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News European Provinces hold Fourth Assembly from August 19 until August 22 in Issoudun, France
News European Provinces hold Fourth Assembly from August 19 until August 22 in Issoudun, France | European Provinces hold Fourth Assembly from August 19 until August 22 in Issoudun, France |
 ISSOUDUN, France -
From August 19 until August 22, 42 Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
from the Provinces of Europe met in Issoudun for the Fourth European
Assembly. The European Provincials had proposed to study the theme of
justice, peace and the integrity of creation. The group was joined by
Sr. Esther Baselmans, a Daughter of our Lady of the Sacred Heart from
Netherlands who is a member of the joint Dutch MSC/FDNSC JPIC
Commission and by Mathieu Lobingo, a lay man from the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, who works with the Missionary Centre of the MSCs
in Salzburg. IV MSC European Assembly in Issoundun - Reparation and JPIC IV MSC European Assembly in Issoundun - Summary of the Assembly 4de Europese bijeenkomst van MSC in Issoudun - Dutch - I  Fr. André Claessens,
the
Belgian Provincial was the moderator of this Assembly and had invited a
French couple, Joel and Jeanine Lebillan, to speak to the group on the
issue of immigration. The couple are members of CIMADE (a French
network which works with and lobbies on behalf of migrants refugees)
and are also from the reformed Christian tradition, which brought an
extra ecumenical dimension to the Assembly.4de Europese bijeenkomst van MSC in Issoudun - Dutch - II |
For us, a life in union with the Heart of Christ is not just a devotion - it is the very core of our spirituality. the heart of Christ is the source of living water, that is, of the Spirit. 
Jules Chevalier (1824-1907) was a man of his time. He was convinced that the Jesus he found in the Gospels was a person of deep compassion and understanding. 
Through her union with Jesus, Mary knows the unsearchable riches of his Heart and wants to lead us to him, who is the source of a limitless love that gives birth to a new world. 
Fr. Jules wanted to found a missionary Society that would have as its purpose to bring God’s compassionate and merciful love to human beings as the remedy for the evils that afflicted society.