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After 21 months of his effort of looking for land, purchasing it, getting a loan, surveying the land, getting local government permission for the land, he ended his summary diary with the following passage: "Please God and good St. Gerard that this effort will open a new and fertile apostolic field for the Coast Province. Now is the time to take up the plow."... In 2003, Father Thomas M. Santa, C.Ss.R, director of the Redemptorist Renewal Center, began a capital campaign for a major renovation and development of the Center. He said during the last 40 years there had been occasional improvements to the facility only that which was "absolutely necessary and unavoidable." At the time, he said: "We have arrived at the point where major renovation and repair is perhaps long overdue." In their plan, the Redemptorists planned to build a large meeting room, the Alphonsian Library, the Contemplative Intensive Retreat facility, Hermitages, Redemptorist Rectory and necessary repairs and..

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