What's New

New Email Address

Maria Driever, webmaster for the German SCJ website (www.scj.de), has informed us that the provincial email address has been changed to provinzialat@scj.de . Please make note of this change. It can also be found on our website links page

International Meeting of Dehonian Educators

We are starting a new page on our website about Fr. Dehon and Education, and about education in general as an aid to our preparation for the meeting in Salamanca, Spain scheduled for July, 2001.

We intend to publish several kinds of material:

 1) Writings from Fr. Dehon.

We will put on line the texts already published by Rome (Oeuvres Sociales, Notes Quotidiennes, etc.) and some new manuscripts not as yet published.

The texts will be mailed in French, if anyone can translate them into the other languages or knows of an existing translation, please send it to us (in an electronic format if at all possible), and we will publish the translation on our site.

 2) Studies, articles, etc., about Fr. Dehon as an educator, his activities, works and foundations in the original language of the author and in any eventual translation already made or to be made by a volunteer.

3) Studies, documents and articles about education, and specifically Catholic Education in the original language of the author and in any eventual translation already made or to be made by a volunteer.

Here in Rome, we will be able to mail a lot of material but we do hope to receive contributions from all over the Congregation on this theme. It will be very enriching for all our educators in the congregation.

We begin by recommending from the Documents of the Vatican II on education: Gravissimumn Educationis, that you can find in all our languages, and is fundamental as a basis for all our studies about Catholic Education and Catholic Schools in modern times.

Here we are posting a document published in March 19,1977: "The Catholic School". The texts we offer you are in French, Portuguese, English and Italian. Those are the translations we found on the Vatican website (www.vatican.va).

provided by Carlos Alberto da Cosata Silva (CU)

Editors Note: The new page will be called Education and can be found on the left hand frame along with other major page sites.

In this week's Meet an SCJ we begin presenting young scjs from Cameron starting with Guy Basile Fouomene.

What's Happening

Congratulations

Congo

On August 13, 2000 at Kinshasa scj brothers profession of vows took place:

Final vows:

Kapinga Kawala Willy
Nlandu Ngaka Hygin

First vows:

Tesombo Emmanuel

Renewal of vows:

Brothers André, Innocent and Roger.

Sent to us by Fr. Paul Krok

Anglo-Canada

On August 15, 2000 at St. Joan of Arc Parish in Toronto Greg Murray made his first vows in the community.

Editors Note: On our July 8, 2000 webpage we featured Greg's vocation story.

September Anniversaries

Priesthood:

10/09/50 Rodríguez GarcíaJuanHIP
23/09/50 CaminatiAngeloLUP

Vows:

Due to the large number of sjcs celebrating anniversaries of their first profession in Septmber we have them listed on a separate page (cf. Congratulations).

Travels

Many scjs who have participated in the ESL (English as a Second Language Program) at Hales Corners, have visited South Dakota, including the famous World's Only Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. Last week your editor was in South Dakota and had the chance to visit Mitchell while they were holding their annual "Corn Palace Days" this year it included this 'sand sculpture' depicting "Pop Corn", King Corn, etc...

Please Remember

+P Clemens Ewald Shäfer GE

Born: 12.01.1930
First Profession: 31.02.1953
Ordained: 15.09.1984
Died: 26.08.2000 at Bonn

Letters from the First Novices

In the twelfth in our series from CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FIRST NOVICES BEFORE THE "CONSUMMATUM EST 1878-1883" by Egidio Driedonkx, we present excerpts from a letter by Fr. Philip Francis Xavier Lamour He entered the novitiate on September 29, 1879 and made his first profession on January 7. 1881.

I have yet a debt to pay on this occasion of the Feast of Francis Xavier. Why am I obligated to tell you this. It is like this. A debt is always a heavy load. By our nature, we choose to get rid of these heavy loads as soon as possible. Without a doubt you may have waited so long, you might say to me. Not really but before having the desire to see you soon, I could not resign myself for waiting to pay off this debt. I know well that in your economic prowess, this act is not in accord with the vow of poverty...