THE CONTINENTAL MEETINGS

Many national associations invite all alumnae/i from a continent to gather so they can experience what it means to belong to the family of the Sacred Heart in a country other than their own, get to know others and form new bonds.

These meetings usually take place in the interval between World Congresses and in a simpler context. They are often part of a school that participants can visit. Presentations and exchanges on their associations or on a particular subject are proposed to them, as well as a discovery of the host country and its folklore.

The old Latin American ones were the first to gather by continent in Medellin (Colombia). They are already at their IX meeting ELASC (Encuentro Lationamericano of Antiguas Alumnas del Sagrado Corazon) which was held in Cartagena (Colombia) in 2016, in the presence of a hundred old from Argentina, Brazil , Cuba-in-Exile, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. Each national association receives in turn and prepares a study plan on a specific theme. The Xth ELASC meeting is expected to take place in 2020 in Peru.

The Europeans for their part met for the first time in Vienna in April 2013, then in Madrid in October 2016. France should welcome them in the autumn of 2020. The more recent meeting to date was again in Vienna in October 2024.

Finally, the alumni of Canada and North America also gather every two years. During these meetings, the last of which was held in April 2025 in Los Angeles, the American association, AASH, elected a new president and board of directors for a two-year term. The next meeting will be in Houston.