August
2008
My dear faithful,
As
you have most certainly already heard, several nominations
have intervened this summer among the priests of the
district of Canada.
Firstly,
Father Jean de l’Estourbeillon, after 9 years
in Canada, has been assigned to Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Father Vincent d’André will replace him
as director of the Holy Family School (Levis). Father
Romain Pons, who was ordained to the priesthood this
past June 29th at Econe, will join the community.
Father
Frank Riccomini, after having passed too short a year
in Toronto, has also been assigned to the United States
at Our Lady of La Salette Academy (Georgetown, IL).
Father
Peter Scott leaves Australia, where he directed the
Holy Cross Seminary, to go to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Academy in Wilmot, Ontario. He will direct the opening
in the beginning of September, with the assistance
of Fr. Dominic May.
And
finally, I will also leave Canada in a few days to
take up my new post as Superior of the U.S. District.
Father Jürgen Wegner will replace me as the head
of the District of Canada. Ordained a priest in 1991,
Rev. Fr. Wegner has good priestly experience. He was,
besides other places, the Superior of Belgium and
Holland for nine years. I am sure that you will welcome
him with great charity as you have welcomed me. We
wish him numerous graces in this new apostolate.
I
would really like to thank you with all my heart,
priests and faithful of Canada, for the two beautiful
years passed among you. I thank you in particular
for your support with our project of the new school
in Ontario, but still more for your assistance in
augmenting the Saint Joseph Bursary Fund in order
to be able to help our schools today as well as those
of the future. Know that I will keep you in my prayers
and I hope that you will be so kind as to continue
to pray for me.
We
must know how to render thanks to God for all of His
benefits. It is He, the Creator and Master of all
things, who governs us, and it is He whom we seek
to serve wherever He is pleased to send us. Thus,
it is in the light of the faith that we endeavor to
see all these events or changes that concern us and
affect us. Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum!
I
would like also in this letter, which will be my last,
to appeal again to your generosity. In fact, the works
done in the new school at Wilmot have rather dried
up our financial resources and we risk having some
difficulties to pay these last bills. One more time,
I entrust this concern to your charity.
Please
be assured, my dear faithful, of my prayers and of
my blessing.
Fr.
Arnaud Rostand
District Superior of Canada
