Featured Stories | March 19, 2021
Frater Henry Bui Nguyen, SCJ, is a seminarian currently doing his pastoral year in Ecuador. Far from home, he has kept up with news of the attacks in the United States against those of Asian background. Although Frater Henry was born in the US and grew up in California, his family is from Vietnam. He […]
Featured Stories | March 08, 2021
Frater Henry Bui Nguyen, SCJ, is doing the second half of his pastoral year in Ecuador. He recently wrote a reflection on his first months there: I have been in Bahia de Caraquez for the past two months after ascending down the mountain, or the sierra (Quito) as it’s known here, six hours later arriving […]
Featured Stories | February 22, 2021
In May, 2015, at the age of 81, Fr. Bernie Rosinski, SCJ, completed a master’s degree in Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. Many people congratulated him on the effort, but often added “What are you going to do with it?” Fr. Bernie admits that for a while, the question bothered […]
Featured Stories | January 23, 2021
The Mass of Christian Burial for Fr. Bob was on February 6. Click here to view photos. Click here to read Fr. Ed Kilianski’s homily Click here to view a PDF of the Funeral Mass Booklet View a video of the Wake and Funeral: TRIBUTE VIDEOS: VIDEOS: The upper video was produced by our formation […]
Featured Stories | January 22, 2021
During Adoration with the community at Sacred Heart Monastery on January 21, Jonathan Nguyen-Vuong, Jacob Smith and Michael Wodarczyk entered postulancy. They join Celsus Robert, who became a postulant last year, in preparation for the novitiate. Fr. Andrzej Sudol is the postulancy director. Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, received the postulants. “It’s a joy for me to welcome the three of you […]
Featured Stories | January 11, 2021
Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, provincial superior of the US Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, writes the following in response to last week’s incidents in Washington, DC: Horror, disbelief and sadness. These are the emotions that continue to run through me as I reflect on the uprising that took place on the US […]
Featured Stories | January 06, 2021
Frater Henry Nguyen, SCJ, arrived in Quito, Ecuador, on December 28, to begin the second half of his pastoral year. He was originally scheduled to spend his entire pastoral year in South America, taking part in a Spanish-language immersion experience and get a taste of ministry in a culture outside of the US Province. However, […]
Featured Stories | December 20, 2020
Fr. Stephen Huffstetter, SCJ, vicar general, writes the following from the Generalate in Rome: Dear SCJ family, I send my prayers and greetings for a joyful Christmas! Last month during the US Province’s Zoom assembly I was quite touched, and felt sentimental just seeing confreres I haven’t been able to see for so long. Like […]
Featured Stories | November 18, 2020
“It is so good to see your faces, to hear your voices” -Fr. Stephen Huffstetter, vicar general Adapt, adapt, adapt! That is the mantra of 2020 as people throughout the world make adjustments due to the pandemic. Liturgies and ceremonies are livestreamed, classes are online, and even family gatherings have moved to Zoom. On […]
Featured Stories | October 26, 2020
“If there is anything that is for sure in our lives it is that we will experience many transitions, changes, and experiences and that many of those may come to us when we least expect them. Surely this is one of lessons we have learned from the pandemic which has changed lives around the world.” […]