"Take Up Your Cross" ... Janet Erskine Stuart

Wooden Cross as seen in our
Sacred Heart School of Halifax

"Take up your cross...the cross is different for each one, so we often make the mistake of thinking that we could bear any other better than our own - but our own is the only one we can bear, whether it be our character, our duty, or some suffering; it is the cross that God has portioned out to us, and we must carry it gladly, without hesitation, enthusiastically, even as He did, and He carried both ours and His.  Ours is light in comparison.  Daily... not tomorrow's but today's cross with today's graces and today's opportunities."

Janet Erskine Stuart

Taken from Mother Stuart's Spiritual Writings


SPIRITUALITY FORUM 2013
Janet Erskine Stuart: Spirituality and Education for the 21st Century
Dates: Wednesday, July 10 - Sunday, July 14
Place: Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, Calfornia
For further info: click here

To her sister Euphrosine, Madame Jean-Joseph Jouve

Philippine Duchesne Aboard the 'Rebecca' - undated, oil on panel, 13" x 28",
portrait by Margaret Mary Nealis, R.S.C.J.
location Sacred Heart School in Halifax

December 14, 1817 ~  Mother Duchesne writes to her sister Euphrosine, "I am most grateful to you for your gift and for the good wishes you express for my happiness.  I shall find it always in the accomplishment of God's Will for me, so a change of residence will make no difference.  When I came to Paris I neither expected nor desired to remain here.  I love far more the simplicity of small towns.  Wherever, I may be, I shall always find a way to give you news of myself and to recieve news from you. As yet nothing has been decided. . . Fiat in all!"

Taken from the book:  "Through the Year with Philippine Duchesne"

Photo highlights from CASHA 2011 (Canadian Association of Sacred Heart Alumnae) CONFERENCE

Making a Difference in the 21st Century.... Listening with One Heart

Second CASHA Conference on Social Justice

Sacred Heart School of Montreal

Photo Highlights taken on Friday, October 28, 2011

A group photo taken before we broke for lunch

To view the many photos click on the Sacred Heart Photo Album
 on the right hand column of my blog

Barbara Martell, Communications & Advancement Manager of Sacred Heart School of Halifax has a nice recap and more photos.  Click here to read details of the speakers at CASHA 2011.

To: St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

Photo taken at Sacred Heart School of Halifax

July 29, 1819 ~ Philippine writes to Madeleine Sophie Barat: "The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His Cross. The greatest, and certainly the hardest to bear, is lack of success in our work here at St. Charles. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.  That thought makes the burden of my office as Superior all the heavier.  Every day I see more clearly that I do not possess the qualities necessary in a Superior."

Taken from the book: Through the Year with Philippine Duchesne