MARCH 2008

1

+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Chile in 1943.
+ Fundamental Pact signed in 1837.  Pack signed joining the Brothers of St. Joseph to the Auxiliary Priests of Holy Cross.
+ Birth of Leocadie Gascoin, later Mother Mary of the Seven Dolors in 1818.
+ Signing of the Fundamental Pact joining the
   Brothers of St. Joseph to the Auxiliary Priests
   of Holy Cross in 1837.

4

Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

6

Ghana’s 51st Independence Day

7

Birthday - Bro. Paul Anabil Bukari

8

Birthday - Jude Crankson (Pre-Novice)

10

+ Feast Day - Sr. Esther Entsiwah

11

Birthday - Bro. James K. Boachie Yiadom
Novena to St. Joseph begins and ends on the 19th.

12

District Council Meeting

14

Feast Day - Sr. Evelyn Ntiamoah

15

Celebration of the Feast of St. Joseph - Patronal Feast of the Brothers of Holy Cross - St. Joseph Hall, Sekondi
Final Approbation of the Constitutions of the
Sisters of Holy Cross in 1910.
Final Vows – Bro. Nee Wayoe

16

Holy Week - 16th to 22nd

19

Final Vows – Bro. Joseph Annan
Feast of St. Joseph - District Celebration
Brafoyaw
Anniv. 1st Vows - Bros. James Boachie, Augustus Mensah and Anthony Koomson
Major Superiors’ Meeting begin at Ashiaman, Accra from 19th to 21st

23

EASTER SUNDAY

24

Birthday - Aristide Oben Biney (Novice)
Easter Monday Gathering - Holy Cross - at Kasoa

26

District Council Meeting
District Superior’s Visit to Sekondi Area

29

District Superior’s visitation to the Cape Coast area. 29th to 30th.

30

Laying of Cornerstone of Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, Le Mans, France in 1842.

31

General Council Meeting - Rome (Mar. 31st to Apr. 4th)

APRIL 2008

1

+ Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. Charles A. Schleck (CSC).  Titular Archbishop emeritus of Africa – 1995.
Draft Budgets Due from all Houses
District Budget Preparation begins.

2

Anniversary - Death of Pope John Paul II - 2005
First Vows - Bro. Stephen Aidoo CSC
First Vows - Bro. Stephen Arthur CSC
First Vows - Bro. Raymond Frimpong CSC
First Vows - Bro. David Kpobi CSC

4

Anniversary - Episcopal Ordination - Most Rev. Theotonius Gomes (CSC) in 1979 as Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka.
Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

10

Evaluations of Brothers Vincent Ntsiful and Robert Koomson due at District Superior’s Office.

11

Birthday – Bro. Stephen R. Aidoo1
Provincial Council Meeting - Notre Dame - USA from 11th to 12th.

12

+ Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau was declared Venerable - 2003
Birthday - Bro. Augustus Mensah
District Council Meeting - Evaluations of petitions for vows; approval of budgets, etc.

14

Final Vows - Bro. Joachim Gomes

15

Birthday – Bro. John Affum-Badu

16

Birthday – Bro. Patrick Osei Bonsu
District Budget preparation begins.

17

Anniversary - Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. James H. MacDonald (CSC) in 1978 as
Archbishop emeritus of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

18

+ Birthday - Bro. Nicholas Thielman (NP)

22

Birthday—Bro Linus D’Rosario (NP)

23

Establishment of homogeneous Provinces of Brothers and Priests in 1946.
District Council Meeting

24

3rd  Anniversary of Installation of Pope Benedict XVI As Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church

25

District Council Meeting.

26

Day of Recollection / District Meeting

27

Birthday – Bro. Robert Koomson

28

1st Holy Cross Missionaries to Africa depart from France for Algiers, North Africa in 1840.

29

+ Birthday – Bro. Sylvester Quaye
+ Eastern and South-West Provinces of Brothers
established in 1958.

