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Written by Frances Gimber, RSCJ
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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At the beginning of the most recent general chapter, Kathleen Hughes
explained the nature of this governmental structure in religious life
today. The history of the Society shows us, however, that this
structure evolved gradually. In fact, the Society has held “chapters”
properly so-called only since 1967. A “chapter” in church terminology
implies that there are elected representatives as well as ex officio
members. Earlier deliberative gatherings were called general councils
or general congregations.
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Written by Frances Gimber, RSCJ
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
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Last months article quoted the Annual Letters of 1906-1907-1908 describing the arrival of the colony of RSCJ from Australia who founded the first house of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo in January 1908. Three years later, when it was time to write the circular letter again, the new community had progress to report. They had built a large new building for the boarding school, described as European in style but built according to Japanese methods to withstand earthquakes. They already had 130 pupils. |
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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
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The Annual Letters, Third Part, 1906-1907-1908 carried the following account, the first from the new foundation in Tokyo: "It
was at the dawn of this year, 1908, a special year for us all because
of the glorification of our blessed Founder [Madeleine Sophie Barat was
beatified in 1908.] that Japan was finally opened to the ardent zeal
and desires of the spouses of the Sacred Heart. On January 1, the Nikko
Maru cast anchor in the harbor of Yokohama, and the same day Reverend
Mother Salmon [vicar of Australia], accompanied by the founders arrived
in Tokyo."
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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The story of the two Jouve sisters takes us back to Philippine's
monastery in Grenoble, Ste Marie d'En Haut. When Philippine met
Madeleine Sophie and joined the Society of the Sacred Heart, she handed
over Ste Marie with its boarding school to the Society. Soon
Philippine's sister Charlotte Euphrosine Jouve sent her daughters there
to be educated by their aunt and her new community.
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Written by Margaret Williams, RSCJ
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
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The long life of Mother Jane Fox extended from the last days of St.
Madeleine Sophie to the end of World War II. The field of her activity
linked the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean. Her vigorous and
enthusiastic personality developed from a literal sense of duty to
generous self-giving.
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Written by Helen Condon, RSCJ
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Friday, 09 February 2007 |
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This month we share with you a recent acquisition: an essay by the late Helen Condon, RSCJ, on the Special Chapter of 1967, to which she was an elected delegate. She isolated two interconnected themes that have heavily influenced the Societys self-understanding in the last forty years.
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Written by Margaret Williams, RSCJ
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Wednesday, 03 January 2007 |
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Anyone entering Mother Hardey’s room at Manhattanville in 1857 could
have seen a child of four with Asian features and a western name
playing in a corner. This was Susie Maclane, born in Macao on June 21,
1852, of an American father and a Chinese mother.
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Written by Margaret Williams, RSCJ
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
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This month we continue the
series on “Builders of the U.S. Province” with a sketch of the life
of one of Mother Duchesne’s earliest and best-loved pioneer associates,
Adeline Boilvin.
Philippine wrote from Florissant
in 1820: “We now have twenty boarding pupils, most of them docile.”
Among the most docile was Adeline Boilvin. She was born September 24,
1813, in St. Louis of a Creole family engaged in the fur trader; she
had some Osage blood in her veins.
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Written by Frances Gimber, RSCJ
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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When the novitiate for the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S.
Province, was moved from 860 Beacon Street to Cambridge, the new house
was named Layton House for the first American to enter and remain in
the Society. Bits of Mary Layton’s story appear in several house
journals, and the whole story, expertly told by Margaret Williams, was
featured in 1988 in the RSCJ Newsletter in a series entitled “Builders
of the U.S. Province.” As we look ahead to 2007, the 25th anniversary
of the U.S. Province, a backward look at some of these builders seems
in order.
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Philippine
Duchesne remained just a year at Sugar Creek, but her memory lives
among the Potawatomi people as “the Woman-Who-Always-Prays.” Her
companions remained at Sugar Creek until 1848, when the Potawatomi
moved father into Kansas. The Jesuits established a new mission at St.
Marys, and the RSCJ went with them. The RSCJ stayed at St. Marys until
the Potawatomi moved so far west that there were no longer Native
American pupils in the school they had established.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
Julie Siderfin, Sacred Heart associate and archivist at the Academy of
the Sacred Heart, St. Charles, Missouri, and Cleta Flynn, St. Charles
County Historical Society member have been working together on academy
history. At Julie’s suggestion Mrs. Flynn wrote an article for St.
