20 Questions | June 27, 2020
Br. Frank Presto is provincial secretary of the US Province. Q: Where were you born and raised? Describe your family. BR. FRANK: I was born in Pittsburgh, PA. All of my grandparents emigrated from southern Italy and settled there to raise their families. Victor and Rita were my parents. Tina is my sister. […]
Featured Stories | June 22, 2020
“As we renew our commitment to follow Jesus as sons of Fr. Dehon, let us pray for each other that we will have the courage and humility to take up His yoke, to live the call to discover and make known the love of the Heart of Jesus in souls and societies, to act concretely […]
Featured Stories | June 17, 2020
PICTURED ABOVE: The Big Bend Dam near Fort Thompson As local communities around the province prepare to celebrate feast of the Sacred Heart on Friday, June 19, the SCJ community in South Dakota grapples more so than most with how to be together, separately. “The regional community in South Dakota is under some duress,” writes […]
Featured Stories | June 08, 2020
Reflecting on the many marches, peaceful protests and other events around the world calling attention to the need for justice, love and unity for all, Frater Henry Nguyen, SCJ, wrote the following. Frater Henry, a seminarian and Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, is just beginning his pastoral year in Mississippi. In Search of the Value of the […]
Featured Stories | June 01, 2020
An international group of religious men and women, including Dehonians from the United States and Argentina and lay persons from Chile, have organized a series of four webinars for June focused on deepening one’s spirituality of the Sacred Heart. They will be held in Spanish. “We will explore Sacred Heart spirituality in a holistic way […]
Featured Stories | May 25, 2020
“It’s all right to celebrate this day with fireworks and parades and decorating grave sites, but it seems to me that the best way to honor those who have died in wars is to dedicate ourselves to eliminating future wars.” -Fr. John Czyzynski,, SCJ Fr. John Czyzynski, SCJ, gave the homily at this morning’s Memorial […]
Featured Stories | May 25, 2020
Fr. Stephen Huffstetter, SCJ, vicar general, writes about a Rome that is slowly reopening following significant shut-downs due to COVID-19. Although there is some relaxing of stay-at-home orders, Rome is a much different place than its usual spring-time busyness. Fr. Steve writes: After two months of staying at home, the city of Rome has begun […]
Featured Stories | May 21, 2020
Originally from the District of India, Fr. Praveen Kumar Richard, SCJ, was assigned to ministry at St. Joseph’s Indian School last year. He taught, he celebrated liturgies and other prayer services, and he helped with parish ministry on the nearby reservations. But that all changed in March with COVID-19. Students could not return to school […]
Featured Stories | April 16, 2020
In most areas, the COVID-19 stay-in-place orders went into effect just as Christians were preparing for Easter Week. How to come together to celebrate when we can’t be together? For many faith communities, it meant a crash-course in online ministry. Our Lady of Guadalupe in Houston was one of the first of our Dehonian parishes […]
Featured Stories | April 03, 2020
“Today, this is my prayer for you: that you trust deeply in the mercy of our loving Father, just as Jesus did. I know that this is difficult; we are human, and we are afraid. But we are in this together, as one Dehonian family, one people of God.” -Fr. Ed Kilianski, SCJ Fr. […]