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Gospel Reflection for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time | September 2nd
THE LAW PROTECTS THE LITTLE ONES In today's Gospel reading, Jesus is accused of being a law-breaker. On many occasions the religious elite accused Jesus of breaking the law of Moses. Jesus points...
Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 2018
Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 2018 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...
Celebrating old friends and new: World Meeting of Families 2018
After a whirlwind week of WMOF celebrations in Dublin, this weekend’s Papal visit was the crowning glory on a truly wonderful occasion. Saturday’s Festival of Families was a triumph, featuring a...
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...
Opening the door to the MSC Graduate House & Women’s Shelter in Rumbek
We are delighted to hear that the first group of Loreto graduates have moved into the MSC Graduate House & Women’s Shelter! Last summer, we asked our mission friends in the Irish Province to join with us and reach out to help the Loreto Sisters to transform lives...
Gospel Reflection for Sunday, May 6th
Reflection: God Loves Our readings today turn things upside down a bit. In our first reading, we see Cornelius and his household receiving the Holy Spirit first and then being baptized. The second reading tells us that God loves us before we love God or our neighbour....
The MSC Message: Summer 2018
The summer edition of the MSC Message has arrived! • Catch up with the latest news from the mission fields, with updates from our ongoing projects in South Africa and South Sudan. • Discover more about new mission projects in Mozambique and Cameroon. • Read a special...
“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...