March 1, 2010

Provincial’s Time Fr. Cassidy is primarily in the office this week.  March 8-9 he has CMSM meetings and then March 10-11 are meetings with the Provincial Council. Please remember NATALIE BUCKLEY, the sister of Fr. Bob Bossie, died on February 28.  She had only recently been diagnosed with lung cancer.  Natalie is survived by her Read More…


February 22, 2010

Provincial’s Time Fr. Cassidy will be in South Dakota February 22-25.  The following week he’ll primarily be in the office.  March 8-9 he has CMSM meetings and then March 10-11 are meetings with the Provincial Council. Keep in prayer —Please remember Catalina Funes, the aunt of Fr. Rick DiLeo.  She died February 18 after a Read More…


February 15, 2010

Provincial’s Time Fr. Cassidy starts the week in Tucson, Az., where he is at the CMSM national board meeting.  February 22-25 he will be at St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, S.D. New appointment for Bishop Bressanelli Bishop Virginio Bressanelli, former superior general of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, has been named coadjutor of Read More…


February 8, 2010

Provincial’s Time Fr. Cassidy is in the office for much of this week.  On Thursday he leaves for Tucson, Az., for the CMSM national board meeting.  February 22-25 he will be at St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, S.D. Health blog As many of you know, Fr. Stephen Huffstetter is being treated for cancer.  He Read More…


Provincial Council Meeting, Provincial Conference Center

The council will meet at the Provincialate March 10-11


Tragedy strikes again

In January, the world joined together to assist the people of Haiti following the most powerful earthquake to hit the nation in over a century.  Donations came from throughout the congregation (including $20,000 from the U.S. Province), and the Generalate in Rome hosted (through the Red Cross) 116 Haitian women and children displaced by the Read More…


New Mississippi parish

New parish brings together two faith communities… and their “cousins” In the literal sense, a building is just a material object. It is brick and mortar, electrical lines and pipes. It is a place to keep people and their things dry and warm (or pleasantly cool, depending on the time of year). Yet these inanimate Read More…


Frater Duy Nguyen makes perpetual profession

Frater Duy Nguyen, SCJ, didn’t have to go to far when he joined the province formation program. Born and raised on the north side of Chicago, Frater Duy now lives and studies only a short drive from his childhood haunts. He first came in contact with the SCJs in 1999 when his family was invited Read More…


Embracing the future through 6-year plan

Building on the past to embrace the future Fr. José Ornelas Carvalho, superior general, reflects on six-year program On Tuesday, December 8, the General Administration released its six-year program, an outline of congregational priorities as well a framework for the operation of the General Administration. To give background to and better explain the program, Fr. Read More…


February 1, 2010

Click here for a PDF copy Provincial’s Time Fr. Tom Cassidy took part in Frater Duy Nguyen’s final vow ceremony on January 30; this week Fr. Tom has council meetings February 2-3. Congratulations! He first came in contact with the SCJs in 1999 when his family was invited to a gathering at the province’s formation Read More…