About us

SH Ujjain

The Sacred Heart Congregation for Women is a community of love, which took shape in the Syro-Malbar Church in Kerala by the infinite Providence of God. Never-ending adoration, praise, thanksgiving, and reparation are offered to the Heavenly Father through the Sacred Heart of Jesus from our Congregation that was formed to reciprocate the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The aim of the Congregation is that the members should live radically the discipleship of Christ, experiencing deeply the compassionate love of God, the Father, manifested through the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and sharing it with others especially the poor and afflicted. The congregation was founded on 1^st January 1911 by the Venerable Fr. Mathew Kadalikattil.

God made Fr. Mathew Kadalikkattil, an ordinary, zealous, and saintly priest in Kerala, an instrument to plant the simple seed of the Congregation and to bring it up with a farsighted vision. He was a man, who identified himself as the servant of the Sacred Heart and gave first place to the same Hearts mission in his life. He earnestly wished that all people should experience the fruit of this devotion. Despite the hardship of all sorts, he used to go from house to house and consecrated the families to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Also, he made them understand the love and compassion of the Sacred Heart in such a way that they listened to him with great enthusiasm and zeal. He touched the people's hearts with his spirit-filled Eucharistic Celebration and attractive homilies. He was so compassionate in the confessional that even the great sinners were converted and returned to the experience of the love of Jesus. As he visited families he came to know about the miserable conditions of the abandoned children and the aged destitute around. He also perceived the sad plight of the young women, who were eager to lead a dedicated life and yet denied admission to the existing religious communities in Kerala, because of the lack of sufficient education and inability to provide the required patrimony. He felt like a love enthusiast, burdened in conscience with a heavy responsibility towards these.