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 * Home
 * About Us
   * SMA Houses
   * St Joseph’s SMA Parish Wilton, Cork
   * St Joseph’s SMA Parish Blackrock Road, