In 1985, Fr. Bob Bedard, a priest in Ottawa, Ontario, along with three seminarians of the Diocese of Ottawa who had formed a “share group” of support and prayer, felt God’s call to establish a new kind of religious community — one that would work to renew parishes and enliven the Catholic Church with the good news of Jesus Christ. They would live in households of four or more to evangelize together.

The men chose the name Companions of the Cross, a phrase used by Fr. Bedard in a homily on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Sept. 14 the following year.

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With their friends in Detroit, Companions of the Cross celebrate 40 years of faith - Detroit Catholic

Society of apostolic life founded in Canada in 1985 arrived in the Archdiocese of Detroit in 2011 with a call to evangelize