The Holy Rosary Sisters Visit to Cabra

Posted on March 6, 2024March 6, 2024 by admin

The Visit to Cabra

By Sr. Catherine Hally, Holy Rosary Sisters.

On 24 February 2024, the Congregational Leadership Team and some Sisters from the Central Region went to the Dominican Convent in Cabra, Dublin to remember and honour that time 100 years ago when four Dominican Sisters left their convent in Cabra to travel to Drumully House, Killeshandra Co Cavan to establish MSHR.

It was a joyful gathering with the Dominican Prioress and Council and other sisters. Having been welcomed by the Prioress General, Sr Franca Onyibor gave a short account of the history behind the date and its significance for both communities. Franca then presented the Dominican Sisters with a beautiful clock in gratitude for all they had done to support MSHR over the past 100 years.

A visit to the convent cemetery then followed. The graves of each of the eight Dominican Sisters associated with Killeshandra in the Foundation Decade (1924-1934) were marked by a vase of Spring flowers. All paused and remembered those pioneer Sisters in prayer and gratitude.

We bid farewell to the Sisters and thanked them for their warm welcome, hospitality, generosity and time, knowing that the Prioress General and Council were flying to Argentina the next day to visit the Dominican communities in that country.

MSHR Centenary Press Release

Posted on March 4, 2024March 7, 2024 by admin

Press Release

ANNOUNCING THE CENTENARY OF FOUNDATION CELEBRATIONS OF THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE HOLY ROSARY ON THE EVE OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2024

The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary (MSHR) launches its Centenary of Foundation celebrations on 7 March 2024 – the eve of International Women’s Day.

Founded by Irishman Bishop Joseph Shanahan C.S.Sp, Vicar Apostolic of Southern Nigeria. The congregation first began its journey with the support of the Dominican Sisters of Cabra Dublin, before establishing its Motherhouse at Killeshandra Co. Cavan in the Diocese of Kilmore on 7 March 1924.

The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary [MSHR] originated within the Irish missionary movement to Asia & Africa in the early 20^th Century when many young Irish men and women responded to the call to minister to all corners of the globe, especially to those on the margins of society.

The mission of the congregation is to advance the gospel message of hope, reconciliation, and compassion, especially through the promotion of the dignity and rights of women wherever the congregation serves.

The congregation founded its first mission in Nigeria in 1928 and over the past one hundred years it has grown to include eight more countries in Africa as well as the United Kingdom, USA, Mexico, and Brazil. Presently, over fifty young women are at different stages of discerning their vocation with MSHR. More information can be found HERE

In the early years, the focus of the mission was mainly on the provision of education and healthcare in all its dimensions as well as pastoral care. Today that service continues but the sisters also engage with people of many faiths in the promotion of human rights, justice, peace, inter-faith dialogue, environmental sustainability, and support for refugees, migrants, and trafficked women.

Sr Franca Onyibor the Congregation’s first African Congregational Leader, speaks about the centenary of the foundation as “a time to give thanks for the countless lives that have been touched and transformed through our ministries. It is also a time to pay tribute to and acknowledge the enormous support, financial and otherwise of so many benefactors, over the past one hundred years”

The Centenary Celebration began on 24 February 2024 in Ireland with an event in the Dominican Convent, Cabra Dublin to honor the part played by the Cabra Dominican Sisters in the early years of the Holy Rosary Congregation.

A Thanksgiving gathering will take place in Killeshandra on 10 March 2024 along with many other celebratory events in the congregation worldwide over the coming year: A list of events can be found on the MSHR Centenary Webpage. The Centenary events will conclude with a celebration in Cavan Cathedral, Ireland on 3 August 2024.

‘WOMEN EMPOWERING PEOPLE’

Notes for Editors

Interviews available on request: please contact:

Sr Franca Onyibor Congregational Leader MSHR on 0035312881708
Sr Mary O’Shea MSHR on 0035318513529

With kind regards

Sr Franca Onyibor

Congregational Leader

‘Women Empowering People’

https://www.mshr.org/centenary/

MSHR Celebrates its Centenary on the eve of International Women’s Day

Watch: Pace Setters Arrive in Dublin to a Warm Welcome from the Holy Rosary Sisters

Posted on October 23, 2023January 19, 2024 by admin

On April 26th, 2023, 21 past students from Our Lady of Lourdes College in Bamenda, Cameroon arrived in Dublin for a special visit. These women, the PaceSetters graduating class of 1986, traveled from countries around the world including the USA, UK, Switzerland, and Cameroon.

They were welcomed at the airport by many of the Holy Rosary sisters who educated them decades ago. The Pace Setters came to show gratitude for the values and lessons they learned from the sisters during their time in Dublin.

The next day, the group attended a thanksgiving mass and enjoyed reconnecting after so many years apart. It was a joyous reunion and celebration of the lifelong impact the Holy Rosary sisters had on these women as students. Though the years have passed, the care and teachings of the sisters remain dear to their hearts.