Day
Ordination
15
SUMAMPONG, Jed
DECEASED
July 9th Brendan Breen
In October, 2004, St. Paul of the Cross Province sold seven acres of Our Lady of Florida
Monastery and Spiritual Center property for $23.5 million to the Kolter Group, a development firm with many holdings in South Florida. (Using part of the proceeds of the sale,
the Province allowed Our Lady of Florida to do major renovations). In November, 2005,
Kolter unveiled plans for a gated-community of 77 luxury condos and mansions called
“Domani”, but that project screeched to a halt in June of 2006, following the collapse of
the real estate market.
The property lay fallow for the next eight years. Then in 2014, following a re-zoning that
allowed Kolter to go from 77 units to 166 units, the Village of North Palm Beach approved
“The Water Club”, an entirely new concept of twin 19-story towers and 20 villas. Prices
range from $700,000 to $2.5 million. As of June, 2015, the project is well-along, and is
expected to be ready for occupancy by the summer of 2016.
How has this affected the Spiritual Center? Since breaking ground, everything has gone
smoothly. The Kast Construction Company (owned by Kolter) has been most cooperative.
There has been no interruption of our programs, nor any negative impact whatsoever. It
would be a slight exaggeration to say they’ve been as quiet as church mice, but noise has
not been a problem. Kolter and Kast and Our Lady of Florida together seem to have
gelled well. And we’re looking forward to a lot more good neighbors when the new owners move in.
News from Pittsburgh
On June 1 the Pittsburgh community welcomed two Passionist priests from India, Fr. Siby Padinjaredath, C.P. and Fr. Junesh Vakapadath,
C.P. Fr. Junesh will begin ministry at St.Paul of the Cross Monastery and Retreat Center in Pittsburgh in early September after extensive
mission preaching in the mid-west this Summer. Fr. Siby began his ministry on June 17 at St. Ann Monastery in Scranton, Pa. The Pittsburgh and Scranton communities warmly welcome our brothers from India. We look forward to having them on our “teams” for a long
time.
St. Paul’s Monastery in Pittsburgh has begun some long-needed renovations of its heating system for the monastery and retreat center.
We are retiring two heating boilers which actually began their service in Dunkirk many decades ago. Asbestos abatement began in June
and the project will be completed by October. This will guarantee a reliable heating system for our Church, Retreat Center, Monastery
and Chapel.
Our first trip to the St Ann Novena
by Bob and Carol Albano, Passionist Associates
We were retreatants at Riverdale since 1967 then became volunteers and were in the first group of Passionist Associates with Fr. Donald Ware. On July 20th and 21st, we went to St Ann’s Novena in Scranton for the first time and were INSIPIRED at the dedication of the
many Passionists, volunteers and mostly the MANY people who attended the 4 daily masses and novenas AND blessed by St Ann’s
relics. Thousands come back each year to this novena from all over the country. Last year there was a 90 year old man who was taken
as a baby for the first novena and returned EACH year of this novena!! WHY do so many return each year??
Could it be the countless graces, blessings, healings and miracles have taken place over the 91 years??
This is a GREAT spiritual event that should be experienced by all, especially those who are involved with the Passionists.
God willing, Carol and I will make many more novenas!
This was the 8 AM outdoor Mass. There were more people in the Basilica watching on a large screen and handicapped people in cars
behind me as I took this picture. This Mass and novena was video taped and sent to many TV stations.
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