NEWS FROM ROME

AUGUST 29, 1998

What's New

Claudio Siebenaler (CU) has notified us that Argentina has a new email address: scjaupro@confar.org.ar. It will be added to the province email page (cf. Links). He also informs us that Chile is in the process of obtaining a new email address. At present there are a few kinks in their system. Once the bugs have been worked out we will post their new address as well.
Thanks to Leopold Mfouakouet (CM) we have posted the English translation of the document on Justice and Peace from Zaire (cf. J&P).
Posted to the Letters and Documents section is a letter from Fr. General to the congregation on the situation in Congo (Zaire).

What's Happening

In addition to the notice on this weeks news page about the recent Spanish Portuguese Joint Assembly we have received a document from Carlos Alberto da Costa Silva offering greater details. This document will be published next week once the various translations have been completed.

Retreat With Fr. André Perroux in the Monastery of Babeté

During the week of July 26th Fr. André Perroux (GA) preached a retreat to scj priests and brothers, as well as a few nuns from the Servants of the Heart of Jesus, on the theme of the Love, dear to both Congregations.
Many favorite biblical texts of Fr. Dehon inspired Fr. André. Ten talks nourished the meditations:

To believe in the love (Gal. 2:20);

To contemplate the love (the Opened Heart, Jn 19:37);

Attending the love (the gentle and humble heart, Mt 11:25-30);

Jesus and the sinners (Lc 15:1-3);

"It is mercy I want" (Mt 9:13);

"Here I am, I come" (He 10:5-10);

Response to the love (the prayer, Lc 11:1-4);

To dwell in the love (Sint Unum, Jn 17);

To celebrate the love (the Eucharist, Mc 14:22,24);

With Mary, servant of the love (Lc 1:38).

Fr. André carefully selected the text he believed the religious men and women of the Heart of Jesus needed to hear. To tell the truth, something changed in the lives of the participants without their even knowing as they mulled over words what they heard during that retreat.
Received from Cameroon

translation by Leopold Mflouakouet (CM)

New Assembly

Between July 27-31the Spanish (HI) and Portuguese (LU) provinces held the first of a new formation assembly, which plans to meet every two years. The first assembly was held in our formation house in Alfragide near Lisbon, Portugal. The title of this assembly was Economy and God's Kingdom. The main topic was viewed from various perspectives, (biblical, ecclesiological, Dehonian, sociological, economical) and had the collaboration of both provinces' religious as well as other experts invited for the occasion.
About seventy five religious from Portugal, Spain, Venezuela, Mozambique and Madagascar took part in it. Also Father Carlos Alberto (CU), general councilor, participated in these intense days of study and shared experiences.
From Carlos Suarez (HI)

English translation by Javier Luengo (HI)

Please Remember

+Fr. Johannes Rohof, NE
Born: 13.12.1918
First profession: 08.09.1939
Ordained: 29.07.1944
Died on 21.08.1998 at Nijmegen, Holland
+Fr Zdzislaw Zabdyr, PO
Born: 02.06.1936
First profession: 02.09.1953
Ordained: 18.02.1962
Died on 28.08.1998 at Gdynia