Featured Stories | May 30, 2013
Feast of the Sacred Heart is next Friday, June 7. As is tradition, the superior general and his council wrote a letter to commemorate the congregation's feast day. "Our vocation and mission [is] a prophecy of love and a service of reconciliation," starts Fr. General in his letter. "Father Dehon expected his religious to be prophets of love and servants of reconciliation of people and the world in Christ."
Featured Stories | May 27, 2013
Many of Kisangani’s youth have only known a life of war and violence. Calm is often just a brief breath of fresh air in the midst of protest and conflict. The city is the third largest in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it reflects much of the struggles of the country itself. In the midst of this, the Priests of the Sacred Heart created “Gradi-Jeunes.”
Featured Stories | May 20, 2013
A person can have a dictionary’s worth of words in his head, but to really be fluent in a language one also needs to be understood. “It’s a shame to hear ‘We love Fr. Jacobs, he is great with youth and he has such a wonderful smile. It’s just too bad we can’t understand his homilies.’”
Featured Stories | May 17, 2013
Fr. Tomasz said that he first started to hear a vocational call when he was a teen growing up in a small village in Poland. It surprised him. “I was…” and he pauses for the correct word in English, “not a quiet boy! Maybe not as well behaved as my brother and sister.” When he told his parents that he wanted to be a priest, an SCJ priest, they respondedxxx
Featured Stories | May 17, 2013
On May 6 the Vatican announced that Fr. Zolile Peter Mpambani, SCJ, will be the next bishop of Kokstad, a small diocese near Durban, South Africa. Fr. Zolile, currently provincial superior of the South African Province, is 56. Previously, he was a member of the General Council in Rome. "While I was on the council, I saw provinces and regions beginning to open their eyes... now there seems to bexxx
Featured Stories | April 11, 2013
The Priests of the Sacred Heart began ministry in the United States near Chamberlain, S.D., in the early 1920s. Upon hearing this fact during the Mission Education Conference one of our province employees said she that could easily guess why: “They were stuck!”
Featured Stories | April 11, 2013
Prior to the Mission Education gathering, staff from St. Joseph’s Indian School, as well as several SCJs and province employees, were asked to answer the question “I am a Dehonian because…” Many of the statements were shared during Mission Education. The full list of statements is published here.
Featured Stories | March 21, 2013
Something was different Fr. Greg Schill says that even as a child he had a sense that he was experiencing the world differently than others. With a laser beam focus of attention he often became obsessed with a single object or concern while not even seeing that which might be right in front of his […]
Featured Stories | March 18, 2013
“I felt joy and hope knowing that it is a man of God charged with the cross of the service of the Church and the world, in love.” -Bishop Virginio Bressanelli, SCJ Last week we published a few brief thoughts from Bishop Virginio Bressanelli on the naming of fellow Argentine, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as […]
Featured Stories | March 15, 2013
Fr. Francis Vu Tran is a member of the U.S. Province currently studying biblical theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The following is his reflection on learning about the selection of the new Pope: The conclave’s black smoke on Wednesday morning signaled that there was no Pope yet. That afternoon, I was sitting […]