Sacred Heart reflections and prayers for feast days and the seasons of the year
2015 marks the 150th year after the death of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart. As we begin this year, we "listen" to her conference on New Year's Eve of 1855.
"Now, in this last week of Advent, are we not invited to the same adventure, to the same encounter: to welcome the Face of the Infant of Bethlehem in all human fragility?" Marie-France Carreel rscj (BFN)
"He will be born there in the faces of the refugee children and of all those who “don’t have a place” in the dwellings of this world. In them, the greatest simplicity and the greatest gift will be revealed to us, and that will be enough for us." Mariola López (ESP)
Let us share photos or paintings, images or symbols of waiting, of hope, of longing.....
Pilar de la Herran RSCJ of the Province of Spain shares this collage of doors -- photos which she took while in Joigny. Dolores Aleixandre RSCJ offers this insight on the “doors" that closed and opened for Sophie and for all of us today.
"Let’s look at the different periods of our life, when we have received more fullness... when a fuller gift of ourselves has particularly attracted us. Let’s look with humility and without discouragement whether we have been careful to develop the Spirit’s gifts to us."
