World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide Sr Jo McCarthy I was a missionary in a remote part of the Andes mountains in Peru from 1990 to 1993 during the revolutionary campaign carried out by the Shining Path terrorist group, whose aim was to destroy Peru’s governmental and social…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide In September this year, Misean Cara CEO, John Moffett, journeyed to Kenya for a week, accompanied by the Board Vice-Chair Sr. Josephine McCarthy (Presentation Sisters) as part of a year-long celebration of Misean Cara’s 20th anniversary. They were joined on this special…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide The Irish Loreto sisters have been empowering young South Sudanese women for two decades, Chai Brady writes From being exchanged for cattle to fulfil wedding arrangements, to becoming educated leaders in their community, the lives of women in South Sudan have changed…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide In 2022, five graduates of Loreto Rumbek, now working mothers in the North of South Sudan, returned to the Loreto School in Rumbek with an exciting proposition. They invited the Sisters to open a new primary school for boys and girls and…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide On the night of 17 September 2018, Fr Pierluigi [Gigi] Maccalli SMA [Italian Province] was kidnapped from his Mission in Bomoanga, Niger Republic, by GSIM jihadists [Group of Support for Islam and Muslims]. He was dressed in his pyjamas and slippers. He…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide On 15 December, 1849, a group of seven nuns from the Religious of the Assumption congregation in Paris arrived in Grahamstown, South Africa, under the leadership of 27-year-old Sr Marie Gertrude de Henningsen. They were invited by Wexford-born Bishop Aidan Devereux of…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide Discover how Your Legacy can support Respond’s mission to Build Homes and Improve Lives by including a Gift in Your Will Ireland is facing a severe housing crisis, with more people than ever before experiencing homelessness. This has placed tremendous pressure on…

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide In October each year we are reminded that the Church is missionary. Pope Francis underlines this truth by his journeys to the margins or peripheries of the world. He, like his namesake St Francis, has made the World  his cloister bringing the…

St John Henry Newman, patron saint of Newman Centres at secular universities and students, is celebrated on October 9, marking the day of his conversion from the Anglican to the Catholic Church. Newman University Church in Dublin recently commemorated his feast day on October 6 with two Masses. The first, at 11am, was led by…

The new legal year commenced on October 7 with the traditional Michaelmas Law Term services held at St Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin. The ceremony, attended by barristers, solicitors, and members of the judiciary, marks the beginning of the legal calendar, and offers prayers for those working within the justice system. Bishop Paul Dempsey celebrated…