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Dear Friend,

Our calling is to serve the Lord Jesus in mission not as independent individuals but in a brotherhood. Our community life refreshes the faith that makes our work a ministry and not just employment; it fortifies us by the example and encouragement of our confreres, and it protects us from being overwhelmed or discouraged by our work.
-- Constitution of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 4:33
The 2022 General Chapter, for the Congregation of Holy Cross, is taking place June 20 to July 8 at Villa Aurelia in Rome.

In his letter convoking the 2022 General Chapter, Superior General Rev. Robert Epping, C.S.C., announced that the Chapter will begin with three days of prayer and reflection. Each day will feature a different speaker who will treat the topic of “Discerning the Future of Religious Life.”
Four temporarily professed seminarians were sent to Puebla, Mexico this summer for a 9-week intensive Spanish language course. During their time, they had the opportunity to spend a weekend serving alongside the Red Cross in their humanitarian aid to immigrants and refugees traveling across the country. Christopher Mullholland, C.S.C., shares a reflection on the experience.
Around The Province

The annual Lenten almsgiving campaign called "Coins for a Cause" provides students, faculty, and staff with purple cups that are used to collect change throughout Lent towards a particular cause. This year, they collected funds for the mission and work of the community in Bangladesh.

The University of Portland's Board of Regents recently announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Kelly as the University's 21st president. He is the first lay president and the first African-American to lead the University in its 121-year history.

Director of Community Life and Health, Beth Keultjes, MSA, and Rev. Richard Wilkinson, C.S.C., director of Health Care and Wellness, recently visited the men living at Christopher Lodge, located in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Christopher Lodge is a Holy Cross residence for retired priests and brothers.
Did You Know?
Rev. Jacques-François Dujarié was a crucial figure in
the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross.
His heroic determination to serve the material and spiritual needs of the
poor in France helped lay the groundwork for the mission of
Holy Cross throughout the world.
In 1801, an agreement between Napoleon and the Vatican restored public worship and reconstituted the Catholic Church in relationship with the state. The Church now faced the daunting task of rebuilding. In 1803, Dujarié was appointed pastor of the parish in Ruillé-sur-Loir, where he worked zealously to tend to the many needs of his flock.

When the Diocese of Le Mans clergy asked Fr. Dujarié to assemble a group of teaching brothers to serve in parishes, he founded the Brothers of St. Joseph (1820). As the brothers grew in number, Fr. Dujarié realized the group was tenuous. So he assembled a group of diocesan priests to work with them and give cohesion to the structure. In 1835, Fr. Dujarié was in failing health. With the bishop's consent, he selected Rev. Basile Moreau to continue his work.

The rest is history.

Moreau moved the brothers to Sainte-Croix, a neighborhood of Le Mans. Two years later, in the Fundamental Act of Union, the Brothers of St. Joseph were formally united with Fr. Moreau's group of auxiliary priests, thus creating the Congregation of Holy Cross.