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Missionaries of God's Love
We are called the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - missionaries of God's love revealed in the human heart of Christ. For many we are perhaps better known by our initials, MSC. These come from our name in  Latin: Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis. We are part of an international congregation of vowed male Religious founded in 1854 by Jules Chevalier, a young French priest.
A mission without limits
Our Founder saw the Heart of Christ as the source of God's saving love for the whole world. Our mission is to make that compassionate love known everywhere and to everyone, without conditions.
A worldwide family
In the Irish Province we number about 140 men ministering and witnessing to God’s love in Ireland, Great Britain, Southern USA, Southern Africa, Venezuela and Southern Russia.The worldwide family of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart numbers approximately 2000 and is currently working in 54 countries in all five continents.
 | We want to live like Jesus
who loved with a human heart;
we want to love through him
and with him
and proclaim his love to the world.
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Seven priests from Missionaries of the Sacred Heart celebrated the diamond, golden, ruby, and silver jubilees of their ordinations at a ceremony at Western Road in Cork on June 27th 2009. Between them they have served three hundred years of priesthood. 
On Wednesday 10th June the President of Ireland, Mrs Mary McAleese, together with her husband, visited the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at their place of foundation in Ireland on the Western Road in Cork. The visit was a special and significant moment in a year long celebration of the hundredth anniversary of that foundation. 
At the end of May Fr. Pat Courtney MSC (Irish Provincial) and Fr. Tito Maratas MSC (Phillippine Provincial) travelled to the Northern Caucusus of Russia to visit the four members of the MSC Russian mission.