Our Community

Missionaries of the Precious Blood serve in parishes, at colleges, in hospitals and in other ministry sites in the inner city, the suburbs and in rural areas of the United States. They are also in ministry in Chile, Perú, Guatemala and Colombia.

Like St. Gaspar, their founder, Precious Blood priests, brothers and lay associates see possibilities where others may see only problems. Serving in the United States since 1844 as pastors, preachers, teachers, chaplains and in many other ways, their ministry has spread from coast to coast.

The Congregation, with its many ministries, can be difficult to define. Brother Ben Basile, C.PP.S., who has been a Precious Blood brother since 1969, puts it this way: "I am humbled and in awe of the great diversity of personalities, the spiritual depth, the abounding apostolic energy, and the sense of mission that make up our C.PP.S. family."

And now a word about all those letters: Missionaries of the Precious Blood use the initials C.PP.S. behind their names. It stands for the Latin name of our Society, the Congregatio Pretiosissimi Sanguinis (Congregation of the Most Precious Blood).

This is the website of the Cincinnati Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, whose ministry in the U.S. is mainly east of the Mississippi and in California.

The U.S. ministry of the Kansas City Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood is primarily west of the Mississippi.

The international C.PP.S. website has additional information.

In some of their ministries, the Missionaries work closely with the Sisters of the Precious Blood of Dayton, Ohio, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, and the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O'Fallon, Missouri.

The Precious Blood Leadership Conference draws these and other congregations together into joint efforts to promote Precious Blood spirituality.

Photograph: C.PP.S. priests extend their hand in blessing at an ordination of a fellow priest.