30

4 Marianites, 2 Priests and 7 Brothers left France for Canada in 1847.

May 2008

1

+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in New Orleans
in 1849.
+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Oregon – 1902
+ Feast of St. Joseph the Worker-House Celebrations
Birthday – Bro. Robert Fillmore (Provincial)
District Budget due at Provincial Office

3

+ Establishment - Eastern Province of Priests in 1952.

4

Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

7

+ 1st Vows – Sr. Esther Entsiwah
+ Birthday – Sr. Theresa Araba Fameyeh

10

Birthday - Bro. Anthony K. Koomson
District Budget due at Provincial Office; State of the District Report due at the Provincial Office.
Holy Cross College Commencement - Graduation

12

Final Approbation of the Rules of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1896.

13

+ Establishment of the District of Chile in 1961.
Papal Approval given in 1857 for the Rules and Constitutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

15

+ Birthday – Bro. Kenneth Goode
+ Graduation - Bro. John Affum Badu - CTU - Chicago, IL USA

17

Birthday—Bro. Frederick McGlynn (NP)
Visitation to Brothers studying in the USA. (17th to 18th)

18

+ Birthday – Bro. Vincent Gross
+ Birthday – Sr. Angela Golapi Palma (NP)
+ Establishment in 2003 of the North-East Province in India.

19

Congregational Finance Workshop for Stewarts at Notre Dame, IN - 19th to 31st May.

23

Beatification of Brother Andre Bessette in 1982

25

Acceptance of the Dhaka Mission in 1852.

26

+ Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination
of the Most Rev. Lumen Monteiro (CSC) in 1996 - Diocesan Bishop of Agartala.
+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Bengal in 1853.

27

+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious at Saint-Laurent, Quebec in 1847.  8 Brothers, 4 Sisters, 1 Priest.
+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Algiers, North Africa in 1840.

28

Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in 1856 approved the Congregation as an Institute.

29

Birthday – Sr. Jane Chantal (NP)

30

Marianites left France for Indiana, USA in 1843.
Feast of the Sacred Heart - Patronal Feast of the Priests of Holy Cross - Moreau House.

31

Final Vows – Bro. Sylvester Quaye

June 2008

Holy Cross Try Prayer Contest (Date not decided yet)
Presentation of Awards for Try Prayer Contest for Basic School (Date not decided yet)

1

+ In Kenya - Madaraka Day
+ Congregational Finance Commission Meeting at Notre Dame, USA - 1st and 2nd.

4

Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

8

Mother Mary of the Seven Dolors departed for
Canada in 1849.

10

Arrival of Pere Camille Lefebvre CSC – beginnings of Holy Cross in Acadia in 1864.

12

Birthday – Bro. Raymond Frimpong

14

Birthday - Sister Evelyn Ntiamoah

15

Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Titular Feast of the Priests of Holy Cross

16

Establishment of the District of Peru in 1976.
Holy Cross Associates Biannual Meeting - Notre Dame (from 16th to 18th)

17

Nominations for District superior is due at Provincial Office - Notre Dame.
Consecration of Notre Dame de Saint-Croix (Mother Church of Holy Cross) in Le Mans, France in 1857.
International Session in Holy Cross Spirituality in Le Mans, France (from 17th to 27th June).

18

+ 1st Pontifical Approbation of the Congregation in 1855 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
+ Birthday – Bro. Stephen Arthur

19

Provincial Council Meeting - Notre Dame, USA from the 19th to 20th June.

21

Midwest Province Jubilee Celebrations

22

+ First Vows—Bro. Patrick K. Baah
+ First Vows—Bro. Ebenezer Andre Prah

26

+ 1st Missionaries assigned to India in 1852.

27

+ First Missionaries assigned to India in 1852.
Establishment of the District of Brazil in 1951.

28

First Vows – Bro. Kenneth Kunditani
District Meeting

July 2008

District Retreat (no definite date yet)
Jubilee Celebration of Bro. Paul Mensah CSC (no definite date yet).

