A Message from Fr. Paul

Dear Friend of St. Claret,

This fall season is filled with spirit and anticipation as we prepare to celebrate the feast days of two remarkable and influential examples of Christ’s love and hope: St. Anthony Mary Claret, our founder, and St. Jude, the patron saint of impossible causes. Please join us!

On behalf of the province, I invite you to accompany us during St. Anthony Mary Claret’s Novena, beginning on Thursday, October 16, 2025 and concluding on Friday, October 24, 2025, which is his feast day. These nine days are a time of solemn prayer, reflection, and action. We are honored to pray for you—and with you.

Please share your prayers to St. Anthony Claret with us. United with you in prayer, we will place your intentions at the altar in the chapel of Dominguez Seminary where Claretians gather to celebrate Mass daily.

Every day, your prayers of support sustain the legacy of the mission impressed on us by our founder. Like St. Anthony Claret, our ministries of faith, dignity and social justice offer needed solutions in uncertain times for more than 850,000 people within the communities we serve in the U.S. and Canada. We endeavor to feed the physically and spiritually undernourished, educate and inspire our youth and bring the Gospel to life for those impacted by forced migration.

We will hold you in prayer during the Novena and humbly ask that you continue to pray for us so we may spread love and compassion to all of God’s children who are most in need.

May God bless you and all those you hold dear on the Feast of Saint Anthony Mary Claret!

In the Heart of Mary,

Rev. Paul Keller, CMF
Provincial Superior
Claretian Missionaries USA-Canada Province