18 August 2001

What's New?

Pierino Natale (IS) informed us that the Italian Mission in Lippstadt, Germany, has a website at this address: http://www.mci-Lippstadt.de. It will added to our links.

Please note the change in the North American SCJ vocation website. It's new url is: http://www.scjvocation.org. The change will be made to our links page

What's Happening?

Congratulations

Madagascar

On August 12, 2001, five members of the Region of Madagascar made their perpetual profession of vows in the parish of Notre Dame de Fatima, Ambohimirary, Tananarivo:The five SCJs from Madagascar who made their final vows on August 12, 2001,

Scholastics:

  • Arsène Marie François Xavier Andrianonizafy
  • Jean Luc Marc Rakotondrasoanirina
  • Charly Razafinjato
Brother:
  • Pierre François Rehazana
United States

On Sunday August 12, 2001 four members of the United States Province made their perpetual profession of vows:

Scholastics:

  • Joseph Dinh
  • David Szatkowski
  • Charles Wonch
Brother:
  • Ha Tran
On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 the US Novitiate accepted three candidates. Two are from the US Province and one from the Region of French Canada. This will be the first novice class for Mark Fortner (US) who spent many years working in Indonesia before returning to the US. The novitiate is located in Chicago near the SCJ Theology House of Formation. Students their take their studies at Catholic Theological Union (CTU).
  • Kasongo Ngoy (CGA)
  • Thi N. Pham (US)
  • Dzao Vu (US)
Chile

Hernán has forwarded the fifth Cronica desde Ancud, dated July 22, 2001. He speaks about several topics starting with the local jail and, of course, commenting on the July winter weather(cf. Detención). We have asked him to send some photographs and hopefully will publish them at a later date.

Still Looking

When the summer ESL program ends next month our website will lose it's Spanish language translator Juan Jose ...... We are still looking for a replacement. If interested please contact us at (tomc@scj.org). Our web page works as follows.

Usually the news page and its various links are put together on Monday morning* and sent to the translators (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese plus and English language proffer) with the work returned to me by Thursday. The finished material in HTML format is then sent to Helsinki, Finland where Zdzislaw Huber posts the material on Saturdays, usually no later then 6:00 PM local time. Faithful readers are aware that positing can sometimes be delayed for technical reasons or due to Huber's work schedule.

*Of course my work on Monday in part depends on travel schedules. This week's edition, for example, was put together at 37,000 feet on a flight heading for the twin cities of Minneapolis - St. Paul on my way back to Milwaukee.

Please Remember

Fr. Josef Engel GE

Born: 08.12.1914
First profession: 15.08.1936
Ordained: 01.09.1946
Died: 02.08.2001 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In 1965 Fr. Engel came to Rio de Janeiro to assist German immigrants. Later he created  a company (Sono Viso) to produce audiovisual supplies for catechesis and evangelization in general. For the last three year he suffered from cancer and was working as a chaplain in a hospital of Rio de Janeiro.