Month: June 2018
Weekly News: June 25, 2018
Delegates chosen for General Chapter It was a quick Provincial Chapter – only a few hours on Monday afternoon, June 18. Its primary task was to elect delegates from the US Province to the General Chapter in Rome, July 14-27. Of course, the need for a General Chapter was the result of Pope Francis naming Read More…
Fr. Tom Burns dies in Florida
Fr. Tom Burns, SCJ, died this morning, June 23, near Pinellas Park, FL. Yesterday he had been hospitalized with complications from pneumonia. He was 79, professed his first vows in 1958 and was ordained in 1965. From Wilkes-Barre, PA, Fr. Tom’s first assignment was at Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Lenox, MA. He was Read More…
A new provincial administration!
“I promise I will work hard to be your pastor,” said Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, as he brought the US Province Election Assembly to a close. Held June 19-20, 2018, at the Provincial Conference Center in Hales Corners, WI, the primary task of the gathering was to elect a new provincial administration. By the end Read More…
Sharing our Dehonian stories of migration
June 20th is World Refugee Day. The Dehonian North American Migration Committee commemorates the day by inviting SCJs, co-workers and others with whom we minister to share their personal stories of migration. The following stories from from Fr. Gustave Lulendo, SCJ, of the Canadian Region, Fr. Bernie Rosinski, SCJ, of the US Province and Lois Read More…
Delegates elected for Rome
It was a quick Provincial Chapter –– only a few hours on Monday afternoon, June 18! All entities in the congregation have to hold a chapter to elect delegates to the General Chapter that will be held in Rome in July. Of course, the General Chapter is necessary following the nomination of Fr. Heiner Wilmer, Read More…
Weekly News: June 18, 2018
Ordained to the diaconate! In 2006, Juan Carlos Castañeda Rojas entered the ESL program (English as a Second Language) at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. It was his first step on the path to ordained ministry as a Dehonian, a member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. On June 16, 2018, he Read More…
Ordained to the diaconate!
In 2006, Juan Carlos Castañeda Rojas entered the ESL program (English as a Second Language) at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. It was his first step on the path to ordained ministry as a Dehonian, a member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. On June 16, 2018, he was ordained to the Read More…
“I am a better person for having been here”
“I tell people that I never saw anything in Fr. Dehon’s writings that was only for Catholics. His social justice concerns, his concern for all people; this is what inspires me.” -Deborah Kosut, long-time SHSST employee “I am a different person, a better person, for having been here,” said Deborah Kosut as she reflected on Read More…
Weekly News: June 11, 2018
Bishop Haines main celebrant at feast-day Mass Bishop Jeffrey Haines, auxiliary bishop of Milwaukee, was the main celebrant at Friday’s Mass for the Feast of the Sacred Heart at Sacred Heart Monastery / Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology (he is pictured above with Fr. Dominic Peluse). Each year the SHM community, in partnership Read More…
Weekly News: June 4, 2018
“You need to move with change or you disappear” -Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, former Prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication, speaking to Dehonian communicators in Rome (he is pictured above) “In God’s plan, human communication is essential for living in communion,” said Fr. Carlos Enrique Caamaño Martin, SCJ, echoing the words of Pope Francis Read More…
