The Society of the Sacred Heart
Discovering and revealing the love of the Heart of Jesus through the service of Education
Image by Patricia Hevia RSCJ
The Society of the Sacred Heart is an international Catholic congregation of women religious, founded in France by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800.
Today over sixteen hundred Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (RSCJ) – Catholic sisters who have made a lifelong commitment to the Society of the Sacred Heart and its mission to discover and reveal the love of Jesus through the service of education – serve in 43 different countries around the world.
We are aware of living in a historic time of change and uncertainty. The spirit continues to transform us as a Society in order to respond to the cries and hopes of our world with the same daring trust and confidence with which Sophie and Phillipine responded in their time.
Like them, united in our searching and open to the gifts of the spirit in this new moment, we are called to reach new frontiers, to live more humanly, to create silence and to be and to act as one body.