Year: 2018
Weekly News: February 12, 2018
Preparing for Lent; Family Day in India brings to light the melting pot of diversity of the congregation in the country; calendar reminders; St. Joseph’s students tae part in Empty Bowl project; OLG in Houston holds a “living rosary.”
Weekly News: February 5, 2018
Frater Juan Carlos Castañeda Rojas professes final vows; US Province looks at an increasingly international future; Frater Long Nguyen and Juancho Castañeda Rojas receive Ministry of Lector; International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking; Native Hope wins SD award; February birthdays; and five take part in Come and See weekend.
The blessings of long-term commitment
On February 3, Frater Juan Carlos Castañeda Rojas, SCJ, made his perpetual commitment to be a Dehonian, a member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, received his vows in a ceremony at Sacred Heart Monastery. Originally from Colombia, Frater Juancho professed his first vows in 2013. He is 35.
Internationality is the future of the US Province
“Our Future: Together in Community and Ministry” was the theme of the January 30 – February 1, 2018, US Provincial Conference. Although a variety of issues were discussed, one of the most significant themes was “internationality.” As one SCJ said: “It’s not just that we want to welcome SCJs from other entities; we want to be intercultural, allowing ourselves to changed and enhanced by SCJs from around the world.”
Weekly News: January 29, 2018
Province schools celebrate Catholic Schools Week; Mississippi students take part in School Choice rally; students at Sacred Heart in Southaven learn about migration; bishops issue final message from Rome meeting; Provincial Conference this week; prayer requests and provincial’s time.
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Weekly News: January 22, 2018
SCJs lead confirmation retreat; Chicago property sold; election reminder; reflection on prayer; provincial conference next week; photos and homily from Fr. Steve Wiese’s funeral; notices from SHSST; updates and prayer requests; “Open Heart” retreat in Macau; Dehonian bishops meet in Rome
Fr. Steve Wiese: teacher, pastor and missionary
Fr. Steve Wiese, SCJ, died on January 13; he was 83. He served as a teacher in the province’s seminaries, in parish ministry throughout the country, as a vocation director and as missionary in Lesotho (Africa). For the past several years he had been a member of the Sacred Heart Community at SHML.
Weekly News: January 15, 2018
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; building project updates; keynote speaker at SHSST’s Preaching Workshop echoes Fr. Dehon; Vietnamese SCJ begins seminary studies at SHSST; founder’s circular letters available online; updates and prayer requests; provincial superior’s calendar.
Preaching with the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other
There is a frequently cited image of Fr. Leo John Dehon holding a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. The founder’s call to make the gospel relevant to the events of the day was echoed by Dn. Greg Kandra in his keynote address at SHSST’s Preaching Conference on January 9. “Take the news of the week and make it real,” said Dn. Kandra. “Connect it to the gospel. Every story is a Catholic story. Everything has a relationship to the Gospel, to our faith.”
