Make A Donation

How you can help MSC Missions

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The Macroom MSC Support Group raises funds for Fr Frank Gallagher's drop-in centre in Makhado, South Africa

Our missionaries will appreciate your prayers for them and their work amongst the poor.

There are also many material ways by which you can support them. For example, raise funds by: organising a coffee morning, local social, flag day, no uniform day in school, Irish music night, whist or card games, sponsored walk, sponsored cycle, tea party, put a Mission Box into a local shop, collect MSC Mission Boxes in your area, collect used mobile phones or empty ink cartridges for recycling, etc.

Donations from perpetual enrolments and Mass Remembrance Cards are a wonderful means of support.




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Fr Terry O'Brien MSC with students at Sacred Heart College, Carraig na bhFear who raised funds for MSC AIDS ministry in South Africa
Make a Donation

If you wish to make a donation towards the charitable work of our missionary priests in South Africa, in Venezuela, or in Russia you can do so by posting a cheque, bank draft or postal order to:

Fr. Michael O’Connell MSC
Mission Support Centre
P.O. Box 23
Western Road
Cork

Credit Cards
You can also make a donation by credit card in two ways:
By telephone: by phoning our credit card line at 00-353-21-4544 024 from 9am – 5pm on Monday to Friday inclusive. 
By Post: if you prefer to post your credit card donation to us you can download and print a credit card form here.

Standing Orders
If you would like to initiate a standing order that makes a regular donation to support our missionary work, you can download a standing order form here.  Simply print out the form, complete it and return it to us at the address provided.

Making contact with us by phone
Our main telephone numbers are 00-353-21-4545704 and 00-353-21-4543988. The Mission Support Centre is open 9am – 5pm on Monday to Friday inclusive. It is closed on Public Holidays in Ireland and on Holy Days of Obligation.


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Fr John O'Sullivan MSC receives funds raised for the MSC missions by a dance in Letterkenny
Sharing

“Sharing doesn’t just mean giving … it equally means receiving. It is in giving that we receive. When our benefactors are compassionate and share in the vision and work of our priests … when they are passionate about their participation in the work of our missions, they are receiving. What they receive is not material; rather it is an inner feeling of goodness and fulfilment. It is the inner contentment of reaching out to others who have fewer gifts from God than they themselves enjoy."
Fr John McCarthy MSC





Benefactors are part of the work

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Fr John McCarthy MSC
“Financial support for the missions is very important. But it is equally important that benefactors share in the inner contentment of being a pivotal part of the great work that missionary priests undertake in Third World countries. Each of you through your support is a part of the work of food parcels being handed out to poor people, AIDS orphans being cared for in foster homes or in care villages, clinics providing medical and dental care, drop-in centres and night shelters for people seeking work. Our priests are doing these good deeds in your name. Each of you is sharing with the people being helped. Mission is about solidarity or sharing and caring for each other irrespective of the location, or nationality, or religious beliefs”.
Fr John McCarthy MSC.  John ministered for 32 years in Venezuela