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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....

A virtual celebration: The 2021 MSC Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Sep 14, 2021 | Events, News

Heartfelt thanks to all who participated in our 2021 Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, which took place from Tuesday, August 31st to Wednesday, September 8th at the Sacred Heart Church on the Western Road, Cork. While this year's Novena once again took place...

Congratulations to Br Giacomo Gelardi MSC on his Perpetual Profession

Sep 11, 2021 | Events, News

On September 8th, 2021, Br Giacomo Gelardi MSC made his Perpetual Profession to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at the Sacred Heart Church, Killinarden – a truly great occasion for the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, and for the Sacred...

A province of hope and love: A letter from the MSC Province of the Pacific Islands

Sep 9, 2021 | News

Bro Gerald Warbrooke MSC is stationed in Wailoku, located in Suva, the capital of Fiji. In February 2020, he celebrated his Silver Jubilee, marking 25 years as a Missionary of the Sacred Heart. Here, via the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia, he reflects on...

With “joy and gratitude” from our OLSH Sisters in Brazil

Sep 7, 2021 | News

At the beginning of 2021, our mission friends and benefactors blessed us with wonderful support for our 2021 MSC World Projects Appeal, which featured global outreach projects run by our Sacred Heart Sisters of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These...

Fr Alan in South Sudan: Lions, Snakes, and the World’s Deadliest Predator

Sep 2, 2021 | Fr Alan in South Sudan, News

When you are asked what is the deadliest animal that you’ve come across in South Sudan, people are hoping for something dramatic. On my first weekend here, when I was mapping out a potential jogging route around the Loreto campus, I came across a snake thicker than my...

“Thank you for allowing us to continue helping those who suffer”: A letter from our OLSH Sisters in the Philippines

Aug 31, 2021 | News

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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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