We rejoice during these 50 glorious days of the Easter season and celebrating the Spiritan mission! Join us in prayer each week through the Easter season, leading up to Pentecost, the birthday of the Church and the founding feast of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, as we seek the power of God’s spirit to strengthen and guide us.
Thanks to your support, the latest grant extended by SOMA is for construction of a water well and retention tanks for the Daniel Brottier Training Centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
We invite you to join us for a “Busy Person’s Retreat” during the 5th Week of Lent, March 22-26, 2021. This self-directed retreat reflects on the daily readings, offers a brief meditation, and presents some reflection questions to help us more fully enter the final days of our Lenten journey.
The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (Spiritan Sisters) celebrate their Feast Day on March 16. This year marks the 100th anniversary of their founding on January 6, 1921.
On March 3, we celebrate the Feast of St. Katharine Drexel, who worked with the Spiritans in many parishes and schools serving African-American communities in Philadelphia, New York, and the deep South. She died in 1955 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988.
For ten years, the Congregation of the Holy Spirit has proudly partnered with Saint Basil Coffee, a non-profit seeking to educate children and lift people out of poverty.
School is back in session in Ethiopia at the Spiritan School in Dhadim, and thanks to our generous supporters, the Spiritan Office for Mission Advancement was able to provide $10,000 to purchase 160 desks.
Fr. Edward J. Vilkauskas, C.S.Sp. of Bethel Park, PA, a member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, died at St. Clair Hospital from complications from COVID-19. He was 74 years old.
January 1, 2020 is the 57th anniversary of the death of twenty Spiritan confreres – nineteen Belgians and one Dutch – who were killed in Kongolo in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.
Check out the winter issue of One Heart, One Spirit for info about Fr. McEachin's mission work in the Dominican Republic, as well as the latest news from SOMA!
Celebrated November 1-7, 2020, National Vocation Awareness Week is an opportunity for us renew our prayers and support for those who are considering a vocation as a priest, brother, or lay associate.
This month, we’re honoring the men and women from Africa who have pioneered the Catholic faith! Black Catholics have had a huge impact on the history and traditions of Christianity. Spiritans have had a role in the evangelization of Africans and African-Americans since its founding.
Fr. Thomas P. Tunney C.S.Sp. of Bethel Park, a member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, died peacefully October 14, 2020 at Manor Care in Whitehall, PA. He was 85 years old.
On October 2, we celebrate the Feast of Spiritan founder Claude Poullart des Places. Learn more about this young visionary priest who founded the Congregation of the Holy Spirit at the age of 24.
Double your impact! Thanks to a generous matching gift challenge from the Spiritan Office for Mission Advancement Advisory Board, your donation to the Spiritan Day of Giving campaign now through October 2 will be matched dollar for dollar up to to $14,500!