Mission Appeals

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Supervising the Mission Draw

Mission Draw and Novenas support mission projects

Our popular mission draw takes place in Spring when benefactors have a chance to win one of the 145 prizes (including pilgrimages) as well as supporting our missionary work.  In keeping with our objective of spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart, a special Novena is organised at MSC houses in honour of the feast of the Sacred Heart in June. During the Novena benefactors’ petitions are placed on the altar at Sacred Heart Church, Western Road, Cork.

Towards the end of summer we celebrate with a novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart when benefactors submit their petitions. They can make donations for a specific purpose such as the building of churches and seminaries abroad, water projects or work with people suffering from HIV and AIDS in South Africa, school meals in Venezuela, or new missions such as Russia.

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Fr. Michael O'Connell, msc (Director, Mission Support Centre) and Fr. John Fitzgerald, msc (Parish Priest, Western Road) place prayer requests into the Petition Box for the Novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Support for retiring MSCs is not forgotten either.  For example, the financial support of our benefactors made it possible to build comfortable retirement homes in Dublin, Cork, and Galway.

Further information about work that our benefactors support can be viewed in the pages of the MSC Message, our benefactor newsletter.


Holy Souls and Christmas - a time to remember family, friends and deceased loved ones

November is the special time when benefactors submit the names of their deceased relatives and friends for remembrance in our special Novena of Masses.

And at Christmas we offer a much appreciated Triduum of Masses where we invite benefactors to enrol themselves and their loved ones.  Benefactors use the Triduum Certificate to send as a gift to their relatives and friends at home and abroad.


Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are registered as a charity with the Revenue Commissioners in the Republic of Ireland under CHY No. 4783, and with the Inland Revenue in United Kingdom under Charity Trust No. 801900.