We commit ourselves to give witness to JPIC through these three international structures. We hope to synergize our efforts and give a stronger voice to our message of hope.

International JPIC commission of the religious of the Sacred Heart

JPIC International coordinates international JPIC efforts along the lines of shared regional concerns and/or the emergent JPIC themes and intuitions, and do so in coordination with existing international commissions and networks of the Society of the Sacred Heart.

The JPIC International office aims to:

  • Coordinate JPIC actions throughout the provinces and regions that will support local action, empower leadership, and strengthen responsibility at the grassroots of the Society.
  • Develop the imperatives of the JPIC document, Artisans of Hope, according to experience and new insights of RSCJ and Family of the Sacred Heart.
  • Collaborate with other networks in many forms.

Coordination of international JPIC efforts

Joy Luz RSCJ
Coordinator

Yolanda Jiménez
JPIC Assistant

The UN-NGO office

The UN-NGO Office aims to strengthen our advocacy efforts by serving to consolidate on-the-ground educative efforts into more global responses.

Advocacy and Education in Service of our JPIC Mission

Margaret Mwarili RSCJ
Representative

JPIC Information and Learning Center
Technologies in the service of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation

Rachel Guillien RSCJ
Coordinator

Rena Bersola
Hub Assistant

Apolline Bouts
Intern for the project Artisan of peace – Madrid (Spain)

JPIC Learning Hub

The JPIC Learning Hub aims to be an Information and Learning Center that will support the Family of the Sacred Heart in its commitment

  • to be Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World;
  • by facilitating the flow of information among us and making available technologies that are in the service of justice, peace, and integrity of creation; and,
  • inviting conversations and providing learning platforms for our imperative-based transformative communities of practice.

Imperatives

Washing One Another’s Feet

In our pursuit of JPIC, we inevitably come face-to-face with the significant role that POWER plays in our life and mission – as individuals and communities, in the relationships and structures that underpin our societies and nations, as well as in our vision of the world and hope for the future.

Transforming and Being Transformed

JPIC is also a work of structural transformation that involves the Spirit: communal, social, political, economic, ecological, planetary, and cosmic transformation. One integrated movement weaves together the contemplative and active aspects of our Sacred Heart charism.

Care for Our Common Home

The call to care for our common home, which is replete with diverse beauty, holds unprecedented urgency. Driven by an ethic of caring about the future of our planet we along with so many others responding to this call seek creative and effective ways to heed this urgency.

Welcoming People on the Move

In a painful mix of hope and desperation, countless people risk their lives to escape war, persecution, poverty and natural disasters. Our commitment to JPIC compels us to re-examine how we stand in solidarity with those who are at these “frontiers.”

Engagements

As Sacred Heart educators, we are convinced that “to educate is in itself an act of justice” (Letter on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, 2006) and we take to heart the call “to orient all our educative endeavors toward creating relationships of equality, inclusion, non-violence, and harmony, believing that to have life, and life in abundance, is the deepest desire of God.” (2008 General Chapter)

This service of education in institutions includes instruction, but emphasizes the formation of the whole person, formation for social and collective life, accompaniment of the faith, with a definite goal: education for justice in faith.
Education:  A Commitment (International Education Commission, 1988)

 

  • JPIC experiences: Centro Educacional del Sagrado Corazón – Clara Estrella

  • Déjate Ver (Let Yourself Be Seen) – Meeting of the FESB Pastoral Coordinators’ Team

  • Sacred Heart Summit – Chicago

  • Support to the formation of 50 students of the Lycée Kipako

  • Embracing global vocation stories on Blue Hyacinth Day

  • Convent of the Sacred Heart (New York) share their experience at the International Youth Conference (IYC) organized by the UN staff

  • Eco-delegates: “Ambassadors of Light” – L’Ecole la Croix Blanche, France

  • “Working together to Save the World”

In response to new needs of the world and with a new understanding of apostolic religious life, our service of education has opened out into diverse fields of ministry, which embrace persons of all ages in contrasting social situations.  We feel particularly challenged by the plight of children, young people and women, especially those who are excluded.   We are convinced that education is a lifelong process.
General Chapter 2000

 

  • Project of Hope: Support for women and children affected by HIV and AIDS; Kinshasa, Noviciate

  • The “Los Cortadeños” Work Co-Operative

  • World Environment Day Celebrations in Malvan

  • Sophie’s Farm – Samar

  • Fratello Celebration in Saint-Denis (13-14 November 2021)

  • Global Climate Strike – Malvan, India

  • Earth is Healing and we are Glad

  • Building Resilient Communities – Torpa Rural Development Society for Women

  • The “Missionary Action” project by the Sacred Heart Missionary Group

  • Holistic and Intersectional Approaches to Peace at the Heart of Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a Post-COVID Era

Together we envision and work for a new social fabric that is founded on the values of justice, peace, and integrity of creation. We hope for a better world where there is greater equity and a deepened sense of democracy that welcomes diversity and the participation of all.
Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World, p.1

 

  • The “Our Home, Your Home” Project

  • What is JCoR?

  • Special Chapter 2021

  • COP26 – An Invitation to Prayer

  • Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet

  • International Day of Peace – Shared Statement by Peacebuilding Organizations

  • Dignity at the heart of the SDGs in a Post- COVID Era: Listening to Youth, Older Persons, Refugees, and Indigenous Peoples

This work for structural and systemic change will be rendered ineffective if we do not collaborate with one other as well as with groups that share the same vision and hope for justice, peace, and integrity of creation.
Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World, p.14

 

  • Situation at the Polish-Belarusian Border

  • The Indian RSCJ who fasts at Ramadan

  • “We must vaccinate ourselves against everything that prevents us from being ready to Love.”

Collaboration implies team building, delegating and assuming our co-responsibility for the common good, working on common projects and developing together new processes in our service of education.
General Chapter 2000

 

  • CLAR-JCoR Collaboration

We exert greater effort to appreciate diversity, grow in the attitudes and skills of interculturality, and allow ourselves to be transformed by relationships and encounters with people on the move.
Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World, p.21

 

  • International Volunteer – Lea Marie, who went to Egypt