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Holy Cross Priests, Brothers Celebrate Jubilee Milestones

Twenty-seven members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers, will celebrate jubilee milestones on Friday, May 27, 2016. The jubilee Mass will begin at 4 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame. If you are unable to attend the Mass in person, it will be streamed live. Twenty-four priests will celebrate milestones of their ordination, while three brothers will mark the anniversaries of their religious profession. The jubilarians are: Seventieth Anniversary of Ordination Rev. Howard A. Kuhns, C.S.C. Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Religious Profession Br. Herman F. Zaccarelli, C.S.C. Sixtieth Anniversary of Ordination Rev. T. Philip Devlin, C.S.C. Rev. Leon J. Mertensotto, C.S.C. Rev. William J. Neidhart, C.S.C. Rev. J. Robert Rioux, C.S.C. Rev. Patrick J. Sullivan, C.S.C. Sixtieth Anniversary of Religious Profession Br. Thomas P. Tucker, C.S.C. Fiftieth Anniversary of Ordination Rev. Robert C. Antonelli, C.S.C. Rev. James William Irwin, C.S.C. Rev. Charles J. Lavely, C.S.C. Rev. Louis A. Manzo, C.S.C. Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C. Rev. Daniel Panchot, C.S.C. Rev. Claude A. Pomerleau, C.S.C. Rev. James A. Rigert, C.S.C. Rev. Cornelius J. Ryan, C.S.C. Rev. Stephen J. Sedlock, C.S.C.   Fiftieth Anniversary of Religious Profession Br. Dennis L. Meyers, C.S.C. Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Ordination Rev. John J. Donato, C.S.C. Rev. Marc F. Fallon, C.S.C. Rev. David L. Guffey, C.S.C. Rev. Fulgens Katende, C.S.C. Rev. Paul V. Kollman, C.S.C. Rev. Russell K. McDougall, C.S.C. Rev. Patrick M. Neary, C.S.C. Rev. Timothy L. O'Connor, C.S.C. You can read more about each man on the Holy Cross website. Ave Maria Press is the publishing apostolate of the U.S. Province of Holy Cross.

Johnson and Fenelon Books Win ACP Awards

Two books published by Ave Maria Press won top honors in the 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards. Maria Morera Johnson’s My Badass Book of Saints: Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live took first place in the inspirational category. Our Lady, Undoer of Knots: A Living Novena by Marge Fenelon took second place in the inspirational category. Johnson is a CatholicMom.com blogger, speaker, and cohost of SPQN’s Catholic Weekend. She recently retired as a composition and literature professor and director of English learning support at Georgia Piedmont Technical College. My Badass Book of Saints explores the quality of twenty-four holy women who lived lives of virtue in unexpected and often difficult circumstances. Johnson also shares her experience as a first-generation Cuban-American, educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Through humorous, empowering, and touching portraits of twenty-four spiritual mentors who inspired her—including Servant of God Sr. Blandina Segale who tried to turn the heart of Billy the Kid—Johnson shows how their bravery, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God. Fenelon’s Our Lady, Undoer of Knots creates a new devotional practice—a guided meditation—from the classic novena that is a favorite of Pope Francis. She reflects on nine sacred sites associated with the Holy Father’s 2014 pilgrimage to the Holy Land to help readers explore the “knots” or impossible situations in their own lives in order to find peace. Fenelon is a veteran Catholic journalist, columnist, and author of a number of books related to Marian devotion and Catholic family life, including Imitating Mary. The awards will be presented at the twentieth annual Catholic Marketing Network International Trade Show in Schaumburg, Illinois, in July. Stephen Binz—author of Ave’s Transformed by God’s Word—won third place in the inspirational category for Saint Peter: Flawed, Forgiven, and Faithful, and first place in the scripture category for Divine Mercy, part of the Threshold Bible Study series. Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, author of Ave's Mortal Blessings, was awarded first place for a biography, Flannery O'Connor. View all of the award winners at the ACP website. 

Remembering Joyce Hutchison (1940-2016)

DES MOINES, Iowa—Ave Maria Press author Joyce Hutchison, Iowa’s first hospice nurse and an expert on care of the dying, passed away Saturday, May 7, 2016, at the age of 76 after an almost three-year battle with lung cancer. Hutchison served as palliative care coordinator and hospice educator for Iowa Health Hospice and Home Care in Des Moines. A registered nurse, her clinical experience included work as an oncology nurse, home care nurse, and residence team director of a hospice facility. A member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Oncology Nursing Society, she also frequently presented workshops on care of the dying and hospice. Hutchison was the coauthor, with Joyce Rupp, of the bestselling books May I Walk You Home? and Now That You’ve Gone Home. Ave will publish Hutchison’s final book, a chronicle of her own journey with cancer, in the spring of 2017. She is survived by three children, Joe (Ann Marie) of Lynchburg, Virginia, Mike (Carter) of Des Moines, and Julie (Mike) Llsac of Kansas City, Missouri; and nine grandchildren. Her husband, Gary, her parents, and four brothers are deceased. You can learn more about Hutchison in the Des Moines Register, where you can also read her obituary. May she rest in the peace of Christ.