WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?Catholic women with a special place in their hearts for immigrants, women, children and elders, and who have the desire for and the capacity to grow in their:

Personal relationship with Jesus through:• A call to consecrated life as lived in community• A deepened prayer life• A call to living Gospel Values - that calls us to respond to

the social needs of today• An experience of service within the Church

Ability to live at peace with others characterized by a sense of humor and a growing openness to:

• Collaborate• Learn• Receive

Missionary Spirit:• Generosity• Great courage• Joyful spirit• Listening heart• Willingness to be sent

Frances Cabrini’s life was centered on the heart of Jesus. In and through her personal relationship with Jesus, she felt sent as a missionary to the world. With complete dedication to Christ and to the people, Cabrini’s desire to spread the love of God and neighbor evoked a zealous and passionate missionary style, which was courageous yet strategic in its risk-taking, confident in facing difficulties, swift in its pace, and intense in its focus.

At the time of her death in 1917, Frances Cabrini and her sisters had founded 67 institutions in nine countries, on three continents.

Frances Cabrini was the first American citizen saint, canonized in 1946. In 1950, she was declared the Patroness of Immigrants by Pope Pius XII.

Today, in centers throughout the world, MSC missionary endeavors strive to keep pace with the rigorous demands of change in responding to the cry of the poor and those trapped in new categories of poverty, while maintaining a continuity of spirit that is personal and life-giving in its approach.

“God’s love urges us to give without limit or reserve.”

- MSC Constitutions 21

SAINT FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI PATRONESS OF IMMIGRANTS

“The world is too small to limit ourselves to one point; I want to embrace it entirely and to reach all its parts.”

- Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

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FOR MORE INFORMATIONMissionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

CONTACT USwww.mothercabrini.org

(610) 902-1039

Bearers of Christ’s love in the worldOur actions flow from values found in the life and teaching of Jesus. We strive to respond to others with compassion and to serve with excellence. This sense of mission embraces the personal conviction that our service – in education, healthcare, eldercare, social work, spiritual ministries, outreach to women, children, frail elders and immigrants – is the continuance of Jesus’ own mission of bringing God’s love to the world.

Anti-Human Trafficking Justice for Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum SeekersEducation Spiritual Ministries Eldercare Cabrini Ministries - SwazilandHealthcare Cabrini Mission Foundation

An MSC commits her entire life, energy, talents, and time to announcing and witnessing God’s love, mercy and compassion wherever she is sent to minister.

AN MSC IS A WOMAN WHO IS:Drawn By The Heart of Jesus to be a bearer of Christ’s love in the world.

Welcoming and Inviting: Hospitality is our hallmark.

Discerners of God’s Will:• Open to God’s mysteries• Willing to be sent• Workers for peace and justice

Mission-Driven to serve the poor, vulnerable and those on the margins of society.

Passionate for Service to spread Christ’s compassion to the ends of the earth.

WHO ARE THE MSCs? THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

“If my sisters are asked ‘What is the work of the Institute?’ They simply reply, ‘It is to do good.’”

- Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

OUR MINISTRIES“As I see it, the mission is this: loving other human

beings - wherever they are in the world, and letting them know that there is a God who loves

them unconditionally, now, as they are.” - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSCs) are members of an international missionary institute of women religious present on six continents and in fifteen countries of the world. Their ministries focus on immigrants, women, children and frail elders.

Argentina Ethiopia Nicaragua SwazilandAustralia Guatemala Paraguay SwitzerlandBrazil Italy Russia United StatesEngland Mexico Spain

MSC LIFE AND IDENTITYMinistry

The Heart of Jesus asks us in every way to communicate the love, compassion and mercy of God. Our response to this invitation is expansive, diverse and creative, while at the same time, being personal and specific, as we seek to reach out to “one heart at a time.”

Spirituality Our relationship with God influences the choices we make. We are drawn by the Sacred Heart of Jesus to a way of life that reflects mercy, compassion, reconciliation and a love that is willing to sacrifice.

Community Our communities are as diverse as the women who comprise them. Jesus and His mission are the unifying forces that draw us together in prayer, companionship, ministry and the ongoing transformation of lives.