12 Aug 2021
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia website has reported on the current COVID-19 situation in Vietnam, where our missionaries are responding “with an inspiring MSC spirit”.
The people of Vietnam are currently under a martial law curfew between 6.00pm and 6.00am since the beginning of August, with approximately 80,000 cases at the beginning of the month.
With one of our MSCs in Vietnam referring to the virus as “a roaring lion”, we read that “many people are poor, homeless, and hungry”. The hospitals are full beyond capacity, with temporary hospitals being built as quickly as possible to accommodate the overflow of patients in need.
MSC communities in Vietnam are doing all they can for those who need their help. As well as sourcing food from wherever they can, they are also sharing their own rations of rice and vegetables with the poor and hungry, obtaining travel permits so that they can move around their local regions distributing food and necessities.
While the final professions of several of MSCs waiting to take their vows in Vietnam will have to be postponed due to the current restrictions, MSC Fr Chung writes that the ministry of MSC communities in the region “keeps our heart burning for our mission of spreading love of God for others”.
We join our voices with our Australian brothers as they say: “Thank you to all our Vietnamese MSC brothers in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Australia, for spreading the compassionate love of God by how you live your lives, wherever you are.”
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Images via the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia website.