News & Events | February 10, 2025
Preparing “ambassadors of Christ in everyday life” “[Y]ou play a crucial role in carrying out the Church’s mission in the world by engaging with important issues regarding justice, peace, protection of life, nurturing the young at heart, and upholding the dignity of all people. You are ambassadors of Christ in everyday life. And by embodying […]
News & Events | February 03, 2025
Happy New Year! The Vietnamese community at St. Martin of Tours parish celebrated a special Lunar New Year Mass yesterday, February 2. Known as “Tết,” it is one of Vietnam’s most significant holidays, a time for families to reunite and honor their ancestors. Fr. Vien Nguyen, SCJ, provincial superior, was the main celebrant and homilist. […]
News & Events | January 27, 2025
Celebrating Catholic Schools Week! Schools throughout the province are celebrating Catholic Schools Week from January 26 – February 1. At Our Lady of Guadalupe in Houston there are special activities each day, including a panel discussion about vocations (Fr. Henry Nguyen, SCJ, vocation director, and Fra. Michael Wodarczyk, SCJ, are among the panelists), service projects […]
News & Events | January 19, 2025
On Love… Each year we note some of the parallels in the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and our founder, Ven. Fr. Leo John Dehon. Below are reflections from both on the topic of “love.” “Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” It is this: that […]
News & Events | January 13, 2025
Preaching the truth Fr. Paul Phong Hoang, SCJ (pictured below), was one of the closing presenters at the 7th Annual Preaching Conference at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology which took place January 7-8. Fr. Mark Mastin, SCJ, was the opening speaker; he is pictured above with Fra. Michael Wodarczyk, SCJ, asking a question of Fr. […]
News & Events | January 06, 2025
Continued ministry to Ukraine A small group of Dehonians continue to serve the people of Ukraine: nine SCJs in parishes located in the regions of Zhytomyr and Kyiv. Last week the community posted an update on the general website. “Our main problem now is the ongoing war,” they write. “Although direct hostilities are far from […]
News & Events | December 16, 2024
We pray… Jesus, to touch our hearts you put aside your divine glory and became a child. To repair a broken world, you embraced our poverty. To bring us the friendship of God, you offered yourself to your Father and emptied yourself on our behalf. Jesus, as we remember the day of your birth, we […]
News & Events | December 09, 2024
We pray… Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, a few short years after the gospel was preached on our shores you came to us, bearing your Son, Jesus. Others had come with greed in their hearts, guns in their hands, and disease in their bodies, but you came with our Savior in your womb. You came […]
News & Events | December 02, 2024
Advent begins God of kindness, you so loved the world that you sent Jesus, your Son, to become one of us. In response to your love, we offer you our lives: our energies, our needs, our intentions. Receive our offering; enable us to unite it with your Word made flesh. During these days full of […]
News & Events | November 25, 2024
Giving thanks, and remembering those who came before For Dehonians in the US Province, this week includes two special moments for expressing gratitude. Thursday, November 28, is American Thanksgiving. Officially it is a day to give thanks for our many blessings, but also a time to be with family, friends, or to simply relax in […]