Year: 2021
Weekly News: November 1, 2021
“Our life is a continuous dying. Every moment slips away from us until we have exhausted all the time that God has allotted to us. Our life is a short series of relations with God, with others, and with ourselves. Our actions have an almost infinite value if they are done in the grace of Read More…
Weekly News: October 25, 2021
Autumn in Wisconsin Pictured at the top of the page are several of our ECS (English and Cultural Studies) students, along with Br. Duane Lemke, SCJ, taking part in some traditional autumn pumpkin carving over the weekend. “I knew it was what I wanted to do” After 10 years in Mississippi serving in pastoral ministry, Read More…
“I knew it was what I wanted to do”
After 10 years in Mississippi serving in pastoral ministry, Fr. Greg Schill, SCJ, got to thinking that maybe it was time to think of a new assignment. Thankfully, Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, had the same idea. “The night before Fr. Ed was scheduled to meet with me for the annual provincial visitation, I was thinking Read More…
Weekly News: October 18, 2021
Honoring Sr. Charles Last week the pastoral team that serves the Lower Brule and Crow Creek reservations in South Dakota celebrated Sr. Charles Palm’s 38 years of service to St. Joseph’s parish in Fort Thompson. “She is like the icon, the grandmother of the parish,” said Fr. Christianus Hendrik, SCJ. “She knows everyone here and Read More…
Welcome Fr. Ardi!
The newest member of the US Province is an SCJ who has actually been here for several years: Fr. Hendrik Ardianto, SCJ, or “Fr. Ardi” as he is known in his American home. Originally from Indonesia, Fr. Ardi came to the US Province in the spring of 2019 to study English in Sacred Heart Seminary Read More…
Weekly News: October 11, 2021
A day of celebration Today, October 11, is a day of diverse celebrations. Although it has been commemorated by several states during the past few years, 2021 marks the first time that Indigenous Peoples’ Day is observed at the federal level. On October 8, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., wrote that “On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read More…
Weekly News: October 4, 2021
Remembering Br. John “He was one of the first SCJs I met,” said Fr. Byron Haaland, SCJ, the homilist at last week’s Mass of Christian Burial for Br. John Monek, SCJ. Fr. Byron, pictured above, would later spend many years ministering with Br. John at St. Joseph’s Retreat Center in Baileys Harbor, WI. “Br. John’s Read More…
Dehon Lecture focus on the Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy
“The Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy: a comparison and contrast between these two streams of spirituality in the life of the Church.” This was the topic of today’s Dehon Lecture at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. The morning presenter was Dr. Robert Stackpole. A former Anglican priest, he converted to Roman Catholicism in Read More…
Weekly News: September 27, 2021
Meet our 2021-22 Formation Community! Each year we ask our students in formation to introduce themselves in their own words. Reflecting the diversity of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians), as well as the Church itself, they represent a wide variety of cultural, educational and professional backgrounds. Yet they all have the same call Read More…
Br. John Monek has died
On September 27, Br. John Monek, SCJ, died following several months in home hospice care. He turned 92 on September 18, and just days before his birthday, he was anointed, surrounded by members of his religious community at Sacred Heart at Monastery Lake. Originally from Pennsylvania, Br. John served in the U.S. military before pursuing Read More…
