NEWS & MEDIA
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...
On the Way along the Camino
The plane was late. Only an hour, but in Spain connections are precarious. However finally everybody touched down and we managed to make a mad dash to get our bus. When we arrived in Sarria we began to move at an entirely different pace. On the Way you have to leave...
Celebrating God’s Gift of Joy at Flame
For Cardinal Tagle it was all about mercy. For the youth it was an opportunity to gather to celebrate faith. For the MSC Vocations team it was all about the Smarites! Flame 2 was the largest Catholic Youth Event in UK in 2015. It brought together amazing speakers like...
Walking the Camino in 2015
You've heard about it from a friend. Perhaps you saw the movie. You know, the one with Martin Sheen. Maybe you stumbled across it somewhere online. For whatever reason as the New Year begins you're thinking of walking the Camino, but you're not sure where to start....
Celebrating Christmas
This year it seems that Christmas has crept up on me. In the midst of the busyness of meetings, carol concerts and shopping all my hopes for Advent were quietly forgotten. As I was thinking this morning of something to write about for our vocations blog I came across...