Blue Hyacinth Day
We must remember that each one of our children is destined for a mission in life.
Neither we nor they can know what it is, but we must know and make them believe
that each one has a mission in life and that she is bound to find out what it is, that there is
some special work for God which will remain undone unless she does it,
some place in life which no one else can fill.
Mother Stuart
We must remember that each one of our children is destined for a mission in life.
Neither we nor they can know what it is, but we must know and make them believe
that each one has a mission in life and that she is bound to find out what it is, that there is
some special work for God which will remain undone unless she does it,
some place in life which no one else can fill.
Mother Stuart
On May 6th, in 1882 Janet Erskine Stuart had a life-changing experience of God amidst a garden of blue hyacinths. In a flash of insight, she knew and embraced the vocation to which God was inviting her. Every year thereafter, on May 6th, she quietly celebrated that event in the garden and renewed her sense of vocation, her sense of her own mission.
We are living in the midst of life-changing experiences. How are these days affecting our perspective? How will this experience inform our own self-understanding? How can we use this time to consider Mother Stuart’s conviction that each of us has a unique mission in life that only we can fulfill?
Schools of the Sacred Heart share in the educational mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart as articulated in the Goals and Criteria. The structure supporting Sacred Heart education in Canada and the United States includes the Conference of Sacred Heart Education and the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. Together they provide services and programs to ensure vitality of mission for the member schools sponsored by the Society of the Sacred Heart.