21 Oct 2020
“As we continue to live through these challenging, troubling, anxious times where we are stripped of so many certainties and usual ways of living and ministering, we remain men of hope, men with a mission, men of the present and the future – why? … because we are men who have been found, touched and transformed by the love of God revealed in the heart of Jesus.
Today, we remember our Founder, Fr. Jules Chevalier. We appreciate and thank God for all the activities and initiatives you are doing all over the MSC world to celebrate this day. It is in this spirit that we present this Videoclip in memory of Fr. Jules Chevalier. We hope that for all of us, this 21st of October 2020 will be a significant day that will encourage us to keep on committing ourselves to the Mission.
The greatness of Fr. Chevalier is that despite so many negative experiences throughout his life, setbacks in the growth and development of the little Society, internal divisions and many, many personal sufferings, he did not allow his life and view to be dominated by negativity. It always amazes me, reading the writings of his latter years: he clearly did not belong to those people who only blame the darkness; he always tried to light a candle and to make a difference in the world by being a missionary, by being a man of hope, a man of heart. His whole life is summed up in the title chosen by himself: Missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
We are MSC! We are God’s heart on earth!”
Fr Carl Tranter
Provincial superior,
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
