NEWS & MEDIA
“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...
“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...
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 HoĂ ng, one of the original MSC students in Vietnam and current...
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....
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Honouring the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 2021
It is with great joy that we celebrate with our Sacred Heart Sisters, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, on the feast day of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, which took place on May 30th. The official Facebook page for the Kiribati Province of the Daughters...
Typhoon Mission Response in the Philippines
The MSC community in the Philippines have been working tirelessly in recent times to help families whose lives are being quite literally swept away in an instant by ravaging typhoons. Super-Typhoon Rolly, the world’s most powerful tropical typhoon in 2020, struck the...
Celebrating the new MSC Province of the Pacific Islands
Heartfelt congratulations to the MSC community in the Pacific Islands! On May 10th 2021, a new MSC province was born: The MSC Province of the Pacific Islands. Previously the Pacific Union, approval for the new province was given by the MSC General Conference in 2019,...
Celebrating Father’s Day with MSC Missions
"Every family needs a father - a father who shares in his family's joy and pain, hands down wisdom to his children, and offers them firm guidance and love." Pope Francis This year, we celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday, June 20th. Whether you chat with your father every...
Welcome back to the Sacred Heart Church and the MSC Missions Office!
We are delighted to be able to open our doors once again, and welcome old friends and new safely back to the Sacred Heart Church and the MSC Missions Office on the Western Road in Cork. After a long period of restrictions and closures, it is with great joy that we see...
MSCs remembering students at exam time
Early mornings, late nights, and pens, pencils, and textbooks on every available surface... Exam season has well and truly arrived! Preparation for exams is always stressful time for students, and after a year of constant change and uncertainty, this year's exams will...
Blessed Be: The Martyrs of El Quiché
On April 23rd 2021, three Spanish-born MSC priests and seven lay catechists of the indigenous Maya people became “blessed” and were beatified in the Cathedral of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala. Last year, Pope Francis signed a decree which recognised all ten as...
Fr Alan in South Sudan: Celebrating the Missionary Life
The motto of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is the same as ourselves; after all, we are family. It is short and to the point, but also profound, rich, and as relevant today as it ever was. It is, “To be on earth the Heart of God.” You could spend a...
Queen of the May: Preparing a May altar in your home
The advent of May, the month dedicated to Mary, brings us longer evenings, warm sunshine, blossom in abundance – and above all, a sense of hope and quiet joy in the certainty of brighter days to come. This May, we remain restricted in our movements as we take...
Cancellation of 2020 Pilgrimages
As Joe Walsh Pilgrimtours Ltd. have ceased trading, we are now unable to fulfil any outstanding 2020 pilgrimage bookings, which were awaiting a rescheduled date due to COVID cancellations. Any mission friends who had booked a place on our 2020 Lourdes or Fatima tours...