//Do not take or copy this code it is illegal, delete it. If you need very low priced rotators //that rotate like this, go to http://www.mooonbaby.com/scripts/absoluterotators.html/ //Copyright Mooonbaby.com. All rights reserved. function completeyearlyimage() { a( 1, "(St Madeleine Sophie) was a woman of her times, captivated by the love of Christ and open to the calls of the world in which she lived; may she give to each one of us her spirit, her courage and her humility.

Helen McLaughlin, Introduction of the Constitutions 1982"); a( 2, "I lay special stress on the importance of our life of prayer. It must be the foundation of spirituality, for it is the aim of our vocation and the basis on which the Society rests.

Augusta von Sartorius, Circular Letter vi"); a( 3, "The more the soul is detached, the closer it is to God. The more it is alone, the more united to God.

Adele Lehon, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980"); a( 4, "We need to give priority to prolonged prayer and to listening to the Word, letting ourselves be confronted by the same Word.

Concepcion Camacho, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1974"); a( 5, "With Him, because of Him, in His strength and in His love, go, be a neighbour, wherever He calls you. Be a neighbour... a Christ in all His poor, His needy ones, His loved ones.

Maria Josefa Bulto, Circular Letter May 1968"); a( 6, "A series of partial gifts will never add up to a total gift; a generous gift cannot be partial. Generosity is total, or non existent. Generosity must lead us to surrender ourselves to God.

Maria Manuela Vincente, Letter 28th April 1929"); a( 7, "Let us begin by praying. Prayer gives strength and perseverance... So drop everything and be filled with one thought: I am before God. Then be led by the Holy Spirit.

Augusta von Sartorius, in Margaret Williams: History of a Spirit p. 108"); a( 8, "We sensed more and more how justice and peace are at the centre of our spirituality, are intimately bound up with the love, and call to incarnate them flows from the open Heart of Jesus ... to educate is in itself an act of justice.

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2006"); a( 9, "If humility is always good, generous humility is better.

Philippine Duchesne, Letter to M. Gonzaga Boilvin 1842"); a( 10, "In this very dark world we must spread hope

Sabine de Valon, Circular December 1960"); a( 11, "Let us constantly ask the divine Heart to help and strengthen us, and to give us his spirit of charity.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 30 to M. Stephanie Cardan 1851"); a( 12, "You will, I know dear Sisters allow me to remind you, as was so often done by her whose memory lives in all our hearts, of the necessity of a strong interior life.

Josephine Goetz, Circular Letter: xv"); a( 13, "Hold on and let nothing dismay you. You may have to change your means; don't change your purpose. Remember you are doing God's work and God is with you.

Janet Stuart, in Maud Monahan Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart, Letter to 'A', November 1908"); a( 14, "Too often we seek definitions; we try to grasp God. But we need only to live, and discover the meaning of life to encounter him anew each day.

Concepcion Camacho, Conferences p.2"); a( 15, "(This time) is above all an ENCOUNTER, an encounter in depth with God, the only Absolute in our lives, whose love manifests itself in the Heart of His Son.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists, August 1986"); a( 16, "It is necessary for the mind to be founded on truth, just as the soul is established in prayer.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letters 18th January 1909"); a( 17, "We need to reaffirm our option for the poor and to make formation for justice and peace integral to our educational mission.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Opening of General Chapter 2000"); a( 18, "Make the inspirations of the Holy Spirit your own; be for him like an instrument in the hands of an artisan, in whose hands the material is totally compliant.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to Jeanne Cabagni March 1856/span>"); a( 19, "Day by day we write the story of our lives... no day in our life is without influence on the last, for ourselves as well as for the society.

Janet Stuart, Circular Letter: xiii"); a( 20, "Hope... will give us the strength to bear difficulties together, because the spirit of the Risen Christ will be at work in us.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 5th April 1971"); a( 21, "Our preferential love for the poor... must be accompanied by a clear, concrete witness lived in and as community, which will speak of our solidarity with them.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1987"); a( 22, "It is through the Heart of Jesus that the regeneration of modern society is to be brought about.

Maria de Loe, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart - History of a Spirit. 1800-1975 p.193 "); a( 23, "We feel that the creativity of God needs all of us to manifest God's love in this unique history that we share with all men and women of the earth.

Clare Pratt, Letter to the Society: June 23rd 2006"); a( 24, "Jesus wants to reveal Himself to you so you may intimately the sentiments of His Heart.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists August 1986"); a( 25, "Faith in the reality of His Love in me transforming, surpassing, overwhelming my little human possibilities of loving, and calming, if need be, in faith the troubles of my soul.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter June 1950"); a( 26, "If I had to live my life over again, I would seek only to listen to the Holy Spirit.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 8 to M. Adrienne Michel 1811"); a( 27, "If we can talk about a contemplative outlook, can we not talk of a contemplative listening?

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 21 November 1997"); a( 28, "Let gratitude be the dominant note of our thanksgiving.

Janet Stuart, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1913"); a( 29, "I will not leave Jesus alone as He cries out his love to the world. Wherever He goes, I will go, that is how love needs to act.

Sabine de Valon, Retreat 1961"); a( 30, "We must be pilgrims upon earth, not tourists.

Mabel Digby, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby Chapter xxviii"); a( 31, "Madeleine Sophie, woman of the heart, centred in the pierced Heart of Jesus, experienced in her time a thirst for God in a world wounded by injustice and lack of faith.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter-25th May 1988"); //February usually starts here. a( 32, "Jesus is the Eductor beyond compare, the Man of Peace, Source of living water, who placed the poor at the centre of the Kingdom.

Clare Pratt, Letter Feast of the Sacred Heart 2006"); a( 33, "We want to be instruments of mercy, above all for the forgotten and the excluded.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists June 1998"); a( 34, "Be the sanctuary lamp which, without attracting attention, revelas the presence of Jesus.

Maria Josefa Bulto, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908 - 1980"); a( 35, "It is only in the school of [Jesus'] Heart that we shall learn the secret of His vulnerability, the sign of His sensitivity and His love.

Concepcion Camacho, 21st November 1974"); a( 36, "Madeleine Sophie's vision was essentially a mystical one received from God in order to go to the heart of the world with the attitudes of Jesus.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25th May 1998"); a( 37, "When I know myself and confess my nothingness, yet count on my Lord Jesus, I grow strong in his grace and love.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 183 to M Adele Lehan 1856"); a( 38, "Our education is not meant to turn the children out small and finished, but seriously begun on a wide basis.

Janet Stuart, in Maud Monahan: Life and Letters p. 214"); a( 39, "It is only when we cease to torment ourselves with our limitations and to receive ourselves, as it were, from the loving hands of the Father that we can experience authentic liberty in Jesus Christ.

Concepcion Comacho, Conference on Vows, re Poverty, p 73"); a( 40, "To celebrate the feast of the Sacred Heart means to plumb the depths of the mystery of the infinite love of God.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1997"); a( 41, "Each...has something to give and something to receive from others.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 18th May 1971"); a( 42, "Let us give our life to God drop by drop in each little duty.

Mabel Digby to a Superior 1895, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 43, "Let us open our hearts to confidence, to the spirit of joy.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 44, "We educate in the light of the Gospel. The Gospel is the Word of God addressed to every age.

Clare Pratt, Address to the Heads of Schools of the Sacred Heart - Sydney 16th April 2002"); a( 45, "To be the Heart of God on earth means to go to the heart of life with the attitudes and feelings of the Heart of Christ; that was the fundamental intuition of Madeleine Sophie.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists June 2000"); a( 46, "It is not our thoughts that lead to You, my God, but the handing over of our whole being to action of Your Heart.

