A global family of the Sacred Heart
Our mission friends play a vital role in our missionary work across the globe, as part of our extended family of the Sacred Heart. Our missionaries are situated all over the world, and with the help of local families, lay associates, OLSH sisters, MSC priests and brothers, and our mission friends, we answer the call for help in a way that aims to bring dignity and empowerment to the vulnerable and marginalised. As our MSCs reach out around the world, providing essential aid in areas of real and urgent need, it is your support that makes this work possible.
The MSC outreach programmes are all very diverse, responding to the different needs of people in different regions. The essence of each project, however, is the same – to help those who need it, in every way we can, and in the love of the Sacred Heart.
Our work is only possible thanks to the help of our mission friends and benefactors. Your support is quite simply priceless as our Sacred Heart community continues with ongoing mission projects, while also doing their best to respond to new and urgent needs brought about by the effects of several global crises. We are all too often facing uphill battle, and your friendship is a source of boundless motivation and inspiration for our MSCs.
The events of recent years alone, as we have navigated a global pandemic and the atrocities of war, have reminded us of the power of kindness in all its forms; in supporting our MSCs, your compassion demonstrates once again the great heart of humanity, reaching out to touch the lives of people you will never meet, who are strangers in name but friends in spirit. These adversities have revealed the great heart of humanity, our willingness to reach out and to help each other when times are tough. Â Not only does your friendship provide essential practical aid, it also reminds real people that they matter, and that somebody cares.
“To our mission friends and benefactors – your open heartedness is the missionary spirit in action, the living embodiment of the Lord’s love and grace here on earth. On behalf of our MSCs all over the world, I thank you, sincerely, for being a beacon of hope and of kindness in a world that so desperately needs it. May God bless you always.”
Fr John Fitzgerald MSC, Director of the MSC Missions Office
There are many ways in which you can join our mission and help us in our fundraising to support our missionaries around the world, from making an online donation to a project close to your heart, to ordering Mass cards, MSC enrolment books, or religious gifts from our Cards & Gifts section. We at the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart offer our sincere thanks to all who support our mission projects in all sorts of different ways – every contribution, no matter how small makes a difference, and your generosity is touching lives in regions where the smallest gesture of compassion brings comfort beyond compare. Thanks to you, our MSCs can offer the poor and displaced a chance of dignity, a chance of self-sufficiency, and a chance of hope.