1

+ Designation of the Indiana Priests’ Province - 1851
+ Establishment of the French Canadian Brothers’ Province in 1946
Establishment of the US Brothers’ Province - 1946
Republic Day - Ghana

4

Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

6

Birthday – Bro. Nee Wayoe

7

General Council Meeting - Rome (7th to 11th)

12

+ First Profession of Vows
+ First Vows - Bro. Nicholas Arthur
+ First Vows - Bro. Robert Koomson
+ Birthday – Bro. Jerome Kroetsch (NP)

13

Introduction of the Cause of Fr. Basil Moreau for Beatification in 1946.
Reception of novices - Novitiate begins - Brafoyaw

15

+ Foundation of the Brothers of St. Joseph in 1820.
+ Workshop for Temporarily Professed - District Centre - Brafoyaw - from 15th to 21st.

16

+ 1st Foundation of the Holy Cross Sisters
in the USA at Bertrand, Michigan in 1844.
+ First Steps toward the Establishment of the
English Canadian Province in 1943.
+ Unification of the Brothers and Priests
into one District in East Africa in 1988.
District Council Meeting

17

+ Birthday – Sr. Margaret Mary Nimo
+ Anniversary of the Election of Fr. Hugh Cleary CSC as Superior General of the Congregation in 1998.  Re-elected in July 2004.

19

Holy Cross College Students arrive in Ghana.

21

3rd Exhumation of Fr. Basil Moreau’s Body in 1955.  Recognition of the remains of the Servant of God.
Holy Cross College Programme.
Students arrive in Ghana.  Jul 21 to Aug 9th.

22

First Vows – Sr. Margaret Mary Nimo
Anniv. of Induction of Bro. Joseph Annan as Headmaster of St. John’s - in 2001
Birthday - Bro. Joachim R. Gomes

25

Birthday – Bro. Raymond Papenfuss

26

+ First Vows – Bro. Paul Mensah
+ Separation of the Marianites and the Sisters
of the Holy Cross in France in 1869.

28

+ Final Vows – Sr. Helene Sharp
+ First Vows – Bro. Daniel Dardoe
+ First Vows – Bro. Michael Amakyi

31

Birthday – Sister Liette Finnerty, Superior General of the Sisters of Holy Cross.

August 2008

Joint District Councils Meeting, East Africa, Uganda (no definite date yet)
Come and See Programme - District Centre (no definite date yet)

4

Religious Habit given for the 1st time to four
Marianites of Holy Cross by Fr. Moreau in 1841.
Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.
Future of Holy Cross Culutral & International Mission - Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

6

Departure of Holy Cross College Students from Ghana for the USA.

7

+ Establishment of the District of France in 1968.
+ Foundation of the French Province of Marianites in 1860.

9

+ Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. Andre Richard (CSC), Archbishop of Moncton, Canada in 1989.
Birth of Blessed Brother Andre (Alfred) Bessette in 1845.
Holy Cross College students leave Ghana.

12

Basil Anthony Mary Moreau ordained a priest in 1821.

13

+ District Retreat - District Centre (from 13th to 18th)
Birthday – Fr. Bob Gilmour
District Council Meeting

14

+ Final Vows – Sr. Dipali Helena d’Costa (NP)
+ District Retreat - Brafoyaw - 14th to 19th

15

+ Basil Moreau professed vows with 4 other priest
in 1840.
+ Establishment of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
at St. Mary’s, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA in 1855.
+ Birthday – Bro. Kenneth Kunditani
+ Final Vows – Sr. Jane Chantal (NP)
+ Final Vows – Sr. Madeline Therese (NP)
+ First Vows – Sr. Jane Chantal (NP)
+ First Vows – Sr. Helene Sharp

16

+ Final Vows - Bro. Frederick McGlynn (NP)
+ Final Vows - Bro. Jerome Kroetsch (NP)
+ Final Vows - Bro. Raymond Papenfuss
+ Final Vows - Bro. Richard Johnson (NP)
+ Final Vows - Bro. Thomas Dillman
+ Final Vows - Bro. Vincent Gross
+ Final Vows - Bro. William Gates
+ First Vows - Bro. Frederick McGlynn (NP)
+ First Vows - Bro. Joseph Tsiquaye
+ First Vows - Bro. Raymond Papenfuss
+ First Vows - Bro. Thomas Dillman
+ First Vows - Fr. Bob Gilmour

