NEWS & MEDIA
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...
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...
MSC COVID-19 Ministry: Protecting lives in India
It has been impossible to avoid news reports of the horrific effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Harrowing images of overcrowded hospitals and mass open-air cremations have appeared in our...
“Yes, miracles happen!”: The Profession of Fr Gerwin Mendoza Lumanglas MSC
Fr Gerwin Mendoza Lumanglas MSC, of the Philippine Province, professed his final vows to become a Missionary of the Sacred Heart in May of this year, while being treated in hospital for pneumonia...
The Way of the Heart: Novena to the Sacred Heart 2021
It is with grateful hearts that we thank everyone who participated in this year’s Novena to the Sacred Heart, which took place in the Sacred Heart Church on the Western Road, Cork, from June 3rd to June 11th 2021. This year, ongoing COVID restrictions meant that our...
Fr Alan in South Sudan: Seeds of Hope
Like Ireland, South Sudan has a rich tradition of farming. Whether it is the cattle they tend or the small vegetable gardens they plant, the people here survive on the land. We have just begun rainy season and when it rains in Rumbek it pours. So far, I have...
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...