We welcome Fr. Jude Adejoh, CSSp. to St. Francis Xavier Mission - St. Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine as our new pastor. Fr.Jude Adejoh C.S.Sp, belonging to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) hailed from Ankpa local government area of Kogi State Nigeria. I was born to the family of Mr and Mrs Andrew Adejoh (K.S.M); a family of Nine (4 boys 5 girls) where I happened to be the fifth child.

Studies and Formation 
I had my Postulancy and Novitiate in the Spiritan postulancy and Novitiate Nigeria. After the novitiate, I proceeded to the philosophy house in Nigeria. After my philosophy, I had my Prefecting (pastoral year); and this was done in Brazzaville Congo and Nigeria respectfully. At the completion of my Prefecting I continued with my theological studies at the Spiritan

International School of Theology (SIST) Nigeria. Upon the completion of my theological studies, I was ordained a Catholic Priest on the 16 th of July, 2022 at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church Idah in the Catholic Diocese of Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria.

Pastoral/mission As required by the Church, every priest ordained is charged with a pastoral engagement. To this effect I was sent on mission to Canada where I will discharge my duties as a priest. Although, while waiting for my Visa, I assisted for a year a couple of parishes in the celebration of the Holy Mass and the sacraments. On arrival to Canada in the year 2023, I was appointed to work with Pope Johnpaul II pastoral unit on the 1 st of January 2024 as priest collaborator for a year and nine months in the pastoral unit. We had eight parishes where I performed my duties as a priest and at the end of October 2025, I was appointed the Pastor of Saint Francis Xavier Mission Kahnawake.

Message from Fr. Jude Adejoh CSSp.

March 1, 2026

The Transfiguration

From the sorrow of the Cross to the glory of Resurrection. This is the underlying message Jesus gave to his disciples in today’s Sunday which narrates the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ, after having announced to them his Passion and Death on the cross. In the same episode, God the Father reveals Jesus Christ as His Beloved Son to whom we must listen. Nourished by His Word, we will contemplate the glory of His face joyful. 

The 1st and 2nd reading, on the other hand, tell us about God’s call to a holy life (2nd reading) which requires leaving behind what it takes to follow His call. Abraham, our father in the faith, is proposed as a model, leaving his land totally trusting in God (1st reading), indicating that we must allow ourselves to be led by Christ wherever He wants us to be, no matter what the difficulties this journey may entail, so that we may experience His divine transformation which He also promises for each one of us.

God the Father gave us an important advice: to listen to His Beloved Son. In Our Lord Jesus Christ, God speaks to all men and women; and through the Church, his voice resounds in all ages. As St. John Paul clearly wrote:

“The Church does not cease to listen to his words. She rereads them continually. With the greatest devotion she reconstructs every detail of his life. These words are listened to also by non-Christians. The life of Christ speaks, also, to many who are not capable of repeating with Peter, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Mt 16:16). He, the Son of the living God, speaks to people also as Man: it is his life that speaks, his humanity, his fidelity to the truth, his all-embracing love. Furthermore, his death on the Cross speaks — that is to say the inscrutable depth of his suffering and abandonment. The Church never ceases to relive his death on the Cross and his resurrection, which constitute the content of the Church’s daily life… The Church lives his mystery, draws unwearyingly from it and continually seeks ways of bringing this mystery of her Master and Lord to humanity — to the peoples, the nations, the succeeding generations, and every individual human being
(St. John Paul II, Redemptor hominis, 7).”

Let us on this second Sunday of Lent pray for grace to listen to the voice of God without doubting.