Charles County Heritage, bulletin of the historical society, about the
small octagonal chapel on the grounds of the academy that housed
Philippine Duchesne’s remains for almost 100 years. Julie delved into
her records to supply the information and Mrs. Flynn did the same.
What they found created rather than solved a mystery.
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
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As
the Society grew rapidly with new houses and new members, it was
necessary to establish it on a legal footing with both canon and civil
law. In 1806 the long process narrated by Jeanne de Charry began.[i] The
council that met at Amiens in 1806 not only elected Madeleine Sophie
superior general but also drew up the earliest set of rules.
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Wednesday, 01 February 2006 |
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No sooner had
Madeleine Sophie been elected to preside over the infant Society than
she received two invitations to further expansion. One came from
Poitiers, where the three Chobelet sisters and some others who aspired
to religious life were operating a small school in an abandoned
Cistercian monastery that they had bought. Through priest friends who
traveled about giving missions, these women heard of Madeleine Sophie
and the nascent Society.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
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Now that the Society has observed its bicentenary we can look forward to the 200th
anniversary of a series of events. In 2004, for example, some of us
commemorated the first meeting of Philippine and Madeleine Sophie in
Grenoble, December 13, 1804, and the subsequent establishment there of
the second house of the Society. From then on growth was rapid: a third
house was opened in Belley in 1805, and significant developments took
place in 1806.
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Written by Frances Gimber, rscj
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Saturday, 01 October 2005 |
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It is
August, 1926. Our house in Convent, Louisiana, St. Michael’s, has just
celebrated its centenary with all the pomp and circumstance that
surrounded those glorious occasions. “The dear old house, entirely
repainted, is shiningly beautiful amid the greenery of the riverfront
property. The study halls and classrooms are all newly renovated.” The
school children are on vacation, but the community is busy taking care
of the “ladies of the world” who are peacefully making their annual
retreat.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Friday, 01 July 2005 |
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Our files contain a photocopy of an article from The Leavenworth Post,
Tuesday January 7, 1908, with this intriguing headline: NUN’S [sic]
BODIES ARE PETRIFIED. Without wanting to appeal to any ghoulish
interests, I suggest that you go to the web, if you would like to find
out more.
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Sunday, 01 May 2005 |
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“…here was an old friend,
moving with determined dignity to greet Mother Hardey, strong featured
under her turban, wearing black mitts, earrings, silk shawl and a large
crucifix.” (from Second Sowing: the life of Mary Aloysia Hardey by Margaret Williams.) Can we call this friend an early associate?
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Friday, 01 April 2005 |
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find Mr
Rathbons price & terms in reply to Madam Hardys application for the
purch of Kenwood & Prentice Hill they are as follows
The whole
Premises Kenwood & Prentice Hill with all the Real Estate on the
same as per map exhibited to your Self and Madam Hardy $50,000
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Tuesday, 01 March 2005 |
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“In
1880 it was not at all obvious that the ‘land of the bean and the cod’
was a congenial planting ground for a foundation of the Society of the
Sacred Heart.” So wrote Mary Quinlan twenty-five years ago. She based
her observation on the account of the foundation in Boston that she
found in the Annual Letters, Second Part, 1880-81, pp. 293-296.
We read that Reverend Mother [Sarah] Jones, the vicar, invited to found
a house there and armed with the approval of the Mother General, set
out for Boston to find a suitable location.
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Saturday, 01 January 2005 |
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In
1905 during the period of upheaval in France, one of the most famous
houses of the Society closed its doors, and one of our best-known
foremothers returned home…Earlier in these columns
(January, 2004), we discussed the forced closings of the houses in
France in the first decade of the 20th century. In July 1904, according
to the Annual Letters, Paris, Pensionnat, “the iniquitous law struck
the Sacred Heart of the rue de Varenne,” the famous Hôtel Biron, 77,
rue de Varenne.
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Wednesday, 01 December 2004 |
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In
1884 the houses of the Society received the first issue of La Colombe
de l'Arche (The Dove from the Ark) from the motherhouse. It is
handwritten and duplicated by hectograph, that is by one of those
gelatin pads that some of us are old enough to remember. The purple ink
is fading and the paper is yellowed, but it survives. From the
beginning its purpose was to bring the members of the international
Society into contact with one another.
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