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.

Light of Love by Imagine Sisters

Have you ever met a religious sister? They tend to be the happiest women on Earth. They pray, they sacrifice their lives in love and service to those in need, they live in community–and in many ways they’re just like you! Whether you’ve been taught by sisters or you’ve never experienced their joy in person, Imagine Sisters passionately proposes the possibility of becoming a sister in the world today.

The Mission of Imagine Sisters is to inspire and support vocations to Catholic women’s religious life. Our hope is to help the world meet sisters on fire for their faith. Through online resources and media, Imagine Sisters works to ignite the conversation of vocational discernment.

Fishers of Men

Fishers of Men is a film requested by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This fast-paced film on vocations to the priesthood has been described as the best vocational film ever produced for the Catholic Church. 8 out of 10 seminarians in the United States own a copy of the film.

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Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck

Today in the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, Deacon Chase Hilgenbrinck will be ordained a priest of Jesus Christ for the Roman Catholic Church. As a former professional soccer player, his story is compelling and has received much coverage. Below is an article from ESPN and a video from his diocese chronicling his decision to leave the soccer pitch for a life in the church.

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"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." -- Ecclesiastes 3:1

EMMITSBURG, Md. -- Chase Hilgenbrinck is alone in the middle of the field, just outside the goal box, with his back to it. He's facing his teammates, who are standing several yards away, split into two lines for pregame warm-ups. One by one -- left, then right -- they kick a soccer ball his way, and start jogging in his direction. Chase deftly deflects each ball off to the side with a flick of his foot, setting up each teammate to launch a shot on goal.

It's been a couple months since he last put on a uniform. But it still feels comfortable. Natural. His mind drifts back to the last time he suited up: Sunday, July 13, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. He was a member of Major League Soccer's New England Revolution, facing Mexican club Santos Laguna in a SuperLiga game. Now, on the final weekend of September, he's preparing to play against a team from St. Joseph's.

St. Joseph's Seminary.

My, how things have changed.

We all have grand dreams when we're growing up. We don't just want to do something with our lives -- we want to be great at it. And for many of us, the ultimate dream was to be a professional athlete.

Chase Hilgenbrinck dreamed that dream. Three months ago, he was playing professional soccer, in his native country. He had reached the end of the rainbow. Only, at the end of the rainbow, he discovered another path he felt compelled to follow. So he gave it all up, at the very moment he had strived for his entire life.

Ironically, Chase never made national headlines during his pro soccer career. But he made headlines around the world when he ended it.

From the Associated Press, July 14, 2008:

"Hilgenbrinck accepted the calling on Monday when he left the New England Revolution and retired from professional soccer to enter a seminary, where he will spend the next six years studying theology and philosophy so he can be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest."

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Forming Intentional Disciples

How can we transmit a living, personal Catholic faith to future generations? By coming to know Jesus Christ, and following him as his disciples. These are times of immense challenge and immense opportunity for the Catholic Church.

Consider these statistics for the United States.

• Only 30 percent of Americans who were raised Catholic are still practicing.
• Fully 10 percent of all adults in America are ex-Catholics.
• The number of marriages celebrated in the Church decreased dramatically, by nearly 60 percent, between 1972 and 2010.
• Only 60 percent of Catholics believe in a personal God.

If the Church is to reverse these trends, the evangelizers must first be evangelized-in other words, Catholics-in-the-pew must make a conscious choice to know and follow Jesus before they can draw others to him. This work of discipleship lies at the heart of Forming Intentional Disciples, a book designed to help Church leaders, parish staff and all Catholics transform parish life from within. Drawing upon her fifteen years of experience with the Catherine of Siena Institute, Sherry Weddell leads readers through steps that will help Catholics enter more deeply into a relationship with God and the river of apostolic creativity, charisms, and vocation that flow from that relationship for the sake of the Church and the world.

Learn about the five thresholds of postmodern conversion, how to open a conversation about faith and belief, how to ask thought-provoking questions and establish an atmosphere of trust, when to tell the Great Story of Jesus, how to help someone respond to God's call to intentional discipleship, and much more.

And be prepared for conversion because when life at the parish level changes, the life of the whole Church will change.

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As You Wish

A homily on love and obedience from Fr. Mike Schmitz of the Diocese of Duluth.

“God did not say, ‘If you love me, you will have warm fuzzies all of the time, it’ll be awesome.’ He didn’t say that! Jesus says, ‘If you love me, do what I say.’ … We realize that love is more than a feeling. If I want to assess how well am I loving God, the question is this: how well am I obeying His commandments?”