Year: 2024
Weekly News: December 16, 2024
We pray… Jesus, to touch our hearts you put aside your divine glory and became a child. To repair a broken world, you embraced our poverty. To bring us the friendship of God, you offered yourself to your Father and emptied yourself on our behalf. Jesus, as we remember the day of your birth, we Read More…
Weekly News: December 9, 2024
We pray… Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, a few short years after the gospel was preached on our shores you came to us, bearing your Son, Jesus. Others had come with greed in their hearts, guns in their hands, and disease in their bodies, but you came with our Savior in your womb. You came Read More…
Weekly News: December 2, 2024
Advent begins God of kindness, you so loved the world that you sent Jesus, your Son, to become one of us. In response to your love, we offer you our lives: our energies, our needs, our intentions. Receive our offering; enable us to unite it with your Word made flesh. During these days full of Read More…
Weekly News: November 25, 2024
Giving thanks, and remembering those who came before For Dehonians in the US Province, this week includes two special moments for expressing gratitude. Thursday, November 28, is American Thanksgiving. Officially it is a day to give thanks for our many blessings, but also a time to be with family, friends, or to simply relax in Read More…
Weekly News: November 18, 2024
75 years! On November 9, Holy Family School in Holly Springs, MS, hosted a 75th anniversary celebration. Bishop Joseph Kopacz of Jackson was the main celebrant at a Mass that kicked off the day’s events; he is pictured above with SCJ Frs. Guy Blair, David Szatkowski, Vien Nguyen and Jack Kurps. The school opened in Read More…
Pastoral year enhances seminarian’s commitment
“I was reminded of the beauty and strength that faith can provide. I am realizing how profoundly ministry connects me to people’s lives.” – Frater Truc Tran, SCJ The following is written by Frater Truc Tran, SCJ, a seminarian doing his pastoral year in South Dakota. A pastoral year experience is often transformative, marking a Read More…
Celebrating 75 years of education in Mississippi
On Saturday, November 9, Holy Family School in Holly Springs, MS, welcomed students, alumni, parents, teachers, former staff and other members of the community to its 75th anniversary celebration. Bishop Joseph Kopacz of Jackson was the main celebrant at a Mass that kicked off the day’s events; he is pictured above with SCJ Frs. Guy Read More…
Weekly News: November 11, 2024
Celebrating anniversaries and honoring veterans On Saturday, November 9, parishioners at St. Martin of Tours parish in Franklin, WI, celebrated two significant anniversaries: 50 years of Dehonian ministry at the parish, and 20 years since the Dedication Mass of SMOT’s newly built church. In 1998, Fr. Charlie Bisgrove, SCJ, was pastor of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Read More…
An evening of celebrations!
ONLINE PHOTO ALBUM A blended parish family On November 9, parishioners at St. Martin of Tours parish in Franklin, WI, celebrated two significant anniversaries: 50 years of Dehonian ministry at the parish, and 20 years since the Dedication Mass of SMOT’s newly built church. In 1998, Fr. Charlie Bisgrove, SCJ, was pastor of Sacred Hearts Read More…
Weekly News: November 4, 2024
Vocation Awareness Week From November 3-9, we celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week, a time dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Throughout the week, the Province Vocation Office is sharing brief quotes from our seminarians about their experience of following God’s call. They appear on the province Facebook page and Instagram. “No Read More…
