Heart's Home USA

Student Heart's Home in Spokane, WA

Mélanie — 2013-05-15T20:27:51Z

The student Heart's Home in Spokane is composed of 5 American youth who serve the students of Gonzaga University and the greater Spokane community through sharing meals, coffee, conversation, and brunch every Sunday. We offer times of prayer and retreat. We share in the lives of the students and offer them a “home away from home.”

The student Heart's Home began in September 2011. Two years after Amy returned from a Heart's Home mission in Honduras, she desired to be able to continue the spirit of compassion. While studying and working she was struck by the loneliness of so many students who had moved away from home and she saw the charism of Heart's Home as the most needed response.

Friendship with l'Arche
One apostolate is sharing in a friendship with the L'Arche community. L'Arche is a community of adults with mental disabilities. Through this weekly encounter, we visit their community for dinner or invite them for brunch. We offer the opportunity for students to share in this valuable friendship and allow “the poor to be our teachers of love.”

I-School
Every Sunday we reflect on the writings of a theologian. Through this time of sharing, we are able, as a community and with others, to live the week with a contemplative gaze and concretely go deeper in this mission of compassion.

Prayer
We say night prayer as a community every night, pray the rosary twice a week together and strive to attend daily adoration and Mass. All of these we invite and encourage our friends to share in and allow them a time of peace and reflection.

Holidays Parties
Many students leave their home state to come to Gonzaga University. Through our Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day parties, we offer them a time of companionship during the holidays when they are unable to be with their families.

We studied together, watched movies, ate meals, and just spent time. Our friendships developed to the point that I consider each of them to be best friends. They didn't just fill a void—they overwhelmed me with love and support”.
Kyle Franklin Graduate Student at Gonzaga

We invite you to share this spirit of Compassion by taking part in various activities, just contact us!

Contact us!

2013-05-15T19:33:14Z

Heart's Home in Brooklyn, NY

Address: See on Google map
Heart's Home USA
108 St Edwards St.
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Train stations available: (check on the map >> ) .
Jay Street Borough Hall Station - A, C, F
DeKalb Ave Station - B, M, Q, R
Nevins St Station - 2, 3, 4, 5

Tel and email:
Tel: (718)522-2121
E-mail: info heartshomeusa.org

For more specific information concerning:

Becoming a Heart's Home Missionary, please contact Sister Regine.

Donations, any trouble with the payment online or financial information, please contact Laetitia Palluat de Besset.

Events in NY, please contact Paul Anel.

Internship applications, please contact Laetitia Paullat de Besset

International Center for a Culture of Compassion (ICCC):

Address: See on google map
ICCC
2299 Ulster Heights Road
Woodbourne, NY 12788

Tel and email:
Tel: (845) 434-5076
E-mail: iccc heartshomeusa.org
Directions, coming from New York -(GoogleMaps)

Student Heart's Home in Spokane, WA:

Address: See on google map
Heart's Home St Ignatius
424 E Mission Avenue
Spokane, WA 99202

Tel and email:
Tel: 509 850 5229
E-mail: Amy Koreski

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Nicolas de Dinechin — 2013-05-14T21:15:43Z

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Natalia — 2013-05-03T14:55:39Z

Heart's Home in Brooklyn, NY

Address: See on Google map
Heart's Home USA
108 St Edwards St.
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Train stations available: (check on the map >> ) .
Jay Street Borough Hall Station - A, C, F
DeKalb Ave Station - B, M, Q, R
Nevins St Station - 2, 3, 4, 5

Tel and email:
Tel: (718)522-2121
E-mail: info heartshomeusa.org

For more specific information concerning:

Becoming a Heart's Home Missionary, please contact Sister Regine.

Donations, any trouble with the payment online or financial information, please contact Laetitia Palluat de Besset.

Events in NY, please contact Paul Anel.

Internship applications, please contact Laetitia Paullat de Besset

International Center for a Culture of Compassion (ICCC):

Address: See on google map
ICCC
2299 Ulster Heights Road
Woodbourne, NY 12788

Tel and email:
Tel: (845) 434-5076
E-mail: iccc heartshomeusa.org
Directions, coming from New York -(GoogleMaps)

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Natalia — 2013-05-03T14:53:18Z

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Naomi Beauclair - Fargo, ND

Natalia — 2013-04-30T18:02:18Z

“There is no better wood for feeding the fire of God's love than the wood of the cross.” –St. Ignatius Loyola

I grew up in Fargo, ND the fourth of six kids. I will graduate in May 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Philosophy from Saint Louis University. Our Lord beckons me to love and to be loved in Bangkok, Thailand for two years, so beginning in August 2013, I will continue my journey to the center of the Heart of Christ and be drawn into the deep compassion of Our Lady at the foot of her Son's cross.