Sabine de Valon, in Monique Luirard: Sabine de Valon p.181"); a( 47, "I know that the acceptance of your limitations is turning you towards the one thing necessary, joy in God's fidelity.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 8th August 1981"); a( 48, "Do not lose a particle of your spiritual joy for any failure that you find in yourself to come up to your aspirations and to all that God has done for you.

Janet Stuart, in Maud Monahan: Life and Letters, Letter to 'A', March 1911"); a( 49, "Silent encounter with the Spirit, and shared prayer will open us to a love rooted in true poverty of spirit, and create in us that deep awareness which can discover the hidden gifts in others and Christ's love in them, your hope.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 12th March 1971"); a( 50, "How is the Society we so love to be upheld, propagated and extended? Believe me, there is only one way - by the depth and sincerity of our religious spirit.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Circular Letters: xvi February 1844"); a( 51, "We are gift and mystery for ourselves and for others.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1998"); a( 52, "Let us hold back nothing, let us give God a full gift - with both hands, with all our hearts, feeling in our will and conscience that we are giving all that we have to give.

Janet Stuart: Spirit and Teaching. p303"); a( 53, "From this desire of authenticity rooted in the Gospel in the following of Christ flows a dynamic sense of mission.

Concepcion Comacho, Conferences, p65"); a( 54, "The evening of life is not to be dreaded as some dread it; rather it is to be hoped for and loved for its clarity and detachment.

Janet Stuart. Circular Letter: xiii"); a( 55, "Your life, (is) Jesus and nothing but Jesus.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to M Alexandrine de Riencourt 1833"); a( 56, "Faith always involves an encounter with the Mystery which envelops our life.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1997"); a( 57, "The integration we seek is already in Jesus and it is from our union and conformity with his feelings and attitudes, his preferences and priorities that our action flows.

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2006"); a( 58, "Will not God who keeps you today keep you tomorrow and so on, a day at a time, the 'now' that is our only possession, and in which God is ours.

Janet Stuart, in Maud Monahan: Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart, Letter to 'E'"); a( 59, "Happy is she who believes firmly in the love of her God and sees His Heart through the veils of pain, of uncertainty, of restrictions.

Maria de Loe, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart - History of a Spirit. 1800-1975 p.189"); //See instructions above about leap year. //March usually starts here . a( 60, "In every happening, every situation, in the simplest things of daily life, look long at Christ so as to respond according to His Heart.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 8th September 1981"); a( 61, "In Christ, who chose poverty to enrich us, we learn to enter into a new relationship with God, and with others, and with events.

Concepcion Comacho, Conference on Vows, re Poverty, p73"); a( 62, "I cannot sufficiently implore you to place your interior life before all else, and give yourself up in prayer... without however neglecting other duties.

Adele Lehon, Circular Letter: xxiv"); a( 63, "To believe in God means to open ourselves, to surrender ourselves to Mystery. It means knowing that we are drawn into the free gift of this Mystery.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1997"); a( 64, "You are growing older... (and) suffering; so you can do very little, but this is a means of becoming interior and of uniting yourself to Jesus in his self-emptying.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 74 to Mo Adreinne Michel 1837"); a( 65, "Sometimes we simply talk to Jesus, sometimes we unite ourselves to the thoughts of His heart, sometimes we stay peacefully at His feet, looking at him.

Augusta von Sartorius, in Margaret Williams: History of a Spirit p.108"); a( 66, "The great way, in fact the only way, to enter the divine current of love is to do God's will, for that is the one true proof of love.

Sabine de Valon, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980"); a( 67, "The basis for (our Cor Unum) will no longer be uniformity, but confidence, love, and the sole desire of working together in the apostolic task given us by the Church.

Maria Josefa Bulto, in Margaret Williams; History of a Spirit p285"); a( 68, "The Word of God can help us more that all else because it makes us look at reality with all its difficulties, but always with hope.

Concepcion Camacho, Conferences: p40"); a( 69, "The nature of love is to change the lover into the Beloved.

Madelaine Sophie Barat, Letter 93 to M Emilie Giraud 1928"); a( 70, "Simplicity teaches us to relinquish every desire and pursuit which is neither God Himself nor His known will.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: x"); a( 71, "When (God) says one word it makes the impossible possible, and the unlovely lovely, and the unmeaning become a revelation.

Janet Stuart, in Maud Monahan Life and letters p258"); a( 72, "Only by being vunerable, by letting ourselves be touched by the sufferings of the Body )of Christ), can we give a real response to the needs of the world.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 4th May 1982"); a( 73, "Today, a little more that yesterday, (Jesus') Heart must live and speak and act in me.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 25th January 1947"); a( 74, "God takes delight in a heart that has grown deep by humility and wide by charity.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 75, "We have been chosen and selected from many different nations, and today our union of mind and heart is an immense force

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: xvi"); a( 76, "We are aware that we carry our treasure in earthen vessels; this treasure is the presence of the faithful love of God.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists June 1996"); a( 77, "Our life as a son or daughter of God is the hidden strength of our desire to live more as pilgrims, with less security and solidarity, open to receive our bread day by day in a growing communion.

Concepcion Camacho, Conference on Vows, re Poverty, p.73"); a( 78, "Let us keep on praying and especially growing holy; that's what I call the marrow of prayer.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 33 to M Anna de Rousier 1839"); a( 79, "Courage...now is the time to say to yourself: ...I will take the risk, I will make the act of blind trust...

Janet Stuart, Letter quoted in The Inward Life p.34"); a( 80, "It is not our thoughts that lead to You, my God, but the handing over of our whole being to the action of Your Heart.

Sabine de Valon, Note 1957"); a( 81, "There is a privileged place where God is known by God's own name and in turn calls us by our name. We receive this gift when we are able to enter into the deepest part of ourselves.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 82, "A strong desire to be faithful to the Gospel and to the spirit of the Society, is in itself the assurance of our hope.

Maria Josefa Bulto, in Margaret Williams: History of a Spirit p.293"); a( 83, "We must deepen our faith in the hidden power of our common call, and discover again and again with greater joy the 'hidden treasure' of (Jesus') Heart.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 1st July 1973"); a( 84, "Let us pray to Mary, woman in whom love became flesh and who knew how to love the adventure of God with all its consequences, that she may be for us the strength, the encouragement and the light in this new stage of your life.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists, December 1987"); a( 85, "When spiritual joy and poverty go hand in hand, there most surely reigns the spirit of Jesus Christ, our Lord and model.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: xxiv"); a( 86, "To be the Heart of God on earth means to go to the heart of life with all the attitudes and feelings of the Heart of Christ, that was the fundamental intuition of Madeleine Sophie; it is what makes our name intrinsic to our vocation as RSCJ.

Patricia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists, June 2000"); a( 87, "We must open not only the doors, but the windows of our souls to the truth.

Mabel Digby, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 88, "They truly are spouses of the Heart of Jesus who have understood their obligation, and still more their rights, as spouses, to know Him intimately.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 13 June 1947"); a( 89, "May our gratitude increase our love for the divine Heart, who in spite of our weakness and misery grants us such abundant blessings.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Circular Letters: xxxii 10 March. 1865"); a( 90, "Only in the measure that we strive to be penetrated by the spirit of Christ... will we be able to know ourselves, meet others in truth and love them as brothers (and sisters).

