Superior General, Abzalon Tovar MSC in Mozambique

After social unrest and some natural disasters in recent times, the MSC mission in Mozambique is a difficult and isolated ministry. Superior General, Abzalon, has gone to Mozambique for some weeks as moral support.

Cyclone devastation, 2019

Celebrating MSC Foundation day with Fr Jose Eduardo Paixao.

After so many suffering and despair we are living in. We discover that we are full of God's grace. We celebrate with great hope the foundation day of our Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - MSC. We need to have heart of flesh, open heart in times of Lockdown.

A reminder of the foundation of the mission, 2018.

The MSC assumed one of the most difficult places in the immense Diocese of Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. We are again willing to go where many do not want to go. The two companions have to start from scratch both at the level of apostolate and infrastructure. The mission area is immense with three districts (municipalities): Melucco, Quissanga and Ibo Island, with very high poverty rates, very precarious means of communication, great distances between them and a very high level of Muslim presence. But the seeds of the Kingdom are there in the Heart of the Makua and Maconde people.

The MSC will live in Melucco, which is 215 km from the seat of the diocese and a great part of that distance is on dirt roads. Both Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa and the religious Sisters from different missionary areas were very welcoming and made our MSC companions feel like a family. A great inter-congregational fraternity is experienced in the mission.