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Fr. Leo John Dehon: The Priest in Prayer
06/09/2025
profile-icon Kathy Harty
Spirituality, History

Fr. Dehon faced many challenges during his life. His first assignment in Saint-Quentin presented him with a wide variety of social problems: the high school he started had to be rebuilt after World War I, his congregation faced economic difficulties and even tensions within the community. And in everything, Fr. Dehon would give his “Fiat”, his openness to God’s will. How did he persevere? Fr. Dehon’s prayer life sustained him through the many difficult times. He often spoke about “the interior life”, which he described as “union with the Heart of Jesus.”

Fr. Dehon taught that there are three types of prayer:

• First is mental prayer where we bring our minds to ponder truth, make judgements and then resolutions. 

• The second type of prayer is affective, which includes our feelings. Fr. Dehon taught that to become more like Jesus, one must meditate on his life and feel what Jesus is like. Our hearts are then touched to love. 

• The third type of prayer is contemplation, in which our gaze upon Jesus deepens until our interior life becomes “a life of union with God in Christ through love.” We enter into the mysteries of the life of Jesus, making his history our history. This moves us to action. 

Pray, love, act. This is a simple way to think about the types of prayer and the helps us to see Jesus with our eyes, feel Jesus in our hearts, and then serve Jesus with our hands. This is also known as the Sulpician Method which influenced Father Dehon. 

Quote: “There are no big or small crosses; there is only very little love or great love.” - Fr. Leo John Dehon, SCJ

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Milwaukee Guide!
03/20/2025
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It's summertime (or at least what passes for it on a Great Lake)! In case you've got the fever, visit our Milwaukee! guide for ideas to get out and about. And if you've got the munchies, here's a link to our Restaurant guide.

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Wisconsin Catholic Bishops on Immigration
02/13/2025
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Here are links to the English and Spanish versions of the Wisconsin Catholic Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Immigration.

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Fr. Leo John Dehon: The Priest with a Pen
01/28/2025
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Fr. Leo John Dehon, the founder of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, engaged the media of his day in a tireless way - you might almost say he was a 19th-century influencer! He published a widely-read magazine, The Reign of the Sacred Heart in Souls and in Society, which promoted the social encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII and brought Catholic social teachings to a wide audience.

Once he founded the order, he traveled internationally to promote and encourage the local districts and provinces, keeping diaries. These, along with much of his extensive correspondence, is available through the Dehon Study Center in Rome.

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Centenary of Fr. Déhon
09/03/2024
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The Priests of the Sacred Heart, and SHSST, are beginning a year-long celebration of the centenary of the death of Fr. Leo John Déhon in 2025. As part of this memorial year, the library will have special monthly displays and other ways of highlighting the life of Fr. Déhon and the charisms of the SCJs. 

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Feeling a mite peckish?
03/03/2023
profile-icon Kathy Harty
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We've got you covered! Check out this LibGuide from the librarians: "Places to Eat". It contains recommendations from SHSST folks for local places to eat. Have a suggestion? Contact us!

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