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Reflection for Vocations Sunday
As we celebrate Vocations Sunday, Fr Con O'Connell reflects on his calling as a Missionary of the Sacred Heart: "For me, my vocations call follows the double path of Religious Life and Ordained...
Introducing our MSC Pre-Novitiates: Mark
Meet Mark Quinn, one of two pre-novitiate students who began his studies in our MSC formation house in Dublin in autumn 2016. By spending time in personal reflection, and living and working as...
Scripture Reflection for Easter Sunday
Fr Martin writes... "In the First Reading, Peter stresses that the apostles are attested witnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection, with the task of proclaiming to all what Jesus’ saving mission meant. The...
Together on the Way to the Lord: Thoughts from an MSC Novice
Together on the Way to the Lord Giacomo Gelardi, from Italy, is one of five novices who are working and studying with the community of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Myross Wood House, Co....
Myross Wood MSCs Offer Help and a Home to Refugees
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Myross Wood Retreat Centre have offered to open their doors to those in need and house a family of refugees at Myross Wood House in Leap, County Cork. Fr...
Pope Francis’ Letter for the World Meeting of Families 2018
The details of a letter from Pope Francis regarding the ninth World Meeting of Families were released by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Holy See's new office for Laity, Family, and Life, and...
Reflections: The Fifth Sunday of Lent
Living Life to the Full Are we living our lives, or are we sleepwalking through life? God has given us the gift of life and desires us to make the most of it. Yet how often are we just going through...
Message from Archbishop Eamon Martin for St Patrick’s Day 2017
On this Feast of our Patron Saint, I send warm greetings from the Cathedral City of Saint Patrick in Armagh to Irish people everywhere. Today unites the Irish at home with our relatives and friends...
Reflections: The Third Sunday of Lent
Gospel Reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent The Gospel (4:5-42). A spring of water welling up to eternal life. This is a rather lengthy reading containing different themes. Central themes are the...
The Promised Land: Youth 2000 Festival
Every year well over a thousand young people gather in Walsingham for the Youth 2000 Festival at the end of August. It's an amazing gathering of people from all over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales for five days of music, prayer, workshops, and especially great...
Pop Up Church on the Camino
Buen Camino!' It's a familiar phrase that pilgrims say as they meet one another on the Way. It's both a greeting and a blessing for those who walk to Santiago de Compostella across the north of Spain. There is a strange sense of community out here, where people of all...
Living Faith and Joy at MSC Youth Festival
It's a hard knock life really. This summer a group of thirteen young people and four adult leaders had the opportunity to leave behind the clouds and rain for a five day youth festival in Croatia with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. There we joined other MSCs...
Year of Consecrated Life Mass on RTE 1
Last Sunday we had the extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life with a powerful Mass in the RTE Studios in Dublin. We had a viewship of around 60,000 people not just in Ireland, but around the world. You can view the programme by clicking...
Celebrating the Spirit in London
June was another busy month for the MSC Vocations team. Henry and I just finished the Camino when we hopped on a plane for St. Albans. We had one day to wash our clothes and clean our boots before our first summer festival. Spirit in the City is a three day...
On the Way along the Camino
The plane was late. Only an hour, but in Spain connections are precarious. However finally everybody touched down and we managed to make a mad dash to get our bus. When we arrived in Sarria we began to move at an entirely different pace. On the Way you have to leave...
Celebrating God’s Gift of Joy at Flame
For Cardinal Tagle it was all about mercy. For the youth it was an opportunity to gather to celebrate faith. For the MSC Vocations team it was all about the Smarites! Flame 2 was the largest Catholic Youth Event in UK in 2015. It brought together amazing speakers like...
Walking the Camino in 2015
You've heard about it from a friend. Perhaps you saw the movie. You know, the one with Martin Sheen. Maybe you stumbled across it somewhere online. For whatever reason as the New Year begins you're thinking of walking the Camino, but you're not sure where to start....
Celebrating Christmas
This year it seems that Christmas has crept up on me. In the midst of the busyness of meetings, carol concerts and shopping all my hopes for Advent were quietly forgotten. As I was thinking this morning of something to write about for our vocations blog I came across...
Celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life
Vocations ministry in Ireland is busy at the best of times, but it looks like 2015 is going to be exceptional! Pope Francis has continued to revolutionise and encourage the Church by designating November 30th 2014 until February 2nd 2016 the Year of Consecrated Life....