18 November 2000

What's New

The novitiate in Noungué, Cameroon has acquired an email address: novcm@iccnet2000.com . It will be added to our email page. The secretary general's office is in the process of preparing an updated list which we will post to the website in December. If you are aware of any email addresses we are currently missing please inform them at: scjcuriagen@scj.org .

Argentina also has a new provincial email address: provincial@dehonianos.org.ar .
In addition the province now has its own website: www.dehonianos.org.ar . We will add this site to our links page. Also be aware of the site in Uruguay which has been up and running for quite some time it's URL is: http://www.chasque.apc.org/umbrales .

Sacred Heart School of Theology is back online with a new and improved website. Peg Boyles writes: "We plan to include many more things, but that will take more time and work." Their URL is: http://www.shst.edu . Your comments will be appreciated and can be sent to Ms. Peg Boyles at: pegboyles@juno.com .

This week's Meet and SCJ features Jose Jorge de Sousa Alves (LU) who was born Born on September 11, 1953, in Santa Cruz, located on the island of Madeira, a part of Portugal.

What's Happening

Congratulations

On 11 November in the parish of S. Maria del Suffriagio, Bologna three scjs made their final profession:

• Giuseppe Guglielmi (IM)
• Renzo Zambotti (IS)
• Stefano Zamboni (IS)

(S. Maria del Suffriago, Bologna)

Fr. Osnildo Klann (BM) was kind enough to write a short article on the pilgrimage tour the Portuguese language ongoing formation group took from Rome to France to visit La Capelle and other places of importance in the life of Fr. Dehon (cf. A Pilgrimage to La Capelle).

The participants in the Portuguese language ongoing formation program, that began in Rome on 04 September 2000 and will end on 28 November, have wanted to make a pilgrimage to places of importance in the life of our founder Leo John Dehon, e.g., his place of birth, where he worked and where he is buried.

Carlos Frick (VEN) interviews Amy Back

This is the last in the series of interviews Carlos Frick (VEN) conducted with the ESL staff in Hales Corners while he was a participant in the summer (July - September) program. Carlos is currently finishing up his course of studies in Venezuela and kindly serves as the Spanish language translator of our website (cf. Amy Bach).

Amy Bach worked with the ESL (English as a Second Language) Program this summer. This was her first experience working with the SCJs, and also her first experience working in the environment of the ESL Program, at Sacred Heart Monastery/Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin.

Logo for Salamanca Education Conference

During his recent visit to Rome, Aquilino Mielgo Domínguez, provincial superior of the Spanish Province, met with Carlos Alberto da Costa Silva (CU), general councilor coordinating the education conference. The two agreed upon using this logo for the conference slated to bring dehonian educators, scjs, religious and lay together in Salamanca, Spain in July of next year.

Please Remember

+P Jean Flan (EF)

born: 15.08.1927
first profession: 29.09.1948
ordained: 17.04.1954
died: 09.11.2000 at Amiens

+F Wladyslaw Antonio Borowy (PO)

born: 29.07.1929
first profession: 21.11.1940
died: 12.11.2000 at Stadniki

Br. Antonio was well known in the Italian Provinces, as he made his novitiate and first profession in Italy. He was the oldest brother in the Polish Province and would have celebrated 60 years of first profession on November 21^st.

Letters from the First Novices

In the twenty-second in our series from CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FIRST NOVICES BEFORE THE "CONSUMMATUM EST 1878-1883" by Egidio Driedonkx, we present three short letters in Correspondence Received. It is taken from those sent by Fr. Paris to the novice Falleur.

"Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, you are our Love."

He [I don't know who this "He" refers to!] asks forgiveness for not having written letters to him or the other confreres. This is his duty but it was not fulfilled properly. He wants to meet with them. He asks to notify Frs. Thaddeus, Bartholome and all who have written to him that the letters have made him very happy. He joins them, in a less than perfect manner, to the novena prayed by Fr. Matias.