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New Boreholes for Loreto Rumbek
Early in April, Loreto Rumbek were able to employ a drilling company to implement three new boreholes for the benefit of the local community. The Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have been working with the Loreto community in Rumbek since the...
Gospel Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday of the Year | June 17th
Reflection: Have full confidence. The kingdom of God is coming, even if slowly. One must live with the mystery of God. (619) Gospel (Mark 4:26-34). It is the smallest of all trees; yet it grows into the biggest shrub of them all. In this reading, we have two parables...
Statement by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 14th June 2018
One of our members was sentenced in Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday having been found guilty of a most serious offence against a young person during the early 1980s. We sincerely hope that the outcome of the court process will assist the person against whom this...
Sustainable Living: MSC Beekeeping Livelihood Programme in the Philippines
With the help of the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, an MSC Beekeeping Livelihood Programme was launched in Antipolo in the Philippines early in 2017. Since then, the programme has been progressing at a great rate, and Jahms Morga of the MSC...
Sowing the Seeds of Knowledge in South Sudan
Over the past six months, the Loreto Rumbek community has been working in tandem with Misean Cara and the local community of Maker Kuei on their new Seeds of Knowledge project. This project focused on helping 100 participants who have come from families that have been...
Perseverance and Pride: Salome’s Story
Having graduated from the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan, Salome Piath Gum began work in the Loreto Primary School as part of the Loreto Graduate Programme. In this role, she is gaining invaluable skills and taking the next steps towards a positive...
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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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