What's New

There are several new additions to the House Email Address Page, please make note of them:

1. Indonesia: Bidaracina (St. Anthony's) rwm@indo.net.id.
2. Madagascar: Antananarivo I cdmscj@dts.mg
3. United States Province scjuspro@worldnet.att.net
4. British-Irish Province
1. Irvine (Scotland) J.Dugdale@tesco.net
2. Dublin Ardlea j.vianney@indigo.ie
3. Dublin Inchicore scjdublin@aol.com

The New Internationalist February 2000 issue has an article of interest to those preparing for the General Conference in Recife. Redesigning the Global Economy came recommended by CAFOD*. The website for The New Internationalist is: http://www.oneworld.org. *

The website for CAFOD is: http://www.cafod.org.uk

The generalate is home to the Rome I (Curia) and Rome II (International College) scj communities. This month we will be featuring the scjs who serve the Rome II community, thereby directly and indirectly aiding the Rome I community as well. We will be featuring the local superior and the three brothers who offer their services here in Rome in behalf of the congregation. We start with Fr. Czeslaw Konior (PO) superior of the Rome II community.

This month the Dehonian Family celebrates Fr. Dehon's birth date on March 14, 1843. It is a day of prayer for vocations and this year the establishment of the international scj community at La Capelle, his ancestral home. To celebrate Dehon Month we will be using this image of Fr. Dehon on our News Introduction Page.

Maruice Légaré (CGA) was kind enough to scan it and forward it to Rome. It is the work of Gérard Schoonebeek (CGA) drawn by him when he was a student back in Holland during the late 1940s. Gérard is currently pastor of a parish near Montréal and serves as regional treasurer.
 
 

What's Happening

Congratulations

As the following scjs will mark their anniversaries during the month of March.

Religious Profession

65 Years:

19/03/35 F. Commandeur Cornelis Bernardin NE and F. Kristel Joannes Timotheus NE

60 Years:

03/10/40 P. Nickels Raymond EF and P. Van Broekhoven Theodoor FL

50 Years:

19/03/50 F. Cyr Richard Stephen US and F. Taube John Bernard US

25 Years:

30/03/75 P. Turmes Nicolas EF

Ordination

50 Years:

9/03/50 Duindam Henricus NE
25/03/50 Werlen Antoine Jean EF

And a belated congratulations goes to Fr. Jesús Vicente Ollobarren (Ven), who celebrated his 50^th anniversary of profession on February 19^th at the Valencia (Venezuela) community.

Mozambique

Dear Riva* and Community

This morning at 5:00 AM when I opened my email I found a lot of worried folks inquiring about the flooding in Mozambique.

The entire South is under water, half the bridges have collapsed. Maputo [the capital] is isolated from the rest of the country. A bridge on the national highway that you must cross from Maputo going north collapsed. It is about 100 km [62.14 miels] from the capital. The city of Beira was flattened by the cyclone, with thousands homeless.

Here north of the Zambezi River where Quelimane is located we've had very little rain, so we have not suffered.

International aid has started to arrive, but its still so little given the scope of the situation.

Thank you for your interest.

Aldo Marchesini

*Abbodio Riva (IS) is a brother working in the Roma II Community. He worked for a number of years in Mozambique. In the capital Maputo we have the philosophy and theology formation community. Most of the province works would be in the north.

In Memory of

The funeral for Bishop Paul Verschuren, scj, took place on February 29, 2000, in Helsinki, Finland. Ryszard Mis (CU) and Adrian Borst (NE) represented the general administration. Jan Aarts (FIN), apostolic administrator of the diocese of Helsinki, forwarded to Rome a copy of the eulogy he prepared. (cf. In Memory of Bishop Paul Verschuren). [images from the funeral]

Dehon Photo of the Week

Since the anniversary of P. Dehon approaches, this week weíll listen to what Dehon himself says about this, especially in the last decades of his life. Next week we will listen to the voice of others, friends and confreres in their letters of congratulations.

This week Stefan Tertünte uses a photo of Fr. Dehon praying before a statue of the Sacred Heart and offers us some of Fr. Dehon's own reflections on his March 14^th birthdate as we begin Dehon Month (Cf. Anniversary).

Dehon in Canada and America

It should be pronounced "Siatteul;" English has such a bizarre pronunciation! I am staying at Providence Hospital which is run by a very obliging group of Canadian sisters. Several Canadian communities have expanded into America: the Sisters of Providence, those of Saint Anne and those of Jesus and Mary. Their chaplain is a Belgian priest, Father Kanten, who is also the chancellor of the diocese. The good chaplain has become thoroughly American and is fascinated by the immensity of the country. He doesn't like to speak French any more or to admit that he was a Belgian. Other than that, he is very accommodating and hospitable, and he gave me a good tour of the city.

Many students of English will heartily agree with Fr. Dehon's judgment that English pronunciation is bizarre! Having left Canada Fr. Dehon is now working his way down the Pacific west coast of the United States. Seattle is his first stop. Like its sister city north of the border, Vancouver, it is considered to be one of the most picturesque of American cities. As any computer hacker knows it is also home to Bill Gates and Microsoft (cf. Seattle).