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Happy Mother Paula and Father Founder Day!

We give you thanks, God our Father, for Abbot Francis Pfanner and Mother Paula Emunds.  May the holiness of their lives inspire us to serve You and work for Your honor and glory.  Bless all of us that we may faithfully and joyfully continue the work which they began.  All for and with God!  Father Founder and Mother Paula, pray for us!

“Deep down in my soul I feel that we have lost our Founder, our Father… Oh, how profound and painful this loss is to me…This strong and noble soul never for one moment gave in to natural weakness.  He was and remained a Trappist until the end… relishing those episodes in his eventful life when Divine Providence had led him in unknown ways and quite often in spite of himself.  At such times, he said, he could rest assured to have fulfilled God’s will.” 

— Mother Paula Emunds on the Death of Abbot Francis Pfanner

Mother Paula Emunds, Co-Foundress
8 January 1865 – 21 May 1948

VALIANT WOMAN

 

  1. A valiant woman strong and true, in all things sought God’s will; left home and all she knew and loved, to dare the utmost for God.
  2. Christ’s Precious Blood, her priceless treasure, was shed for one and for all; no sacrifice too much to render to make God’s great love known.
  3. God is my Father, I’m God’s child, rest safely in God’s love; our God is good and truly good is everything God does.
  4. In loving union with our God, and faithful in little things; Paula Emunds made her life a constant worship of God.

Text: Marian Maskulak, cps
Tune: Land of Rest: meter: 86 86

Sung by: CPS Generalate – 20 May 2020, Rome, Italy

 

Abbot Francis Pfanner, Father Founder
21 September 1825 – 24 May 1909

DAILY SEEKING

  1. Full of love for God and neighbor Francis Pfanner sought God’s way. Daily seeking only God’s will he continued come what may. Fully trusting, never doubting, full of faith in God alone, thus he ran the race before him so to reach th’eternal home.
  2. Set on fire to spread the Gospel prayer and work filled all his days. Holding fast through pain and struggle he relied upon God’s grace. Zeal for mission knew no bound’ries, all God’s people must be served, this apostle to the Zulus wanted all to hear God’s Word.
  3. As we gather round God’s table sharing life and breaking bread, Francis Pfanner would remind us Precious Blood for us was shed. Called to live the Paschal Myst’ry, love God’s people far and near, in our living, in our actions may our witness stand out clear.

Text: Marian Maskulak, cps
Tune: Beach Spring; meter: 87 87 D

Sung by: CPS North American Province – May 2009, Toronto, Canada

Third Week of Lent
God’s call to conversion
God patiently calls us to conversion. He invites us to bear fruit through humility, forgiveness, and faithful love.
As we continue our Lenten journey, we are encouraged to trust in God’s mercy, forgive others, and live our faith sincerely each day.

We give thanks for the gift of women in the world.
As religious women, we are called to witness God’s love through service, compassion, courage, and fidelity to our mission.

May our lives continue to be a sign of hope, justice, and dedication, especially to those who are most in need.

Happy Women’s Day.

The Second Week of Lent 2026
emphasizes that true transformation
begins within. Just as Jesus revealed
His glory after inviting the disciples
to climb the mountain and listen to the Father’s voice, Lent calls us to step out of comfort and grow through prayer, silence, and honesty. It is not an escape from reality but a preparation to face it with faith and courage. This season invites us to open our hearts, listen more deeply, trust more fully, and walk faithfully toward Easter.

We are invited to follow
Christ more closely.
In His humanity, Jesus
was tempted but did not give in.
The devil presented every
possible option to make
He succumbed, yet He remained
steadfast and faithful
to the Father. This reminds us
that we are not called to
rely on ourselves or to
gratify our own abilities.
Instead, we are invited to
trust in God’s constant
help and His faithful
presence, especially in
moments of temptation.

Lent provides us with a perfect opportunity to
“begin again” in our lives as religious women.

Our lives as CPS are rooted in the
continual flow of life, death and resurrection
– the continual dying
and rising with Jesus –
in our own lives and in the lives of those
to whom we minister and meet daily.
But before we can be women of reconciliation
for those to whom we minister and encounter,
we must first be women of reconciliation
among ourselves.

“If no one goes, I go!”
These courageous words of our Founder,
continue to echo in our hearts today.
They remind us that our vocation as
Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood
is rooted in availability, sacrifice and love
without limit.

In this lent season, we are invited to
renew our personal response to Christ,
to go where we are needed, 
to serve even in difficulty and 
to offer ourselves more
deeply to God’s service.

lent is our time to say again,
with faith and courage…

Lord, I go!

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