Weekly News: November 7, 2022

Fr. Bernie Rosinski has died Fr. Bernard (Bernie) Rosinski, SCJ, died on November 3 in Chamberlain, SD. Diagnosed with advanced metastatic cancer in August, he was in home hospice care. Fr. Bernie was 88. Originally from Detroit, Fr. Bernie was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. This year, he celebrated his 70th year as a Read More…


Fr. Bernie Rosinski: 1934-2022

“I am happy to be an SCJ because I am surrounded by saints. There are so many of them, both deceased and still living. I find that by being with them I discover their saintliness, often hidden, but discoverable through attentiveness and observation. It’s not that my SCJ brothers don’t have faults. It’s that they Read More…


Weekly News: October 31, 2022

“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…


Not Forgotten

Daily, people contact us asking for updates on the search for Fr. Anthony Kluckman, who disappeared from Sacred Heart at Monastery Lake on July 21. Unfortunately, no information has yet surfaced to help authorities in their search. Yesterday, the Franklin Police Department flew drones around the SHML property to see if they may have missed Read More…


Weekly News: October 24, 2022

Social encyclicals serve as a social catechism As noted previously, Cardinal Peter Turkson, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, was the featured speaker at the October 19th Dehon Lecture at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. His topic: “A New Social Catechism for the 21st Century?” Read More…


Cardinal Turkson featured speaker at Dehon Lecture

CLICK HERE to view more photos from the day. CLICK HERE to access Cardinal Turkson’s PDF for his presentation “Fr. Dehon wanted to sensitize parish priests and seminarians about social problems so that they would leave their sacristies and go to the people.” -Cardinal Peter Turkson, Dehon Lecturer Cardinal Peter Turkson was the main speaker at Read More…


Weekly News: October 17, 2022

Together after three years For the first time in nearly three years, leadership and staff of Sacred Heart Southern Missions and the Catholic Parishes of Northwest Mississippi gathered for an in-service training day last week. The pandemic put a halt to such large gatherings since the last one in December 2019. It seemed appropriate that Read More…


Weekly News: October 11, 2022

Our Dehonian students “I find community life to be life-giving, filled with joy,” wrote Frater Jonathan Nguyen Vuong, SCJ. “We bond and learn more about each other in community. I do find academic studies to be challenging in formation. But even though it is challenging for me and other SCJ students, I know that the Read More…


Meet our 2022-23 students!

Preparing for religious life 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 each have the same call to Read More…


Weekly News: October 3, 2022

The cat who could drive a car? Usually, we do not feature the same person at the top of the Fridge Notes two weeks in a row. However, the cat in this photo insisted that the picture wasn’t about Fr. Hendrik Ardianto, SCJ, who was in the lead photo of the September 26th edition, but Read More…