13 April 2002
Dehonian Year Week VIII
Preparation for the 125th anniversary of the congregation
13 April 2002
Dehonian Year Week VIII
Preparation for the 125th anniversary of the congregation
What's
New?PortugalThe Portuguese Province has established their Riffel website. It will be added to our links page and can be found at: http://www.ecclesia.pt/dehonianos
Justice & Peace
We are posting to the Montréal 2002 page the minutes of the Latin American Justice & Peace Directors held at Curitiba April 5-6, 2002 (cf. Relatório do Encontro Latino-Americano de Animadores de Justiça e Paz). Please note the text is available only in Portuguese.
We are posting to the Justice & Peace page the message to scjs from the same group (cf. Mensagem Final do Encontro Latino-Americano de Justiça e Paz - Curitiba/2002). Please note the text is available only in Portuguese.
Rome
Posted to the letters and documents page in French is Fr. General's reflection on the Dehonian Year (Feb 14, 2002 - Dehonian Year - June 28, 2003). We now have all the Riffel languages posted.
What's
Happening?Cameroon50th Ordination Anniversary of Père Zerr, scj
Joseph Zerr, scj at his 50th Anniversary Mass held on Easter Sunday, 2002The scjs of the Cameroon joyfully celebrated Easter 2002, not only as the Resurrection of Christ, but also as the 50th anniversary of the ordination of Fr. Joseph Zerr. Fr. Joseph was ordained on March 29, 1952, at Grenoble and shortly afterwards arrived in the Cameroon (thus it's also the 50th anniversary of his presence in the country. Since March 29th this year fell on Good Friday the celebration was held on Easter instead. The Mass was celebrated in the Sanctuary of of the Sacred Heart at Nkongsamba by Fr. Zerr and many of his confreres.
p. Stan Wawro scj
02.04.2002'
Holland
April 14 - 17, 2002, in Cadier en Keer, the Dutch Province will hold the first phase of their provincial chapter in order to prepare for the XXIst General Chapter. A second session will take place in October. Riszard Mis (CU), will represent the general administration at both sessions.
Latin America
We have received the minutes from the third meeting of vocational directors from Latin America held at the scj novitiate of Our Lady of Fatima, Jaraguá do Sul from April 5-7, 2002 (cf. III ENCONTRO LATINO AMERICANO DE ANIMAÇÃO VOCACIONAL). Please note the text is available only in Portuguese.
We also have the message to scjs from the same group: MENSAJE A LAS PROVINCIAS Y REGIONES LATINOAMERICANAS DEHONIANAS DE LOS PARTICIPANTES DEL III ENCUENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE ANIMADORES VOCACIONALES). Please note the text is available only in Portuguese.
Philippines
As we reported last Monday, p. Giuseppe Pierantoni has been freed. During the week were able to gather some additional information and have added it to the original bulletin page (cf. Good News!).
Region of South Brazil (RBM)
On April 3rd, ESIC (School of Marketing) was inaugurated in Curitiba. It is a joint venture between the scjs of the Spanish Province and their ESIC school in Madrid (HI Province) and the RBM Region. The school building was a former minor seminary. The new school year began inFebruary.
Rome
New Doctors
Leopold Mfouakouet, from the province of Cameroon, who defends his Doctorate Thesis in Philosophy, on April 17th, at the Gregorian University, in Rome. The title of his dissertation is: "Jacques Derrida, entre la question de l'Écriture et l'appel de la voix".
Carlos Luiz Suárez Codorníu, from the province of Spain and a member of the Region of Venezuela, will defend his Doctorate Thesis in Exegesis, on April 19th at the Gregorian University, in Rome. The title of his dissertation is: "Construyendo la vida: la raíz 'rk en el Antiguo Testamento".
Venezuela
Congratulations to Alberto (Beto) Galíndez who was ordained a deacon in the Church of San Miguel Arcángel, Caracas on Sunday, April 7, 2002.
This
week's Dehonian Historical & Spiritual CalendarThe weekly Dehonian Historical and Spiritual Calendar starts on April 5th. As previously noted the text is in Spanish with the Dehonian quotes in French. You can link to past weeks from the Letters & Documents sectionDehonian Historical & Spiritual Calendar for the week of: 19.04.2002 to 25.04.2002
Fr.
Dehon's meetings with the students of St. John's College29th Meeting
For this document, we have different date-May 12 and 20, 1913, which must be an error; it was strange to have a meeting during that month.....
Please
Remember+Fr. Albertus Christianus Thijssing NEBorn: 09.03.1921
First vows: 08.09.1944
Ordained: 15.07.1951
Died: 01.04.2002 at Nijmegen, Holland
