We, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, are an international Congregation with a missionary orientation who are passionate about bringing the love of God to people everywhere. We value every human person and hold as precious the words of Jesus ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full’. 

Our spirituality and mission are expressed in the motto given to us by our Founder, Fr Jules Chevalier: “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus Be Everywhere Loved”.  (FDNSC Constitutions No 1)

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• Outsourced debt-recovery companies
• Credit reporting and fraud checking agencies

Security of information

• The Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that all data is stored in a secure environment where only authorised persons can access the data. All printed material containing your personal and credit card information is stored securely and held at The Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart’s offices in accordance with the relevant legislation concerning storage of accounting records.
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• The Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted through the internet and cannot be held liable for unauthorised access of your information received from you or delivered to you using the internet.

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OLSH Provincial Team
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On the 8th September 2011, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart will be celebrating the 100th Year of the foundation of Australia as a Province of the missionary group of Sisters founded in Issoudun France in 1874.

Five Sisters celebrate 60 years of commitment as a Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart - a total of 300 years!!

The 6th January, 2011, marks the day for the Religious Profession of Vows for 15 Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart who have been serving in Australia and abroad since 1940.

Are You Called to Join Us in Our Mission of Sharing God’s Love?

“Where and when God finds you ready, God must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.”
(Meister Eckhart)

There are a number ways in which you can be a partner with us in living our spirituality and mission of love:

• as a vowed religious
• as an Associate
• as a lay missionary working with the sisters in foreign countries
• as a member of Hearts4Others.

If you would like to discuss the possibility of a religious vocation please contact:

Sister Jenny Seal
Phone: (03) 9557 1130
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If you called by God to share the charism of our Religious Congregation and live it as wife and mother, husband and father, or single person, in your day-to-day environment you may like to do so as an Associate. You can read more about our Associates on this website, under Chevalier Family. You may also contact:

Sister Ancilla White
Phone: (02) 9662 1777
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If you feel called to work for six months or more with our sisters on foreign missions and would like to know more about this, please contact:

Sister Lorraine McCleary
Phone: 02 9663 3599
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Hearts4Others

Are you committed to Social Change and deepening your Spirituality?

Hearts4Others (OLSH) is for young adults who are committed to working for social change and deepening their spirituality. If you would like to know more contact:   

Sister Philippa Murphy
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Facebook: hearts4othersolsh

Are these questions your questions:
Where is God calling me?
What is my heart’s desire, its deepest desire?
Where do I find true meaning in my life?
What journey will enable me to love the best way I can?
Are you called to come away for a while and enter into a time of stillness?

For information about our residential retreats for young adults contact:

Sister Philippa Murphy
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Our Mission entrusted to us by the Church,
holds a wealth of challenge in this day,
a challenge that is both immense and urgent.
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In fulfilling this mission the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart spread from France to Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Central Pacific. Today we number more than 1000 sisters ministering in 27 countries on 5.

Our Spirituality of the Heart inspires us to live our mission of love. It calls us into relationship with God, with one another and with all of creation. We are enriched by the cultures of those with whom we minister and, by God’s graciousness, the women from these cultures who have joined us. We are involved in diverse ministries in attempting to meet the needs in the situations in which we find ourselves:

• Overseas Missions
• Working with the Indigenous peoples of Australia
• Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees
• Promotion of Social Justice and Care of the Earth
• Spiritual Companionship and Guidance
• Young Adult Formation
• Hospital Chaplaincy
• Prison Ministry
• Pastoral Care/Parish Ministry
• Education: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
• Health and Aged Care
• Orphanages for babies and children with AIDS
• Liturgical Artworks
• Secretarial Work

“We are attentive to emerging needs, particularly those resulting from poverty, violence, oppression, degradation of the environment, and the dislocation of peoples. We give special attention to the unjust treatment of women and children.” (FDNSC Directory 59)

As Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, prayer is a priority for us. We nurture the gift of prayer through personal prayer and have a special love for the Eucharist and for Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Each day we unite with each other and with the entire people of God as we pray the Prayer of the Church.

We count on the love and protection of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and are inspired by the example of her life as a woman obedient to the movements of the Spirit in her heart. The Memorare to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a prayer specially loved by us:

Remember, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart,
the great things the Lord has done for you.
He chose you for his Mother.
He wanted you close to his Cross
He gives you a share in his glory.
He listens to your prayer.
Offer him our prayers of praise and thanksgiving;
present our petitions to him.
Let us live like you in the love of your Son that his Kingdom may come.
Lead all people to the source of living water that flows from His Heart, spreading over the world hope and salvation, justice and peace.
See our trust in you, answer our prayer,
show yourself always our Mother. Amen.

In the initial struggles to found our Congregation Jules Chevalier was greatly assisted by Marie Louise Hartzer, a widow with two young sons. As our first Congregational Leader she instilled in us the importance of having a mother’s heart in our approach to people. She encouraged us to “Go with the simplicity of a child to Jesus and Mary in a spirit of confidence and abandonment.”  (Marie Louise Hartzer FDNSC, Her Letters, no. 105, 1903)

The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart are pleased to pray for your intentions.

Please be assured that all your intentions will be prayed for and remembered by the Sisters and in a particular way at the Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart which is said each Thursday at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at OLSH Church, Avoca Street, Randwick, New South Wales.