Recent News

Sister Chiaki Hatanaka rscj (JPN), a member of the staff of the Catholic Tokyo Volunteer Center (CTVC) and coordinator of the Haramachi Base, shares how volunteers accompany people as they try to once again lead normal lives after the 2011 earthquake in Japan.

"We carry within us and place before God the hopes and sorrows of many persons and peoples.... And above all, we need to pray for peace, because peace is God’s gift, and it lies with us to plead for it, embrace it, and build it every day with God’s help." ~ Pope Francis

On the 2nd of September 2016, Isabel Solá, a Spanish Religious of Jesus and Mary (RJM), was fatally shot at a crowded intersection in Port-au-Prince. Matilde Moreno RSCJ shares how Isa fully lived her life "committed to and spent for love of a people whose land was her homeland during these last years."

On September 8, 2016, the General Council welcomed twelve RSCJ to Rome and formally opened their time of preparation for final commitment as Religious of the Sacred Heart.

The Province of Central Europe (CEU) organised a YOUTH PILGRIMAGE on the 19th to the 25th of July, leading to the World Youth Days on the 25th to the 31st of July in Krakow, Poland.

On July 21-26, 2016, RSCJs and young people came together in Tarnów, Poland for “The Witnesses of Love,” the International Sacred Heart Youth Meeting before the World Youth Day.

Mariely Rivera-Hernández shares how a visit to Joigny led her to a profound encounter with Sophie and a renewal of her commitment to the educative mission of the Sacred Heart.

Centre Sophie Barat launches its new website and invites us to take a virtual trip to Joigny.....

We offer some prayer resources for the annual celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.

With this final post, we end the coverage of the 2016 General Chapter.

On August 10, in the morning of the last day of General Chapter 2016, the RSCJs went to the Vatican for an audience with Pope Francis.

Barbara Dawson is happy to announce the appointment of the members of the new General Council.

We have just finished Week 4 of General Chapter 2016. Week 3 ended quietly, but here are two posts that can help us remember where we were at that point.

General Chapter 2016 is happy to announce the election of our new Superior General!

We are now in Week 3 of General Chapter 2016. Click on this link to the GC2016 webpage to see the daily updates: https://rscjinternational.org/general-chapter-2016