We have an End: The glory of the Heart of Jesus.A Mission: To Discover and make known the Love of His Heart.A spirituality: to be United and conformed to the Heart of Jesus. A Service in the Church and in the world of today: Transformative Education with a Preferential Love for the poor.
Sr. Pratibha Pinto RSCJ

3. April, 2013VocationsNo comments

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It was during my teenage years, when one usually thinks big and has dreams for the future that I became aware of the urge to give the whole of myself to God. After reading different books, I had secretly decided that I wanted to do something difficult – something that would really cost – and in my mind this took concrete shape in joining a Congregation that was either fully contemplative or fully given to village work.

When I went to Sophia College, I liked the Sisters –in fact some of them were my friends but there was no inclination to join them as I did not like teaching. And also the Society of the Sacred Heart seemed to me to be a semi contemplative Congregation. In my first fervor, I wanted nothing that was “semi” anything !

When the moment came for decision-making, however, many other things became clear. The life religious is one lived with God – and for others – giving his love to others. Whether one works in a village or as a teacher, or gets ups at mid night to pray ( as I thought fully contemplatives do ! ) matters little. With this realization I saw also that God was calling me to the Society of the Sacred Heart where I had experience love and concern.

Today, as I look back over my sixteen years in the Society, I am aware of the deep joy that I have experienced in being fully possessed by God – and “at home” with His people wherever I have worked. I am, off course, especially happy that I have been able to spend eleven of these sixteen years in the rural areas. I feel that God is calling me today to live and work for those who are marginalized in Society, those who have to fight against odds that the better-off in the world would never dream of. There is in this life with the poor a thrill that comes from being able to give of one’s best as well as received from them new types of challenge and inspiration.

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