The Province Center community hosted a Founder’s Day liturgy, social and dinner on Saturday, May 7, 2022 in Elizabeth, NJ. More than twenty Brothers and colleagues gathered in celebration of the Feast Day of Blessed Edmund Rice. Mass was celebrated by Fr. John Collins, C.Ss.R., director of the San Alfonso Retreat Center in Long Branch, NJ. Below are some photos from the day
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In the winter of Edmund’s seventy-fith year his body signaled, with a variety of aches, pains, and touches of restricted mobility, it was time to recalculate his engagements. In January of 1838 he wrote his Brothers announcing a General Chapter and forecasting his impending resignation. The following month he updated his Last Will and Testament noting that while weak of body he had full powers of mind and thought.
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In Memory of Me
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.
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EASTER BLESSINGS: He is Risen Alleluia!!!
In Brother Valdes’ painting of The Resurrection we see Christ rising from the tomb.
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Bergen Catholic Participates in Edmund Rice Day of Service
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.