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by Pia Chedid, Volunteer in Brooklyn, NY On this par­tic­ular Saturday, our weekly visit to our friends at the nursing home seems to be a spe­cial one. Chloe, Laetitia and myself are bringing, together with our pres­ence, a bag filled with envelopes. On each envelope there is the name of one of our friends. About (...) ► con­tinue

Sister Mariana Canteros, SGP, pres­i­dent of Heart’s Home in Argentina, met Cardinal Bergoglio in Buenos Aires. “Pray for me!”, asked our new Pope, His Holiness Francis. For us, faithful of Buenos-Aires, these words had become “his words.” Each sermon, each one-on-one encounter, each letter, each con­ver­sa­tion, he would (...) ► con­tinue

By Kaeli Joyce An hour after classes ended on a Friday a few weeks ago, Amy, Jordan, Mackenzie, and I drove away from Heart’s Home St. Ignatius towards the air­port, and by 7:00 the next morning we found our­selves sit­ting around the break­fast table at Heart’s Home John Paul II in Brooklyn, New York, with a good (...) ► con­tinue

Volunteers, con­se­crated mem­bers, fam­i­lies and chil­dren expe­ri­enced and cel­e­brated the Joy of Easter at our Brazilian Village. Put on your head­phones, and enjoy the radiant faces!

By Armando Gutierrez, Volunteer in Valparaiso, Chile What hap­pens at night in our neigh­bor­hood (Porvenir Bajo)? From what I wit­ness out­side of my window: the door of Juanita´s corner store are shut, the lamp­post light up like can­dles, and our play­ground lays silent. It is nothing out of the ordi­nary. But our (...) ► con­tinue

Join us to cel­e­brate Heart’s Home tenth anniver­sary in the USA! In the begin­ning of 2003, Aude, a French vol­un­teer from Heart’s Home, arrived alone in New York. Ten years later, Heart’s Home USA includes: 2 cen­ters, 18 ded­i­cated full-time vol­un­teers working to bring a (...) ► con­tinue

We are very happy to invite you to cel­e­brate the 10^th Anniversary of Heart’s Home’s incep­tion in the US. With you, we want to marvel at what has been done already and to give thanks to God; with you, we want to con­tinue to spread a balm of love and com­pas­sion on many wounds and to build a cul­ture where men and women (...) ► con­tinue

By Laetitia Palluat de Besset, President of Heart’s Home USA In 2003, with a single com­mu­nity house in the Bronx, the American branch of Heart’s Home was launched. Ten years later, we are in awe at all the accom­plish­ments of Heart’s Home USA. Today, Heart’s Home USA serves 400 people in New York, recruits and (...) ► con­tinue

By Aude H., first Heart’s Home Member to arrive in the States “On April 22, 2003, which was also Easter Tuesday, I landed in New York with my small suit­case, a few dol­lars, and a desire: that of Fr. Thierry de Roucy, the founder of Heart’s Home, to open a Heart’s Home center in ‘the cap­ital of the world.’ I was (...) ► con­tinue

By Edward Adams, First Heart’s Home American Volunteer In 2005, Edward became the first American to join Heart’s Home as a full time mis­sionary. At the end of his 15-month mis­sion in Honduras he wrote to his spon­sors: “One Saturday as we were leaving for lunch at a friends’ house Oscar was out the front of our house (...) ► con­tinue