NEWS & MEDIA
MSC Missions hit the ground running at WMOF 2018!
Festivities for this year’s World Meeting of Families kicked off on Tuesday, August 21st – and our Vocations Director, Fr Alan Neville MSC, has been at the heart of the action all week long!...
Congratulations to the MSC Missions Office in the Philippines!
Congratulations to the MSC Missions Office in the Philippines, who were recently awarded Social Welfare and Development Agencies Certification from the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
Gospel Reflection for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time | August 19th
Reflection: In Dialogue with Questions of the Day: Jesus Christ the Bread of Life. Redemption. Murmuring. A Sign to be Contradicted. Gospel (John 6:51-58). My flesh is real food and my blood is real...
Celebrating WMOF 2018 with MSC Missions
Commemorate Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families 2018 with a beautiful Holy Family Entrustment Book from MSC Missions. The WMOF festivities will commence on Tuesday,...
Scripture Reflection for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time | August 5th
THRIVE, NOT JUST SURVIVE "I am the bread of life," says Jesus. The life that Jesus offers is a full life. It is not just existing. Today’s first reading portrays the manna in the desert as food that...
Sacred Heart Students in Cameroon: Michel’s Story
This summer, the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are raising funds to help the Sacred Heart College in Cameroon, where students gather every day in classrooms that are still...
Making A Difference with MSC Volunteering 2018
Roisin Brennan, a childcare worker from Kilkenny, shares some of her experiences on the MSC Volunteering Project 2018: "Where to start ... Well I’m already considering returning in the future. The...
Sacred Heart Students in Cameroon: Justin’s Story
This summer, the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are raising funds to help the Sacred Heart College in Cameroon, where students gather every day in classrooms that are still...
Sacred Heart Students in Cameroon: Elie’s Story
This summer, the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are raising funds to help the Sacred Heart College in Cameroon, where students gather every day in classrooms that are still...
“Yes, women can”: Winning Loreto essay sends a message of hope
Khana Kockedhie Magel, a 16-year-old student at the Loreto Girls’ Secondary School in Rumbek, has been named winner of this year’s UN Missions essay-writing competition for secondary school students in South Sudan. As a young woman in a country that has been torn...
Celebrating with the Loreto Sisters: 10 Years in Rumbek
Early this April, the Loreto schools in Maker Kuei swapped their times tables for dancing and textbooks for cake as they celebrated their 10th anniversary in style! The week-long celebration included a host of activities and events, alongside special meals with the...
“Sister India” – The story of Sr Loreto Houlihan
"Sister India" recounts the story of Sr Loreto Houlihan, a 91-year-old Irish missionary, who has spent 70 years teaching in India. A new documentary by Irish filmmaker Myles O’Reilly, which is currently being screened at a number of film festivals in...
The Life of Sr Loreto Houlihan
Who is Sr Loreto Houlihan? Born into a large family in 1927, Peg Houlihan grew up in hard times, especially in the 1930s with a worldwide depression and an economic war between Ireland and Britain. By the time she was five years old, her mother was already a widow as...
Gospel Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter | 15th April 2018
Reflection: Walk in the Light. Sin, repentance, forgiveness of sin. Gospel (Luke 24:35-48). So you see how it is written that Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that repentance and the forgiveness of sins be proclaimed in his name to all...
World Meeting of Families 2018
What is the World Meeting of Families (WMOF)? The World Meeting of Families started in 1994, when Pope St John Paul II asked the Pontifical Council for the Family (now part of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life) to establish an international event of prayer,...
RIP Fr Mark McDonald MSC
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are very sad to announce the passing of Fr Mark McDonald, our former Superior General. Fr Mark McDonald passed away on April 2, 2018 at the Sacred Heart Villa in Center Valley, Pennsylvania at age 75. Father McDonald was...
MSC Easter Draw 2018 – Winners
MSC Easter Draw 2018 Prize Winners: 1st Prize: €2,000 Cruise Travel Voucher E. Byrne Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 2nd Prize: €1,500 Sun Holiday Voucher U. Cunningham Inchicore, Dublin 12 3rd Prize: €1,000 City Break Voucher M. McGrath Lusk, Co. Dublin 4th...
MSC Easter Draw – €100 Shopping Voucher Winners
The 30 lucky winners of the €100 Shopping Vouchers are as follows: 1. M. Hurley - Banduff, Cork 2. G. McCarthy - Killarney, Co. Kerry 3. C. Redmond - Laburnum Lawn, Cork 4. M. Wallace c/o M. Wallace - Midleton, Co. Cork 5. M. Ward c/o M. Ward - Goff Street, Co....
MSC Easter Draw – €200 Shopping Voucher Winners
The 10 lucky winners of the €200 Shopping Vouchers are as follows: 1. R. Ryan c/o T. Quinn - Tuam, Co. Galway 2. C. Kennedy - Kilrush, Co. Clare 3. J. Canning c/o M. Manning - Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim 4. M. Manning - St Mary's Parish, Co. Limerick 5. D....