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Hope, courage & healing: Novena to the Sacred Heart 2025

Our 2025 Novena to the Sacred Heart has come to an end, and it is with truly grateful hearts that we thank everybody who helped to make it such a special occasion for all involved. This year’s Novena took place from Thursday, June 19th to Friday, June 27th, at the...

Steady growth at the MSC Centre for the Poor in the Philippines

The community at the MSC Centre for the Poor (MSC CFTP) in the Philippines are hard at work alongside the MSC Centre for the Poor Agriculture Cooperative (MSC CEPAGCO ) as they continue in their mission to build and nurture an ethos of self-sufficiency and...

MSC Missions Lourdes 2025

Pilgrimage Diary On May 25th 2025, a group of 100 pilgrims took off on a five-day pilgrimage to Lourdes, led by Irish Provincial Director and Spiritual Leader Fr Joe McGee MSC. Celebrating the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, each of our pilgrims joined us with their...

Catching up with our friends at the Chevalier Training Centre in Fiji

It’s business as usual at the Chevalier Training Centre in Wainadoi, Fiji, where staff and students work to give up to 75 young men from difficult or disadvantaged backgrounds the best possible prospects for the future. Established by the Missionaries of the Sacred...

Novena to the Sacred Heart 2025

An invitation to join us at our 2025 Novena to the Sacred Heart Our annual MSC Novena to the Sacred Heart is a blessed time of reflection and thanksgiving, when we bring our prayers and petitions before the generous love of the Sacred Heart. This year’s Novena of...

Fun in the sun for our annual Holy Family Fundraiser at the Sacred Heart Church

Heartfelt thanks to all who took part in our recent fundraising event for the children of the Holy Family Care Centre, a care facility for young children run by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, with the support of the MSC, in Ofcolaco, South Africa. The...

Celebrating Holy Week & Easter 2025

“He is Risen!” A worldwide celebration of Holy Week & Easter 2025 It is with joyful and thankful spirits that we look back at a wonderful celebration of Easter in just some of our MSC communities at home and around the world. From darkness...

Pope Francis RIP 17/12/1936 – 21/4/2025

Pope Francis 17/12/1936 – 21/4/2025 Since the announcement of his death on Monday 21st of April religious and political leaders from all faiths and none have expressed their respect for Pope Francis, this humble man of faith and courage who has been a...

New beginnings in Mozambique

March was an especially busy and exciting month for our MSC brothers in Mozambique, with two inspiring new chapters beginning on the mission. Great celebrations were marked in the parish of Santa Marta de Mecúfi, where Fr José Eduardo Paixão MSC was appointed as new...

MSC MISSIONS EASTER DRAW RESULTS 2025

MSC Easter Draw 2025 Congratulations to the winners of this year's MSC Easter Draw 1st €2,000 France Camino Trek Voucher Wulliamoz, Navan, County Meath 2nd €1,500 Sun Holiday Voucher: Russell, Thurles, County Tipperary. ...

winners draw 2025

€200 Hair & Beauty Voucher McFadden Letterkenny, County Donegal. O’Donoghue Mallow, County Cork. Spillane New Ross, County Wexford. Mulholland Ardee, County Louth. Murphy Ballinamore, County Leitrim. Kennedy Lisnagry, County Limerick. Lahiffe Ennis, County Clare....

Introducing solar power at the Holy Family Care Centre, South Africa

Our friends at the Holy Family Care Centre in the Limpopo Province of South Africa have been in touch with an update from the centre, where new solar panels have been installed thanks to the support of our mission friends and benefactors here in the Irish Province....

Summer of Love with MSC Vocations

Oct 14, 2014 | Festivals, Openness, Overseas Volunteering, Pilgrimage, Prophetic, Volunteering

It has been a summer of celebration for the MSC vocations team, filled with festivals, pilgrimages and volunteering. Most exciting of all we opened our new student community in Dublin on September 8th with two candidates, Kevin and Henry. But let’s not get ahead of...

Day of Celebration for MSC Vocations

Sep 8, 2014 | Festivals, Overseas Volunteering, Prophetic, Volunteering

It's a real day of celebration for the Chevalier Family. Today we have three young adults entering formation in Dublin, two with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) and one with our sister congregation, the Daughters of our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH). It...

An Amazing Time with MSC Volunteering

Aug 31, 2014 | Africa, Overseas Volunteering, Volunteering

Clare Brady, a nurse from Monaghan, shares her experience in South Africa with MSC Volunteering. We arrived in South Africa on 12th June and traveled to Holy Family Care Centre with Fr Frank Bray one of the MSC priests. On arrival to Holy Family we were greeted by the...

Medjugorje Youth Fest. Welcomes the World

Aug 5, 2014 | Pilgrimage

The first thing that strikes you when you arrive for the first time for the Medjugorje Youth Festival is the heat. It's hot and I mean roasting. The second thing you notice is the sheer diversity of young people gathered from all around the world for a week of prayer,...

Shelter from the Storm on the Camino

Aug 3, 2014 | Pilgrimage

Travelling Light and The Journey are the themes of two of the biggest Christian festivals this summer. It seems that the idea of being a pilgrim is becoming increasingly popular in our world today. It's not really a surprise, as many of the aspects of a pilgrimage...

Lions, Cheetahs and MSC Volunteers

Jul 23, 2014 | Africa, Overseas Volunteering, Solidarity, Uncategorized, Volunteering

It's another day in the Holy Family Centre ( HFC ) during the winter holidays. Along with the staff the MSC Volunteers took the kids out to Moholoholo Animal Rescue and Game Preserve. The children were roared at by lions, got chased by a cheetah and were able to pet a...

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Fr Alan’s missionary work in South Sudan

In November 2020, during the covid pandemic, Fr Alan left the MSC Missions in Cork to aid the missionaries in South Sudan, since then he has documented his vocation….

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