Our mission

To love the Heart of Jesus and make it loved.
We are at the service of our brothers and sisters in humanity through the adoration of the blessed sacrament and the welcome.

“To love the Heart of Jesus and make it loved.”

The main mission of the Servantes du Coeur de Jésus is the reparatory adoration of the Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. From the presence of Jesus made visible in the sacrament of the Eucharist, stems their call to “love him and make him loved”. This contemplative prayer is the pivotal lieu of their life commitment as religious. There, they discover Christ’s love for humanity and hear his complaint to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque that this loving heart is not sufficiently loved in return. By their daily gathering with Him, they commit themselves to respond to the call of Jesus Christ and to bring the miseries of the world into his face. The faithful contemplation of the loving and suffering Jesus is the main source through which they listen to the challenges of our time. They also have this mission of praise to celebrate every day the liturgy of hours, in union with the universal Church.

“The community comes together every day to offer the different parts of the Office”. (Cts 62)

Serving God and our brothers

Faithful to the prayer that directs and fertilizes the action, they take part in the church’s mission of goodness and salvation of Christ. Their concern goes to the poor, to those who suffer. The Founder has oriented their apostolic spirit towards the underprivileged, without specifying a specific work and place, so their activity materializes in different ways: the human and Christian formation of children, young people and adults; the care and support of people suffering from the disease, people who suffer from loneliness in their old age; People with disabilities Engagement in parishes; welcome for times of prayer, reflection, rest…

“To meet the needs of the universal Church, our missionary action is without borders” Cst No. 16

Throughout the world

The Servants of the Heart of Jesus are present in four countries

Cameroon

Spain

Madagascar

France

Cameroon

At the call of the Pope, the congregation of the Servants of the Heart of Jesus sends the sisters on mission in Bafoussam in Cameroon. In 1956, three religious begin their apostolic service by welcoming the poorest,teaching young girls, caring for the sick and parish activities. From 1970 they are call upon to lead an attentive and patient caring for people affected by the leprosy and stigmatized by disease. After several years,care at home and the clinics pays off because the leper disappears from this region. The sisters receive recognition from the cameroonian state for the work accomplished with the most fragile and the poorest. Thanks to calls for donations,the elderly can be hospitalized.The first aspirants arrive in 1990 and the noviciat is born in 1993 in the Bankouop community. Today, the Servants of the Heart of Jesus are present in Bafoussam and Nkongsamba where they are faithful to the charism of their foundress.

Spain

In 1961, the sisters come in spain in Puente la Reina welcomed by the the priests of the sacred heart.In a life of prayer and work they welcome the first aspirants.The settled in Lizaso in 1964 and have the apostolic college Jean XXIII built with the help of the whole congregation. This place will aim to offer an integral human formation to young people. Then it is in Salamanca that the congregation is established in 1978 to exercise a pastorale mission there.
The religious also open a second community in the village of Terqué in 1985 to accommodate elderly people in residence. The spanish community of Servants is given mission in San Pedro and Cantalejo.
It is finally in Urda in the diocese of Toledo that the community moved in 2002. It is in this place that the Servants of the heart of Jesus are installed today and live from their mission of adoration of Jesus in the Eucharist and the reception of those who come on pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Christ.

Madagascar

It is in 2000 that three sisters leave to Madagascar to implant a charism, by opening a community.The mission est difficult because added to the language barrier are the crises the country is going through.With the help of the Sacred heart priests they moved into their new home in 2003.Eucharistic adoration is the center of their life and the starting point of all their actions.In 2008, the sisters open the Foyer Oliva Uhlrich vocational training center which aims to provide an integral training for young girls in school.The name of the home is a tribute to Oliva Uhlrich the foundress of the Servants of the heart of Jesus who will start working in Strasbourg with young girls.The community works in collaboration with the lay people.Since 2018, formation house (noviciat) has been welcomed young girls to initiate them into religious life Servants of the Heart of Jesus.

France

It is in France that the congregation of the servants of the heart of Jesus is born.In the 19th century, in Strasbourg, a young woman by the name of Oliva Uhlrich receives the call to found a community dedicated to the Heart of Jesus through adoration of the blessed sacrament and service to the poors.The congregation is devoted to the heart of Jesus.The religious welcome the residents in Dauendorf and work on the farm.They continue their welcoming mission in a retirement home. A shared housing project is currently maturing.
Today, the Servants of the Heart of Jesus live in Scy-Chazelles, Moselle. It is in a house given to the congregation community to make the perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament that the nuns live from the charisma of their founder. The community of Scy-Chazelles is the mother house of the Servants of the Heart of Jesus. It is open to the reception of single people or in groups, for a time of reflection, or spiritual retreat.

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