Category: Feature Stories

Pet Blessing

Sacred Heart Monastery will hold a pet blessing service.  Details will be posted soon.  For more information call 800-448-7674.

Province Retreat

Fr. Byron Haaland will be the main presenter at a province retreat in Pinellas Park, Fl.  For more information, contact Fr. Byron at bhaaland@me.com

Provincial Council Meeting

The Provincial Council will meet December 14-15 at the Provincialate Conference Center in Hales Corners, Wis.

Weekly news: March 28, 2011

Another day at St. Joseph’s Fr. Stephen Huffstetter, SCJ, maintains a blog about life at St. Joseph’s Indian School where he is the executive director.  Here’s a look at the entry for March 22.  Note the compensation that a 40-year employee got when she first began at St. Joe’s development office:  “1 ½ cents for Read More…

Weekly news: April 4, 2011

News from the missions Twelve enter Philippine novitiate: Fr. Francis Pupkowski of the Philippine District sent an email last week with a photo of the district’s new novitiate class.  Twelve novices –– seven from India and five from the Philippines –– began their 14-month novitiate on March 25. Fr. Benedito Machado, district superior, accepted the new class Read More…

Bringing SCJ spirituality to the marketplace

Two down, one to go Recently Fr. Quang Nguyen passed the second of the three tests required for him to move forward in his doctoral studies in economics.  After taking the third exam in July, he can submit his proposal for his thesis and begin research. When Fr. Quang was a student in theology he never Read More…

Fr. Charles Bisgrove dies of a stroke

Fr. Charles Bisgrove, SCJ, died April 10, in Milwaukee, from complications of a massive stroke that he suffered on April 7. Born in Lorain, Ohio, he professed vows with the Priests of the Sacred Heart in 1972. Before his ordination to the priesthood in 1990, Fr. Bisgrove, 58, had been a brother with the community for 18 years. After making Read More…

Meet an SCJ: Br. Duane Lemke

I am biased. The best two views in the world can be found in Lower Brule, SD, and Chicago, Ill. Nothing compares to the Missouri River dominating the Dakota horizon as seen from the bluffs overlooking Lower Brule, nor the skyline of steel, glass and light as seen after dark from Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. Of Read More…

Meet an SCJ: Fr. John Czyzynski, SCJ

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio (which we Clevelanders call “the best location in the nation”; others are not as gracious in the epithets they attach to my home town). I had two sisters, one of whom died two years ago. My other sister still lives in Cleveland. I entered our minor seminary in Donaldson, Read More…