Born in Nicaragua and later moved to the United States, Mother Adela Galindo has a master’s degree in theology and is a Doctor of Philosophy, Theology, and Leadership (honoris causa), and has received two Doctorates of Humane Letters (honoris causa). She is the Foundress and Mother General of the bilingual religious family Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary: founding the Religious Sisters in 1990, the lay branch Apostles of the Pierced Hearts in 2000, and the Religious Brothers and Priests in 2018.
As of September 2023, she has founded 17 convents in 11 dioceses in the United States, Rome, Paraguay, and Poland. Mother Adela is a faithful daughter of the Church, and a spiritual daughter of St. John Paul II. Since the first moment he appeared on the balcony in St. Peter’s, she experienced a profound communion of hearts that moved her to proclaim, “At last I found the heart that I have been looking for!” Since then, she has dedicated herself not only to studying the Magisterium of St. John Paul II, but also instilling it within all the members of her spiritual family, making a great commitment to teach his legacy and to keep it alive, a mission that she herself has carried out through all her evangelization and formation ministry.
Mother Adela has been an untiring evangelizer worldwide by preaching at national and international conferences, evangelizing through social media, leading pilgrimages, and works of solidarity, especially in the Holy Land, for which she was named a Dame of the Holy Sepulcher. She has received many recognitions such as the St Vincent de Paul Award and others, for her outstanding dedication and zeal to build a civilization of love, life, truth, and solidarity to extend the reign of the Pierced Hearts.
We are the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious family founded by Mother Adela Galindo in the Archdiocese of Miami in 1990. We are religious Sisters, Brothers & Priests dedicated to evangelization and formation of the human heart to build a new civilization of love, life, truth, and solidarity, in the heart of the Church and the heart of the world and thus give a triumph to the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary! Mother Adela also founded the lay branch of our spiritual family which is spread throughout many countries.
We are called to be the living image and presence of the Heart, Person, and Mission of Our Lady, placing the gift and potentialities of our feminine genius and Marian charism in loving communion and service of the Apostolic-Petrine principle, thus enfleshing the all-embracing motherhood of Our Lady in the Heart of the Church.
All that our religious vocation and the life of our Institute entails is to be in total identification with the Heart, Person, and Mission of Our Lady. This identification is the fruit of daily conversion and permanent formation in order to grow in the gift of Marianization. Throughout all of our apostolic missions, we desire to manifest the all-embracing motherhood of Our Lady who calls us to enter into every dimension of human and ecclesial life with our Marian charism.
Our vows:
To choose in all things the perfection of love so as to bring about the triumph of the Pierced Hearts in all hearts.
Some of our apostolates include:
Totally dedicating our lives to love and adore the Eucharistic Heart and to promote the building of a Eucharistic culture
Being a living image and presence of the Heart, Person and Mission of Our Lady
Totally open to the action of the Holy Spirit in our lives, communicating His gifts with freedom and order for the building up of the Mystical Body of Christ
Generously placing our feminine genius, our spousal and maternal potentialities, in loving communion and service of the Apostolic-Petrine Principle
Meet our sisters and hear how the Lord conquered their hearts in love, calling them to give themselves totally to Him in love and in service of humanity, like Our Lady.
An article by our Mother Foundress, Mother Adela Galindo, SCTJM, contemplating the essence of vocational discernment through the gaze and heart of St. John Paul II and a profound understanding of the human person.
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