Dear Sisters and Members of the Sacred Heart Family,
The Charism and Mission committee sends you warm greetings as winter takes hold. We have chosen this year, as part of our JPIC Project, to look more closely at three recent key Society documents, and to share an overview and some thoughts with you on each of these. Our aim is to provide an awareness of some contemporary expressions of the mission of the Society, which speak to each of us in our many different lives.
The first is Sophie’s Gift …Our Call to the Future. This document, produced by the International Education Commission of the Society, was distributed in December 2023 and sets out the philosophy of Sacred Heart education. In the accompanying attachment, Sr Mary Shanahan and Dr Anne Chalfant present some key messages from Sophie’s Gift and suggest some questions for reflection.
In this year of celebrations for the centenary of the canonisation of St Madeleine Sophie Barat we give thanks for the gifts of her charism and her mission of education. We are all the recipients of her wisdom. We hope you find this thought provoking and encourage you to share it with colleagues, family and friends.
We send our love and blessings,
Christine Hannan,
on behalf of the Charism and Mission Committee