MSC stands for Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (originally in Latin) founded by Fr. Jules Chevalier at Issodun in 1854.

We are a group of Priests and Brothers (Catholic Church) and are an International Order of about 2,500 working in over thirty countries, including many Third World Countries.

Here in Australia we number about 210 and we work in Parishes, Colleges, Retreat Centres, in specialised ministry among urban and traditional aborigines, chaplains to the Armed Services, Universities, Hospitals, working in the Media, in ministry to people living with HIV+/AIDS and in many other areas.

Australian MSC are also working overseas in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Central Pacific Islands, Japan, India and South Africa. As well as overseas missions we have worked for many years among the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. Our MSC extended family also includes The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the MSC Association.

Our Founder, Jules Chevalier, was deeply moved by the evils that afflicted the people of his time. As he contemplated the Heart of Christ, in who is revealed the compassionate love of the Father, he discovered there the remedy for the ills of the world.

We too are inspired by the same gift our Founder received. In our communion as brothers, we live our faith in the compassionate love of the Lord; at the same time, we are sent into the world to proclaim the Good News of the love and kindness of God our Saviour and to bear witness to it in the whole of our lives.

MSCs living in community base their lives on this biblical spirituality, and seek to meet the challenge of moving with the Church to build communities of faith and justice into the 21st century.