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Christmas Message from Fr Michael 2020
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 MSC Christmas Raffle!
MSC Christmas Raffle 2020  Christmas Raffle Prize Winners: 1st Prize: Shopping voucher to the value of €1,000 J. Walsh Newbridge, Co. Kildare. 2nd Prize: Festive Feast Hamper value €500 J O'Brien Westport, Co Mayo. 3rd Prize: Supreme Christmas Hamper value €400 E...
Building a Better Future in South Sudan. Fr Alan reports…
The mud hut behind us is a typical South Sudanese home in the countryside. Most of our students would come from places like these. "It is coming up to a month since I first stepped off the plane at Rumbek Airport. Since my arrival, it has been a whirlwind of new...
Christmas Mass times at Sacred Heart Church
Light Up a Memory Mass 2020
This year's Light Up A Memory Mass took place on 28th November and was like a ceremony like no other. We couldn't attend in person but at least we could join together virtually and stream it online. And how beautiful did our church look for the occasion, with hundreds...
Looking for a Sign on the Way to South Sudan – Fr Alan
In the Bible signs are a part of any great journey. Noah had his rainbow. Moses followed a pillar of fire. Jonah had a whale. I had a taxi. I had just arrived into Addis Ababa on an overnight flight and had an impossible task ahead of me. In a short transit window, I...
Fr Alan Neville joins our Missionaries in South Sudan
Our dear Fr Alan MSC has left us to join our Missionaries in South Sudan. Fr Alan has been Vocations Director here and has done some amazing work with us since 2011, having previously spent time ministering in Ireland, the UK, South Africa, and Venezuela. As Vocations...
Typhoon Rolly creates havoc in the Phillipines
On November 1, 2020, the Philippines was hit by the strongest typhoon recorded this year (Typhoon Rolly). One of the most affected areas was the Bicol Region (south of Luzon). Houses were buried, livelihoods were destroyed and families were displaced. Our Mission...
MSC’s celebrate Chevalier Day – “Be God’s Heart On Earth”,
"As we continue to live through these challenging, troubling, anxious times where we are stripped of so many certainties and usual ways of living and ministering, we remain men of hope, men with a mission, men of the present and the future - why? … because we are men...
South Sudan prepares for return to school.
It's been a busy few months for our friends in Rumbeck in South Sudan. The fields are harvested and after 6 months absence, the students and the teachers are returning back from their different places of...