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 5 April 1971"); //April usually starts here. a( 91, "I can never insist enough on the need for contemplation that our apostolic life carries with it.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 4th May 1982"); a( 92, "How very dear to Our Lord is the one who can say from the bottom of her heart; 'Lord, indeed you are good; I love whatever you want.' Such a soul is his beloved.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 18 to M Philippine Duchesne 1807"); a( 93, "Heavenly gifts grow in the soul according to the extent of our humility. Humble souls attract the eyes of God

Maria Manuela Vincente, Letter 22nd May 1932"); a( 94, "With charity, the humblest work becomes an apostolate which is all the more fruitful for being hidden

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter 5th May 1910"); a( 95, "We want to give life, and today we have to give it with feeling and with passion.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists January 1997"); a( 96, "The law of sanctity is the law of separation - therefore it is that we have partings and uprootings

Mabel Digby, at Roehampton 1892 in Anne Pollen; Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 97, "Say fiat to everything

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 188 to M Louise de Limminghe 1832"); a( 98, "It is only in the school of [Jesus'] Heart that we shall learn the secret of His vulnerability, the sign of this sensitivity and His love.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 21st November 1974"); a( 99, "Human frailty can take us by surprise, alas! Whoever we may be.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 10th November 1949"); a( 100, "Keep on doing God's work in peace and abandonment to His good pleasure, in union with his divine Heart.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 122 to M Emilie Giraud, 1839"); a( 101, "Never waste time. God Himself, generous and all powerful does not give us back lost time.

Mabel Digby, at Menio Park 1898, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 102, "The relationships among us and with others can be a clear expression of the charism and they are a way of making it visible. The quality of our relationships reveals the presence of the love of God among us.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 103, "The gift of ourselves to God cannot go further than the faithful practice of religious obedience.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter xxxii"); a( 104, "In Jesus, God's compassion is made visible

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992, Letters to the Society: p107"); a( 105, "I feel and understand that I am nothing, but I have put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and I let him be absolute Master of my senses and all my powers. I submit to him my whole being, all I do, so I have nothing.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 14 to M Elisa de Bouchaud 1851"); a( 106, "We must be able to create an inner silence so that the unfolding drama of the world becomes a reality that touches us; so that the love of God within us may inspire a creative and joyous response.

Concepcion Camacho, Christmas 1973"); a( 107, "The soul of our vocation is, in its principle, an exchange of love whose reciprocal law is the law of giving.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 8 June 1952"); a( 108, "Only those who have believed in love can direct their gaze toward the pierced Heart of Jesus.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists, June 1997"); a( 109, "We can help to find a better educational response to our love-thirsty world, which challenges, changes and educates us.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 19th March 1978"); a( 110, "In order that divine Providence may continue the production it has hitherto afforded us, we must on our side love and practice religious poverty

Adele Lehon, Circular Letter: xxxiii"); a( 111, "In the Society we have the opportunity - which also brings with it a responsibility - to be bridge builders, knowing one's own culture and entering respectfully into the other's; to facilitate dialogue between the living cultures, between faith and culture.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1984"); a( 112, "Our commitment is a commitment to love before being a commitment to progress.

Sabine de Valon, in Monique Luirard: Sabine de Valon, p180"); a( 113, "A way is open before us. The fate of the Society is in our lives, in our hands. May Christ the Way, the Truth and the Life help us to continue to live His mission courageously.

Helen McLaughlin, Closing of the General Chapter 1988"); a( 114, "How good it is to abandon oneself into the arms of Providence, which watches over us with the tenderness of a tender mother!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 20 to M Therese Gilbert 1851"); a( 115, "As Religious of the Sacred Heart whose mission is to discover and reveal the love of his Heart, love has fashioned our identity; it is our desire and delight. It is also our constant challenge.

Clare Patt, Letter Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); a( 116, "There can be no true contemplation without silence and interior solitude which opens us to the Lord and at the same time makes us attentive to our brothers (and sisters).

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 21 November 1974"); a( 117, "The world is making new demands on us, urgent ones! More than ever our Church needs us.

Sabine de Valon, Opening of the Special Chapter 1967"); a( 118, "Obedience must be loved if it is to be understood.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: xxxii"); a( 119, "Sorrowing and suffering have one great advantage for those of us who know how to profit from it, they detach us from this life. They detach us too from self and creatures. So we should love the Cross: this love has been the passion to all great saints.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 120, "Each is called by Christ to be more Gospel-hearted, striving generously to follow Christ more nearly by a share in his life - chaste, poor and obedient.

Maria Josefa Bulto, in Margaret Williams: History of a Spirit p292"); //May usually starts here. a( 121, "Since we are so inclined to seek ourselves unceasingly, let us place ourselves in that divine centre, the Heart of Jesus, and see ourselves only in Him.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 74 to M Adrienne Michel 1837"); a( 122, "Adherence to the prayer of His Heart which never ceases day and night in our Tabernacles and which continues in our souls where His Spirit abides.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 7 July 1953"); a( 123, "Mission: the call of Jesus in the power of the Spirit

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 15 December 1972"); a( 124, "Jesus calls us to a life of union with Him, a generous and fruitful life that demands great patience of us as well as continual purification.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists, January 1999"); a( 125, "Let us not be afraid to cut down our needs, to let ourselves be jolted, to change a life-style that is sometimes too comfortable.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1987"); a( 126, "That we are called to be and are Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, signifies that we ought above all excel in love.

Janet Stuart, Circular Letters: v"); a( 127, "Go on resolutely following your crucified Lord, and God in his mercy will bring you to your desired end.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 19 to M Adrienne Michel 1813"); a( 128, "Love one another always with our primitive charity and remain unshakeable in your attachment to our Society.

Mabel Digby, Belgium, October 1897, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 129, "The quiet eye is - Open and receptive, that it may see the eye of the disciple. Contemplative that it may reflect. Reasonable that it may compare and judge. Docile that it may be corrected.

Janet Stuart, The harvest of a Quiet Eye, Highways & Byways in the Spiritual Life, p22"); a( 130, "Our heart is purified in prayer because it draws near to Jesus.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 15 September 1978"); a( 131, "You say you are weak; but have you measured the strength of God?

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 132, "It is clear that we need to learn of the reality in which [people] live so that we better appreciate our vow of chastity... Chastity gives us greater availability for a broad and more universal service.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 9 June 1972"); a( 133, "We have been an international community from the beginnings of the Society, and living internationality and interculturality is part of our vocation. This gift of the Spirit is rooted in our charism.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1995"); a( 134, "As long as life lasts, this life of prayer must continue.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: xxxix"); a( 135, "How we need to unite ourselves to Jesus Christ, and to experience his gracious action in and through us!

Medeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 47 to M Emilie Giraud 1817"); a( 136, "Community is essential for mission and is its strength... The mission takes root, substance and life in communities in which faith is seen to be lived. The mission demands a way of life in which prayer comes first.

Concepcion Comacho, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980"); a( 137, "Our personal and community life must be a sign of the Kingdom already present... We must interpret in the light of the Gospel each different situation as it arises.

Maria Josefa Bulto, Opening of General Chapter 1970"); a( 138, "You will find all this strength in the Heart of Jesus. He is open for us: let us go to Him to draw the strength and courage we need.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to Philippine Duchesne 25 August 1823"); a( 139, "This charism in its power of continuity, unity and transformation is alive above all in the relationship amongst ourselves.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 4 August 1977"); a( 140, "Courage, Jesus will come to your help, so increase your confidence in proportion as your troubles grow.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 39 to M Philippine Duchesne, 1810"); a( 141, "To be a Christian, to be a Religious of the Sacred Heart is to lose oneself in the love of God.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists, June 1999"); a( 142, "The Heart of Christ, that is to say the most intimate, the most profound part of the person, has been touched. This opening leads us into new life.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists, June 1984"); a( 143, "Jesus refuses nothing to a heart surrendered for his sake to every possible trial.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 3 to M Marie-Louise Rappacioli 1861"); a( 144, "Adherence to the life of His Heart in us which is our life of grace, in His will of each successive present moment, whatever that moment may be, however this holy will may shape or direct it.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 7 July 1953"); a( 145, "Enter into the plans of the divine Heart and tell him, from the depths of your soul: 'I come to do your will, O God'.:

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 39 to M Blanche de Lannoy 1855"); a( 146, "It is only when we are united to Christ's outlook on the world that we can see reality.

