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What is the Madeleine-Sophie Center?
Our Center is named after Madeleine-Sophie Barat, the foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart. It is dedicated to support the students who are trying to actively carry out the "Sacred-Heart Spirit". Please visit us!
1. A Resource Center for Volunteer Service Activities
Our Center helps those students who are seeking for a social mission in their life, and provides opportunities for these students to carry out their mission continuously defined by the spirit of Kyo-Sei (a symbiosis relationship). We carry information on volunteer service activities which are sent daily from official organizations and NPO/NGOs. Everyone is welcome to come and take a look at these bulletins and participate in any of these activities. For the registered students, we automatically provide newly-arrived information.
Also, the University of the Sacred Heart has many organizations for social service activities, ranging from organizations concerned with global issues such as refugee problems, environmental problems, trade imbalance, and to those related with local issues such as local community problems, communication with handicapped people through sign languages & brailed transcription, and education-related problems. All of these organizations play an active part in their respective field, and it is one of the Center's important tasks to assist these activities.
2. An Opportunity to Encounter the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The University of the Sacred Heart was founded as the faith community centered on the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we provide wide opportunities for those students who wish to better know the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and to live according to His Heart. Our Center introduces students to many activities in our campus such as Bible Study Groups, prayer meetings, and retreats. If a student is interested in receiving baptism, we spend time preparing her for it. Also, with the students, we prepare for Mass to celebrate the start of each school year, and weekly mass which is celebrated throughout the school year.
Everyone living in this contemporary society of turbulence needs a quiet moment before God and to confront herself, so that she can live a life filled with love without losing the essential part of her soul and mind.
Our Chief Activities
The following is a list of activities conducted by the Center. Please contact us if you are interested in any of these activities. Also, if you have any innovative ideas that we can include in our activities, please feel free to let us know. We all are waiting for your active participation!
>> We provide information about volunteer activities and their consultation.
>> We provide information about NPO/NGOs.
>> We introduce Internship programs at NPOs.
>> We plan and carry out events and workshops about such global issues as, environmental problems
and support physically challenge handicapped individuals. For example, we promote
the "Introduction to sign language" for challenged students, "Mission Uchimizu"
as an eco-conscious activity to solve the urban heat-island phenomenon, and "Candle Night"
which lights up candles made of waste oil masses.
>> We promote networking with the local communities, and actively make contributions such
as participation in events held by the Hiroo Shopping District, participation in after-school club
activities at Rinsen Elementary School, as well as the Sign Language Workshop
with the 4th grade students at Rinsen Elementary School.
>> Projects within the cafeteriaF"TABLE FOR TWO" and "Waribashi"
( TABLE FOR TWO )
The TABLE FOR TWO menus offered at the cafeteria donate
20 Yen per meal to support school lunches in developing countries.
( Waribashi )
This recycling project contributes to forest conservation by using chopsticks made of sustainable
wood and by collecting them after they are used to produce sawdust for livestock bedding.
>> Studentsf Mass.
The Center makes arrangements to have Mass for students every Thursday 12:15 pm at the chapel.
>> Bible Circle, retreat and prayer meetings. The Center prepares and makes arrangements for these activities.
>> Preparation for baptism.
>> Cooperative activities with the Society of the Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart sister schools,
and the graduates. For instance, the "Series of the Sacred Heart Spirit" is a function
in which the Center invites the graduates to offer the currently enrolled students
with opportunities to listen, share, and think about life with the graduates.
 Extra-curriculum Activities by Students:
>> MSSS(Madeleine Sophie Social Service)
A volunteer service organization since the foundation of
the University of the Sacred Heart, to visit nearby schools,
and to learn sign language and Braille skills.
>> SHRET(Sacred Heart Refugee Education Trust)
SHRET engages in refugee support activities in cooperation
with RET(Refugee Education Trust, founded by Sadako Ogata;
General Office in Switzerland)
>> SFT(Sacred Heart for Fair Trade)
Conducts activities to promote Fair Trade.
>> Choir
A chorus group to sing hymns at the weekly Student Mass
and to sing carols on the street at Christmas time.
>> Liturgy Circle
An organization to prepare for feast day masses,
and to plan and carry out events based on the Catholic Spirit.
>> COCO ka PECO
An organization to promote consciousness about environmental
problems "Joyously and seriously" as a motto.
>> ASEACCU(The Association for Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities)
*The Center supports students who participate in the ASEACCU Students'
International Conferences .
Office Hours:
9am to 5pm on weekdays
9am to 12am on Saturdays
TEL: 03-3407-5853
E-mail: mscenter@u-sacred-heart.ac.jp
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