Recent News

On February 5, 2021, Federica Rossi Germani, Alumna of the Trinità dei Monti and Archivist for AMASC (Association Mondiale des Anciennes du Sacré-Coeur) was honored by the Holy See, which awarded her the “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice” Cross.

On February 24, 2021 at 4:00 pm CET (Rome time), at a virtual event sponsored by UISG, Orbis Books and the Society of the Sacred Heart, Maria Cimperman, RSCJ will present her book, Religious Life for our World: Creating Communities of Hope.

Pope Francis added 4 new Ordinary Academicians to the Pontifical Academy for Life on Friday, including our own Margarita Bofarull RSCJ.

February 17 is Ash Wednesday. Here are some resources for prayer, reflection, and action during this season of Lent.

This creative collaboration features a five-minute music video of a song composed and sung by the Caritas Sisters of Jesus and edited by Yuka Arita RSCJ. The video is called “Our Common Home”, which is based on the message of Laudato Si’ and calls out for unity in a conflicted world. Yuka supplied the photographs in the video.

A group of students from the Sacred Heart High School for Girls in Taiwan has created a video with Lunar New Year greetings for our Sacred Heart friends.

It’s now been five months since renovations began at the Villa Lante and a number of important preparatory tasks have been accomplished.

February 2 is the 25th World Day of Consecrated Life, a day of prayer to celebrate and honor the women and men who have chosen consecrated life.

A bench, plaque and tree has been placed on the Sacred Heart Sisters’ property in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, to honor their foundress, the Venerable Cornelia Connelly.

Over the next two years, the Province of Italy and the International Society will undertake a project together to renovate the Villa Lante. The renovated Villa Lante will continue to provide a space for formation and expand its possibilities so that it can be an added support for the mission of the Society internationally.

The sixteenth-century Villa Lante in Trastevere is one of the Society’s most historically significant buildings. For nearly two centuries, it has been a place where the Sacred Heart sisters have retraced Madeleine Sophie’s footsteps. Learn more about its design and history here.

To worship the Lord we need to “see” beyond the veil of things visible...a way of seeing things that is not impressed by sound and fury, but seeks in every situation the things that truly matter, and that seeks the Lord.

Watch a video presentation of Christmas greetings from RSCJ around the world.

The Taiwan Mission in KOC Province celebrated its 60th anniversary with a Mass to honor the feast day of St. Madeleine Sophie and an animated movie telling the story of the community’s foundation.

On Saturday, December 12, it will be 241 years since the birth of our Society’s founder, Madeleine Sophie Barat. Here is a collection of articles and resources where you can learn more about her life.