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SPIRITUALITY
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1. Charism
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In 1854, Fr. Jules Chevalier, MSC, our spiritual founder, was inspired by
God's personal unconditional
love for us as revealed by Jesus. In the Heart of Jesus he found the
answers to the deep questions about life's meaning. As Jesus was sent to
reveal God's love, so we MSCs as a congregation are on fire to let the
whole world know how much we are loved by God. With this insight, our founder, Fr. Linckens gave us the charism of our Congregation. Being graced by the love of Christ, we the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and MSC Associates are called to respond to His Love and to make His Love present to everyone!
We are called to respond to the evils of the times and seek to identify their causes. In the light of the Gospel, we respond to the needs of our day and assume the risks of this challenge. This vision of God is our charism....our gift....our mission.
The spirituality of the heart for the MSC takes its inspiration from the
experience of the
MSC Founders and their life
centered on the Heart of
Christ. Inspired by the Founders, the MSCs strive to make the sentiments
of the Heart of Jesus their own. God’s love is the center of the
spirituality of the heart, namely, the love of the Father for all
humanity as revealed in the Heart of Christ, the Incarnate Word of the
Father: “The heart of Jesus is God’s love, God himself Incarnate. God is
love.” The pierced heart on the cross (Jn 19:34, 37) reveals to us how
much God loves us (1 Jn 4:9, 10). A spirituality of the heart proposes
this vision of God and his saving love for us
From
its very beginning the MSC Congregation has been motivated by a
missionary spirit. It was based on Fr. Chevalier’s personal experience
of God’s love for humankind as fully revealed in the Heart of Christ.
This is articulated in the Constitutions: “We are called and sent into
the world to make known the love and kindness of God our Father,
revealed in Jesus Christ, and to give our lives in service to His
people.” The MSCs are called to manifest the heart of God on earth.
The
MSCs honour Mary in a very special manner. They have a new way of
looking at Mary as “Our Lady of the
Sacred Heart,” a title which comes from Fr. Chevalier’s meditation on
the role of Mary in salvation history. From the beginning he thought of
Mary as connected specially with the Sacred Heart. In reflecting on a
title for Mary, however, he went well beyond a connection between her
and a Congregation dedicated to the Sacred Heart. About 1857, he decided
on honoring Mary under the title ‘Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.’ Read More
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Remember,
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the great things, the Lord
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To be the Heart of God in the World!
MSC: Initials of the name of Congregation in Latin "Missionariae Sacratissimi Cordis". We are an International Congregation of approximately 900 Catholic Women Religious working in 19 countries worldwide. We were founded by Fr. Hubert Linckens, MSC in Hiltrup, Germany in 1900.
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