Spain

In this issue of New Frontiers, we highlight different experiences of "being artisans of hope in our blessed and broken world."

The RSCJ European Forum for professed of temporary vows, perpetually professed for not more than 10 years, and members of the initial formation teams took place in Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid) from 28 December 2019 to 1 January 2020.

The novices of Europe gathered in Paris on the 28th to the 31st of October 2019.

For the feast of Philippine Duchesne, we offer this reflection by Teresa Gomá rscj (ESP) and this image of Philippine by Cistercian nun Isabel Guerra.

Twenty RSCJ from twelve countries have met in Sophie’s birth place for a six-week Renewal Programme.

On the 22nd of August 2019 the Society of the Sacred Heart marked its 50th year of presence and mission in the Philippines.

As I try to write about the journey that has brought me to the Society of the Sacred Heart, I still feel the impact of the mark I felt within me when I arrived in my first rscj community: home at last! After some years of searching I experienced the joy of arriving in this place where I would be able to learn how to be my most truthful self and allow the Other, God, to change that into gift.

“Together, who are we?” We, the youngest members of European rscj, were invited to share hopes, expectations and questions in the context of this question at this point in time, in our reality as region and walking together with the whole Society towards the next General Chapter in 2021.