Mission News

This year we celebrate two ordinations to the priesthood. On June 16th, Robert Psinon from West Pokot, Kenya, will be ordained for St Patrick’s Missionary Society. On July 7th, Felix Mlauzi from Blantyre, Malawi, will be ordained. We look forward to bringing you photos and reports from these two great days of celebration and joy for our Society.

Fr John Marren, the assistant Society Leader, based in Nairobi, recently returned to visit the parish of Riwoto in South Sudan. He worked there from 2009 to 2014 and was responsible for setting up the parish and the school. Parishioners welcomed him after the Mass and presented him with gifts. The Gospel of the day was the story of Jesus clearing the temple of cattle, sheep and pigeons!

Society Members from the District of East Africa gathered recently at Ukarimu Centre in Molo in Kenya for a Lenten retreat. Pictured are, back row, left to right, Fr Godfrey Ozoogene, (Volunteer, Abakaliki Diocese), Vambe Festus Terkula, (FMA student from Nigeria), Frs Brian Treacy, Con Ryan, Oliver Barry, Michael McCarthy, Tim Redmond (Retreat Director), PJ McCamphill, Peter Mwale, Noel Brown, Tommy Gillooly, John Heinhold, Nicky Hennity, Tommy Dougherty, Kinuthia Nderitu (P

Fr Patrick Esekon (2013 Class) visited Kiltegan recently. Patrick is the first Turkana man to be ordained for the Society. He is from Lorugum and was baptised by Fr Tom Grenham (1985 Class). Fr Gerry O’Carroll (1968 Class) was his parish priest when he was growing up and encouraged him to join the Society. It has been Patrick’s dream for some time to meet Gerry again. He wanted to come back and say Thanks! Asante! Ejok noi! Patrick led the Sunday Mass in Kiltegan on the 11th

Report from St Patrick's Fr Livinus Onogwu in Mombasa, Kenya: Politics is an indispensable religion in Kenya with all its fiery attributes. On Saturday 22nd July 2017, St Patrick’s Bangla hosted the other five parishes of Mombasa West Denary to pray for a peaceful and credible general election in Kenya in August 2017. Bangla and many other places have been named as potential hot spots. Representatives of stakeholders all enjoined the people and politicians to maintain peace b

Congratulations to Robert Psinon from West Pokot, Kenya, and Felix Mlauzi from Blantyre, Malawi, who were ordained deacons on Saturday (May 20th) for St Patrick’s Missionary Society. The day started in the Theology House in Nairobi, Kenya, with Robert and Felix declared permanent members of the Society. This was followed by the Diaconate Ordination at St John the Evangelist Parish, Nairobi, by Bishop John Oballa Owaa of Ngong Diocese with St Patrick’s Father Victor Dunne (Soc

On Easter Sunday we celebrated the Diamond and Golden Jubilees of those priests who live in the community at Kiltegan. We had one Diamond Jubilarian, Fr Fintan McDonald, who was joined on the day by his classmate Fr Peter Coyle, who lives in Dublin. The Golden Jubilarians were Fathers Denis O'Rourke, Tom Kiggins, John P Carroll and Gregory McManus. We were delighted to welcome their families to join us for Easter Sunday Mass and lunch. Ad Multos Annos! (Other members celebrat

During 2016 our priests were on Mission promotion in the dioceses of Meath and Dublin in Ireland. Parishioners that join our Mission Circle were included in a draw to win a pilgrimage for two to Lourdes with St Patrick’s in 2017. The draw took place in our promotion office in Kiltegan on February 2nd, 2017. Our winner is: Mrs Jane Roe from Co Meath. Congratulations to Jane! We hope you enjoy the pilgrimage. To find out more about our joining our Mission Circle, please clic

Read about Fr Fintan McDonald's Provident Projects in Kenya. Through funding from St Patrick's Missionary Society and Trócaire, and generous donations from family and friends, Fr Fintan has helped homeless families find homes; helped families set up small businesses so that they can now provide for themselves; helped with school fees and feeding programmes for children in need; helped internally displaced people settle again; fixed drainage problems for people living in swamp

October 23rd is Mission Sunday. We remember and pray for all our priests working in our overseas missions. We pray and give thanks for our priests that are now retired having spent many years working to bring Jesus and his Gospel to thousands of people. And we remember especially those people, men and women, priests, sisters, religious and lay people who have given their lives in the course of their missionary work. We give thanks for our mission supporters and benefactors fo