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Featured Writings RIP Belgium 2009 | RIP Belgium 2009 |
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Father Willy Van Hootegem MSC
passed away on August 12, 2009
 ANTWERPEN, Belgium - He
is from the Province of Belgium. He was born in Kaprijke, Gent,
Belgium on December 19, 1928. He made his first profession on
September 21, 1950. He was ordained a priest on August 19, 1956. His funeral was on August 18, 2009 in Borsbeek, Belgium.Australia Belgium Canada France Germany Indonesia Ireland Netherlands Papua New Guinea Philippines Rio de Janeiro Spain United States 2010 |
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.