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Friday, 19 May 2006 10:00


MSC stands for Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (originally Missionnaires du Sacre Coeur in French) founded by Fr. Jules Chevalier at Issoudun, France in 1854. We are an international order of Brothers and Priests within the Catholic Church numbering about 2,100 working in over fifty-five countries, on six continents. The Australian Province has around 190 members and our ministries include: parishes, retreat centres, education working with urban and traditional aborigines, working in the Media, chaplains to the prisons, universities, hospitals, health care in ministry to people living with HIV+/AIDS tradesmen and in many other areas.


The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) are an international community of religious men of the Catholic Church who believe that nothing is more important than the saving power of God's love. The initials M.S.C. come from the Latin: Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis.  To know more about us, please click the following links:

What MSC Stands For
Jules Chevalier: MSC Founder
MSC in Australia

Chevalier Family International
    Lay MSC
    Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
    Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
    MSC APIA

     

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The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) are an international community of religious men of the Catholic Church who believe that nothing is more important than the saving power of God's love. The initials M.S.C. come from the Latin: Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis.

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In 1854, a French parish priest, Jules Chevalier, gathered a small group of like-minded priests and formed the MSC congregation under the protection of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Their concern was global, but they began with efforts to restore the vitality of the faith in rural France. On September 1, 1881, the first missionaries left for Papua New Guinea, the fulfillment of a dream that Fr. Chevalier already had as a seminarian.