About Sacred Hearts Secular BRANCH
SACRED HEARTS SECULAR BRANCH
We are lay Catholics who desire to live out the charism of the religious order of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar which is the consecration to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In doing so, we contemplate, live and proclaim the Love of God made manifest in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We commit to a life of Reparative love through intercessory prayer, penance, Eucharistic Adoration and service.
34th Annual Benefit in honor of
CONGREGATION of the SACRED HEarts of Jesus and Mary
Saturday, February 26, 2026
Mass of Thanksgiving by Fr. Bill Gural, SS.CC.
Holy Name of Mary
On Saturday Jan. 18, Holy Name of Mary Church hosted the Mass of Thanksgiving for those who have served in the West Region of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and for the parishioners who have supported and shared in our mission of contemplating, living, and proclaiming the love of God manifest in the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Fr. Rich Danyluk explained the origin of this thanksgiving mass: "It started many years ago when the West Coast Region wanted to say thank you to everyone who support us in many ways seen and unseen. Holy Name of Mary hosts the celebration."
Many of the brothers of the SS.CC. of the West Region were present and very happy to con-celebrate with Fr. Pat, and to see the faithful parishioners, including many from the Secular Branch. Fr. Johnathan Hurrell, the superior of the House of Formation in Fiji, was also con-celebrating.
Legacy
Fr. Pat Crawley gave a homily speaking of the legacy of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary serving in Southern California, and of gratitude for all the love and support we have received from the parishioners. He spoke about the legacy of order in the many SS.CC. who have served here and the beautiful collaboration with the laity. Father Pat emphasized the incarnational theology which the SS.CC. has preached and endeavored to manifest in ourselves and in those we are serving.
Speaking of gratitude, Fr. Pat shared this poem: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Our Charism
Fr. Pat shared this passage from Ephesians as a form of a blessing for us: “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)
The novices came from Hemet; there is excitement about their upcoming first profession at HNM on Saturday Jan. 31 at the 5 pm mass.
RIGHT OF COMMISSIONING by Fr. Bill Gural, SS.CC.
Rite of Commissioning, SS.CC. Secular Branch Corpus Christi, Corona
It was a sunny day in Southern California, with an air of joy and excitement at Corpus Christi Church in Corona as about 80 sb, many dressed in red and white with SB insignia gathered for the commissioning of new members. Lenie Papa, West Region Coordinator, called out the leaders from the different regions and their candidates, and as at a profession or ordination, they each said present. Joe Chacon, seminarian, leads the procession.
Superior, West Region: U.S. Province
Fr. Chris Santangelo, ss.cc., superior of the West Region gave an animated and expressive homily emphasizing our unity as brother and sisters in the Sacred Hearts, our call to embody the love of God in our actions, in our service. Fr. Chris said they might think we are crazy too (like they thought of Jesus), but that is not for us to worry about. Fr. Damien sent out 50 letters to women’s religious orders asking them to come to serve the lepers of Molokai. Sr. Marianne responded, so we too are called to respond to God’s call.
Lay Member Perspective
A lay member candidate commented on the homily of Fr. Chris.
"He spoke of the importance each member of the religious order has regardless of office. Be it priest, sister, brother or lay member, each has an important task in the LORD’s work and purpose. The ministry of each has value in the work of the Kingdom. My purpose in the ministry has value and will add to the whole of the Sacred Hearts.
St. Mother Teresa said, 'I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things.' The ministry of the Sacred Hearts, SS.CC. collectively and individually, following the charisms of the Order, will prepare the world for the LORD’s return."
Fr. Barry, Mentor/Founder, West Coast SB
Their promises were quite impressive, true to our mission and charism: living to spread the gospel and build a more just world, making our own attitudes, options, and tasks as Jesus’ – to the point of his Passion, ministry of intercession, engage in evangelizing action, transforming the human heart, live out vocation and mission in community characterized by simplicity and the family spirit, maintain unity in the different branches of the SS.CC.
Speaking on the gospel passage about people thinking Jesus crazy, Fr. Chris said that many might call us crazy for how we live following Jesus.
Fr. Mike Barry, mentor and founder of the Sb in the West Region gave some words. "Contemplation is key, God is teaching us something. Read a Scripture passage three times and listen to what God is saying. We cannot proclaim with contemplation. We need fuel from prayer and the Eucharist. Let the Sacred Heart touch us."
Our Community
Communion Song: Sacred Heart of Jesus, draw us closer to Your love ……Make our hearts more like Yours. Finally, Fr. Chris said: “We get to work. You have been commissioned. Now our work is to live our baptism and commissioning.” Fr. Brian places a membership pin on a newly commissioned member.
Mass of the Sacred Hearts, SS.CC.
