If you drive North on River Road toward Baton Rouge, about midway you will travel through a small town called Convent, LA. Located on a big bend in the Mississippi River, this town was named after a convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart that once existed there. Mail carriers on boats traveling up and down the Mississippi would throw the mail off of the boat onto the levee and call out, "Convent!" The name stuck to this day. The Religious of the Sacred Heart had a school in Convent, LA, called the Academy of the Sacred Heart, or, simply [...]

At the end of the summer and in anticipation of the school year, all of our Faculty and Staff at The Rosary join together for a three day in-service. During these days, we pray together to deepen our relationship with God and with one another. I offer this morning prayer to you as an invitation to join us in prayer for the community at Sacred Heart in New Orleans. May we all be blessed in the year ahead!   Morning Prayer-Faculty In-Service 8-10-15  “To hope is to believe in the future.  Hope is always founded on strength of conviction, which makes changes and [...]

We need a means to encourage the soul, to nourish it and raise it over itself. The means of all means is the Spirit who vivifies and makes it fruitful…This Spirit becomes the breath of the soul…would to God each one may exclaim, “I begin today!” Conference Amiens, 1841 Leader: Loving and Compassionate God, we gather together this morning with our hearts and minds turned toward preparations for the coming school year. We come with hearts full of anticipation and excitement, expectation and hope for a good year. Be with us as we listen and learn from the wisdom of [...]

Yesterday, the Class of 2015 was inducted into the Association of Alumna and Alumni of Sacred Heart (AASH) in a formal ceremony at the Rosary. These are my opening comments and reflections on this beautiful event. Welcome to the Senior Class of 2014-2015, parents, alumna of the Sacred Heart, Religious of the Sacred Heart from the New Orleans area, and to friends of our students and school! Together today, we celebrate a special event in the life of a Sacred Heart student; that is, their formal induction into the Alumnae Association of the Sacred Heart. This association is more than [...]