Year: 2010
June 21, 2010
A new administration! The U.S. Province concluded its four-day election assembly on Thursday, June 17. At the heart of the assembly is a discernment process that helps the membership determine the qualities needed in province leadership at this time in history and then who best expresses those qualities. Fr. Tom Cassidy was elected to his Read More…
A new administration!
The U.S. Province concluded its four-day election assembly on Thursday, June 17. At the heart of the assembly is a discernment process that helps the membership determine the qualities needed in province leadership at this time in history and then who best expresses those qualities. Fr. Tom Cassidy was elected to his second term as Read More…
Fr. Tom Cassidy elected to second term
Fr. Thomas Cassidy, SCJ, was re-elected as provincial superior of the United States Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart on Tuesday, June 15, during the Province Election Assembly in Hales Corners, Wis. Fr. Cassidy, 67, was first elected as provincial superior in 2007. At the time of his election, he was president-rector of Read More…
June 14, 2010
Elections! Much of the U.S. Province will be in Hales Corners this week for the provincial election assembly. Joining them will be Fr. Greg Murray of the Canadian Region, who will serve as moderator, and Fr. John van den Hengel, general councilor. Both come to the U.S. Province after joining SCJs in Ottawa for the Read More…
June 7, 2010
Hello from South Africa! This issue of the Fridge Notes is being put together in Aliwal North, South Africa, where the provincialate of the South African Province is based. The U.S. Province has long had a special relationship with the South African Province since it was one of the two “mother provinces” (the other being Read More…
The Comrades Marathon
“Well done, well done!!” These are the words that one hears from spectators, volunteers and even fellow runners during each of the 89 kilometers of the Comrades Marathon course. And yes, for once the question, “How long was that marathon?” is an appropriate one. While Comrades has “marathon” in its title, its distance well over Read More…
Feast of the Sacred Heart
It is the tradition of the general administration of the congregation to write a letter in preparation for Feast of the Sacred Heart. “We celebrate the solemnity of the Sacred Heart just one year removed from the XXII General Chapter which focused on the necessity of re-centering our lives in Christ and re-visiting our spiritual Read More…
May 24, 2010
Hello from the Philippines! As noted previously on the website, Fr. Frank Wittouck is spending a few weeks with the SCJ formation community in the Philippines. He recently sent an update: “There are about a dozen seminarians in my English class. I am helping the ESL teacher and have the more advanced students. They are Read More…
100 years in North America!
This year the Priests of the Sacred Heart celebrate the 100th anniversary of the congregation’s presence in North America. During his studies in Rome, Fr. Dehon met a number of North American seminarians, including Louis Nazaire Bégin, who later became archbishop of Quebec City, and Emile Legal, who in 1902, was named bishop of St. Read More…
May 17, 2010
Provincial’s time Last Tuesday, Fr. Tom Cassidy and the Provincial Council took part in the “Kick Off Dinner” for the Lux Center for Catholic-Jewish Dialogue. In his letter to the province last week Fr. Tom wrote that “Dr. Richard Lux retired at the end of the school year after 37 years on the faculty at Read More…
