NEWS & MEDIA
Food Security Frontliners: MSC COVID Response in the Philippines
In response to the continuing needs of people affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the Philippines, the community at the MSC Centre for the Poor initiative have established a new campaign which...
2021 Masses for deceased MSCs and Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
This year’s annual Masses for deceased MSCs and Daughters of the Lady of the Sacred Heart will take place around the country in November, as we remember those who have gone before us in the light of...
Fr Alan in South Sudan – Vaccine Status: Denied.
"It’s official. Last week a journalist from the Irish Times tweeted that vaccines distributed throughout Africa would not be recognised by the countries of the European Union. This was initially...
The MSC Message: Winter 2021
Welcome to the Winter 2021 edition of the MSC Message! • Read a special seasonal greeting from Fr Michael O’Connell MSC, Director of the MSC Missions Office. • Join us as we congratulate Br Giacomo...
Reflection: The Way of the Heart
Here, we share The Way of the Heart, a beautiful reflection on the glory of God's love in our world. Each of us has faced our own challenges in the past year and a half, from the fear and stress and...
Following in the footsteps of St Bernadette: MSC 2021 Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage
We would like to invite you all to join us for a very special Triduum of Masses on our virtual pilgrimage to Lourdes, which will take place online from Thursday, September 23rd to Saturday,...
OLSH Sisters ministering through COVID-19 in the Philippines
Sr Ruth S. Yburan FDNSC, Regional Leader of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in the Philippines, writes from Manila in gratitude for funding provided by the Irish Province of the...
A virtual celebration: The 2021 MSC Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Heartfelt thanks to all who participated in our 2021 Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, which took place from Tuesday, August 31st to Wednesday, September 8th at the Sacred Heart Church on the...
Congratulations to Br Giacomo Gelardi MSC on his Perpetual Profession
On September 8th, 2021, Br Giacomo Gelardi MSC made his Perpetual Profession to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at the Sacred Heart Church, Killinarden – a truly great occasion for the Irish...
“Thank you for allowing us to continue helping those who suffer”: A letter from our OLSH Sisters in the Philippines
At the beginning of 2021, our mission friends and benefactors blessed us with wonderful support for our 2021 MSC World Projects Appeal, which featured global outreach projects run by our Sacred Heart Sisters of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These...
“A place of welcome”: A note from Cuan Mhuire, Ballybay
Cuan Mhuire is Ireland’s largest voluntary provider of addiction treatment services and rehabilitation, working with people who suffer from alcohol, drug, and gambling addictions. With 2,500 people admitted to their centres across Ireland every year, Cuan Mhuire has...
Celebrating 18 years of the MSC community in Vietnam
August 15th 2021 marked the 18th anniversary of the foundation of our MSC community in Vietnam, which was established in 2003. MSC Fr Hoàng, one of the original MSC students in Vietnam and current leader of the MSC community there, shared a letter celebrating the...
Fr Alan in South Sudan: Ticket to Ride
Every couple of months in Loreto Rumbek, we have a celebration. It’s something of a bittersweet gathering with pizza, Coke, a few tears, and plenty of good humour. We had one only last Wednesday. They mark the departure of the graduates from our intern programme as...
“A roaring lion”: MSCs respond to COVID-19 in Vietnam
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia website has reported on the current COVID-19 situation in Vietnam, where our missionaries are responding “with an inspiring MSC spirit”. The people of Vietnam are currently under a martial law curfew between 6.00pm and...
Green shoots: Tending gardens and growing together in South Sudan
We were delighted to received recent communication from our OLSH Sisters in South Sudan, where a project funded by generous donations from our mission friends here in the Irish Province will see a new vegetable garden, with its own solar-powered irrigation system,...
Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 2021
Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 2021 Our annual Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a beautiful time of reflection and thanksgiving, when we bring our prayers and petitions before Our Lady. Our Novena of Masses runs for nine days and will take place from...
The MSC Message: Summer 2021
Welcome to the Summer 2021 edition of the MSC Message! This summer's edition of the MSC Message is a slightly different one, as we share just some of the ways in which our MSCs have been working to provide COVID relief aid around the world. • Read a special message...
MSC COVID-19 Ministry: Relief projects in the Philippines
The MSC Mission Office in the Philippines is currently raising funds to coordinate a mission outreach programme for families who have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, millions of people in the Philippines...
MSC COVID-19 Ministry: Outreach programmes in Brazil
The coronavirus has torn through Brazil, where the death toll of half a million people was the second-highest in the world in June 2021. With the situation labelled as “critical”, the pandemic continues to have a devastating effect on health, employment, and social...