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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.  ...
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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....
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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....
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Gospel Reflection for Sunday, May 6th

May 5, 2018 |

Reflection: God Loves Our readings today turn things upside down a bit. In our first reading, we see Cornelius and his household receiving the Holy Spirit first and then being baptized. The second reading tells us that God loves us before we love God or our neighbour....

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The MSC Message: Summer 2018

May 2, 2018 | , ,

The summer edition of the MSC Message has arrived! • Catch up with the latest news from the mission fields, with updates from our ongoing projects in South Africa and South Sudan. • Discover more about new mission projects in Mozambique and Cameroon. • Read a special...

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Celebrating with the Loreto Sisters: 10 Years in Rumbek

Apr 30, 2018 |

Early this April, the Loreto schools in Maker Kuei swapped their times tables for dancing and textbooks for cake as they celebrated their 10th anniversary in style! The week-long celebration included a host of activities and events, alongside special meals with the...

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“Sister India” – The story of Sr Loreto Houlihan

Apr 23, 2018 |

"Sister India" recounts the story of Sr Loreto Houlihan, a 91-year-old Irish missionary, who has spent 70 years teaching in India.     A new documentary by Irish filmmaker Myles O’Reilly, which is currently being screened at a number of film festivals in...

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The Life of Sr Loreto Houlihan

Apr 16, 2018 |

Who is Sr Loreto Houlihan? Born into a large family in 1927, Peg Houlihan grew up in hard times, especially in the 1930s with a worldwide depression and an economic war between Ireland and Britain. By the time she was five years old, her mother was already a widow as...

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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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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.

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