Dear Friends: PROVINCIAL CHAPTER APPROACHES:  The Passionists divide their members into geographical groupings which are called Provinces. Each province is headed by a Provincial. All the Provinces are under the General in Rome. The last catalogue (2024), listing all the Passionists throughout the world, listed 1,763 priests and brothers. Passionist Nuns and Sisters have their own way of doing things and are totally separate from the male Passionists. Our Province, takes in Eastern USA, Puerto Rico and Canada. We are having a special meeting called a Chapter, which is held every 4 years. We will review our life together and how we are being faithful to the spiritual legacy of St. Paul of the Cross and elect a new head of our Province. Our Fr. General, Giuseppe Adobati, and one of his assistants, Fr. Aurelio Miranda, will oversee and lead the meeting. Once the business of the Chapter concludes, we will elect a new Provincial to oversee things and will choose four of our Passionists to be his assistants and advisors for the next four years. We will be gone for that meeting May 16 -22. Both the Monastery Church and the front office will be closed for those days: May 15 to 23. There will be maintenance work going on. The Mass schedule will resume and the church opened with the 5pm Mass on May 23rd.