Concepcion Comacho, Conferences: p12"); a( 147, "Becoming and being compassionate means becoming and being human.

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992"); a( 148, "Jesus gave life to the Society on the Cross, when from his open Heart came, with His blood, the ultimate proof of His love for us. What an inestimable blessing and gift have we received from his Heart!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Spiritual Journey p39"); a( 149, "Contemplation is fundamental to our vocation as RSCJ. Seeing the close relationship between contemplation and humility as gift of the Spirit can help us to understand better what this might mean for us today.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1995"); a( 150, "Be very faithful to the Holy Spirit... you realise that he wants great things of you, and the fruit of this fidelity is beyond description; all my distress comes from my failures in this.

Madeleins Sophie Barat, Letter 8 to M Adrienne Michel 1811"); a( 151, "Do not waver before difficulties.

Mabel Digby, at Wandsworth 1877, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby Chapter xxviii"); //June usually starts here. a( 152, "Do not think about the future, leave that to our Lord; use the present moment to love, to act, to suffer; such should be the life of a spouse of the Heart of Jesus.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 153, "It is a wounded Heart that gives life to a world full of ambiguity, of suffering... this bursting forth of life, this superabundance of life springing from a Heart that has been touched by suffering.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists, June 1984"); a( 154, "Often we discover God's presence through human experiences: loneliness and love, grief and joy, resentment and gratitude, war and peace.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 155, "May we ever remain the true Society of the Heart of Jesus who was poor, humble, and crucified, the son of a workman and Himself a workman, having nowhere to rest His head.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter: 13 November 1952"); a( 156, "Only with the Spirit's help will we go forward without avoiding difficulties and tensions, and walk with greater fruit and more serene freedom, living the attitudes of Jesus.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 8 September 1977"); a( 157, "Let us do all we can to preserve the spirit of faith and simplicity.

Adele Lehon, Circular Letter, xviii"); a( 158, "Prayer is surrender. It leads us to live in continuous awareness of the Light that dwells within us and makes our life a reflection of this light.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Annunciation 1994"); a( 159, "Happy is she who believes firmly in the love of God for her and sees his Heart through the veils of pain, of uncertainty, of restrictions.

Maria de Loe, in Margaret williams: History of a Spirit p 189"); a( 160, "Try to see in every circumstance the special, not general will of God.

Janet Stuart, in Maud Monahan: Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart, Letter to 'G', July 1910"); a( 161, "Let us try to keep Jesus in the depths of our souls and turn to him constantly.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 188 to M Emma de Bouchaud 1852"); a( 162, "Let us live intentionally this love present in our hearts through the Spirit who renews and transforms us.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists, June 1995"); a( 163, "Compassion is living with an awakened heart. It is allowing the fire of love and a passion for justice to mobilise us, impelling us to go beyond feeling sorry to feeling a solidarity that seeks transformation, beginning with our own on-going conversion.

Clare Pratt, Conference to the Probationists, June 2004"); a( 164, "The chosen virtues of the Heart of Jesus, humility and charity, are the very heart's blood of the Society.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: XLII"); a( 165, "As RSCJ we should have in our heart a burning inner fire of love by which we live out the Christ-life for men and women.

Concepcion Comacho, Conferences: p16"); a( 166, "Today, more than ever, the need is strong for continual spiritual discernment in order to live our charism, our mission in all its authencity and with audacity.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 12 October 1987"); a( 167, "Before the Blessed Sacrament, remain in the emptiness that precedes fullness. Renew yourself in the wounds of Jesus Christ, especially in His pierced side; that is ours. Afterwards live a renewed life filled with joy.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, in A. Brou: Travail et Priere: St M. Sophie Barat, p38"); a( 168, "In identifying with the Compassionate Heart of Jesus... you take on his way of seeing the wounds in those to whom you are being sent, those whom the world excludes.

Clare Pratt, Conference to the Probationists, June 2004"); a( 169, "Are we convinced that the Spirit of God has given us the power to create spaces where love, forgiveness, solidarity and justice can be visible?

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 170, "Love gave, Mary, the Cross, grant that the Cross may give us love and may the spouses of the Sacred Heart never know any cross but that of thy Son...

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Prayer to Our Lady after the Crisis of 1839"); a( 171, "Go to the Heart of Jesus and draw from it, and when you need more, go back to the Source and draw again.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 18 to M Philippine Duchesne 1807"); a( 172, "To adhere to His constant Offering which is the most essential disposition of His Heart before His Father, and which He desires to continue through me, His living member.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 7 July 1953"); a( 173, "Believe that Jesus will make up for our weakness, our slowness, even our blunders, when it is our will and our chief desire to do everything to glorify him, to make him known and loved.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 7 to M Eulalie de Chazelles 1862"); a( 174, "In identifying with the Compassionate Heart of Jesus you enter into his tenderness, his gentle presence, his ability to suffer 'with', his gift of standing in others' shoes.

Clare Pratt, Conference to the Probationists, June 2004"); a( 175, "Through the silent expressions of his will, God seeks me.

Sabine de Valon, Monique Luirard: Sabine de Valon p175"); a( 176, "They are truly spouses of His Heart who base the fidelity of their love on a single-hearted attachment, looking only to Him.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter: June 13 1947"); a( 177, "Share simply who you are and what you have.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists 1986"); a( 178, "May we bear about ourselves the Cross of Christ, the sufferings of His Passion, and the remembrance of His wounds. Grant that wounded and bruised and following in His footsteps, we may be lifted above ourselves and consumed with the love of the Cross...

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Prayer to Our Lady after the Crisis of 1839"); a( 179, "There is a sense that the earth is sacred, that God dwells everywhere, that there is no sacred,secular separation, that contact with the land is a primary spiritual experience.

Clare Pratt, Letter 150th Anniversary of the death of St Rose Philippine Duchesne, November 2002"); a( 180, "We form a part of the reality of our world, and as such we continually hear the call to recognise our own wounds that we may draw closer to others, make ourselves vulnerable and thus learn mercy and compassion.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo: Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 181, "Your prayer must be the main spring of everything. Give it the place of honour in your life.

Janet Stuart, Joy in Faith p15"); //July usually starts here. a( 182, "[I am suffering] but you know and indeed you believe that we must suffer and yet go on living.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to Philippine Duchesne 23 April 1811"); a( 183, "'How do you believe God sees the world today?' My spontaneous response was 'Through tears...'

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); a( 184, "The Mission, our mission, does not allow itself to be dominated by fear or by a calculating mind, but it is a spirit of love, freedom and daring. It calls us to come out of ourselves, to go out to others, to respond.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1987"); a( 185, "Let us pray that the Society's apostolate may never in any time or place deviate either into merely human or secular ways, but always remain in truth: 'The Work of the Heart of Jesus'.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter June 1950"); a( 186, "How few people permit themselves to be captivated by God, who so much deserves to be loved!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Spiritual Journey p35"); a( 187, "I ask you to reread and to pray over the pararaphs of the constitutions which emphasise so strongly the capital importance of union of minds and hearts, the source of new energy for life and apostolic action.

