Sacred Heart Convent
Sacred Heart Convent is a Catholic church at 460 Saint Bernadine Street in Reading, PA 19607. It is one of 144 churches in Reading, and one of 2 Catholic congregations in the city.
As vowed women of the Church we choose to live simply and poorly.
We, the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters, are called by God to live the Gospel in the spirit of Francis of Assisi and Mother Veronica Grzedowska.
460 Saint Bernadine Street, Reading, PA, 19607Phone: (484) 334-6958 · Website: https://www.bfranciscan.org/motherhouse-mcglinn-conference-and-spirituali
Sacred Heart Convent is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,107 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at Sacred Heart Convent
- Education
- Health Care
- Outreach to the Poor
- Foreign Missions
- Volunteers in Mission
- Tutoring
- ESL Classes
- Care for the Sick and Elderly
- Home Repair
- Retreat Centers
- Soup Kitchens and Shelters
- Support for Recently Released Women
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The community around Sacred Heart Convent
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. About 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 23.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Sacred Heart Convent
- Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Anthony of Padua, Reading PA — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oasis Sanctuary Church — 0.6 mi away
- Incarnation Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Action Chapel Pennsylvania — 0.6 mi away in West Reading, PA
- Local Christian Assembly — 0.8 mi away in Kenhorst, PA
- One United Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away in Kenhorst, PA
- Kenhorst Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christ Yocom's Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Polish Roman Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away in Shillington, PA
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