Fr Alan’s Journey in South Sudan
Fr Alan left Ireland to help with the Missionaries in South Sudan at the beginning of Covid.
Follow his journey for some amazing insights to life in South Sudan.
Walking the Camino in the Wet
It wasn’t looking good. Anytime I checked the weather app it said rain. When I checked back a few minutes later, hoping against hope, it was only getting worse. The threat of thunder and lightning is certainly not the ideal circumstances for a 114km walk along the...
Surfs Up!
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...
Samuel Groups in Cork and Dublin
"It was fantastic" "The group was really supportive and easy going" "I loved being able to look at the big questions in life with others who were thinking about the same things" Okay. So, what's next? I'm not really sure. Things are so busy and I've got so much...
Celebrating Joy on Mission Sunday
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...
NET Team Makes a Wonderful Mess
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...
The Promised Land: Youth 2000 Festival
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 great...
Pop Up Church on the Camino
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, where people of all...
Living Faith and Joy at MSC Youth Festival
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 MSCs...
Year of Consecrated Life Mass on RTE 1
Last Sunday we had the extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life with a powerful Mass in the RTE Studios in Dublin. We had a viewship of around 60,000 people not just in Ireland, but around the world. You can view the programme by clicking...
Celebrating the Spirit in London
June was another busy month for the MSC Vocations team. Henry and I just finished the Camino when we hopped on a plane for St. Albans. We had one day to wash our clothes and clean our boots before our first summer festival. Spirit in the City is a three day...