Featured Stories | December 05, 2012
Parish territory the size of Belgium On December 2, Bishop Teemu Sippo, SCJ, blessed a new chapel in Vaasa, a small town on Finland’s Baltic seashore. It is the second chapel, or mission station, attached to Holy Cross parish in Tampere. Finland might not be what first comes to mind when one hears about “mission […]
Featured Stories | November 09, 2012
A hands-on connection to the life of Jesus Much can be learned about a place through books, class work and the shared impressions of others. This is how most people come to know of the Holy Land, about the life of Jesus and his first disciples. “But to actually get the same dirt on your […]
Featured Stories | November 02, 2012
If you are unable to view the slideshow above, please click here to go directly to album. Many faiths come together at SCJ school Three years ago the Indonesian Province assumed responsibility for the Yos Sudarso Foundation which administers a junior and senior high school in the Lampung Province on the island of Sumatra. Combined, […]
Featured Stories | October 21, 2012
Provincial superior among those present at canonization of 1st Native American Fr. Tom Cassidy, SCJ, provincial superior, and Fr. Tom Westhoven, SCJ, joined Fr. Francis Vu Tran, an SCJ student in Rome, at the October 21 canonization ceremony at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Among those canonized was Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American […]
Featured Stories | October 17, 2012
ESL alumnus a part of relief efforts in Chad Heavy rains have bombarded the African nation of Chad since mid-August. One of the areas most heavily hit is the region of Tandjile where the SCJs minister at St. Francis of Assisi parish. The parish’s substations in Baktchoro and Kolon have experienced some of the country’s […]
Featured Stories | October 09, 2012
Archbishop’s ordination filled with African traditions The following was written by Fr. John van den Hengel, the general councilor who inherited Archbishop Claudio Dalla Zuanna’s job of vicar general following the archbishop’s appointment. Fr. Tom Cassidy, provincial superior of the U.S. Province was also at the ceremony. On Sunday, October 7, the feast of the […]
Featured Stories | October 02, 2012
Click here to view a photo album from India Mary Gorski, communications director for the U.S. Province, and Fr. Heru Ismadi, secretary general, had a whirlwind tour of the District of India after several days of workshops at Dehon Vidya Sadhan, Aluva, in the SCJs’ Indian District. Fr. Heru and Mary teamed up to do […]
Featured Stories | September 07, 2012
Dehonian spirit growing Fr. Francis Vu Tran, SCJ, emigrated from Vietnam to the United States when he was a child. As an adult, he has returned several times to visit family but in recent years, he has also had the opportunity to visit a group of people who didn’t exist in Vietnam when he was […]
Featured Stories | August 27, 2012
“Internationality is essential to our development as a congregation. All of us here are a result of the congregation’s commitment to mission.” Fr. José Ornelas Carvalho, SCJ, Superior General, speaking to major superiors at their July meeting in Neustadt, Germany It only took five years for the Priests of the Sacred Heart to move beyond […]
Featured Stories | August 14, 2012
First steps on the road to religious life On Tuesday, August 14, James Nguyen and Juan Carlos Castaneda Rojas were received into the novitiate for the U.S. Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart during a prayer service at Sacred Heart Monastery/School of Theology. Fr. John Czyzynski, SCJ, is their novice master. Reflecting on […]