3. pastoral work and guidance in faith.2. human development and the promotion of justice1. teaching and formation RSCJ carry out their service of education in three areas.and strengthening the social fabric. That is why to this day, of their day. Education, for her, was about transforming society of education was to prepare women committed to the society Madeleine Sophie’s vision helps us even today. For her, the aim mission of education.RSCJ are always exploring new ways of carrying out their A changing world, however, poses new challenges. through the education of youth in schools and colleges. ’s mission was expressed From the beginning, the Societyseed and grows into a strong sturdy tree with deep roots.are symbolised by the oak tree that begins life as a very small to grow. Her life and work and the life and work of the Society Her example attracted other women and so the Society began as “the woman who prayed always”.American tribe called the Potowatomi. They remembered her America. Before she died, she went to live with a native Eventually she began the first Sacred Heart community in North Sophie Barat, she dreamt of taking the Society to distant lands. Philippine Duchesne. A French woman, like her friend Madeleine Another woman important in the story of our beginnings was Rose community of the Sacred Heart on the American Continent.her wish was at last granted: to go to America and begin the first love of the Heart of Jesus in distant lands. After long years of hoping, She was very young when she first heard the call to show forth the Rose Philippine Duchesne was born in Grenoble, France, in 1769.