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As an international organization, the Society of the Missionaries of
the Sacred Heart needs a team placed at its service, to
maintain the unity of the institution and fidelity to its proper
spirit. This team consists of the Superior General and his Council, who
reside in Rome. Their principal purpose is to animate and promote the
life of the MSC Society and look after the faithful carrying out of the
Constitutions in all the entities of the Society.
One might say that each Superior General is a successor of the Founder and has a clear mission to realize the continuity of the foundational charism in the service of the Society. Since its foundation in 1854, there have been eleven Superiors General who have served the Society: Jules Chevalier (1869-1901), Arthur Lanctin (1901-1905), Eugène Meyer (1905-1920), Adrianus Brocken (1920-1932), Christianus Janssen (1932-1947), Patrick McCabe (1947-1958), Jozef Van kerckhoven (1958-1969), J. Eugene Cuskelly (1969-1981), Cornelis (Kees) Braun (1981-1993), Michael Curran (1993-2005), and Mark McDonald (2005-present). Along with the Superior General and his Council, a team of people works in the General House at the service of the whole Society. Included among them are the Secretary General, the Bursar General, the Procurator General, the Postulator General and a special team that works for the beatification of the Founder, the Archivist General. There are others entrusted with particular areas of work, such as that of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation, the Media of Social Communication, Development, Publications, Initial and Ongoing Formation, Charism and the Spirituality of the Heart. The current administration is composed of the following: Fr. Mark McDonald (U.S.A.) - General Superior Fr. Narciso Abellana (Philippines) - Assistant General I Fr. Wahyudi Franciscus Xaverius (Indonesia) - Assistant General II Fr. Faustino Fernandez Garcia (Spain) - Assistant General III Fr. Luis Carlos Araujo Moraes (Brazil) - General Secretary Fr. Hans Ngala (Indonesia) - General Bursar Fr. Armando Genovese (Italy) - General Procurator Fr. Ailton Izaias da Silva (Brazil) - General Archivist Fr. Raymond Dossmann (France) - Postulator for the Cause of Founder Fr. Lucio De Stefano (Italy) - General Postulator |
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.