Featured Stories | September 22, 2017
On September 21, the feast of St. Matthew, the Sacred Heart Community at SHML honored Fr. Paul Casper (60 years), Fr. Ed Griesemer (60 years) and Fr. Johnny Klingler (50 years) for their anniversaries of priesthood ordination. Friends, family and SCJs filled the Good Shepherd Chapel.
Featured Stories | September 18, 2017
As attention focused on the devastation caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the people of southern Mexico were struggling to recover from a massive earthquake that happened late on September 7. Among those affected was Fr. Francisco VanderHoff Boersm, a Dutch SCJ who lives and works among indigenous people in Oaxaca.
Featured Stories | September 07, 2017
Alonso Barrantes is an SCJ candidate completing his third year of philosophy at St. Xavier University in Chicago. During his summer ministry assignment in Houston he had the opportunity to spend a few days at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas. It was an experience that "deeply changed my heart," said Alonso.
Featured Stories | September 07, 2017
Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology begins the 2017-18 school year with a significant new program in its course offerings: “Cor Unum.” Using a cohort model of education, where students work together as an educational community, participants will earn a Master of Arts degree through a hybrid instructional model consisting of classroom and online components. Students take six credits a semester, completing their MA in 22 months.
Featured Stories | August 16, 2017
Frater Juancho Castañeda Rojas just returned from his pastoral year in Brazil. "I experienced a sense of the internationality of the congregation," he wrote in a reflection on the experience. "We are all Dehonians, living that dream of Father Dehon by being among the poor, by serving those who most need us." Click here to read his full reflection.
Featured Stories | July 31, 2017
Who are the Priests of the Sacred Heart, the Dehonians? What are our values, our priorities? The Rule of Life, built on the foundation of the charism left to us by Fr. Leo Dehon, answers these questions in detail. Last year the general administration developed a Mission Statement that takes the essence of that Rule of Life and gives it focus in today's terminology.
Featured Stories | July 26, 2017
On August 12th the District of Vietnam will celebrate the first ordination of an SCJ within the district itself. Until now, all ordinations were done outside of the country. August 12th will also be a significant day for Fr. Francis Vu Tran. It will be the one-year anniversary of his installation as superior. A US citizen originally from Vietnam, he was asked by Fr. General to go to Vietnam.
Featured Stories | July 08, 2017
Fr. Charles Yost, SCJ, died July 8 at Sacred Heart at Monastery Lake in Franklin, WI. He had gone into home hospice care just days earlier. Fr. Yost was 85. "Being an SCJ definitely influences how I minister," he wrote several years ago, reflecting on his vocation. "From the SCJs I have a deep appreciation of the Mass and the Eucharist that I try to pass on to others."
Featured Stories | June 23, 2017
"If we put our trust and hope in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he will not disappoint; for his Heart still beats with healing and love for the world, for us.," said Fr. Ed Kilianski, US provincial superior, in his homily for the feast of the Sacred Heart. Sacred Heart Monastery hosted a feast-day celebration on June 23.
Featured Stories | June 20, 2017
Fr. Vincent McDonald, SCJ, died June 19 in suburban Milwaukee. He was 85, professed his first vows with the Priests of the Sacred Heart in 1951 and was ordained in 1958. He served as a prison chaplain, as a chaplain to the armed services, in hospital ministry and in parish ministry.