PiercedHearts.org

All for the Heart of Jesus through the Heart of Mary.

"We are protagonists of our present; we are the actual builders of this history. God wants to write - through our hearts, through our lives and fiats - the history of salvation: a history of love, of grace, of life, of communion and of holiness."

(Mother Adela, Foundress SCTJM)

Who We Are
The "Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary" are a diocesan religious institute founded in 1990 by Mother Adela Galindo in the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida, USA.

We are members of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR).

“We are called to manifest the reign of love of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary as the building force for the construction of a new civilization.” Mother Adela

Our Foundress offers the Holy Father the love and unconditional fidelity of our foundation.

Our Spiritual Charism
To be a living image and presence of the Heart of Mary in the heart of the Church and place our Marian charism at the service of the Petrine principle.

Fundamental Dimensions of Our Charism:

• EUCHARISTIC...Total dedication of our lives in love to the Eucharistic Heart
• MARIAN...Being a living image and presence of the Heart of Mary
• CHARISMATIC...Actively receiving and communicating the gifts of the Holy Spirit
• IN THE HEART OF THE CHURCH...Generously placing our feminine genius in loving communion and service of the Petrine Principle

Our Four Vows

• Poverty: with a generous and diligent heart, to detach myself of all things to have the Heart of Jesus as my only inheritance and treasure and to freely give all that I am and have for the common good of our Institute.
• Chastity: with a spousal and undivided heart, to love the Heart of Jesus with a total, oblative and unconditional dedication and to be open to receive and communicate the fecundity that flows from the potency of this communion of love.
• Obedience: with a receptive and docile heart, to responsibly and effectively dispose myself to fulfill the designs of love of the Heart of Jesus manifested through my legitimate superiors and the government of our Institute.
• Total Marian Availability: to be a living image and presence of the Heart of Mary and to generously dispose the potentialities of my feminine genius in loving communion and service of the Petrine principle, thus enfleshing our Marian charism in the Heart of the Church.

Some Elements

• Eucharistic adoration and contemplation
• A ready openness to the power or the Holy Spirit and to the charisms
• Total consecration and identification with the Heart of Mary
• To love, think and live in the Heart of the Church
• To daily seek conversion in the active exercise of virtue
• To live and do all things in the spirit of prayer, of heroic love, and of humble service in the fulfillment of duty
• Fraternal life with joy and simplicity of heart
• Mature, generous, and responsible disposition to embrace every mission entrusted
• Integral formation, covering all areas of he consecrated person
• Apostolic ardor: enflaming the world with the love of the Pierced Hearts

Our Patron Saints
"Witnesses to love" of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary

• Saint Joseph
• Saint John the Apostle
• Saint Francis de Sales
• Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
• Saint Therese of Lisieux
• Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe
• Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
• Saint Pope John Paul II

"Each one of them with their life, doctrine and apostolic mission, illuminates a specific area of our charism."

Mother Adela

A Contemplative and Apostolic Community
From our Eucharistic contemplation and communion of love flows the potency of our apostolic fecundity.

Our Apostolic Charism
To be ardent witnesses of the power and fecundity of love and the splendor of the Magisterium and Treasures of the Church so as to form the human heart to build a new civilization of love and life in the heart of the Church and in the heart of the world.

"May the love of the Pierced Hearts reign in all hearts!"

Mother Adela

Learn more at PiercedHearts.org.

A Father Who Keeps His Promises

Everybody felt it: a moment of eerie silence, a low rumble and then the ground began to shake. Buildings swayed and buckled, then collapsed like houses of cards. Less than four minutes later, over thirty thousand were dead from a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that rocked and nearly flattened Armenia in 1989.

In the muddled chaos, a distress father bolted through the winding streets leading to the school where his son had gone earlier that morning. The man couldn’t stop thinking about the promise he’d given his son many times: “No matter what happens, Armand, I’ll always be there.”

He reached the site where the school had been, but saw only a pile of rubble. He just stood there at first, fighting back tears, and then took off, stumbling over debris, toward the east corner where he knew his son’s classroom had been.

With nothing but his bare hands, he started to dig. He was desperately pulling up bricks and pieces of wall-plaster, while others stood by watching in forlorn disbelief. He heard someone growl, “Forget it, mister. They’re all dead.”

He looked up, flustered, and replied, “You can grumble, or you can help me lift these bricks.” Only a few pitched in, and most of them gave up once their muscles began to ache. But the man couldn’t stop thinking about his son.

He kept digging and digging – for hours … twelve hours … eighteen hours … twenty-four hours … thirty-six hours … Finally, into the thirty-eight hour, he heard a muffled groan from under a piece of wallboard.

He seized the board, pulled it back, and cried, “ARMAND!” From the darkness came a slight shaking voice, “Papa…!?”

Other weak voices began calling out, as the young survivors stirred beneath the still uncleared rubble. Gasps and shouts of bewildered relief came from the few onlookers and parents who remained. They found fourteen of the thirty-tree students still alive.

When Armand finally emerged, he tried to help dig, until all his surviving classmates were out. Everybody standing there heard him as he turned to his friends and said, “See, I told you my father wouldn’t forget us.”

That’s the kind of faith we need, because that’s the kind of Father we have.

Hahn, Scott (1998). A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture. Servant Books.