Below is Communiqué of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue dated 11.04.2024. It was issued after a workshop held in Nairobi Kenya. The full text below not only reiterates the Church’s...
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SMA Ordinations – 12 April 2024
Today the 12th of April six young SMA’s have been ordained at the Church of Sts John and Sylvia in the Diocese of Ngong in Kenya. The ceremony was presided over by Most Reverend John Mbinda...
APRIL 2024 | For the role of women
Pope Francis: “If we don’t respect women, our society will not progress” In The Pope Video for April, Pope Francis lifts up his prayer “that the dignity and worth of women be recognized in every...
SMA International News – April 2024
Welcome to SMA International News For the Month of April. In this edition we are happy to feature the work of the SMA in the District of Tanzania that has reached a significant stage in a major...
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Funeral Homily for the late Fr Valentine [Val] Hynes, SMA
Fr Val Hynes, SMA, [late of Skehanagh Upper, Ballintubber, Co Mayo], died peacefully on the afternoon of Friday, 15 March 2024, at St Theresa’s Nursing Unit, African Missions, Blackrock Road, Cork. ...
Easter Sunday 2024 – Exploring Easter as Event, Encounter, Evangelisation
It is essential to establish Easter as an event. This emerges in the Gospels themselves when details of the burial of Jesus are recounted and in Matthew where the Roman soldiers are paid a...
Ways to Support
Our Projects in Africa
The goals of building up faith communities and church structures, providing education, health care, social development and caring for our environment have been at the heart of the SMA’s missionary work.
Over the years we have supported the care of children at Tanga House, we have helped develop housing for those that were homeless, we have assisted in the building of schools and we have continued to educate Seminarians training to become SMA Missionary Priests.
Missionary Association Cards and prayers for a loved one
You can donate to the SMA by ordering one or more Missionary Association Cards. Our cards are designed to let someone know that you have remembered them in a prayerful way. All prayer intentions received are placed before the altar in the Community Chapel of the SMA House from where you got the Card and will be remembered in our daily prayers and Masses.
We have a number of options available for Birthdays, Sympathy, Get Well, Christmas, etc.
Events in Ireland
Each year we host a selection of events such as Summer schools and camps, climate change and biodiversity conferences and events on human trafficking and advocacy.
We also host Novenas across Ireland.
Sunday Homilies
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter 2024 – Vocations’ Sunday
Readings: Acts 4:8-12; 1 Jn 3:1-2; John 10:11-18 Theme: ‘The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep’ (Jn 10:11) Today is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, a day on which the Church...
Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter 2024
Readings: Acts 3:13-15,17-19; 1 John 2:1-5; Luke 24:35-48 Theme: ‘Love in his eyes’’ (Malcolm Guite) Today’s gospel reading follows immediately after Luke’s dramatic account of our risen...
Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter Year B
Readings: Acts 4:32-25; 1 John 1-6; John 20:19 – 31 Theme: Touching the Wounds of Christ When we feel anxious or threatened, our natural reaction is to withdraw to a safe place, lock the doors,...
Videos
Beginnings provides an historical account of the initiation of the SMA. It is the SMA story on the founder, choices and international expansion.
Fr. Anthony was extremely active in the Twafawne building project; a community housing initiative for women that had lost their homes.
Supporters in Ireland contribute vital funds to sponsor priests in training in Africa. You can hear about the FVC supporters and what is involved.
Each month we share videos regularly on :
- History and occasions
- Prayers and meditations
- Reflections and teachings
- Climate change, biodiversity and human trafficking
- Mindfulness
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