Maria Josefa Bulto, in Margaret williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980"); a( 188, "Courage and double confidence daughter on bad days.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 50 to V Blanche de Lannoy 1855"); a( 189, "As Religious of the Sacred Heart whose mission is to discover and reveal the love of His heart, love has fashioned our identity; it is our desire and our delight.

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); a( 190, "We need to strengthen our interior life, the basis of our religious spirit, in order to do some good to those who come to us looking for the knowledge and love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

Manuela Vincente, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart - History of the Spirit p197"); a( 191, "Each one should ask herself whether by her attitude or her ignorance she contributes to injustice in the world.

Concepcion Comacho, Conferences: p5"); a( 192, "The heart of the Society beats wherever love and human relationships are wounded, and this includes our own woundedness.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 193, "Break your ties so that your heart is free for the Spirit to be your master.

Madeleine Sophie barat, Letter to Ameie de Savonnieres 29 January 1851"); a( 194, "If the initiative comes from God, then what is asked of us is to have a contemplative attitude: to listen, to wait, to hope and to trust, ever attentive to the stirrings of the Spirit in our hearts.

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); a( 195, "In the pierced Heart are united the superabundance of sin and the superabundance of love.

Helen McLLaughlin, Meeting of New Provincials March 1987"); a( 196, "It is in interior solitude that you will learn the depths of meaning in those divine words: 'I am the way and the truth and the life'.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 61 to M Adrienne Michel 1822"); a( 197, "He alone can control the course of the whole world or chisel a single soul with instruments which seem least fitted for this divine work

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 25 May 1956"); a( 198, "Allow God to take the initiative in our lives, to become women of contemplation, open to receiving the gift of pardon and the gift of offering forgiveness, wherever healing is needed in our lives and in the lives around us.

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); a( 199, "The Heart of Jesus will supply for all that is wanting in you. For that you must tend to strip yourself of your own activity; then Jesus will give you His Spirit and He will act upon you as He did upon His disciples.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter May 16 1864"); a( 200, "Underneath the very real cultural differences you share a common humanity and are bound together as sisters by a common call to follow Jesus and follow Him in the Society of the Sacred Heart.

Clare Pratt, Opening of the Probation August 2004"); a( 201, "I would go to the ends of the earth to gain one soul for God, I would stop at nothing - one solitary soul is worth more that all our lives.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts & Sayings"); a( 202, "We need to be women of hope to all we meet, especially to the poor, the suffering, the oppressed, the marginalised.

Helen McLaughlin, Teleconference with USA Province, April 1992"); a( 203, "You are all God's property and your life can be one wild bird's song of praise, one wild flower's face looking up at him. Do not try to be a garden flower. I think he likes the wild flowers best and I know I do.

Janet Stuart, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1890"); a( 204, "The soul of our vocation is, in its principle, an exchange of love whose reciprocal law is the law of giving.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter June 6 1952"); a( 205, "We see so clearly with our heads how we are called to love! What is the matter with our hearts that we fall short in trying to live what is most basic to our vocation?

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); a( 206, "Jesus, let us make this pact, that I will die to everything in myself so that you can live through me, that I will be utterly silent so that it is You who speak in and through me, that in my being still You will act in and through me.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Spiritual Journey p32"); a( 207, "Often we feel our powerlessness when we find communication and relationships difficult, when we are not able to communicate the love of God among ourselves or to others.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 208, "When we seek God, He whom we seek is already ours

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Maxims"); a( 209, "The land is Earth Mother... source of nourishment and shelter for the people, a gift to be cared for and passed on to posterity as a sacred trust.

Clare Pratt, Letter 150th Anniversary of the death of St Rose Philippine Duchesne, November 2002"); a( 210, "Even though we feel poor, weak, very much the little ones, we can have immense desires counting upon 'the Spirit working in our weakness' so that aglow with the Spirit we serve the Lord in joy and hope.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter Feast of the Birthday of Our Lady 1984"); a( 211, "Our Lord wants you to dedicate yourself to doing good, putting everything into his hands you will become an instrument capable of working miracles. What impedes his work is when we insist on our way, or if we leave everything to him. He wants our cooperation.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to Eulalie de Bouchaud 24 August 1839"); a( 212, "Like Thomas, you have been invited by the Risen Jesus to believe, to put your finger into the mark of the nails, put your hand into Jesus' side, find a welcome, a home, a permanent shelter on those very wounds, now glorious.

Clare Pratt, Feast of the Sacred Heart 2004"); //August usually starts here. a( 213, "If we are called by our vocation to make known 'the revelation of God's love, whose source and symbol is for us the Heart of Christ' [Const.#3], then compassion, Hesed, that characteristic of God's Heart must live in us and permeate our whole educational mission.

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992"); a( 214, "As we advance in surrender, we become detached from everything, and it is easier for us to see people and things in God, that is to say in his will, so wise and full of love for us.

Maria Manuela Vincente, Letter 22 May 1932 p87"); a( 215, "When the Holy Spirit takes over a heart, its first action is to disarm it. Interior spirit allows a soul to breathe, live and respond only to God.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Conference August 1844"); a( 216, "He works in darkness... the darkness of an often austere prayer, of our struggles, at times our lack of progress.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Conference 25 May 1956"); a( 217, "We often hear about seeking and offering alternatives. Could not compassion be the alternative, the ever fresh, ever surprising possibility that we RSCJ have to offer our world?

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992"); a( 218, "Let us contemplate the most humble Heart of Mary, a little creature who pays no heed to herself. God has taken possession of her soul; He suffices. He draws her like a magnet. The rest is nothing in her eyes.

Sabine de Valon, Conference"); a( 219, "We have to let compassion move from the heart into the head so that we can respond in a planned and purposeful way. We have to let it flow into our hands, our feet, giving energy.

Helen McLaughlin, Teleconference with USA Province, April 1992"); a( 220, "I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 2 to M Henriette de Schaunenbourg, 1856"); a( 221, "In the apostle, love of souls presupposes... sacrificing one's life, wearing it out, making no account of it in order to breathe into others a new life

Sabine de Valon, in Monique Luirard: Sabine de Valon p179"); a( 222, "Recognising our need for forgiveness and reconciliation is a call to open ourselves to compassion and to hope.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 223, "To live, to breathe, to act: that is the whole person; but it can only come about through Jesus.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Conference August 1844"); a( 224, "Here I suffer because I can do nothing at all.

Philippine Duchesne, Letter to Fr De La Croix, February 1842"); a( 225, "Our Lady will guide and teach us to appreciate the Passion... From the moment of Simeon's prophecy, she was ever ready for it, and was able to 'stand' at the foot of the Cross unfalteringly. From her we shall learn to follow in the footsteps of her Son.

Janet Stuart, Christ's Death and Ours p7"); a( 226, "The power of our compassion - a compassion that is never completely pure but is intermingled with weakness - will help us to struggle against all that brings suffering to so many of our sisters and brothers.

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992"); a( 227, "May Mary who pondered in her heart each encounter and each daily task, teach us to understand the meaning and importance of 'living from the heart'. The heart is the centre of our life, of our relationships.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 15 September 1978"); a( 228, "We can only enter into dialogue with other cultures in the measure that we know and understand our own culture.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1984"); a( 229, "You must draw much more closely to the Heart of Jesus and not think about yourself. His glory, his work in people ought to be your dominant thought.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to Louise de Limminghe 25 February 1852"); a( 230, "It is God who leads us to the deepest part of ourselves, to the source of our fruitfulness, to that place where the light at the centre of our being shines forth.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1998"); a( 231, "A large portion of [the Cross] is reserved for you, but be courageous and ready to accept it willingly, without asking for it. You will have crosses that come from yourself, but there will be others that may seem more painful.

