Year: 2018
Weekly News: August 27, 2018
A new school year! Today is the first day of classes for the 2018-19 academic year at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, as well as the start of the ESL Summer Session II. The Opening Mass for the year will be on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Faculty and staff are pictured above. Members Read More…
Weekly News: August 20, 2018
Two new Dehonians! With the profession of their first vows on August 15, Phong “Paul” Hoang and Henry Nguyen became Dehonians, members of the US Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. The vows were received by Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, US provincial superior, during a liturgy in the main chapel at Sacred Heart Monastery / Sacred Heart Read More…
Two new SCJs!
With the profession of their first vows on August 15, Phong “Paul” Hoang and Henry Nguyen became Dehonians, members of the US Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. The vows were received by Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, US provincial superior, during a liturgy in the main chapel at Sacred Heart Monastery / Sacred Heart Seminary Read More…
Three new novices!
Three men were received into the novitiate August 14: Hubert Senam Kodjovi Liassidji, John Huan Nguyen and Angel Romero. Originally from Togo, but now a US citizen, Hubert entered the formation program in Chicago in January, 2017, and was a student at St. Xavier University. He is 37. Reflecting on his vocation, Hubert said that Read More…
Weekly News: August 13, 2018
All about formation Last week, those in formation – both students and formators – were on retreat together at the Siena Center in Racine. The retreat was based on the “Open Hearts” North American Dehonian retreats held in Canada and the United States during the past year. Each day was devoted to one of five Read More…
Remembering the founder
On August 12, we remember the death of our founder, Fr. Leo John Dehon. “He came from La Capelle with a vast accumulation of knowledge seldom found in a young priest,” said Bishop Charles Binet in his eulogy for the founder. “But he did not shut himself up in the ivory tower of his intellectual superiority, but threw himself wholeheartedly into work, especially among laborers.”
Weekly News: August 6, 2018
Moving in! As the last remodeling details are finalized, students are now moving into Sacred Heart Monastery in preparation for the 2018-19 school year. Several SCJs have already settled in. As you may remember, the monastery was remodeled to make space for the formation community, which was previously in Chicago. Theology students will attend Sacred Read More…
Weekly News: July 31, 2018
The General Chapter concludes Throughout the General Chapter, organizers, members of the general administration and delegates themselves referred to it as “extraordinary”. Held three years earlier than planned due to the appointment of Fr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, as bishop of Hildesheim, it was a short but intense two weeks of sessions during a which a Read More…
Fr. Stephen Huffstetter re-elected
Fr. Stephen Huffstetter, SCJ, former provincial superior of the US Province, was elected to a second term on the General Council of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. He was a member of the previous council whose term was shortened following the appointment of Fr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, then superior general, as bishop of Hildesheim, Read More…
Weekly News: July 23, 2018
A new general administration! On July 20, the General Chapter elected Fr. Carlos Luis Suarez Codorniú, SCJ, as superior general of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians). Born in the Canary Islands (Spain) in 1965, he professed his first vows in 1984 and was ordained in 1990. Fr. Carlos Luis served briefly in India, Read More…
