07 Sep 2021
At the beginning of 2021, our mission friends and benefactors blessed us with wonderful support for our 2021 MSC World Projects Appeal, which featured global outreach projects run by our Sacred Heart Sisters of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.
These projects included several OLSH outreach programmes in Brazil, from nutritional and educational provisions for a care centre for vulnerable children, to helping a children’s choir with new equipment, to providing essential liturgical items for the celebration of Mass in remote communities, to teaching local women practical skills such as sewing, empowering them and enabling them to earn money for themselves and provide desperately needed support for their families.
“We can put our hands and our lives at the service of our charism and mission.”
Sr Marisa writes from São Paulo, in gratitude for the support received from our mission friends here in the Irish Province. “We express our joy in knowing that our charism and mission are alive in the world,” she says. “The MSC Mission Office in Ireland, through your generosity to finance the missionary and pastoral projects of our Province, has provided us with excellent opportunities to make the Heart of Jesus known and loved in the different situations of vulnerability experienced by a portion of the Brazilian population.”
She continues, “Through the unity of our congregations and with the financial assistance provided by the MSC Mission Office of Ireland, through your donors, we can put our hands and our lives at the service of the same charism and mission and to continue the dream of Fr. Chevalier, allowing God’s love and goodness to reach the farthest places in the world.”
“We reaffirm our gratitude and prayers to you, your staff and your donors and pray that they will receive in blessings and graces for what you have given us by financing our missionary action in the Church of Brazil.”
“With joy and gratitude I come to thank all of you for your generosity.”
Sr Janete also writes from Campinas, from the Madre Anastácia childcare centre. Part of the ministry the Sisters at the facility offer is to collect food donations and redistribute them to those in need. They had been receiving a small subsidy in order to be able to pay the cost of the driver who carried out these deliveries, but since that funding stopped, the Sisters had been extremely worried about how they would be able to continue.
“With joy and gratitude I come to thank all of you for your generosity,” says Sr Janete. “This funding means that it will be possible to keep our employee, Alexsandre, who plays the very important role of driver at our care centre, Madre Anastácia.”
“The driver at our daycare transports donations of clothes, foods, and furniture that we receive to donate to needy families in our region. With your help, we will be able to continue our work. The Sisters here are always very grateful for all your help and generosity. God bless you all!”