St Madeleine Sophie, Letter to Philippine Duchesne - Correspondence Pt1, letter 5, p17"); a( 232, "Our God is a just God who loves justice. When the human spirit is rejected, crushed, wounded, forgotten, God becomes angry and not wanting to keep things as they are, intervenes to transform a situation of opression.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1989"); a( 233, "In desire and in prayer I may visit the countries where some day I shall serve our Lord and have Him alone for my riches.

Philippine Duchesne, letter to St Madeleine Sophie, March 1804"); a( 234, "Christ is our Truth. He invites us to incarnate this truth in our whole life, in our relationships, our commitments, our choices.

Helen McLaughlin, Closing of General Chapter 1988"); a( 235, "As obedience quickened by faith unites every member to each other and their head, the result of the faithful practice of this virtue is charity.

Josephine Goetz, Circular Letter: xvi"); a( 236, "Jesus is near, He is here. Here, with His compassionate Heart that has known suffering, here with His loving Heart that sustains our courage, here, with His Saviour's Heart that feels the need of immolation.

Sabine de Valon, Circular Letters"); a( 237, "The Society is essentially based on prayer and the interior life since without this life, this union with God which makes us enter into the study and practice of the virtues of the Heart of Jesus, we cannot glorify or bear fruit for souls.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Conference August 1846"); a( 238, "when guided by the Spirit, we enter into our very centre, we are able to recognise the gift and the call to live conformed to the feelings and attitudes of Jesus.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1998"); a( 239, "Educating for compassion, awakening compassion in children, adolescents, and adults - this is our duty and our mission. Our world calls us to it by the very fact that it makes such efforts to put compassion to sleep, to obstruct it.

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992"); a( 240, "Let us become more and more deeply penetrated with the importance of the gift of prayer, and let us ask it for each other of the Lord unceasingly.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Conference 15 October 1835"); a( 241, "It isn't just a question of being educators for peace and justice, but also of having the certainty that to educate is in itself an act of justice.

Clare Pratt, Letter for the Feast of the Sacred Heart 2006"); a( 242, "Humility, that fertile ground, that 'humus' - from which humility derives its name - is essential for real growth. The earth waits, silent, receptive of any seed, in order to bring forth new life. We too can be silent, receptive, responding to the radical demands of his love.

Helen McLaughlin. Letter 17 May 1985"); a( 243, "Let us be convinced that prayer and humility can triumph over the greatest obstacles and draw down the most signal graces.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); //September usually starts here. a( 244, "We are called to be wounded healers who are compassionate, non-judgemental, who 'love tenderly', who rejoice in life.

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1988"); a( 245, "A strong desire to be faithful to the Gospel and to the spirit of this Society is in itself the assurance of our hope. Where there is growth in humility and poverty of spirit, Christ can truly take possession.

Maria Josefa Bulto, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980"); a( 246, "Prayer is more than ever the living sap of the Society, made fruitful by close union with God.

Sabine de Valon, Circular Letter 25 May 1958"); a( 247, "Communities depend on what and who we are, not on what and who we are not. They are built with the strengths and resources we have, not with those we lack.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1998"); a( 248, "Humility is the key that opens us to love. We... are called to be women who love, bearers of love, of a love that is strong, that is true, that is magnanimous. In this we cannot be mediocre; we cannot be weak; we cannot be vacillating.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 17 May 1985"); a( 249, "Our Jesus will never refuse his help to the soul that puts her trust in him.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 2 to M Henriette de Schaunenbourg, 1856"); a( 250, "The strength of all our action must have its roots in the person of Jesus, it must issue from the strength of His Love, it must flow from His Spirit.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 1 July 1973"); a( 251, "The Eucharistic soul finds her delight in the tabernacle, she draws her light from Jesus in her soul. She wants to be a host consecrated by Jesus and transformed by him.

Manuela Vincente, in Margaret Williams, History of a Spirit p198"); a( 252, "In contemplating Jesus, seeing his love for the poor and the little ones, you were also strengthened in your preferential love for the poor and the little ones of the world.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists, June 1988"); a( 253, "God does not reward success, which we cannot command. He looks to our intention.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 254, "We must deepen our faith in the hidden power of our common call, and discover again and again with greater joy the 'hidden treasure' of His Heart.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 1 July 1973"); a( 255, "We are called to be prophetic persons who are sensitive, courageous, prayerful, have a vision for the [world].

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1988"); a( 256, "Dwelling in love means constantly seeking the person and will of the Beloved, as He Himself has pledged to live in this continual contemplation and dependence.

Sabine de Valon, Letter May 1962"); a( 257, "Prayer and patience, our Lord points these out as a twofold means of triumphing over all difficulties, we should use them with all confidence.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and sayings"); a( 258, "As followers of Christ, as women who desire to live in union and conformity with Him, you enter into this mystery of suffering and of joy, of sadness for sinfulness and of spiritual joy in Christ.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists, June 1988"); a( 259, "Madeleine Sophie, woman of the heart, centered in the pierced Heart of Jesus, experienced in her time a thirst for God in a world wounded by injustice and lack of faith.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1998"); a( 260, "Poverty if well observed, will give us easier access to the Heart of Jesus and there lies our true treasure.

Adele Leon, Circular Letter, xxxvi"); a( 261, "The Cross is the wisdom of God, all good things come with it.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 262, "Faith is the absolute trust in the One in whom we have believed.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1999"); a( 263, "If you cannot meditate, you can always say, My God I love thee!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 264, "Cultivate the spirit of thanksgiving and do your best.

Mabel Digby, at Wandsworth 1877, in Anne Pollen, Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 265, "New ideas and alternatives are a sign of life. They can be the seeds out of which the future can be created, but there is a fragility within them... The spirit transforms their fragility.

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1994"); a( 266, "When you have become nothing, our Lord will create a new being in you, it will be Himself, and you will be as it were changed into Him, not by nature but by grace.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 267, "By silence, our difficulties, our trials, our sorrows, are set apart, consecrated, given to God. Tibi silentia laus!

Mabel Digby, in Anne Pollen, Mother Mabel Digby, Chapter xxviii"); a( 268, "Prayer must be our support and uphold our hope.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 269, "We need to be open communities, able to open windows in all directions, to offer welcoming spaces, meeting places, where we let ourselves be questioned and challenged in the daily round, so as to live the gospel with greater integrity.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 25 May 1998"); a( 270, "God is Master of his gifts, the essential is to refer them back to him.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 188 to M Louise de Liminghe 1832"); a( 271, "To follow Christ according to our Constitutions, to glorify His Heart, will lead us to love in a new way.

Helen McLaughlin, Letters to the Society p150"); a( 272, "A discerning heart means being ready to listen, sensitive to what goes on around us, and with great confidence in the Lord.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 3 June 1979"); a( 273, "Let us pray unceasingly.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); //October usually starts here. a( 274, "The law of love is the law of fire, it has to destroy, to sweep on. It lives on what it consumes. It did so in Jesus' life and must do so in mine.

Sabine de Valon, Notes 1961"); a( 275, "We have made a choice for love, which gives meaning to our life.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1996"); a( 276, "Surely it is enough for us to know that Our Lord holds in His Hands and Heart the secret of our days, and He who cannot want for wisdom, power and love, is never nearer to us than in time of trial.

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter 1902"); a( 277, "When everything abandons us let us abandon ouselves to God

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 278, "We are called to be persons of dialogue, capable of listening, trusting, open to learn from others, available and discerning.

