Patricia de Quevedo RSCJ

27 March Reflection Quote

"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; it is what makes our name intrinsic to our vocation as RSCJ>" Patricia de Quevedo, Conference to Probanists, June 2000.

The vocation of Religious of the Sacred Heart is to go to the heart of life with the attitudes and feelings of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. – when you hear the expression ‘to be the Heart of God on earth’ what does it mean to you? – what would you say are the attitudes and feelings of the Heart of Jesus? – how do you express the attitudes and feelings of the Heart of Jesus in your life?

22 March Reflection Quote

"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 abel to enter into the deepest part of ourselves." Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Feast of the Sacred Heart, 1996.

God calls us by name. We are able to recognize this call when we have entered into the deepest part of our selves. – How does it feel to be called by your own name? – What helps you to enter into the deepest part of yourself? – Have you experienced knowing and being known by someone else intimately as a privileged place?

17 March Reflection Quote

"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 Probanists, June 1996.

Earthen vessels are simple and vulnerable. Nonetheless they are what God chooses to carry God’s faithful love. – does this quote reassure you about your own capacity to carry God’s love to others? – do you have a strong sense of God’s faithful love present in you? – when have you encountered God’s faithful love through an unlikely source?

2 February Reflection Quote

"We want to be instruments of mercy, above all for the forgotten and the excluded." Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probanists, June 1998.

Mercy is a disposition of the Heart of God. When we reveal the love of the Heart of God, we are instruments of mercy. And closeness to the Heart of God draws us close to those for whom God has a special love – the forgotten and excluded. – when have you experienced God’s mercy? – in what ways might you act as an instrument of mercy? – who are the forgotten and the excluded in your local community?

15 December Reflection Quote

"God who knows the depths of our hearts, is always waiting, longing to reveal God's love to us yet again." Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, Conference to Probanists, June 2000

The revelation of God’s love is not a thing that happened in the past and is completed. God’s love for us has been revealed, is being revealed, and will continue to be revealed. – we know the feeling of longing in our hearts, but can we imagine God longing to show love for us? – what might cause God to wait on us? – are we in tune with the deepest desires of our hearts?

4 December Reflection Quote

"Seeing the wolrd 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.

God’s reign has been unfolding in history, and it continues to unfold in our own times. This is a different way of seeing the world from that of the news media. This way of seeing the world also leads us to see different things. – how, and to whom, did Jesus announce the Kingdom of God? – when we look at the world through the eyes of those who are poor or marginalised, how do we see the behaviour of kings, rulers, and others in governance roles? – to whom do our ministries reveal Jesus as the love of God?