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.” […]
Featured Stories | October 19, 2020
🎬 VIEW student videos Students unmasked! Each year we ask our students in formation to introduce themselves in their own words. Reflecting the diversity of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians), as well as the Church itself, they represent a wide variety of cultural, educational and professional backgrounds. Yet they all have the same […]
20 Questions | September 28, 2020
Originally from Pennsylvania, Bishop Joseph Potocnak, SCJ, spent 36 years in South Africa, 17 as bishop of the Diocese of De Aar. He is now retired and is a member of the Sacred Heart Community in Pinellas Park, FL, where he serves as a volunteer chaplain at the local veterans center. Q: Where were […]
20 Questions | September 25, 2020
A missionary in Indonesia for over 30 years, Fr. Mark Fortner, SCJ, is now retired and living at Sacred Heart at Monastery Lake. Before answering the questions, Fr. Mark wrote a short preface: The photo of the sunflowers at the top of the page reminds me of our garden at SHML and offers me a […]
Featured Stories | September 24, 2020
What can I do to respond to migrants and their needs? DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE: English (letter) French (letter) Indonesian (letter) Portuguese (letter) Spanish (letter) Vietnamese (letter) More than ever before, we are aware that there are countless migrants in every part of the world. They are fleeing […]
20 Questions | September 08, 2020
Originally from India, Fr. Praveen Kumar Richard, SCJ, is a member of the SCJ community at St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, SD. Q: Where were you born and raised? Describe your family. FR. PRAVEEN: I was born in Tamil Nadu, one of the states in India. I am the second child among the […]
20 Questions | September 02, 2020
Fr. Vincent Suparman, SCJ, originally from Indonesia, is local superior of the Sacred Heart retirement community in Pinellas Park, FL. Q: Where were you born and raised? Describe your family. FR. VINCENT: I was born in Batanghari, a little town thirty miles East of Teluk Betung, the capital of Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. At age […]
Featured Stories | August 28, 2020
“I am very happy to have had the opportunity to work and learn alongside people who are blind, who witness to me their courage, patience, and strength of character.” -Br. Leonard Zaworski, SCJ Many people think of picking up a new skill as they enter retirement: learn a musical instrument, start to paint, become […]
Featured Stories | August 15, 2020
“Why do you want to profess vows with the Priests of the Sacred Heart; why do you choose to be a Dehonian?” This was the question posed to Thien Nguyen, Thuan Nguyen, Hung Pham and Truc Tran a week before they professed their First Vows with the Priests of the Sacred Heart. Each spent a year in […]
20 Questions | July 29, 2020
Br. Duane Lemke, SCJ, is local superior of Sacred Heart Monastery where he works with the ECS program, as well as at St. Martin of Tours parish in Franklin, WI. Q: Where were you born and raised? Describe your family. BR. DUANE: I was born and raised on a farm in western South Dakota. My […]