Mission News

A message from Fr Seán Deegan (editor of Africa Magazine) in St Patrick's Missionary Society in Kiltegan, Co Wicklow, for Mission Sunday for our missionaries and supporters. Thank you for your continued support, it is greatly appreciated.

This year Mission Sunday takes place on October 18th. Below are some items for reflection and prayer in preparation for the day. We hope you enjoy them. Pope Francis' Message for Mission Sunday 2020 Here I am Lord - Hymn

Yesterday, October 4th, on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis released Fratelli Tutti. In this encyclical Pope Francis lays out a comprehensive vision of how the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. He imagines societies that are more caring, more focused on helping those in need and fundamentally less attached to the principles of unfettered market capitalism. The continuing global health crisis makes it "all the more urgent that we rethink our s

On Saturday, September 19th, four young men were ordained for St Patrick’s Missionary Society. Blessed Ejenavi and Julius Ugwa Oluchukwu were ordained priests and Innocent Olise Chukenedum and Isaiah Njoroge Njeri were ordained deacons. The ordination ceremony took place at Holy Family Utawala Parish in the Archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya. The ordaining bishop was Bishop Maurice Crowley SPS. Congratulations and blessings to these young men and to their families. Many thanks to

The season starts on September 1st, the Day of Prayer for Creation, and ends on October 4th, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology. ​ "The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation. During this special season, we join our sisters and brothers in the ecumenical family in prayer and action for our common home. We enter a time of restoration and hope, a jubilee for our Earth, that requires radically new way

Fr Vitalis Inyang from Nigeria is currently working in Mato Grosso, Brazil. In this short film, Fr Vitalis welcomes us to the town where he ministers, Chapada dos Guimarães, and explains how Covid-19 has changed the lives of his parishioners.

Thank you for tuning in to our first online Mission Day last weekend. We hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks to Fr Joe Archibong and Fr John Garry for all their work. And thanks to our missionaries, students, benefactors and supporters around the world for taking part also. It was great to see everyone, especially at the moment when so many countries are in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. If you missed it you can view it at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watc

Please use the following link to join in our online Mission Day on Saturday, July 18th from 10am. We are looking forward to sharing the day with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFgxQs8ypBg&feature=youtu.be

Next Saturday - July 18th - from 10am until 11.30 - Fr Joseph Archibong, from our Mission Office in London, will host an online Mission Reflection. The programme will consist of Prayerful reflections, mission stories from our priests on the missions, messages from mission supporters, and will conclude with Rosary & Benediction. I hope you will be able to join Fr Joseph (and myself!) for some, if not all, of this Mission Reflection. Thank you. Fr Kyran

This Saturday, July 18th, our Promotion office in East Molesey, England, is holding its annual Mission Day. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mission Day is going online! Wherever you are in the world, you can tune in to it. Before 10 am (UK time) on Saturday morning, July 18th, visit our websites www.spms.org or www.kilteganfathers.org and Mission Day links will be available. Join our priests, staff and benefactors in praying for the world and for missionaries ar