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The sixth annual Christian Forum for Reconciliation in Northeast Asia was held on 27th May – 1st June in Jeju Island, South Korea. Four RSCJ from the KOC Province and Japan participated in this forum.

The public handover ritual of our educational mission in the three Sacred Heart Schools in Australia to the Board of Sophia Education Ministries was held within the celebration of the Eucharist in the chapel of Kincoppal-Rose Bay (Sydney) on 5 May 2019.

The following is the Message of the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, to the scientific community on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato si’

The complete writings of Rose Philippine Duchesne, published in French in 2017, have now been published in English by the Society of the Sacred Heart.

Today we remember with prayer and gratitude the woman whose "yes" began our shared journey as RSCJ.

Superior General Barbara Dawson sends us Easter greetings from Upper Egypt.

For this year's Easter Triduum, we offer a reflection guide inspired by some of the writings of Concha Camacho rscj, who served the Society of the Sacred Heart as Superior General in 1970-1982.

"... we have to re-live this process together, following the way that leads to an attitude of poverty, that is to say of hope; since poverty is hope. This path is lived in community, for in community we experience the poverty of searching together."

"A lance "opened the side of God" and it remained open.... It could not remain closed... To have a heart like his can mean a heart with right of entry for the stranger, for the weak, for the sick, for the politically persecuted, for those wounded by war, for the little ones, for the brothers and sisters who think differently. And a heart that is open, like that of God, also allows blood, water, tenderness, friendship and total gift, to flow out...."

For Holy Saturday, as we "remain in silence in poverty of heart before Him" (Constitutions #20), we pray with some reflections offered by Concha.

"We await a new experience in the spirit that we hope will result from a searching together.... It is this which will enable us to enter into a new vision, which will be that of the whole Society seeking in faith to live out the Easter mystery of death-resurrection in today's world."

The Religious of the Sacred Heart in Argentina-Uruguay have had the privilege of having two communities in La Rioja during Monseñor Angelelli’s time: Famatina and Malanzán. Marisa Sacerdote rscj shares from those times.

"Christ is alive! He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world, and everything he touches becomes young, new, full of life."

Welcome back to our newsletter, New Frontiers! This edition covers a six-month period of JPIC and UN-NGO activity.

March 22 is World Water Day!