13 July 2001

What's New?

India

Leonard Zaworksi (IND) has updated the Indian photo section into 15 albums of 450 photos. The current address will be changed sometime in the near future. For now the albums can be reached at http://communities.msn.com/SCJIndia/PhotoAlbums.

Missions

We are adding a page on Mozambique to this week's mission section in preparation for the November meeting of mission secretaries to be held at the Generalate upon the conclusion of the meeting of SCJ Major Superiors.

Websites

In the latest issue of SCJ News -- June 2001, Vol 22, No 3 (US Province) there is an article on SCJ websites. Mary Gorski was kind enough to pass the article on for posting here (CF. Caught in the Web).

What's Happening?

British-Irish Province

Selvam Selvaratnam OMI speaks during week one of the course.

The international SCJ group has been deepening their "Journey of Reconciliation" in Malpas this week. Working with Margaret Taylor FMM and Chris Jenkins SCJ they have explored issues of intimacy, relationship, conflict and self-acceptance. Many have commented on how this is more and more a journey of the heart, both our hearts and the Heart of Christ. This weekend the group is visiting SCJ communities in Scotland and Ireland. Reports from group members and photos will appear on the international SCJ website: www.scj.org Thanks to all who have written to assure us of your prayerful support, it is much appreciated. Please continue to pray that the journey may be fruitful for all involved.

From Malpas Website 29.06.01

Chile

Hernan Leemrijse passed along the first four Ancud Chronicles. We will be publishing them over the course of the next four weeks. The first The Rains on Cardboard Roofs was published on March 11, 2001. Hernan also reports that the province is in the process of setting up a website.

I wish to share with all of you some happenings in BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH of ANCUD. A number of you have passed through here this summer and came to our house. We were happy to have you visit and hope that they continue...

Congratulations

On Sunday July 1, 201 Ricardo José do Coito Fernandes (LU) was ordained to the priesthood in the chapel of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Lisbon.
 

Ricardo José do Coito Fernandes & his family

Madagascar
 

We received this photo via mail of Gabríel Christin Dimby Rahavandolona (MAD) who is the first Malgesh scj to be ordained to the diaconate (cf. May 19, 2001). He was born on July 14, 1970 and made his first profession on August 12, 1997. The ordination took place at the scj Fátima parish at Ambohimirary.

Please Remember

+Antonio Hugo van den Elsen (NE)

born: 02.08.1912
first profession: 08.09.1937
died: 30.06.2001 at Nijmegen

Born on August 2, 1913 at Gemert, Nederland he made his postulancy at Bergen op Zoom and the novitiate at St Gerlach, in Heer (today Cadier en Keer), where he made his first profession on September 8, 1937. He returned immediately to Bergen op Zoom to work in administration, and in religious and priestly formation. He performed this mission with great devotion at Bergen op Zoom until 1942 and then at the minor seminary at Helmond, until 1947. From 1947 to 1955 he work in administration at the novitiate community of Asten. In 1955 he went to Nijmegen to work in the fund raising office until it was closed in 1974. He continued to live at Nijmegen performing other duties and dedicated himself to the elderly in the local parish. He now rest in the scj cemetery in Nijmegen.

translated from the Dutch by Piet Adam (NE)

+Marion Quagliariello (US)

born: 24.11.1918
first profession: 08.09.1945
ordained (deacon): 16.05.1976
died: 05.07.2001 at Milwaukee, WI

Deacon Marion Quagliariello, SCJ, 83, died today, July 5. He had been hospitalized for the past several weeks following the removal of a brain tumor.

Originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., Dn. Marion came to the SCJs after working for several years as a clerk in a New York City furniture store. At 27, he professed his first vows as a brother with the congregation and went on to teach for many years in the province's seminaries.

"I was very happy during my 30 years as a brother," said Dn. Marion in an interview done in conjunction with his 50th jubilee of vows. "But after reading the documents of Vatican II, my thinking changed. The pope made the diaconate so available."

Inspired by Vatican II, he returned to school and prepared for the diaconate. "It was like blasting through cement," he said about returning to school after many years away from the books. "I hadn't been on that side of a classroom in 14 years. It took me about six months to get used to it again."

He was ordained in 1976 and went on to serve at Our Lady of Guadalupe in East Chicago, Ind. Three years later, he went to Toronto, where he ministered to a diverse parish of many nationalities.

"I loved it there," he said. "The parish is my first love and that one was very special."

His final assignment before retirement was at St. Joseph's Indian School in South Dakota. Dn. Marion then joined the Sacred Heart Monastery community in Hales Corners, Wis., before becoming a member of the Villa Maria retirement community in Franklin, Wis.