The Catholic Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (ASCJ) were founded in Viareggio, Italy, in 1894, by Mother Clelia Merloni (1861-1930). The congregation has grown to over 1,500 sisters on five continents serving the universal Church, including in the United States. The U.S. Provincialate is located at Mount Sacred Heart, 295 Benham Street, Hamden, CT 06514-2801, 203-248-4225; the order operates in CT, NY, PA, MO, and FL), Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Italy, Switzerland, Albania, Benin, Mozambique, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Their principal ministries of service are in education (all age levels), health care, missionary activity, and social work and pastoral service.
Famous quotes containing the words apostles of, apostles, sacred, heart and/or jesus:
“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.
“See how the sacred old flamingoes come,
Painting with shadow all the marble steps:
Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perches
Within the temple, devious walking, made
To wander by their melancholy minds.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.”
—George Carey (b. 1935)
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:24.
Man with an unclean spirit.