This is my short video reflection to celebrate December 26, 2022 as we approach 2023. Please click on the link for December 26 and press the play button. How is our Christmas faith similar or changed from 100 years ago? https://passionist.org/advent-calendar-2022/
This short video offers you a Christmas meditation on a painting from the Passionist China Collection Click on this link below: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rw3fqm2oqvc1jv0/Christmas%20Day%20Revised.mp4?dl=0
To the surprise of many in the post-World War I era of the United States, American Passionists undertook the apostolic effort to begin the Passionist Congregation in Germany. The above poster promotes the 100 year anniversary events that took place in Schwarzenfeld, Germany from October 14 to 16, 2022. Click on the links below to...
In my capacity as Passionist historian I was honored to represent American Passionists from St. Paul of the Cross Province (based in the Eastern United States). I am seen here standing before the Schwarzenfeld monastery church on October 16, 2022. Click on the link below to see a short pdf photo presentation which shows the...
As EDS-Stewart Senior Research Fellow at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College (Summer 2022) I had the opportunity to lecture the visiting scholars on “Reinterpreting Republican Era Social, Political and Cultural History: Photographs from the Passionist China Collection.”
Good news! I just arrived in Boston, Massachusetts From June 1 till the end of August 2022 I am a Summer Archival Specialist at The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History which is now located at Boston College. If you are in Boston please contact me via email or phone and schedule a visit and...
This photo, taken by Patrick Hayes, Ph.D. on his recent visit to St. Ann’s Basilica, Scranton, Pennsylvania shows me standing before the historic portraits of Passionist Fathers Godfrey Holbein, Clement Seybold and Walter Coveyou. Their murders by Chinese bandits in West Hunan, China was a key event in American Catholic missionay history to China, and...
Above is the book cover of The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism. Editors: Margaret M. McGuinness and Thomas F. Rzeznik. (Cambridge University Press, 2021). You are invited to listen to this April 1, 2022 podcast from WSOU Radio, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. Father Lawrence E. Frizzell interviews Passionist Father Robert Carbonneau about...
Above is the cross atop the the Holy Family Retreat and Conference Center. A Passionist ministry in West Hartford, Connecticut. Click on this link to view the Experience the Cross video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm-CmN-5dFY Visit or make a retreat at Holy Family. Click on this link: https://www.holyfamilyretreat.org/about-holy-family
I took this photo on Palm Sunday 2008 in Chongqing, China. From 2007 to 2008 I was at foreign expert at Sichuan International Studies University. Having the opportunity to teach in China only increased my respect for Chinese history, tradition and culture and society. Meditation: As I walked out of a local Catholic church with...
