| Happy Feast day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! |
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Dear Confreres, Before Holy Week, we, the members of the General Council, had our retreat in Sutri, in the Generalate of the MSC Sisters. The four of us, Mark, Arci, Wahyudi, and Tino, took turns in facilitating the retreat topics which were taken from different chapters of the book by Fr. André Mayor, Fifteen Days with Jules Chevalier. (As of this writing, there is no English edition yet of this book; it is in French and Spanish.) The talks of each day’s facilitator were enriched by our group sharing following our personal reflections on the topics. Since this is our message for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, let us share with you what we shared on “The Pierced Heart,” the “tenth day” of the book.  
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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.