The Society’s General Council in Rome has appointed Lolín Menéndez, RSCJ, of the U.S. Province, to serve as web weaver, and each of the Society’s 33 provinces has appointed a person to gather material for the site.

The wish for an international website emerged at the Society’s General Chapter 2000, where delegates urged putting technology at the service of the Society’s mission.

“As a congregation we seek to reflect through rscjinternational.org who we are as Society of the Sacred Heart, what we are about, what gives us life, and how our commitment takes flesh in mission,” Sister Menéndez said. “We also want to make known our history, our current commitments, something about the deep faith and social values integral to our life. We want to do this by sharing the story of our life and relationships and the different faces of our mission in various parts of the globe.

“We want to invite those who visit the site to share our faith, spirituality and commitment, and, to explore ways of initiating and/or strengthening this relationship by vocation, partnership and association,” she said. “We seek to engage and to link people across all kinds of boundaries, and thus aim to provide a space where connections and exchanges can take place.”

Sister Menéndez is fluent in the three languages. She has worked closely for the past seven months with the design and technical staff at the Society-sponsored Center for Educational Design and Communication in Washington D.C. and with RSCJ advisors.