From Rome January 4, 1998 

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Plan Published

The Plan "WE, THE CONGREGATION, IN SERVICE TO THE MISSION" 1997-2003, of the General Administration for their six year mandate has just been published. It can be accessed here in French, Italian or English by linking to Program, or by going to the Letters page.

Fr. Zolile Mpambani scj, (CU) recently appointed to the General Council, will join Vicar General, Umberto Chiarello, scj (CU) on his visit to Mozambique to attend the episcopal ordination of bishop elect Tomé Makhweliha, scj (MOZ) slated for later this month.

BH Province homepage updated

Fr. Ged Flynn scj, (BH) has completed the updating of the British-Irish Province homepage. Included in the new site are special greetings to the SCJ Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) celebrating the centenary of scj presence in the upper Congo. The url for this site is: http://members.aol.com/SCJmalpas, or use our link page.

St. Joseph's Parish Church

Malpas is a small country town located in the English Midlands, not far from the Welsh boarder. Manchester, about an hour's drive, is the nearest large city. The SCJ "Mother House" is located just outside of town. Currently the community operates St. Joseph's Centre (a retreat and conference center), as well as the small rural parish of St. Joseph pictured above. Originally the building served as a horse stable, it was converted into the parish church about 50 years ago.

Taking advantage of WWW

The Plan "WE, THE CONGREGATION, IN SERVICE TO THE MISSION" 1997-2003 was a veritable global team effort. The original text, written in Italian at Rome, was completed shortly before Christmas. The Italian original was emailed to Paris, France for translation into French, and to Hales Corners, Wisconsin in the United States for its English translation. Final texts in French, Italian and English were emailed to Ms. Mary Gorski (US Province director of communications) at Hales Corners, who had agreed to design, layout, print and mail the final texts in booklet style to the provinces, regions and territorial communities. Meanwhile the text were emailed to Malpas, England to Tom Cassidy, scj (CU) to translate them into HTML format. The HTML text in French, Italian and English where then sent to Zdzislaw Huber, scj (FIN) webmaster of the SCJ Curia Homepage in Helsinki, Finland and to be placed on the PCN (Peace Communications Network) server, located in Rome, Italy.

A subtle change

In recondition of the changing situation in the congregation official letters to the congregation now include scj territorial communities. Currently the congregation has three: India, Philippines and Madagascar. The three territorial communities have been added to the 'official' communications mailing list to insure information arrives on a timely bases.
 

The LU Province commemoration of 50 years of dehonian presence in Portugal ended on the 27th December 1997.

A great number of confreres and close relatives, friends and benefactors gathered together at our parish of Nossa Senhora da Boavista, Porto, (Our Lady of Boavista, Oporto) in solemn Eucharist presided by the diocese's Bishop, to praise the Lord for the gifts of these 50 years.

Within this celebration we outstand the ordination of 3 deacons and 2 new priests. Of these 5 new dehonians, 3 made their training of religious life, for 2 years, in our missions in Madagascar, to wherethey wish to return.

We congratulate the creation of the scj www homepage (by FF. Tom Cassidy and Zdzislaw Huber), certain that it will contribute to expand the "We the Congregation" and to concrete the proposals of our last General Chapter.