17

+ First Vows – Bro. Paul Bukari
+ First Vows – Bro. Kenneth Goode
+ First Vows – Bro. Vincent Ntsiful

18

+ Feast Day - Sr. Helene Sharp

26

+ First Vows – Bro. John Affum-Badu
+ First Vows – Bro. Benjamin Biney Mensah
+ First Vows – Bro. Patrick Osei-Bonsu
+ First Vows – Bro. Matthew Sabogu

27

Come and See Programme - Brafoyaw - from the 27th to 30th August

28

Birthday – Bro. Tom Dillman

30

Birthday - Alex Okidi - Novice

31

Foundation of New Congregation laid in 1835.  Fr. Moreau accepted governance of the Brothers of St. Joseph from Fr. Dujarie.  Fr. Moreau and 4 other priests adopted the name of Auxiliary Priests.

September 2008

Congregational Finance Meeting - Notre Dame - USA - Bro. Paul Mensah (No date yet)

1

+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Texas in 1870.
+ Establishment of the District of Brazil in 1976.
+ Pact of Fidelity made by the Brothers of
St. Joseph in 1831.

4

Birthday - Pius Kweku Maison (Novice)
Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

5

Birthday – Bro. Nicholas Arthur

6

Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. Moses M. Costa (CSC) in 1996. 
Bishop of Dinajpur.

8

+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Haiti in 1944.
+ First Religious Habit given to Sisters in the USA
in 1844 in Bertrand, Michigan, USA.
+ First Vows – Sr. Dipali Helena d’Costa (NP)

10

Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Peru in 1963.

11

First Vows – Bro. Joseph Annan

12

+ Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination
of the Most Rev. Patrick D’Rozario (CSC),
Bishop of Chittagong in 1990.
+ Birthday – Sr. Madeline Therese (NP)

13

Congregational Day of Prayer and Fasting - Prayer Chain
Arrival of new Candidates at St. Joseph Hall, Sekondi

14

+ Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross – all Houses.  Titular Feast of the Sisters.
+ First Mass celebrated in the USA by Fr. Sorin in 1841 in St. Peter’s Church, New York City.
+ Ordination – Fr. Bob Gilmour

15

+ Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows – Patroness of the Congregation – District Celebration – Brafoyaw
+ Canonical approbation of post-Vatican 11 Constitutions and Statutes of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Marianites of Holy Cross in 1982.
+ Approbation of post-Vatican II Constitutions by the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes in 1988.
+ First Vows – Bro. Anthony Dadzie
First Vows – Bro. Sylvester Quaye
Anniversary of Beatification of Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau in Le Mans, France (15 Sep 2007).

16

First Vows – Bro. Nee Wayoe

19

Birthday – Bro. Joseph Annan

23

Final Vows – Sr. Margaret Mary Nimo

25

Birthday—Bro. William Gates

26

District Council Meeting

29

Arrival of the Holy Cross Sisters in Ghana in 1983.
Birthday - Sr. Scholastic Ampadu
District Meeting

October 2008

Major Superiors’ Meeting (no date yet)

1

Feast Day - Sr. Theresa Araba Fameyeh

2

Final Vows—Bro. Linus (NP)

3

Birthday - Stephen Taasanga (Pre-Novice)

4

Establishment of the Province of India in 1984.
Holy Cross Family Gathering at Brafoyaw
Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

6

General Council Meeting - Rome (from 6th to 10th)

9

Independence Day - Uganda

10

+ Arrival of Brothers Anselm, Francis Xavier, Gatien, Joachim, Lawrence and Vincent and Fr. Sorin at Vincennes, USA in 1841
+ Meeting of the Four General Councils of Holy Cross in Rome from 10th to 12th.