Sacred Hearts Secular Branch Consecration to the Sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary
I take the resolution of honoring, every day of my life, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; of encouraging others to honor them, as much as I can; of repairing by the practice of good works, the insults that they receive from sinners and of observing to the letter the rule of this pious Association to which I will have the happiness of belonging. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
PROFESSION OF VOWS by Fr. Bill Gural and john pickering
Welcome
Welcome
"PROFESSION OF VOWS FOR THE PICPUS CONGREGATION IN SAN DIMAS, CA, the archdiocese of Los Angeles.
This evening at the 5.00pm Mass at the Holy Name of Mary parish in San Dimas, California, five young men from Fiji, Tonga and the islands of Wallis and Futuna professed temporary vows in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Their vows were received by the Provincial Superior of the US, Fr. Lane Akiona SS.CC.
Novices
Welcome
Among the five young men, two are from Fiji. Iowani Tuiviani and Antonio Damuni Masilekaleka. Iowani is from the village of Kanakana in the district of Tunuloa, with maternal links to Nauciwai, Yale Kadavu while Antonio is from the village of Lovonivonu on Taveuni, with maternal connections to Nuku, Masi Serua.
From the islands of Wallis and Futuna is Mathieu Vaitulukina, while from the Kingdom of Tonga are Mark Makasini and Patelesio To'oa.
Family
There was a large turn out of family and friends from the Fijian Catholic Communities of San Francisco, Santa Rosa and Los Angeles present to offer their support and well-wishes.
Their Novice Master, Fr. Semisi Pulotu ss.cc observed that "as much as I helped to form them, they also helped to form me into a better person."
The five young men will return to Fiji in the next few weeks to continue their philosophy studies at the Pacific Regional Seminary.
Paseka offers its heartiest congratulations to the five young men and to the Picpus Fathers."
by John Pickering
History
In the Service of the LORD
Fr. Lane spoke about the missionary legacy of the Sacred Hearts who were commissioned to evangelize the Pacific in 1827- nearly 200 years ago, sending Sacred Hearts missionaries to Hawaii, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands and Tahiti.
He also spoke these beautiful from our Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary rite of profession, reminding us SS.CC. of our consecration and mission. "There is a wealth of history of brothers and sisters, who came to those wonderful items to evangelize. You are the inheritor of our tradition. maintain yourselves in the service of the gospel." And now are coming full circle, with vocations coming from the Pacific- where we were first sent to preach the gospel.
Consecration
In the Service of the LORD
In the Service of the LORD
Fr. Lane spoke these beautiful for the consecration of these young men to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary:
"Do you want to enter into the mystery of redemption to prefer nothing to the love of Chris being for the kingdom of God accepting freely to be poor and promising to be obedient in order to be consecrated as such to the Sacred Hearts do you want under the action of the Holy Spirit to generously lay down your lives, serving the people of God, as brothers of the congregation of the Sacred Hearts, living your commitment in community as members of a single single congregation of brothers and sisters may God contemplate live and proclaim his love and may God with this good work and you bring in to fulfillment? May the Lord look with kindness upon your sons presence of desire by promising to keep evangelical consoles consecrate their lies to the heart of your son, and they find the heart Heart of Mary the model faith in your love and soul their way of life, glorify you and continue to the contribute to the salvation of all people to Christ. Amen."
In the Service of the LORD
In the Service of the LORD
In the Service of the LORD
"May your own attitude, choices, and task that led Jesus to the point of having his heart trans pierced on the cross; may you be sustained by the intercession of the Virgin Mary, St. Damien, Blessed Eustaquio, and the whole church always maintain yourselves in the service of the gospel."
"Remember: above all else we preach love."
The Tongan choir sang "Here I am, Lord" (in Tongan) with great gusto and joy as the first profession liturgy was concluding.
Fr. Chris Santangelo, the pastor of Holy Name of Mary Church, spoke a few words of gratitude, concluding with the call and response: "God is good.... all the time. All the time... God is good".
Indeed how great is our God!
by Fr. Bill Gural, SS.CC.
SPIRITUALITY OF Sacred Hearts
Mission
“The Consecration to the Sacred Hearts is the
foundation of our Institute.”
From this consecration our mission has its origin: to
contemplate, live and announce to the world God’s
Love which was made flesh in Jesus. Mary has been
associated in a singular way with the mystery of God
made man and with His saving work: this is what is
expressed in the union of the Heart of Jesus and the
Heart of Mary.
Our consecration calls us to live the dynamism of
saving Love and fills us with zeal for our mission.
Constitutions Article 2
Mary
“In Jesus we find everything: his birth, his life and his
death. This is our Rule.”
We make our own the attitudes, options and tasks that
led Jesus to the point of having his Heart transpierced
on the Cross. In our radical following of Christ, Mary
his Mother, model of faith in that Love, precedes and
accompanies us so that we can enter more fully into the
mission of her Son.
