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MSC Easter Draw results 2022
MSC Easter Draw 2022 Congratulations to the winners of this year's MSC Easter Draw! Prize Winners: 1st Prize: €2,000 Cruise Travel Voucher A Hughes, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. 2nd Prize: €1,500 Sun...
MSC Superior General visits the Irish Province
On Easter Monday, Fr Absalón Alvarado MSC, our Superior General, will arrive in Ireland to spend three weeks visiting our MSC members in England and Ireland. It has been 14 years since the last...
Rebuilding communities in Surigao in the wake of Typhoon Odette
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the Philippines have begun work on the housing project which will help families whose homes were destroyed by Typhoon Odette, a devastating storm that struck...
OLSH outreach in Alfenas, Brazil, reaches 65 hungry families per month
We were delighted to receive a recent update from the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Brazil, where a second-hand clothing store is run by the Sisters at the Social Centre in Alfenas....
Emergency aid for survivors of fire in Quezon City, Philippines
MSCs in the Philippines joined forces with the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and local volunteers to offer emergency relief aid to survivors of a fire that tore through the community of...
A prayerful Ash Wednesday in Metuge, Mozambique
The beginning of Lent was cause for great prayer and occasion in Metuge, Mozambique, where our MSCs celebrated with communities of the St Anthony of Metuge parish, in the Sede, SĂŁo Paulo, Santa...
Fr Alan in South Sudan: A Week in the Life of Loreto – Bishops, graduations, an ambassador, and the Pope.
"It has been a busy week. There are rarely quiet weeks in Loreto, but this last one has certainly kept us all on our toes. Thankfully it has all been positive, and in light of the challenges we see...
MSC COVID-19 ministry continues in the Province of the Pacific Islands
While restrictions may be easing here in Ireland, the COVID-19 pandemic remains an urgent issue in many parts of the world. The Facebook page for the MSC Province of the Pacific Islands has shared a...
Together in prayer in Mozambique
In early February, MSCs on our Mozambique mission celebrated Mass with the community of St Augustine, in the parish of Saint Anthony in Metuge. As there is no church in the area, Masses and prayers...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2022: “Bakery Bread at the Table” in Brazil
The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Itajubá, located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, are raising funds to launch a new project titled “Bakery Bread at the Table”. The funds raised will purchase the machinery to equip a bakery, which will primarily...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2022: OLSH Global Outreach
The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) are a vital part of our Sacred Heart Family, working all over the world, often in partnership with MSCs, under our shared motto: “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere loved.” OLSH MINISTRY IN BRAZIL There are...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2022: MSCs reaching out in Fiji
EDUCATION AT THE CHEVALIER TRAINING CENTRE Established by MSCs in 1992, the Chevalier Training Centre is located in Wainadoi, in Namosi, Fiji, and offers a practical education to up to 75 underprivileged boys and young men, who have no other opportunity to learn the...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2022: MSCs caring for the elderly in India
MSCs in Coimbatore, India, are raising funds to set up the Chevalier Centre for Change, a day-care centre for the elderly that aims to “change the lives of those who have little hope”. MSCs in Coimbatore are responding to the needs to the local community by setting up...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2022: Sowing seeds of hope in Guatemala
Founded by MSCs in 1984, Centro Faustino Villanueva is a vocational centre dedicated to helping disadvantaged youths, located in the rural region of San Agustin, Alta Verapaz, in Guatemala. With the motto “Open doors to education”, the centre currently works with 215...
OLSH Sisters worship with remote communities in Brazil
OLSH Sisters in Mirinzal, in northern Brazil, minister to local communities across the region in a variety of roles. The parish here is responsible for 18 small chapels, where people can meet, worship, and pray together. These chapels are located in extremely remote...
“React, respond, and rescue”: The MSC Centre for the Poor responds to Typhoon Odette
Fr Richie Gomez MSC, community leader at the MSC Centre for the Poor, located in Butuan, updates us on the current situation in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Odette, which struck on December 16th, 2021. In a letter to Irish Provincial Superior Fr Carl...
“My eyes have seen the abundance of the wonders of God”: A letter from the Amazon region
Luis Carlos AraĂşjo Moraes MSC is a member of the Brazilian Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Recently, he spoke with The Irish Catholic newspaper, sharing his experience as a missionary working in the Amazon region. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart...
Educating the children of Yetsi: A letter from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Over the Christmas period, we were delighted to receive blessings of the season along with a news update from Bishop Toussaint Iluku Bolumbu MSC, who was ordained bishop of the diocese of Bokungu-Ikela in the Democratic Republic of Congo in July 2019, and who has been...
MSC relief outreach continues in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Odette
As relief efforts continue in the Philippines following the devastating impact of Typhoon Odette in December 2021, MSC Mission response programmes are ongoing. On January 11th, the MSC Mission Office in the...