After discerning Our Lord's request to serve him after graduation, I learned of Heart's Home. Its Catholicity and reliance on the Holy Eucharist attracted me, as did its mission of being with our lonely brothers and sisters by following Our Lady as the perfect model and guide of compassion. Heart's Home missionaries perform the works of mercy—visiting the sick, visiting the imprisoned, and comforting the sorrowful—by their attentive presence, by giving only what they hardly have to give. I, too, have nothing to give but a presence, friendship, and love.

Our Lord is slowly showing me the link between joy and suffering and the profound mystery of Jesus's holy cross. I am grateful and humbled that he calls me to be placed in the heart of this mystery, to feed the fire of his love, and to discover the presence of Love at the heart of suffering.

I find the words of Fr. Thierry de Roucy, founder of Heart's Home, quite profound: “I implore you to come close to the cross of our friends, juxta crucem, so close to it that those hanged on it feel that you are hanged with them, that you totally share their destinies” (Homily: Near the Cross Stood Mary; http://usa.heartshome.org/Near-the-...).

Servant of God Frank Parater, pray for us! St. Therese, pray for us! Our Lady of Compassion, pray for us! Please pray for me, too.

Sponsor Naomi!

Father Paul Anel - Alain Kirili: Conversation

Natalia — 2013-04-25T15:58:57Z

A friendship born at the Matisse Chapel, in Southern France, between a priest in love with art, and an artist fascinated by the Cross. For the very first time, some of Alain Kirili's ink, oil and steal Crucifixions will be shown to the public.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

2 to 5:30pm

$30 (support price $60)

REGISTER ONLINE BY MAY 17

Father Anel and Alain Kirili in the Matisse Chapel
designed by Henri Matisse, in Vence (France)

Alain Kirili (born in 1946) is a French contemporary artist. He is recognized for his post-minimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his large-scale public sculptures. His work has subsequently been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in America (including PS1, Dallas Museum of Art, brooklyn Museum) and Europe (Musée Rodin, Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Musée Picasso, etc.) His work has also been exhibited in group or two-person shows with artists such as Larry Bell, John Chamberlain, Ron Gorchov, Mark di Suvero, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Frank Stella.

The International Center for a Culture of Compassion
2299 Ulster Heights Road
Woodbourne, NY 12788

Holy Week at the “Fazenda do Natal” (Video)

Natalia — 2013-04-23T16:41:57Z

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!

A Surprise Guest

Natalia — 2013-04-23T16:20:19Z

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 sixty kids have chosen a friend for whom they have been praying during the Lenten time. As the envelopes are gradually opened, it all becomes a festival of colors: drawings made in markers or pencil, greeting cards, crafts ... it all becomes a wonderful gift to wish Happy Easter to our friends and bring them the joy of the Resurrected Christ.

Elba, a friend who speaks Spanish, receives a small handmade flower and an envelope with a nice card and a drawing. Her face lights up and her eyes fill with tears. She cannot believe that a kid would have taken the time to craft it especially for her. It's a small gift, but it says a lot of the unique love by which she is loved. And this joy lasts long: when we come visit our friends again a week later, we see all the walls and bedside tables decorated with these little signs of the Risen Lord!

Carmen Laetitia, a friend from the Forth Green housing projects welcomes with great joy this “surprise guest.” Immediately, she hangs out the picture and the gift from her new friend on the sewing machine desk, where she works: "She will always stay here, with me. I don't need to meet her personally to know she is my friend. I have a new friend now, mamma!”


Rose Marie


Carmen Laetitia hangs her gift and a photo of her new friend on his workbench

Father Paul Anel - Alain Kirili: Conversation

Natalia — 2013-04-23T15:45:16Z

Sunday, May 19, 2013

2 to 5:30pm

$30 (support price $60)

The International Center for a Culture of Compassion

2299 Ulster Heights Road - Woodbourne, NY 12788