Since the time of our last Province News, Bergen Catholic H. S. in Oradell, NJ has participated in a virtual immersion experience in Lima, Perú.
Various photos of the house that Bergen Catholic helped to build in Lima, Perú
This November (2021), under the direction of Brother Steve Casey, the Province immersion program will resume with offering immersion experiences in Brownsville, TX for Province schools. Likewise, in January of 2022, live immersions in Lima, Perú will also resume.
Paintings of Christian Brother artist Kenneth Chapman, CFC, have been selected for the Eucharistic Congress Art Exhibition, In Memory of Me. The works, from different moments of a lifelong engagement in contemplative thought and artistic expression, offer Eucharist images present in recent writings of Pope Francis and influenced by insights from the Jesuit paleontologist and mystic, Teilhard De Chardin, S.J.
In Brother Valdes’ painting of The Resurrection we see Christ rising from the tomb.
Bergen Catholic helped participate in the 2024 Edmund Rice Day of Service alongside three other Edmund Rice Christian Brothers schools: All Hallows, Iona Prep and Vancouver College on Thursday afternoon in New York.
We are still coming to terms with the untimely and sudden death of our beloved brother, Peter Bernard Clinch, who died suddenly on 28 January in the early hours of Sunday morning. The expressions of condolence and consolation have been extraordinary over recent days coming from Religious Institutes and their leadership, Edmund Rice Network members and Bishops.