Sacred Heart reflections and prayers for feast days and the seasons of the year
"... his Holy Mother enveloped his tiny limbs in swaddling clothes. A bound God! Infinite power reduced to this excessive humility! Mary attends to him as she deems appropriate, holds him close against her heart or places him gently in the manger...." - St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
An invitation from Janet Stuart to make our Advent a time of sacred silence....
This Advent, we invite you to share reflections that can help "to deepen our interior life, our capacity for contemplation and for listening to the heartbeat of God in ourselves and in our world." (GC2016)
As we celebrate the Easter Triduum in this Jubilee Year of Mercy, we share excerpts from a letter on COMPASSION written by our former Superior General Helen McLaughlin rscj.
Here are links to some Province websites with REFLECTIONS FOR ADVENT....
"You shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice, and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.”
BLESSED EASTER GREETINGS!
"My dear Daughters, we especially ought to have a profound devotion for these mysteries of the Cross, for as you know, it is in the last act of the cruelty exercised on the revered body of the Savior that our Society was born...."
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
"We can only comprehend the mysteries of the Eucharist if we are humble."
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
For the feast of St. Joseph, Juliet Mousseau rscj shares Madeleine Sophie's conference to the novices in 1833.
"What comes to my mind this Ash Wednesday is not the soft and silky ashes made of the burnt palm branches of last year; rather the ‘Ashes’ made by the destructive forces of nature or by the wars and other forces by which we humans exclude others." ~Misao Shimamoto rscj (Japan Province)
