Featured Stories | June 24, 2021
Under a warm, early summer sun, a crowd gathered on Tuesday, June 22, to dedicate the Sacred Heart Chacon Family Shelter in Eagle Butte, S.D. Earlier, six shelter advocates met with Lakota Elder Cheryl Redbear to reflect on their special role in service to those seeking shelter, healing and a new beginning at the facility. […]
Featured Stories | June 11, 2021
Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ, provincial superior of the US Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians), was the main celebrant and homilist at the June 11 Mass for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Dehonians joined residents at Sacred Heart at Monastery Lake in the feast-day Eucharist in the Good Shepherd Chapel. Fr. […]
Featured Stories | May 25, 2021
Fr. Praveen Kumar Richard, SCJ, will soon return to the Indian District after several years of study and ministry in the US Province, including two years at St. Joseph’s Indian School in South Dakota. Before leaving, he was featured in St. Joe Strong, an internal school newsletter. The publication began by noting something that Fr. […]
Featured Stories | May 03, 2021
Frater Long Nguyen, SCJ –– an American of Vietnamese background –– is the most recent addition to the multicultural community that serves the Lower Brule and Crow Creek reservations in South Dakota. He joins Fr. Jean-Claude Mbassi, SCJ, from Cameroon, and Fr. Christianus Hendrik, SCJ, originally from Indonesia. The culture that he left –– northern […]
Featured Stories | April 29, 2021
“Interculturality in a religious community begins with hospitality, which in a broader sense means availability.” -Fr. Andrzej Sudol, SCJ He is a Polish priest who has served on three of the five continents on which the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians) are located. For Fr. Andrzej Sudol, SCJ, interculturality is more than terminology, it […]
Featured Stories | April 21, 2021
“A pedagogy of the heart means a holistic approach; it means approaching the entire person, not just a student’s academic needs. Teaching our students in this way will help them to use a holistic style in other areas of their life, including their interaction with others, as they become adults and take on roles within […]
Featured Stories | April 08, 2021
St. Joseph’s Indian School recently awarded $84,350 in spring-semester scholarships to Native American students across the nation, bringing the total awards for the academic year to $176,050. This spring, the school provided 68 scholarships: 16 to alumni, 13 to family members of St. Joseph’s Indian School alumni, and 39 to others enrolled in a federally […]
Featured Stories | March 20, 2021
“We must shape our parishes and institutions to be oases of hospitality where all are welcome,” said Bishop Joseph Perry. Bishop Perry, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, was the presenter at today’s Dehon Lecture at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. His topic: “The Canonization of Fr. Augustus Tolton: Significance for Race Relations and Interculturality.” […]
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 […]