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1988"); a( 279, "May His plan of love be perfectly fulfilled in each detail of our lives, with faith, confidence and abandonment, no matter what He does and what He asks.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter April 10 1957"); a( 280, "From now on let us live only for the one who dies and rose again for us.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 32 to M Alexandrine de Riencourt, 1832"); a( 281, "Our faith is strengthened in community when we share the experience of God among ourselves and with others, and when we realise that we are being led by God, that God is journeying with us.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists, January 1999"); a( 282, "Be humble, be simple, bring joy and refer everything you possess to its source; when Jesus is the mainspring of your faculties, of your acts, he will act by his Spirit in you, by you!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 22 to M Marie Mayer 1865"); a( 283, "We want to be one with our brothers and sisters in need, hungry, lonely and deprived of their rights.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter to the Society 5 May 1986"); a( 284, "May we forever remain the true society of the Heart of Jesus who was poor, humble and crucified, the Son of a workman and Himself a workman, having nowhere to rest His head.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter: November 13 1952"); a( 285, "What God hopes for from us is that we follow Jesus with 'no strings attached', that we witness to the hope that is in us because we believe in this personal love of a faithful God who has called us to a totally generous discipleship.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1999"); a( 286, "The decisive moment in each life comes when we understand that what matters is not our love for God, but rather God's unconditional love for each one of us.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 5 June 1981"); a( 287, "When we speak of the Heart of Jesus we are referring to the core of his being, the 'place' of his deepest life, where he experiences beauty and ugliness, joy and pain.

Clare Pratt, Conference to the Probationists, June 2003"); a( 288, "Our charism calls us to take the means at hand to contribute to the creation of a culture built on respect, respect for nature, for the environment, respect for each human being without exclusion, that is to say, a culture that creates COMMUNION because it is founded on LOVE.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Annunciation 1994"); a( 289, "Let us never forget that the declared and essential foundation of our religious spirit rests on true and practical devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Josephine Goetz, Circular Letter: xxii"); a( 290, "A community is the love of a group in order to love better.

Manuela Vincente, in Margaret Williams: History of a Spirit p.207"); a( 291, "The work of retreats is one that opens out great opportunities and seems admirably adapted to the special needs of our day.

Janet Stuart, Circular Letters: ix"); a( 292, "If despite dryness, you are faithful to prayer and do not seek consolation, but are wholly content with God's will, you have nothing to fear.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 19 to M Adrienne Michel 1818"); a( 293, "May she (Mater) keep us throughout our busy and overcrowded days in the radiance of the things that are not seen.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter July 16 1949"); a( 294, "Let us not forget that the great apostolic visions of Madeleine Sophie and Philippine were born in eucharistic adoration.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 21 November 1998"); a( 295, "The whole world is ablaze with the Spirit revealing his energy.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter to the Society 5 May 1986"); a( 296, "Prayer is not an exchange of thoughts, God has no need of our thoughts, he asks for our presence. Prayer is a meeting of two loves that seek each other.

Sabine de Valon, in Margaret williams, History of a Spirit p291"); a( 297, "May charity, builder of peace and joy, courage and progress, overflow from the divine Source that we bear within us...His charity.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter, December 8 1951"); a( 298, "Jesus gave life to the Society on the Cross, when from his open Heart came, with His Blood, the ultimate proof of His love for us. What an inestimable blessing and gift have we received from His Heart.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, A Spiritual Journey p39"); a( 299, "As I looked at this wounded, troubled world, this world of contrasts and suffering, I felt that the Lord's call to us as women and as RSCJ is the challenge of COMPASSION.

Helen McLaughlin, Easter 1992"); a( 300, "Courage and confidence! I cannot repeat this war-cry too often. It must be ours to support us in a life of conflict and of suffering.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 301, "Let us die to everything of this world, especially to self; let our struggle be unceasing, then we can be detached and say, I live, but my life is hidden with Christ our God. Self forgetfulness is the way there.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 79 to M Soophie Dusaussoy, her niece 1863"); a( 302, "We shall draw fraternal love from the open Heart of Christ, for the shortest way, the only way we can learn to love one another truly, courageously, is to abide in the loving Christ.

Maria Josefa Bulto, Circular September 1968"); a( 303, "Today the world needs women, witnesses of hope, women possessed by the Spirit, contemplative and unselfish women able to live, in poverty, the power and love of the Spirit.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1988"); a( 304, "The only thing for us is to live close to the Heart of Our Lord, putting all our faith in him and in his word.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 92 to M Emilie Giraud 1827"); //November usually starts here. a( 305, "I ask that you give first place to prayer, to listening, to openness of heart, so as to discover and comprehend what faith in love demands.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter 8 September 1981"); a( 306, "There is to be solidarity in our gift and our offering, the solidarity of the Society in its answer to the Love that has chosen it.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter, 16 June 1950"); a( 307, "We are called to be contemplative educators

Patricia garcia de Quevedo, Process of Refounding..., Rome, USG 1998 in Letters and Conferences"); a( 308, "Everything in this world is passing, joys as well as sorrows.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 50 to Philippine Duchesne 1811"); a( 309, "Even though we feel poor, weak, very much the little ones, we can have immense desires counting upon 'the Spirit working in our weakness' so that aglow with the Spirit we serve the Lord in joy and hope.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Birthday of Our Lady, 1984"); a( 310, "The times change and we must change with them.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to Philippine Duchesne 30 November 1831"); a( 311, "Our own spirituality is the foundation of our life and must mark our response to today's world.

Helen McLaughlin, Reflection of the Central Team, February 1986"); a( 312, "For extraordinary moments we need extraordinary faith.

Madeleine Sophie Barat: Quoted by Concepcion Camacho - Letter p65"); a( 313, "The wound in [Jesus'] side speaks to us of the eternal openness of the Heart of God. It speaks to us of his mercy and his faithfulness.

Helen McLaughlin, Meeting of New Provincials March 1987"); a( 314, "May His plan of love be perfectly fulfilled in each detail of our lives, with faith, confidence and abandonment, no matter what He does and what He asks.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter 10 April 1957"); a( 315, "The Spirit is no proud ruler but rather the servant of all, inviting, encouraging, empowering with love and humility.

Helen McLaughlin, Conference to Probationists June 1987"); a( 316, "Fidelity of every moment is what the Holy Spirit ordinarily asks of a heart that abandons itself unreservedly to his guidance.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 19 to M Adrienne Michel 1813"); a( 317, "To rediscover what our own contribution is: to be a prophetic sign of Gospel values.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Opening of General Chapter 2000"); a( 318, "The Spirit awakens in us the visions, ideals, utopias, proper to those who want to build the future.

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1994"); a( 319, "See and seek nothing but Jesus and his glory.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 1 to Mme Sidonie de la Rouliere [novice] 1844"); a( 320, "[Philippine] had the one thing necessary: a passionate love of Jesus, fired by the inextricable union - the single movment - of deep contemplation and ardent missionary zeal. That was enough.

Clare Pratt, Letter 150th Annivarsary of the death of Rose Philippine Duchesne, November 2002"); a( 321, "I feel I am a worn out tool, a useless stick, fit only to fill a hidden corner out of sight.

Philippine Duchesne, Letter to Madeleine Sophie Barat, 9 November 1834"); a( 322, "Philippine speaks to us of leave-taking, of going forth, of going beyond ourselves, of living in faith.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1988"); a( 323, "Only the consideration of people and events in the light of prayer can impel us to take part in building a more human world, and to feel the urgency of its needs.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter introducing the General Chapter Documents 28 November 1970"); a( 324, "The urgent task is not so much to offer solutions as to allow the poor to teach [us] and gradually to come to see reality from their perspective.

