December 17, 2018
Christmas 1818 in St. Charles
The girls who had already made their First Communion were invited to spend Christmas Eve at the convent with the boarding pupils. They arrived with their blankets or buffalo robes, each prepared to make her own shake-down for the night in the school room. After supper they gathered around the log fire that lighted the rough, low-ceilinged room with its bright glow, and enjoyed a story hour.
November 26, 2018
Over 1,000 members of the Sacred Heart family, near and far, gathered at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis on the Feast Day of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne to celebrate the closing of the Province's bicentennial celebrations.
November 16, 2018
Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, along with other Sacred Heart schools from around the world, celebrated the 200th anniversary of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne’s arrival in North America. In this video, we honor Philippine and her legacy at Duchesne Academy.
October 31, 2018
The United States – Canada Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart stands with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in their hope that members of the caravan of migrants from
October 22, 2018
Every five years since 1983, the Potawatomi have organized a caravan to retrace the Trail of Death. They stop at many of the places of encampment to do ceremonies and to remember the dead. Since 2018 is the bicentennial of Saint Rose Philippine’s arrival in the United States in 1818, the Religious of the Sacred Heart asked to join the Potawatomi on their caravan as part of our own remembering of Saint Philippine and our mission to the native peoples.
October 22, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018, at noon was a special moment in the RSCJ Cemetery in Lake Forest, Illinois.
What had been a gloomy, cold day suddenly became sunlit and beautiful as 64 people gathered to bless the refurbished cemetery of 154 RSCJ who served Chicago and Lake Forest beginning in 1856.
October 18, 2018
The Academy of the Sacred Heart and the Rosary Sacred Heart Alumnae Association are pleased to announce Sister Jane McKinlay, RSCJ, as recipient of the 2018 Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat Award.
September 27, 2018
Sunday, September 23, was full of emotions as descendants of known enslaved persons by the Society of the Sacred Heart gathered at St. Charles Borromeo Church and Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, to remember and honor their ancestors.
