World Youth Day 2016 Part 2 – The Gathering

by admin | Sep 12, 2016 | Ireland, Prophetic, Solidarity, World Youth Day

After an amazing week with the parish community of St Mark’s outside Warsaw we finally arrived in Kraków. There we were joined by Sarah, Anne Marie and the pilgrims from our Dublin a Parish. Our hotel was already full of Malawians and Canadians pilgrims, giving...

Samuel Groups in Cork and Dublin

by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | Ireland, Prophetic

“It was fantastic” “The group was really supportive and easy going” “I loved being able to look at the big questions in life with others who were thinking about the same things”   Okay. So, what’s next? I’m not...

Celebrating Joy on Mission Sunday

by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Festivals, Openness, Our Different Ministries, Overseas Volunteering, Pilgrimage, Prophetic, Solidarity, Spirituality, Volunteering

In 2015 we have been called in a special way to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life. It’s an opportunity to give thanks for the men and women who have worked so selflessly to serve the people of God at home and abroad. It has led the priests and brothers of the...

NET Team Makes a Wonderful Mess

by admin | Oct 5, 2015 | Festivals, Ireland, Openness, Prophetic

During the Rio World Youth Day celebrations two years ago Pope Francis called for a new culture of evangelisation in our Church. He said that the greatest evangelisers of young people were other young people. He called them to go out, be courageous, spread the Good...

Celebrating the Spirit in London

by admin | Jul 14, 2015 | Festivals, Openness, Prophetic, UK

June was another busy month for the MSC Vocations team. Henry and I just finished the Camino when we hopped on a plane for St. Albans. We had one day to wash our clothes and clean our boots before our first summer festival. Spirit in the City is a three day...

Celebrating Christmas

by admin | Dec 24, 2014 | Prophetic, Solidarity

This year it seems that Christmas has crept up on me. In the midst of the busyness of meetings, carol concerts and shopping all my hopes for Advent were quietly forgotten. As I was thinking this morning of something to write about for our vocations blog I came across...