Patricia de Queveda, Letter 21 November 1996"); a( 325, "Our Holy Mother gave the Society the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be with the Heart of Jesus the seal of its religious consecration. It is in the depths of this most pure source that the Society must discover the secret of interior life upon which it is essentially based.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letter January 1949"); a( 326, "[This] fidelity to Jesus will make [the Society] try with Gospel daring to live forcefully, effectively and dynamically our unity in diversity.

Maria Jespfa Bulto, in Margaret Williams: History of a Spirit p294"); a( 327, "Do notlet us wish to die yet. We have done too little for our God and for his work!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 40 to M Adrienne Michel 1817 "); a( 328, "Growing old is a difficult art which we must all learn, for we are called not only to grow old, but also to live old age.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1991"); a( 329, "For all things we need time and patience and above all confidence in God.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings"); a( 330, "This Cor Unum, is one of my greatest consolations. May the Divine Heart of Jesus be blessed for this strong and tender union which is our strength, and may he deign to preserve it forever in the little Society of his Heart!

Maria Manuela Vincente, Letter Epiphany 1932"); a( 331, "If every day our heart is purified by suffering, then the divine Master, finding no further hindrance to his union with the purified soul, will identify himself with her!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 12 to M Felicie de Greigueuil 1859"); a( 332, "The mystery of God prolongs itself in the mystery of the pain of humanity wounded by injustice and division.

Helen McLaughlin, Meeting of New Provincials March 1987"); a( 333, "Give me the weakest will, give me a reed but fill it with perfect trust in God and it will succeed.

Mabel Digby, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980"); a( 334, "Only the Lord, Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, can make us clear-sighted. We must have faith deeply rooted in Him.

Maria Josefa Bulto, Circulars 1 April 1970"); //December usually starts here. a( 335, "May [Jesus] always be present to our hearts, Jesus in the sacrament of his love, Jesus on the cross!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 176 to M Eulalie de Bouchard 1842"); a( 336, "Christian love, giving our life to others, is a road fraught with suffering and failures - but this road leads to life's only true joy and success.

Helen McLaughlin, Symposium for Canonisation of Rose Philippine Duchesne 2 July 1988"); a( 337, "An age comes when, in the light of sunset, our tending to perfection becomes a self surrender ever more total, in a fidelity which remains like a held note in our song of love.

Sabine de Valon, Circular Letters, December 1958"); a( 338, "Seeing the world through the lens of the Kingdom of God has led us to recognise how Jesus revealed himself to the poor and marginalised of history.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Educational Trajectory..., Mexico, 2000 in Letters and Conferences"); a( 339, "Through our divine vocation and free acceptance, we are apostles; the greater glory of the Heart of Jesus, the salvation of souls, is our mission, the reason for our existence as religious of the Sacred Heart.

Manuela Vincente, Letter 22 May 1932"); a( 340, "I should be speaking to you about Our Lord, but it is perhaps better for us to be thinking of him in the silence of our hearts and so preparing ourselves for a deeper knowledge and a greater love of Him.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 93 to M Emilie Giraud 1828"); a( 341, "The Spirit helps us to dream dreams; without dreams history does not change.

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1994"); a( 342, "The merciful Heart blesses your zeal and confidence in his goodness.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 7 to M Eulalie de Chazelles 1862"); a( 343, "We are more aware that the love of Jesus Christ is revealed and transmitted in the midst of the actual reality of today's world.

Concepcion Camacho, Opening of the General Chapter 1976"); a( 344, "The outlook of faith that sees God and his holy will in every event, great or small, will sustain us in our struggles and difficulties... and will enable us to see things in the light of eternity.

Maria Manuela Vincente, Letter 13 January 1933"); a( 345, "The Spirit, present and alive within us, will give us the sensitivity, strength and constancy we need to carry out our mission today.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter to Society June 21st, 1974"); a( 346, "Courage and confidence, even to moving mountains if need be!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter to M Charlotte Goold 1843"); a( 347, "The Spirit infuses HOPE and LIFE. The God in whom we believe and whose love we are called to manifest is the God who gives life and gives it in abundance.

Helen McLaughlin, Opening of General Chapter 1994"); a( 348, "Live always in an express train which passes by the small stations.

Mabel Digby, in Margaret Williams: The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908 1980"); a( 349, "God who knows the depth of our hearts, is always waiting, longing to reveal God's love to us yet again.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probationists June 2000"); a( 350, "You must give your hearts to God and not let them for the season.

Mabel Digby, in Anne Pollen: Mother Mabel Digby Chapter xxviii"); a( 351, "It is interesting that one of the signs of our times is the attention given to the future.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady 1985"); a( 352, "This is the moment to consider whether our contemplation and our action are sufficiently one.

Concepcion Camacho, Letter 19 March 1978"); a( 353, "Let us pray that the Society's apostolate may never in any time or place deviate either into merely human or secular ways, but always remain in truth: 'The work of the Heart of Jesus'.

Marie Therese de Lescure, Circular Letters June 1950"); a( 354, "Above all I recommend the practice of humility, without which we can do nothing... Let us take Our Lord as our model; He is God, yet He becomes a little child!

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Conference 1855"); a( 355, "It is with this communion (of Cor Unum) among us that we will be able to move forward.

Helen McLaughlin, Letter to the Society 25 February 1986"); a( 356, "God is so great in his mystery and shows himself only to the simple and those intent on him in humility and freedom from earthly entanglements.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Letter 93 to M Emilie Giraud, 1828"); a( 357, "Those who live among poor people, sharing their struggles and their hopes, discover another face of solidarity.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 21 November 1996"); a( 358, "We shall find at His side a Virgin Mother who believed and who, by her 'Fiat', gave her consent to go forward, not knowing where the paths of the Lord would lead her.

Maria Josefa Bulto, Circular 13 December 1968"); a( 359, "There at the crib we go to make our contemplation - there we realise something of what His life is to us and what we are to Him. It is there that our joys meet His joys, and there that our troubles meet Him. He touches our life, and asks to be understood by us.

Janet Stuart, Joy in Faith, p29"); a( 360, "My wish, my prayer, is that each of us receive and hear the Word, the always overwhelming Word that God wishes to be born... into our lives.

Helen McLaughlin, Christmas 1987"); a( 361, "Devotion to the Sacred Heart includes... devotion to the Incarnation, to the love, sorrows and wounds of Christ, to His sacred Passion, to the Holy Eucharist, to the whole of Our Lord's interior life...

Mabel Digby, Circular Letter: xv"); a( 362, "Urged by the experience of the past to a limitless confidence in the future, let us aid one another by thanksgiving and prayer.

Janet Stuart, Circular Letter: x"); a( 363, "A religious of the Sacred Heart should make her prayer her delight; there she should find her rest, her happiness.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, Thoughts and Sayings."); a( 364, "The Eucharist is our entry point into the Heart of Jesus, that space as vast and deep as the anguish of humankind and the love of the Father.

Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Letter 21 November 1998"); a( 365, "To believe and to be able are the two pillars of hope. It's strength, its energy, is the Spirit.

Helen McLaughlin, Feast of the Sacred Heart 1988"); } var nowDate = new Date(); var startDate = new Date(); startDate.setDate(1); startDate.setMonth(0); var nowDoy = Math.round((nowDate.getTime()-startDate.getTime())/864e5) + 1; function a( doy, $T) { if(( doy == nowDoy )){document.getElementById("cyir").innerHTML = $T; }}