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The Redemptorist
Community Congregation of the Most Holy
Redeemer
“They hardly even know the name of Jesus,” the young
priest exclaimed. He could hardly believe that, a few
miles outside of the priest-rich city of Naples,
shepherds and the rural poor knew practically nothing
about the faith into which they were born. He had come
into the countryside for a vacation and was to leave it
with a new vision.
The young priest was Saint Alphonsus Liguori. In 1732 he
gathered a small band of men around him to preach the
Good News to “the poor and most abandoned.” From this
original group the Redemptorists developed and today are
preaching the Good News in countries on every continent
of the globe.
We Redemptorists believe that we are called to a unique
way of life. It can, perhaps, be summed up in the
distinct flavor of our community life which is
interwoven with apostolic mission, as we seek to answer
“the urgent pastoral needs of the Church” in the various
situations in which we find ourselves. We live together,
pray together, work together, and try to be a team and a
family. Our rule of life sums it up. We are humbled by
the grace of finding ourselves being evangelized by
those to whom we are called to evangelize!
We are called to prolong in the world the presence of
Christ and His mission of Redemption. We choose the
Person of Christ as the center of our lives, and we
strive to become attached to Him more intimately in
personal union as each day goes by. Thus at the heart of
our community to mold us and sustain us is Jesus Christ
the Redeemer, and His Spirit of Charity.
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Our
Community
- Fr. William Bueche, C.Ss.R.
Superior of Redemptorist
Community
Associate Pastor, Hispanic Ministry
- Fr. Patrick Grile, C.Ss.R.
Pastor
- Fr. Brian Johnson, C.Ss.R.
Associate
Pastor
- Fr. Brian Gilles, C.Ss.R.
Associate Pastor
- Fr. Jimmy Pham, C.Ss.R.
Associate Pastor
- Fr. Wilfred Lowery, C.Ss.R.
Laotian Ministry
- Fr. Joseph Stenger, C.Ss.R.
Retired, Hispanic and Hospital Ministry
- Fr. Martin Stillmock, C.Ss.R.
Comptroller of Redemptorist Community
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