A better setting than the ball-dropping one?
[ January 13, 2012 ]
News
by Guilherm Martinez
In many ways, this was a traditional New Year’s Eve celebration. Kids were playing, joyful conversations and laughs resonated across the halls, songs and guitars echoed from the basement and people were bustling in the kitchen. Old and new friends had gathered at a packed Heart’s Home in (...) ► continue
Concert, Cookies, & Carols
to Welcome the Christ Child
[ January 13, 2012 ]
News
By Rachel Oberman
Featuring the classical guitar duo Nylon Wound, the traditional Heart’s Home Christmas Party took place on December 23rd.
“The Heart’s Home Christmas Party was a great joy for me: it brought me into a space filled with great music and the true Christmas spirit. The two classical guitarists, (...) ► continue
Decorating Cookies vs Trying to Get Rich?
[ January 13, 2012 ]
News
By Sister Regine Fohrer
On December 22nd a true “cookies workshop” took place in our Brooklyn Center. The craftswomen? Read on to find out!
Every holiday has its own unique food that goes with the festive occasion. Cookies can be said to be the principal food of Christmas! In order to respect this tradition, as (...) ► continue
This week’s posts on landofcompassion.com
[ January 13, 2012 ]
Blog
Heart’s Home presents a report to the UN
By Apolline Bergier
Since 2005, the year of its accreditation at the UN, Heart’s Home UN has had the privilege of being able to give its opinion in… Read more
Learning the value of life
By Natalie Helfrick
A volunteer with Heart’s Home in Bangkok, Thailand – Extract from a (...) ► continue
The mysterious joy underneath the sadness
of being so far away from home
[ January 6, 2012 ]
Volunteers & Parents’ Testimonies
18-year-old Madison A. - volunteering in the Heart’s Home Ukrainian Center- talks about her being away from her family for the first time during Christmas season:
Recently my community along with our friends at St. Clement Center in Kiev published and presented Fr. Thierry De Roucy’s book ‘Christmas, a Mystery’. I (...) ► continue
Believing that Man has a Name
[ December 6, 2011 ]
Spiritual Proposals
A meditation on Christmas by Fr. Thierry de Roucy
Two thousand Christmases are behind us. This one, we want it to be new. A new Christmas of a new millennium. Like the first one. Or, most certainly, like the last one. Dressed as the original one. Or most certainly as the eternal one. Covering all the colors of (...) ► continue
A Breathtaking One-Day Spiritual Journey
[ December 6, 2011 ]
Spiritual Proposals
Sakina Boukhaima, who attended the last retreat preached by Heart’s Home founder, Fr. Thierry de Roucy, at the retreat facility in upstate New York, shares her experience:
“Though I did not know exactly what to expect, I was full of expectations on my way to the Heart’s Home Center in the Catskills. And I can (...) ► continue
“Anthony knows
we are there for him”
[ December 6, 2011 ]
Volunteers & Parents’ Testimonies
A Testimonial from Ecuador
“The beauty of a true, committed and faithful friendship is maybe the most moving incarnation of that ideal we are striving for.”
Antony lives across the street and a few houses down from ours. He has been a friend of Heart’s Home since he was little. When his parents were divorcing (...) ► continue
Heart’s Home members interviewed
by Archbishop Dolan on The Catholic Channel!
[ November 1, 2011 ]
News
On Thursday 3rd November, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan conducted a radio interview on Sirius XM Channel to Fr Gonzague Leroux and Marian West, members of the Heart’s Home USA community.
“Waiting for the Lord”
A Retreat on Hope in the Midst of Suffering
[ October 24, 2011 ]
Spiritual Proposals
December 10
In the light of Christmas, Matthew Sutton, PhD, professor of theology at St. John University, will lead a meditation on the human condition: our hearts attached to the earth in this valley of tears, as said in the Salve Regina, but full of hope oriented towards the Lord.
Saturday, 12/10 from 10:00 am (...) ► continue
