What's New

The interview with Adam Musialek, Provincial South Africa, has been updated to include both Spanish and Italian and has been posted to the General Conference Page.

In addition, the letter of January 1, 2000, regarding the October Meeting of the Dehonian Family in Rome has been translated into Spanish and is posted to the Letters and Documents page.

NB Still to be posted is the Final Message which will be published in time for the Feast of the Sacred Heart.

The Meet an SCJ on the Vocation Page resumes this week with members from the North Italian Province. This week we feature Giuseppe Meloni, who currently is serving at Christ the King Parish in Milan, while also attending courses at The Theological Faculty of North Italy.

Leonard Zaworski (IND) wrote that he has posted new photos to the SCJ District of Indian website which can be accessed at: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/DharmaDr/scjindia/

The 7.9 earthquake which struck the island of Sumatra on June 4-5, 2000 hit in the area in which scjs work. The city of Bengkulu, frequently mentioned in news reports, is in the diocese of Lampung and has an scj parish. We hope to have more news next week. The parish address is:

Pastoran Katolik
Gumawang BK. 10
Belitang OKU 32182
Sumatera Selatan
Indonesia

Congratulations to those who are celebrating anniversaries during the month of June!

Professions

25 Years:

25/06/75	Lantz	Gary	US	P
25/06/75	Zelonis	Richard	US	P
25/06/75	Tucker	Robert	US	P
25/06/75	Watson	Douglas	US	P
25/06/75	Kilianski	Edward	US	P
29/06/75	Coursol	Luc	CGA	S

Ordinations

60 Years

16/06/40	P	Fogarolli	Mario	IS
16/06/40	P	Chiappa	Giovanni	IS
30/06/40	P	Simcox	Francis	US

50 Years:

25/06/50	P	Pistelli	Lorenzo	IS
25/06/50	P	Rota	Tarcisio Tommaso	IS
25/06/50	P	Gritti	Giulio	LU
25/06/50	P	Caglioni	Battista	IS

25 Years:

15/06/75	P	Krzysztof	Jan	PO
15/06/75	P	Cebula	Józef	PO
15/06/75	P	Halas	Stanislaw	PO
15/06/75	P	Gajewski	Maciej	PO
21/06/75	P	Signori	Giuseppe	IS
21/06/75	P	Verri	Ilario	MZ
24/06/75	P	Fattor	Luigi	IS
29/06/75	P	Cusmai	Leonardo	IM
29/06/75	P	Di Pierro	Gaetano	IM

Congratulations also to those ordained to the priesthood and diaconate on June 3rd at Stadniki, Poland:

Ordained priests:

1. P. Janusz Bieszczad
2. P. Jozef Cempura
3. P. Marek Gawle
4. P. Krzysztof Napora
5. P. Pawel Nowakowski
6. P. Marek Piwowarczyk

Ordained deacons"

1. Rafal Czernia
2. Piotr Dudek
3. Piotr Fulara
4. Przemyslaw Kozak

Provincial Administrations:

Between the last news page of May 13^th and the end of the General Conference in Recifé, Brazil, Fr. General, with the consent of his council appointed the provincial administration for North Italy and councils for South Brazil and Portugal. Recall that in the system used in these two provinces consultation for provincial council takes places after the appointment of the provincial superior.

North Italy (IS)

Provincial Superior: Luigi Mostarda (second term begins on July 1, 2000)

Council:*

P. Lino Pedron Lino
Fr. Stecca Mario
P. Scuccato Bruno
P. Prezzi Lorenzo
P. Brena Renzo
P. Nicoli Giovanni

*Note in IS there are six councilors

Portugal (LU)

Provincial Superior José Ornelas Carvalho (first term to commence on July 1, 2000)

Provincial Council:

P. José David Quintal Vieira
P. Manuel Joaquim Gomes Barbosa
P. Isildo Gomes da Silva
P. António Augusto Teixeira de Sousa

South Brazil

Provincial Superior Claudio Weber (second term to commence on July 4, 2000)

Provincial Council:

P. José Francisco Schmitt
P. Carlos Marcos Nicolodelli
P. José Filipe Dalcegio
P. Belmiro Rauber

Please Remember

During the course of the General Conference three members of the North Italian Province (IS) died. We were able to report the first two deaths in the journalist reports. The third coming at the close of the conference is reported here.

 +P. MARIO RODOLFO BIROLINI (IS)

born: 10.12.1919
first profession: 29.09.37
ordination: 14.07.1946
died: 27.05.2000 at Bolognano +F. Paul van der Werf (FL)

born: 07.03.1915
first profession: 01.11.1937
died: 21.05.2000 at Nijmegen

Last Wednesday, May 31, 2000 in the community of St. Joseph, our house for senior scjs, our brother, Paul Abraham van der Werf, a member of the Flemish Province died.

Born in Herne (Germany) on March 7, 1915, he made his first profession at Brugelette in Belgium on November 1, 1937. After his first profession he worked until 1946 in the community at Burnot as a gardener and boiler man. In 1946 he left for the Congo where he working in the following missions: Bafwabaka, Babonde, Ibambi, Lingondo, Pawa, Wamba and Obongoni, assisting in the construction of schools and churches. At Pawa he assisted in the construction of a house for brothers in a village for lepers.

From 1964 to 1970, following the Simba insurrection he was forced to return to Europe. He spend this period working principally in Brussels. In 1970 he was able to return to the Congo. In December of 1974 he became a member of the community in Nijmegen where he served the community by working for many years in the large garden.

The community of St. Joseph in Nijmegen will bid farewell to Br. Paul on June 5th in the Mass of the Resurrection and commit his body to our cemetery where it will await the final resurrection.

translation provided by Piet Adam (NE)

Dehon Photo of the Week

This week Stefan Tertünte writes on Fr. Dehon's 'Pact of Love' found among his papers after his death. In his first letter to the Congregation the second general superior Fr. Philippe, describing the last days in the life of Fr. Dehon, tells his confreres that "among the papers containing his last will, we found a folded sheet with this heading: 'Pact with Our Lord'". The document, according to Fr. Philippe, contained the following formula, written by Dehon's own hand:

Letters from the First Novices

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FIRST NOVICES BEFORE THE "CONSUMMATUM EST 1878-1883 by Egidio Driedonkx (CH) is the most recent publication (Dehonian Pathways #19) from our Chilean Province. Presented here is the introduction. Beginning next week we will be posting selections to our website. Many thanks to Rick Dileo (US), who has kindly consented to translate the orginal Spanish into English.

Egidio divides his time, spending about three months a year in Chile and the rest in Rome working in the Dehonian Archives/Dehon Study Center doing congregational research. He begins #19 with the following introduction:

Much has already been written on the personality and life of Fr. Dehon. Less known are his first collaborators. In this brief study we want to treat this vacuum in the history of the Congregation by presenting correspondence from the first novices -- the correspondence sent as well as received during the period of 1878-1883, that is, before the "Consummatum Est".

From many of these figures, we lack documents. But from others, happily, their correspondence was preserved, at least in part. That way we can enter modestly into the first years of the Congregation. The correspondence is taken on its own merits because it offers objective dates that are directly taken from the lives of these people.

This brief study also has connections with previous issues of the CAMINOS DEHONIANOS (Dehonian Pathways) that studies the vocational thrust of Fr. Dehon's pastoral activity, which for that matter concerns these same people.

From Abraços published by SCJ Parish of St. Jude,
São Paolo, Brazil