Who are we?

The Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Religious Brothers and Priests is the male branch of the Religious Family of the Pierced Hearts, founded in 2020 by Mother Adela Galindo and erected as a Public Clerical Association of the Faithful by Archbishop Thomas Wenski. We are a mixed community of religious brothers and religious priests called to serve in the heart of the Catholic Church.

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• Conquer the World for the Pierced Hearts!
  

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A Religious Family in the Heart of the Church

The SCTJM Brothers and Priests are part of the Religious Family of the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary. While the Brothers and the Sisters are two separate institutes, having the boundaries proper to Religious Life, they are also part of the same Religious Family and thus are united by the same charism. The primary manifestation of this communion is expressed through mutual prayer and service, particularly in those missions in which both Institutes will serve together.

Spiritual Charism

Apostolic Mission

Our apostolic mission flows from our consecrated vocation, daily prayer, and fraternal life. We are called to enflesh the all-embracing, pastoral-oblative love of Christ for humanity, living out our apostolic charism to be ardent witnesses of the power and fecundity of love and the Splendor of the Magisterium and Treasures of the Church so as to form the human heart. In this way, we are called to help build a new civilization of love, truth, life, and solidarity in the heart of the Church and in the heart of the world. While Religious Brothers and Religious Priests have different primary missions, they always serve together in full communion, expressing the complementarity of their vocations. Our ministries include:

For Religious Brothers:

• Teaching and Campus Ministry in Middle Schools, High Schools, and Universities
  
• Liturgical Ministry
  
• Spiritual Accompaniment
  
• Pastoral Assistants for Parishes or Dioceses
  
• Parish or Diocesan leadership and administration positions
  
• Directors of Religious Education and Catechists
  
• Faith Formation through talks and courses
  
• Retreat Planning and Youth Ministry
  
• Serving in Missions and pilgrimages
  
• Serving the Poor and Immigrant Communities
  
• Evangelization through the Means of Communication & Multimedia
  

For Religious Priests:

• The Celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist and Sacrament of Reconciliation.
  
• Serving as Pastors or Parochial Vicars in parishes.
  
• Serving as a Hospital or Hospice Chaplain.
  
• Visiting the homebound and administering the last rites and burying the deceased.
  
• Serving as Chaplains for High Schools or Universities.
  
• Teaching at Seminaries and Universities.
  
• Serving in Pilgrimages and Missions
  
• Spiritual Accompaniment
  
• Evangelization through the Means of Communication & Multimedia
  

Religious Brothers

A Religious Brother is a man who consecrates himself to God through the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; and, in our case, a fourth vow of total Identification with Christ. Living the prophetic memory of Christ, as a brother to humanity, the primary mission of the Religious Brother is to reveal the love of the Father and help reconcile humanity to Him, as Christ did. This is practically manifested through our apostolic missions and ministries, serving in the Heart of the Church.

Religious Priests

After a period of service as a simply professed Religious Brother, his own profound discernment, and that of the community, a Religious Brother may begin seminary and a modified plan of formation, taking into account the formation he has already received, to be ordained a Religious Priest. Once ordained, he is able to allow Christ to reach others through him through the sacramental life of the Church. His apostolic missions and ministries are centered in and flow from the administration of the Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist and The Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Our Religious Habit

The habit of the brothers, as defined by our community, is a visible sign of our spousal - virginal love, our life of poverty, obedience, and of belonging to our religious family. The Servants wear the habit of our community which consists of a taupe tunic which has a square opening at the collar to make visible the white clerical shirt for religious priests or a white shirt for the religious brothers. It will also consist of a simple hood, five buttons symbolizing our five principles and the five wounds of Christ, a burgundy belt from which hangs a rosary with the twenty mysteries, and burgundy closed - toed shoes. Their habits have the embroidered logo of the community on the upper left side, close to the heart. They will also wear the SCTJM Cross.

The Hood

The inner collar

The Hood is a symbol of the recollection and consecration of the Religious.

The Inner Collar is the diferentiating factor between the habit of our Religious Brothers and Religious Priests. With a clerical collar , the habit of the Religious Priest can be identified. With the oxford collar, that of the Religious Brother.

SCTJM Logo

Our Logo, given in 1995 to our Mother Foundress, and blessed by St. John Paul II, represents the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, indissolubly united in their piercing, the crown of thorns, and the crown of Our Lady. This represents the Triumph of the Pierced Hearts.

Five Buttons

The Five Buttons at the center of the habit represent the Five Wounds of Jesus Christ in His Passion and our Five Principals: Marian, Priestly, Josephite, Johannine, and Pauline Principles. These principles allow us to live our missions and identity, found in the person of Christ.

Our Belt

Our Burgundy Belt represents the oblative love, present in our vow of chastity. For love to be true, it must be sacrificial.

Our shoes

Our Burgundy Shoes represent the way which we are to serve, with oblative, sacraficial love.

Our Religious Institute's Logo

Four Vows

Poverty:

with a generous and diligent heart, to detach myself of all things to have the Heart of Jesus as my only inheritance and treasure and to freely give all that I am and have for the common good of our Institute.

Chastity:

with a spousal and undivided heart, to love the Heart of Jesus with a total, oblative and unconditional dedication and to be open to receive and communicate the fecundity that flows from the potency of this communion of love.

Obedience:

with a receptive and docile heart, to responsibly and effectively dispose myself to fulfill the designs of love of the Heart of Jesus manifested through my legitimate superiors and the government of our Institute.

Total availability to the Heart of Christ:

Total Identification with the Heart, Person, and Mission of Christ.

Five Principles

Marian Principle:

To live under the total guidance and possession of Our Lady so as to become Marian-masculine hearts.That as Christ was formed by her Immaculate Heart, we may also allow her to form our hearts after His heart.

Priestly Principle:

To allow ourselves to be pierced as Christ did in order to give abundant life.

Josephite Principle:

To enflesh the virginal, spousal, and paternal love of St. Joseph who was the first Servant of the Two Hearts.

Johannine Principle:

To be hearts after the heart of St. John who deeply contemplated the mysteries of the Heart of Christ and brought Our Lady into his home, allowing her to form him and guide him, being a true son of Her Heart.

Pauline Principle:

To have the missionary ardor of St. Paul, going freely

to wherever the Lord asks of us with apostolic zeal.

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