When the woman with a years-long hemorrhage touches Jesus, the LIFE that is in him flows through her like an electric current. Connected to that flowing radiation of the fullness of life, her whole being – body and soul – is reset. The inner wound that for twelve long years, day and night has been draining away her life is healed at last!
Years ago, I had a conversation about God with a firefighter while we stood on a small-town Wyoming street corner, waiting for his partner to return with some equipment. “I can’t find God inside a building,” he said, “but in the woods…yep…in the woods…”
June 14, 2021
Books by Mary E. McGann, RSCJ, and Maria Cimperman, RSCJ, received first place awards from the Catholic Media Association's 2021 Book Awards. Sister McGann's book, The Meal That Reconnects: Eucharistic Eating and the Global Food Crisis, and Sister Cimperman's book, Religious Life For Our World: Creating Communities of Hope, earned first place recognition in the categories of Catholic Social Teaching and Future Church, respectively.
June 11, 2021
Re-watch the live stream of the Feast of the Sacred Heart Virtual Prayer Service held June 11, 2021.
Below are a list of resources in English, Spanish and French for the Feast of the Sacred Heart. These were written by RSCJ from across the globe, linked on the RSCJ International website.
Birth: March 5, 1932
Profession: February 8, 1960
Death: June 2, 2021
Religious of the Sacred Heart, Patricia “Pati” Desmond died June 2, 2021, in Atherton, California. She was eighty-nine years old and a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart for seventy years. Patricia was born on March 5, 1932, in San Francisco to Daniel Joseph Desmond and Corinne Marie Eastre Desmond. Patricia was the oldest of the third generation of her family who had deep ties to San Francisco. Years before she was born, her ancestors were raising goats in the middle of what is now downtown San Francisco.
On this First Friday of June, I am, for some reason, quite conscious of the liturgical shift from the glorious season of Easter, crescendo-ing in the Spirit’s fullness of presence at Pentecost to … well … a good bit of what the Church calls ‘ordinary.’
As in the liturgical seasons, the seasons of our prayer and life have their own shifts, stages, textures, feels and phases.
In prayer, we may recall periods when our own encounters with the Divine were intense, powerful, precious or intimate.
Birth: February 25, 1932
Profession: July 29, 1959
Death: May 30, 2021
Religious of the Sacred Heart, Mary Bridget Flaherty died May 30, 2021, in Atherton, California. She was eighty-nine years old and a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart for seventy years. Mary Bridget was born in Spokane, Washington, on February 25, 1932, to Francis Edward Flaherty and Helen Feeney Flaherty. Mary B., as family and friends knew her, entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1950 at the age of eighteen at Kenwood in Albany, New York.
May 31, 2021
Dear Sisters and the Family of the Sacred Heart,
This letter brings with it LOVE, SOLIDARITY AND HOPE as we prepare to celebrate the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and enter into Jesus’s pierced Heart, a heart that is open to both joy and suffering.
Despite growing up in St. Charles, Missouri, and attending the Academy of the Sacred Heart where Saint Philippine is buried, I always felt closer to the Society of the Sacred Heart’s founding mother, Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat. It was at Sacred Heart that I first came to care about my faith, after seeing the joy on the face of one of the RSCJ there as she prayed during a school Mass. It inspired me to try to pray, quieting myself and listening closely, letting myself sink deeper and deeper into God’s love.
