21 July 2001

What's New?

India
The Postulants: Sajidas, Thomas, Raju, Anand, and Fr. Sebastian, the Formation Director.
Their living quarters for the next few months, behind them, was especially readied for their arrival.

Just to let you know that new photos have been added (regarding the new novitiate building), and there are now 450 photos on the ALBUM, divided into different categories.

I was informed earlier that the URL address will be changed to http://home.talkcity.com/DharmaDr/scjindia/ (minus MSN). They have given leeway and haven't changed it yet, but I expect that they will eventually change the address after we have forgotten about it.

Lenny
lzscj@hotmail.com or dehonjp@vsnl.com

Missions

We are adding a page on Moldavia 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.

What's Happening?

British-Irish Province

SCJ participants in a journey of reconciliation on the streets of London

On Thursday, 5 July 2001, the whole SCJ group of "a journey of reconciliation" at Malpas went to Dehon House which is about 25 miles from Malpas, near the city of Chester.

There we met Father Jim Matthews SCJ who spoke about the work being done here. Dehon House is the residential Youth Centre of the Diocese of Shrewsbury. And the confreres at Dehon House are working on behalf of that diocese. About 3.000 young people from different schools come here every year to Dehon House for a retreat or for recollection days either from Monday till Friday or from Friday till Sunday.

The schools and the government encourage the pupils very much to go and to take part in such events. It is a very enriching encounter for those young people with each other and on a different personal level than in everyday life at school.

The fact that those days are so lively and enriching for the boys and girls is based on a decision by the Sacred Heart Fathers about 10 years ago to work together with a team of 3 or 4 young adults who love this kind of work and who want to get more experience in dealing and working with young people.

We could experience the 'result' of that work because we shared supper with them and afterwards had the celebration of the Eucharist together. And it was amazing how that group of about 25 girls prepared the different parts of the Eucharist together with the young team within a short time. It was a wonderful and enriching experience to see how these young people were able to prepare and to celebrate this Eucharist with their whole heart.

(Edwin Rombach SCJ)

Chile

In Hernan Leemrijse second of four Ancud Chronicles he talks about this year's Easter celebrations in Ancud.
 
 

North Brazil

Fr. General and members of the North Brazil Provincial Team

On July 5, 2001, at 10:00 AM, in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, located at the SCJ Provincial House, in the area of Recife (PE) called Várzea, there was a Eucharistic celebration presided over by our Superior General, Fr. Virgínio Bressanelli, in which the new provincial administration of Fr. Tarcísio Pereira de Paiva, and his council were installed. The simple ceremony was witnessed by most of the province along with religious of other congregations, friends of the community and a delegation from the parish of Saint Ana, (Rio Grande do Norte) where Fr. Tarcísio had served as pastor for the last four years. After the Mass a lunch was served followed by a meeting between the old and new councils.

by Fr. Tarcísio.

South Brazil

From July 23 to 26 the RBM Region (South Brazil Region) will gather at their annual assembly, in Jaraguá do Sul. This year a new regional administration will be elected.
 
 

Please Remember

+Fr. Jacobus Gerardus Antonius Reijnders NE

born: 24.11.1919
first profession: 08.09.1940
ordained: 19.03.1946
died 07.07.2001 at Nijmegen

Born at Hilversum, he entered the minor seminary of Bergen op Zoom. At the end of the Novitiate at Asten he professed his first vows in 1940. Soon after ordination, in 1946 he went to Finland, where he stayed for more than 40 years, until he returned in 1989.

In Finland he got the major honor of the finish state having been considered worthy of the Order of Cavaliers of the White Rose of Finland.

In addition to the intense work in various parishes, he was Regional Superior from 1961 to 1967. In the Diocese of Helsinki he was General Vicar in the period of 1967-1981. He was also the Director of the Information Center for the Diocese.

Since 1989 he was living in the house of Nijmegen, in which cemetery he was buried.