Vigil on the Anniversary of the Birth of Father Leo John Dehon | March 14, 2025
On March 14, we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of our Founder, Father Leon Dehon, and the Day of Dehonian vocations. A group of confreres from our German Province prepared a prayer vigil to celebrate this day.
As part of our Dehonian Jubilee, we commemorate the anniversary of the birth our Founder, Father Leo John Dehon. During his 82 years of life, the question of the St. Paul the apostle accompanied and motivated him: “Domine, quid me vis facere?” (Acts 22:10), “Lord, what do you want me to do?”. From his youth and as a seminarian, Leo Dehon embraced an attitude which he would later pass on to his confreres: “I will do nothing without embracing this union, with Jesus, through Jesus, and in Jesus. – Cor Jesu, quid me vis facere?” (NQT 24/65). “Heart of Jesus, what do you want me to do?”
