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)

“We see Mary enter the Temple, carrying in her arms the praiseworthy offering that she comes to present to the Lord. No one notices their arrival, and the High Priest himself sees in them nothing more than an ordinary infant and woman.”

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)