NEWS & MEDIA
Lenten Services 2021
 As we begin our Lenten season and journey this year, we do so after already a long year of limitations and lockdowns.  It feels like we have already given up so much.  It has been hard.  Yet these...
As Easy as Baking a Cake – Fr Alan Neville MSC
The biggest dilemma at the start of the month was figuring how to fit the words ‘Celebrating Religious Life’ across a cake. It was for the second of February, the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated...
Congratulations to Miguel Ibarra MSC on his First Profession
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Miguel Ibarra MSC and his fellow novices, Erik Bryan de Mattos MSC and Witalo Souza de Jesus MSC on their First Profession on Tuesday night. Miguel is a...
Mock Exams and Real Life in South Sudan- Fr Alan.
Life is filled with key moments that help shape us into the person we are today. Many are unique to our story and depend on our different circumstances, but some are shared and have become part of...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2021: Typhoon victims in the Philippines
In the middle of November 2020, the Philippines was hit by Typhoon Vamco (known locally as Typhoon Ulysses), which left in its wake loss of life, severe flooding and damage amounting to millions of...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2021: Educating disadvantaged youths in the Congo
Last year, our World Projects Appeal introduced you to the children of the Yetsi region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Bishop Toussaint Iluku MSC was raising funds to build a school in...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2021: Holy Family Centre South Africa
Founded in 2002, the Holy Family Care Centre in South Africa has been run by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart with the support of the MSC for almost 20 years, under the leadership of Sr...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2021: Transforming lives in Brazil
The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) first began their work in Brazil, in the city of Alfenas, 100 years ago. Today, they continue to help local communities all over the country,...
MSC World Projects Appeal 2021: 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...
MSC’s celebrate Chevalier Day – “Be God’s Heart On Earth”,
"As we continue to live through these challenging, troubling, anxious times where we are stripped of so many certainties and usual ways of living and ministering, we remain men of hope, men with a mission, men of the present and the future - why? … because we are men...
South Sudan prepares for return to school.
It's been a busy few months for our friends in Rumbeck in South Sudan. The fields are harvested and after 6 months absence, the students and the teachers are returning back from their different places of...
MSC Phillipine Province – Celebrating 40 years of Mission Work.
"The Covid-10 Pandemic has affected each of us around the world in different ways. Some have experienced losing loved ones; hunger, idleness, uncertainty and vulnerability, while others are still in great crisis emotionally, mentally and financially. On the other hand...
Letter from Sr Clotilde in Senegal
Dear Father Michael, Greetings from Kaolack in Senegal where we have a school that starts from nursery school to the whole primary school. The total number of pupils is 536 and there are 24 employees. Normally the school is full of pupils who study their lessons and...
Burkina Faso OLSH Sisters sincerely thanks their donors
"We would like to offer our sincere thanks to the donors who made it possible for us to send 3000 euro to the Centre." Sister Adjouma Marie, fndsc We recently received some news of extreme gratitude from the...
Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage 2020 :Carrying Our Daily Covid Cross
This Year, a year like no other we have had to cope and adjust to many new ways of doing things. For over fifty years we have organized an Annual Pilgrimage to Lourdes but as you are all aware such travel is not permitted this year. That is why with the use of...
Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 2020
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 Monday, August 31st to Tuesday, September...
Building for Sustainability in the Phillippines
Our dear friends in the Philippines have been busy during this pandemic. As the United Nation’s secretary general recently noted, the threat from coronavirus is temporary whereas the threat from heat waves, floods and extreme storms resulting in the loss of human life...
Luca & Paola : God’s plan for us together
Here we want to share with you our story since we moved to Ireland to our wedding: it is the story of two young lovers who, thanks the tireless guidance and help of God, are building up the foundations of their family. We were both at the final year of our degree when...
South Sudan’s struggles intensify amid Corona Virus pandemic.
Things are increasingly difficult for our less fortunate friends in South Sudan lately. It has been been recognized among countries most at risk of what the UN World Food Programme (WFP) calls a "hunger pandemic". Hunger and malnutrition in the country are at the most...