by admin | May 10, 2012 | Communal Work, Community Life, Community Prayer, Engaging Vocations, International, Latest News, work in the community, World Youth Day
You’d be hard pressed to find a country which has been traditionally more Catholic than Spain. It’s been at the centre of the story of the Church for hundreds of years, but in recent times it has faced many of the same challenges we have in Ireland and...
by admin | Apr 27, 2012 | Communal Work, Community Life, Community Prayer, Compassion, Engaging Vocations, Latest News, Uncategorized
“God encounters us ever anew, in the men and women who reflect His presence, in His Word, in the Sacraments and in the Eucharist”. Pope Benedict XVI This coming Sunday is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. It’s an annual event where the universal...
by admin | Apr 19, 2012 | Communal Work, Inspiring Others, Latest News, Pilgrimage
Last week I was in the third largest Catholic basilica in the world jumping up and down to the Proclaimer’s 500 Miles with over 5,000 other people. It seems a little incongruous, even slightly scandalous that a place of worship should be used for a party, but in...
by admin | Apr 2, 2012 | Communal Work, Compassion, Engaging Vocations, Inspiring Others, International, Latest News, Solidarity, What we do, work in the community
This Holy Week and throughout Easter we look at the what it really means to be a follower of Christ. A lot has been written on the subject, but I think an article in today’s Irish Times really sums up what it takes to be a true disciple. As a minor aside when I...
by admin | Mar 26, 2012 | Communal Work, Latest News, Our Values, Overseas Volunteering, Spirituality, UK, Volunteering
When our founder, Fr. Jules Chevalier, established the group in 1854 he did not believe we should be tied to just one type of work. As a result you will find Missionary of the Sacred Heart ( MSC ) brothers and priests living and working throughout over 50 countries,...
by admin | Mar 20, 2012 | Africa, America, Communal Work, Community Life, Ireland, Latest News, UK
I remember living in our parish in St. Albans when the British Humanist Association’s bus advertising campaign came out. Eight hundred buses ran throughout the UK for a number of weeks with the slogan, ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and...
