Month: May 2013
Provincial Council Meeting
The council will meet briefly to review formation requests.
Feast of the Sacred Heart
JOIN US IN CELEBRATION: We invite you to join us in our celebration of the Feast of the Sacred Heart on Friday, June 7, at Sacred Heart Monastery in Hales Corners. Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee will be the main presider at the 11 a.m. Mass. A light luncheon will follow. SPACE IS LIMITED so Read More…
Election Assembly Week
The Province Election Assembly begins at noon on June 3 and runs through the end of the week.
Weekly News: May 20, 2013
New website for province, accent modification program added to SHST’s academic offerings, retired St. Joe’s staffer shares stories at ribbon-cutting ceremony, SCJ takes part in “Brothers Think Tank,” Election Assembly reminders, prayer request, and Wall Street Journal profiles SHST alumni.
What did he say?
A person can have a dictionary’s worth of words in his head, but to really be fluent in a language one also needs to be understood. “It’s a shame to hear ‘We love Fr. Jacobs, he is great with youth and he has such a wonderful smile. It’s just too bad we can’t understand his homilies.’”
Weekly News: May 13, 2013
Anniversary celebration of women’s shelter, profile of Fr. Tomasz Flak (member of the General Treasurer’s office completing his ESL studies this month), SCJ reappointed to national board, graduation in South Dakota, heading to Afghanistan, and calendar notes
Weekly News: May 6, 2013
South African SCJ named bishop, local community discussions on the State of the Province due, North American Conference update, blog post on Vietnam, SHST professor to be published in Journal of Biblical Literature, and dedication and open house of St. Joseph Indian School Alumni Center.
How “No!” became a “Yes” to vocational call
Fr. Tomasz said that he first started to hear a vocational call when he was a teen growing up in a small village in Poland. It surprised him. “I was…” and he pauses for the correct word in English, “not a quiet boy! Maybe not as well behaved as my brother and sister.” When he told his parents that he wanted to be a priest, an SCJ priest, they responded the same way he did when he first heard his call. “No, not you!” his parents said to him. He laughed again.
Fr. Zolile Mpambani named bishop!
On May 6 the Vatican announced that Fr. Zolile Peter Mpambani, SCJ, will be the next bishop of Kokstad, a small diocese near Durban, South Africa. Fr. Zolile, currently provincial superior of the South African Province, is 56. Previously, he was a member of the General Council in Rome. “While I was on the council, I saw provinces and regions beginning to open their eyes… now there seems to be greater collaboration and sharing. In Africa, the provinces are working together in formation, and talking about other possibilities.” He sees the same thing in other areas as well. “We are beginning to see ourselves as one.”
