NEWS & MEDIA
A walk down Memory Lane… March 2026
This year, we’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the MSC Missions Office on the Western Road, Cork, and as part of our anniversary commemorations, we’re looking back on old issues of our newsletter, the MSC Message, on a walk together down Memory Lane. This month,...
Full hands and full hearts: Caring for twins and triplets in rural South Sudan
It’s a joy to be able to share the most recent photo updates we’ve received from the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan, where the Loreto Sisters are running a specialised care programme for twin babies from disadvantaged backgrounds. “At...
A video message from Fr Alan in South Sudan
Our own Fr Alan Neville MSC has been in touch from Rumbek, South Sudan, with a special message for our mission friends and benefactors here in the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Last summer, our mission friends here helped us to raise funds to...
MSCs sharing joy in Ecuador
While we are now well into spring, time, distance, and technical difficulties mean that we have just received these wonderful Christmas pictures from our MSC brothers in Ecuador, and they are a joy to see at any time of year! [gallery size="full"...
A bright new year in the Philippines for the MSC Centre for the Poor
It’s always a joy to share updates from the MSC Centre for the Poor in the Philippines, where sustainability and hope are at the heart of everything they do. One of the current programmes running at the centre focuses on urban gardening, growing vegetables to...
A walk down Memory Lane… February 2026
This month, we’re looking back at an issue of the MSC Message from 20 years ago, in 2006. Blessings from the Sacred Heart Church The newsletter welcomed newly appointed parish priest at the time, our very own Fr John Fitzgerald MSC, who has come full circle and is now...
Powering a parish in the Equatorial forest of Cameroon
As we settle into the new year, we’re sharing news of one of our latest mission projects, which will fund solar panels for a very poor mission station in Cameroon.Solar panels will provide safe, reliable electricity for this very remote parish in the Equatorial forest...
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A walk down Memory Lane… January 2026
This year, our MSC Missions Office on the Western Road, Cork, marks 60 years in operation. Together, we’re celebrating 60 years of prayer, of fundraising (in countless creative shapes and forms!), of local and global outreach, of friendship, of unity, of faith, of...
Celebrating the new OLSH Kiribati Province Mission in the Pacific Islands
Congratulations and blessings to the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in the Pacific Islands! The OLSH Sisters have officially marked the beginning of the Kiribati Province Mission in Tonga, an island located in the South Pacific Ocean. In a Facebook post by...