NEWS & MEDIA
Welcoming AMRI
In 2017, two of Ireland’s largest religious membership organisations, the Irish Missionary Union (IMU) and the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI), joined forces to create a new group, the Association of Leaders of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland (AMRI)....
Reflection for Vocations Sunday
As we celebrate Vocations Sunday, Fr Con O'Connell reflects on his calling as a Missionary of the Sacred Heart: "For me, my vocations call follows the double path of Religious Life and Ordained Priesthood within the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC). Somehow, I...
Introducing our MSC Pre-Novitiates: Mark
Meet Mark Quinn, one of two pre-novitiate students who began his studies in our MSC formation house in Dublin in autumn 2016. By spending time in personal reflection, and living and working as members of a larger group, MSC pre-novitiate students gain a rich and...
Scripture Reflection for Easter Sunday
Fr Martin writes... "In the First Reading, Peter stresses that the apostles are attested witnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection, with the task of proclaiming to all what Jesus’ saving mission meant. The message of the Second Reading is that all followers of Christ should be...
Together on the Way to the Lord: Thoughts from an MSC Novice
Together on the Way to the Lord Giacomo Gelardi, from Italy, is one of five novices who are working and studying with the community of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Myross Wood House, Co. Cork. Here, Giacomo reflects on his experience to date. “It only seems...
Myross Wood MSCs Offer Help and a Home to Refugees
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Myross Wood Retreat Centre have offered to open their doors to those in need and house a family of refugees at Myross Wood House in Leap, County Cork. Fr Michael Curran MSC, leader of the Myross Wood community, is currently...
Flame 2017
Flame 2017 took place in London on Saturday, March 11th, at the SSE Arena in Wembley. Flame is an international youth event attended by young Catholics from all over the world, and this year’s event, with the theme “10,000 Reasons”, included headline speakers such as...
Pope Francis’ Letter for the World Meeting of Families 2018
The details of a letter from Pope Francis regarding the ninth World Meeting of Families were released by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Holy See's new office for Laity, Family, and Life, and the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin. The ninth World Meeting of...
Reflections: The Fifth Sunday of Lent
Living Life to the Full Are we living our lives, or are we sleepwalking through life? God has given us the gift of life and desires us to make the most of it. Yet how often are we just going through the motions? Or do we feel like the dried bones of the first reading?...
Message from Archbishop Eamon Martin for St Patrick’s Day 2017
On this Feast of our Patron Saint, I send warm greetings from the Cathedral City of Saint Patrick in Armagh to Irish people everywhere. Today unites the Irish at home with our relatives and friends who live abroad and with the hundreds of thousands of others who are...