Month: August 2023

Weekly News: August 21, 2023

The school year starts! Fr. David Szatkowski, SCJ, is pictured above left celebrating the Opening Mass at Sacred Heart School in Southaven, MS, on August 15, the feast of the Assumption. Below, Fr. Vien Nguyen, SCJ, is pictured with new faculty members at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology following a presentation on Dehonian Read More…

Weekly News: August 14, 2023

Jubilarians represent a diversity in ministry On August 12 Dehonians celebrated the Jubilees of four members of the US Province: Fr. Jim Schroeder (60 years of vows), Fr. Guy Blair (50 years), Fr. Francis Vu Tran (25 years) and Fr. Mark Mastin (20 years). Also remembered during the jubilee was Fr. Juan Carlos Castañeda Rojas, Read More…

Jubilarians represent a diversity in ministry

Click here to view PHOTOS from the Jubilee Click here to view the LIVESTREAM of the Jubilee Mass On August 12 Dehonians celebrated the Jubilees of four members of the US Province: Fr. Jim Schroeder (60 years of vows), Fr. Guy Blair (50 years), Fr. Francis Vu Tran (25 years) and Fr. Mark Mastin (20 Read More…

“Benedictine Dehonians”

 “It was an unexpected joy to find out that my historical research has dovetailed with the history of the Dehonians in the United States.” -Dr. Paul Monson, SHSST Vice President of Intellectual Formation and Academic Dean This year we celebrate the centenary of Dehonian ministry in the United States. During his presentation today (Aug. Read More…

Weekly News: August 7, 2023

Back where it all began The last of the three Centennial celebrations was held on July 30 in the place where it all began: Lower Brule, SD. It was there in 1923 that Fr. Mathias Fohrman, an SCJ priest from the German Province, first celebrated Mass at St. Mary’s parish. The parish had just been Read More…