by admin | May 4, 2016 | Engaging Vocations, Ireland, Latest News
There are moments in your life when you’re certain you’ve made a terrible mistake. You don’t need anyone to tell you. You just know. I had one of those experiences earlier this year on a Saturday morning when I looked out the window of the Missionaries of the Sacred...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Belonging, Communal Work, Community Life, Community Prayer, Compassion, Engaging Vocations, Festivals, Inspiring Others, Latest News, Openness, Our Different Ministries, Overseas Volunteering, Pilgrimage, Prophetic, Solidarity, Spirituality, Volunteering
In 2015 we have been called in a special way to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life. It’s an opportunity to give thanks for the men and women who have worked so selflessly to serve the people of God at home and abroad. It has led the priests and brothers of the...
by admin | Oct 5, 2015 | Communal Work, Engaging Vocations, Festivals, Ireland, Latest News, Openness, Prophetic
During the Rio World Youth Day celebrations two years ago Pope Francis called for a new culture of evangelisation in our Church. He said that the greatest evangelisers of young people were other young people. He called them to go out, be courageous, spread the Good...
by admin | Sep 9, 2015 | Compassion, Engaging Vocations, Festivals, Ireland, Latest News, UK
Every year well over a thousand young people gather in Walsingham for the Youth 2000 Festival at the end of August. It’s an amazing gathering of people from all over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales for five days of music, prayer, workshops, and especially...
by admin | Aug 18, 2015 | Compassion, Engaging Vocations, Latest News, Openness, Pilgrimage
Buen Camino!’ It’s a familiar phrase that pilgrims say as they meet one another on the Way. It’s both a greeting and a blessing for those who walk to Santiago de Compostella across the north of Spain. There is a strange sense of community out here,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2015 | Belonging, Community Life, Community Prayer, Engaging Vocations, Festivals, Latest News, Openness
It’s a hard knock life really. This summer a group of thirteen young people and four adult leaders had the opportunity to leave behind the clouds and rain for a five day youth festival in Croatia with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. There we joined other...