Building home at King’s House

By Jennifer Willems

HENRY — Good news travels fast, especially when prayers are being answered.

That’s how the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary made their way from Florida to the King’s House of Retreats in rural Henry to establish their first house outside of the Archdiocese of Miami.

“It happened over a conversation with Father Ryan Bredemeyer in Rome,” said Father Stanley Deptula, director of the diocesan Office of Divine Worship and executive director of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Cause. “He had known the community for several years and suggested them as a possibility for King’s House. I told the bishop and he said, ‘Let’s do it!’”