13

+ Episcopal ordination of the Most Rev. Yves-Marie Pean CSC, coadjutor bishop of Gonaives, Haiti. - in 2002.
+ General Council Meeting - Rome - 13th to 17th

15

District Council Meeting

16

Feast Day - Sr. Margaret Mary Nimo

18

Novitiate founded by Fr. Moreau for the priests at the Solitude in France in 1940.

22

First Vows—Bro. Linus (NP)

23

Birthday – Bro. Vincent Ntsiful

25

District Meeting

28

Final approbation of the Constitutions of the Marianites of Holy Cross in 1885.

November 2008

1

Establishment of the Midwest Province of Brothers in 1956.

3

Council of Congregation Meeting - Rome (3rd to 10th)

4

Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Uganda - 1958.
Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

8

Arrival of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Brazil in 1947.

9

+ Re-consecration of the conventual church, Notre Dame de Sainte-Croix, Le Mans, France in 1937.
+ 2nd Exhumation of Fr. Moreau’s body in 1938; remains taken to the crypt of the Conventual Church (Mother Church of Holy Cross)  in Le Mans.
+ Birthday – Bro. David Kpobi

11

Birthday - Martina Dery (Sister’s Candidate)
Birthday - Gerard Muwonge - Novice

14

+ Arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Dhaka in 1853.
+ Feast Day - Sr. Evelyn Ntiamoah

18

Birthday – Bro. Joseph Tsiquaye

19

District Council Meeting

21

Birthday – Bro. Michael Amakyi

23

Final Vows – Fr. Bob Gilmour

24

Holy Cross Skills Training - Silver Jubilee Celebration begins (week long)

25

 Birthday - Catherine Before (Sister’s Candidate)

26

Founding of the University of Notre Dame du Lac, the first permanent foundation of the Congregation in North America in 1842.

27

Birthday - George Depaaya Awuni (Novice)

28

Final Vows – Bro. Joseph Tsiquaye

29

District Meeting

December 2008

2

51st Anniversary of arrival of Holy Cross Religious in Ghana in 1957.
Establishment of the Sacred Heart Vice-Province in 1988.
Establishment of the St. Joseph Vice-Province in 1988.
Final Vows - Bro. John Affum Badu
Final Vows - Bro. Patrick Osei-Bonsu
Final Vows - Bro. Ebenezer Prah
Final Vows - Bro. Paul Bukari
Final Vows - Bro. Kenneth Goode
Final Vows - Bro. Nicholas Arthur

3

Birthday – Bro. Ebenezer Andre Prah

4

Birthday – Bro. Paul Mensah
Monthly accounts & stewardship report of each community due at the District Superior’s Office.

5

Birthday - Christopher Nganzi - Novice

6

Feast Day of Sr. Mary Kay Kinberger, Congregational Superior of the Marianites of Holy Cross.

8

+ First Missionaries assigned to Chittagong in 1853.
+ First Vows – Sr. Angela Golapi Palma (NP)

13

Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. Michael A. D’Rozario (CSC), Bishop of Khulna in 1970.

16

Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. Daniel Robert Jenky (CSC), Bishop of Peoria, IL, USA in 1997.

17

Agreement between Brothers and Sisters to go to New Orleans, LA, USA in 1848.
14th DISTRICT CHAPTER - District Centre - Brafoyaw (from 17th to 23rd Dec.)

21

Birthday – Bro. Benjamin Biney Mensah

25

Holy Cross Family – Ghana Christmas Day Get Together at Brafoyaw

26

Fr. James Dujarie ordained a priest in 1795.

27

+ 41st Anniversary of the Establishment of the District of West Africa in 1967.
Final Vows – Bro. Anthony Dadzie.
Possible Final Profession of Vows
Archdiocese of Cape Coast - Co-Workers gathering at Cardinal’s Residence.

28

Final Vows – Bro. Ken Kunditani

29

+ Birthday – Bro. Anthony Dadzie
+ Final Vows – Bro. Daniel Dardoe
+ Final Vows – Bro. Michael Amakyi
+ Final Vows – Bro. Paul Mensah

31

Final Vows - Bro. Patrick Adu Baah
Final Vows - Bro. Matthew Sabogu