Constitutions Article 3
Reparation/Reparative Love
Aware of the power of evil that opposes the Father’s
Love and disfigures his design for the world, we wish to
identify with the attitude of Jesus and with His
reparative work. Our reparation is communion with
Him, whose food is to do the Father’s will and whose
work is to reunite by his blood the dispersed children of
God.
Our reparation makes us participate in the mission of
the Risen Christ, who sends us to announce the Good
News of salvation. At the same time, we recognize our
sinfulness, and we feel ourselves to be in solidarity with
the men and women who are victims of injustice,
hatred and sin in the world.
Finally, our reparative vocation encourages us to
collaborate with all those who, led by the Spirit, work to
build a world of justice and love, sign of the Kingdom.
Constitution Article 4
SPIRITUALITY OF Sacred Hearts
Eucharist
In the Eucharist, we enter into communion with the
thanksgiving of the Risen Jesus, Bread of Life,
Sacrament of Love.
The eucharistic celebration and contemplative
adoration make us participate in the attitudes and
sentiments of Jesus before the Father and before the
world. They impel us to assume a ministry of
intercession and remind us of the urgency to work for
the transformation of the world according to the criteria
of the Gospel. Like our Founders, we find in the
Eucharist the source and the summit of our apostolic
and community life.
Constitutions Article 5
Evangelization
Our mission urges us to evangelizing action by which
we enter into the interior dynamism of Christ’s Love for
his Father and for the world, especially for the poor, the
afflicted, the marginalized and those who have not
heard the Good News.
To make the Kingdom of God present, we seek the
transformation of the human heart and we endeavor to
be agents of communion in the world. In solidarity with
the poor, we work for a just and reconciled society.
Availability to the needs and demands of the Church,
discerned in the light of the Spirit, and the capacity to
adapt to circumstances and events are characteristics
inherited from our Founders.
The missionary spirit frees us and makes us available to
exercise our apostolic service where we are sent to
bring and receive the Good News.
Constitutions Article 6
History
In the communion of the Church, the People of God,
the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and
Mary and of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed
Sacrament of the Altar is an Apostolic Religious
Congregation of Pontifical right, founded by Pierre
Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie.
Brothers and Sisters, united in the same charism and
the same mission, form a single Congregation approved
as such in 1817 by Pope Pius VII.
Constitutions Article 1
Join Sacred Hearts Secular Branch Today
Sacred Hearts Secular Branch Consecration to the Sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary
I take the resolution of honoring, every day of my life, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; of encouraging others to honor them, as much as I can; of repairing by the practice of good works, the insults that they receive from sinners and of observing to the letter the rule of this pious Association to which I will have the happiness of belonging. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
About Sacred Hearts Secular Branch
Who We Are
Who We Are
Who We Are
The Secular Branch of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts is a group of laity who are committed to the same Charism as theprofessed brothers and sisters. It is an association of Christ’s faithful who share in the charism and spirituality of the congregation.They are an extension of the congregation. From the beginning lay people were in
The Secular Branch of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts is a group of laity who are committed to the same Charism as theprofessed brothers and sisters. It is an association of Christ’s faithful who share in the charism and spirituality of the congregation.They are an extension of the congregation. From the beginning lay people were intimately involved with the foundation of the Congregation.The Secular Branch took its present form in June 1993. It was formally recognized, accepted by both the brothers and sisters of the congregation. It had the church approval by the Holy See..
Mission
Who We Are
Who We Are
The mission of the Sacred Hearts Secular Branch is to promote the love in the heart of Jesus. The Charism of the Congregation is the consecration to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.From this consecration our mission has its origin to contemplate,live and proclaim the love in the heart of Jesus as living in Mary.
Membership
Who We Are
Membership
To become a member of the Secular Branch a person must be Catholic in good standing and undergo a formation process. Then after that process is concluded with the approval of the major superior of the nearest community the person is invited to make a formal commitment. The Secular Branch member do not make profession or vows but is committed to the same Charism as the professed member.
About Sacred Hearts Secular Branch
Spirituality
Communities/Candidates
Communities/Candidates
The Secular Branch member should be well informed of the Charism of the Sacred Hearts Congregation and be missioned by it. Study and education in the formation process must be successfully completed typically in 2 years.Aside from being a practicing Catholic, one should be motivated to spend at least an hour in adoration before the Blesse
The Secular Branch member should be well informed of the Charism of the Sacred Hearts Congregation and be missioned by it. Study and education in the formation process must be successfully completed typically in 2 years.Aside from being a practicing Catholic, one should be motivated to spend at least an hour in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament on a weekly if not daily basis . The member should pray and use the Secular Branch Prayer Book provided in the morning and at night.
Communities/Candidates
Communities/Candidates
Communities/Candidates
From the inception of the Secular Branch in about 1997, the first 7 members made their commitment in 1999. Through the years , We have a total of 123 commissioned members and 26 candidates.
Contact Information
Communities/Candidates
Contact Information
For information email SSCCWest@gmail.com or text 951-743-7189/ 909-593-5441