Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney visited the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood of Paterson, N.J., to install Sister Regi Varghese as the delegate leading the congregation in the United States during a Mass he celebrated on Oct. 13. She will serve a three-year term as delegate.
In Paterson, 10 members of the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood sponsor and operate St. Joseph’s Rest Home, a nonprofit, State-Licensed residential facility for senior women, and St. Michael’s Junior Day Nursery for children aged 3 to 5 years old.
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Bishop Sweeney was the main celebrant and homilist of the Mass. The concelebrants were Father Charles Waller, a retired diocesan priest and chaplain to the sisters; Msgr. George Hundt, pastor of St. Gerard Majella and Our Lady of Pompei parishes, both in Paterson; Father Marc Mancini, pastor of St. James of the Marches Parish in Totowa, N.J.; Father Manuel Alejandro Cuellar, parochial vicar of St. Gerard Majella and Our Lady of Pompei; and Father Erasmus Okere, parochial vicar of Blessed Sacrament/St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Newark, N.J. These priests were joined by Father Simmy Thomas, the parish vicar of St. George Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, also in Paterson.
The Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood have 17 members in the United States, including locations in New York and Connecticut. Thomas Marie Fusco established the congregation in 1873 in Pagani, Italy. The sisters’ apostolate encompasses the care of orphans, vulnerable children, the sick, and the elderly, as well as the education of the youth.
