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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....

Williams and Dawkins Debate

It was perhaps long overdue. The stage was set for a showdown between one of the greatest minds in the Church of England and Britain's most famous atheist. Some even pitched the event as a philosophical / theological Frazer and Ali type match. The subject of the...

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Killinarden Youth Receive JP II Award

Fourteen young people from the Community School in Killinarden received the Bronze John Paul II Award last Friday week. Starting in January last year Emma Jane Hearst, Kevin McCabe, Ciara Walker, Samantha Byrne, Shannon Corcoran, Shauna Holt, Jodie Curtis, Amy Ford,...

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Sean Moncrieff Surveys Irish Priests

Newstalk’s Moncrieff Show National Priest Survey 2012 Last week I got a hurried phone call from a friend to switch on Newstalk, because Sean Moncrieff was doing a show on priests in Ireland. My first reaction was not again! Sometimes you can script these programmes,...

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Olympic Spirit

Olympic Spirit We are hearing a lot about the Olympics these days as London prepares to host the 2012 Games. But it would be a pity if we only focused on the fastest, strongest, best and brightest who will bring home gold! There is much more to it than that. On school...

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Alternative Oscar Fashion

[youtube NnClOk-VWTg nolink]   Oscar night is all about the stars and the fashion. But last Sunday night during the Oscars one of the people turning heads wasn't wearing Gucci or Dior. It wasn't the rapper Nicki Minaj either. It was Sr. Dolores Hart. It is a...

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Nativity Plays, Dara O’Briain and Faith

A couple of weeks ago I managed to pick up a couple of tickets to see Dara O'Briain's new show Craic Dealer. For those of you who haven't come across him Dara is a stand up comedian from Ireland who has made a huge career for himself in the UK with shows like Mock the...

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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….

Did you know…

A donation of €10.00 helps to feed a family of four for two weeks in the Philippines.

A donation of €20.00 helps to send a child to school in Guatemala.

A donation of €50.00 helps to provide clean water for a family in Venezuela.