With Gratitude We Close this Year-long Celebration of 125 Years of International MSC Mission  

Since March of 2025 we have been celebrating the founding of the international congregation of The Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. In gratitude for these years of presence and mission, we have: sent emails and posted on Facebook to share our stories of founding missions in 21 countries; hosted an anniversary Mass celebrated by Bishop Alfred T. Schlert at Holy Guardian Angels Parish in Reading, Pennsylvania; and hosted a celebratory dinner at the DoubleTree ballroom during which U.S. Province Superior Sr. Dorothy Fabritze spoke of young MSC missionaries who, inspired by the martyrdom of their first Sisters in Papua New Guinea in 1904, swelled in numbers and continued responding to the needs of their times throughout the world.

We thank you for your interest in our mission of love, and for following along with our monthly celebrations of MSC presence among so many diverse and remarkable cultures.

As concluded by Sr. Dorothy Fabritze at our celebration in August:

“Today [and always] let us be grateful for our creative fidelity to a charism that continues to generate life, to heal wounds, and to proclaim through our ministries that the Heart of God is the love that restores, the justice that transforms, and the peace that refreshes. Let us celebrate 125 years with gratitude allowing our past to propel us prophetically toward the future. May this anniversary be a renewal of missionary passion and a reaffirmation that the Spirituality of the Heart remains a living and bold response to the challenges of today’s world.”    – Fr. Mario Abzalon, MSC

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere. Now and forever.