Year: 2013
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.”
Weekly News: April 29, 2013
First SCJ house in Vietnam blessed, news about the upcoming election assembly, graduation at Sacred Heart School of Theology, Sacred Heart Southern Missions participates in World Book Night, SCJ blessed by Pope Francis, address updates and more.
Weekly News: April 22, 2013
Portuguese SCJ does research in South Dakota, staff from St. Joseph’s Indian School take part in spoof beauty pageant to raise funds for cancer research, blog posts from the Philippines, three long-time faculty honored at Sacred Heart School of Theology, calendar notes, and more…
Weekly News: April 15, 2013
Spring snows bring Mission Education Conference to an early end, traffic jams in the Philippines, prayer requests, address updates, calendar notes, members of St. Joseph’s Indian School board of directors honored with Lakota quilts, and more…
Epic weather becomes focal point of conference
The Priests of the Sacred Heart began ministry in the United States near Chamberlain, S.D., in the early 1920s. Upon hearing this fact during the Mission Education Conference one of our province employees said she that could easily guess why: “They were stuck!”
I am a Dehonian because…
Prior to the Mission Education gathering, staff from St. Joseph’s Indian School, as well as several SCJs and province employees, were asked to answer the question “I am a Dehonian because…”
Many of the statements were shared during Mission Education. The full list of statements is published here.
Weekly News: April 8, 2013
Back in the Philippines Fr. Bernie Rosinski is back in the Philippines teaching ESL as he did at about the same time last year. A veteran of general and provincial administration, he has also been tapped as a resource to the young region as it gets its own administration in order. The following is from Read More…
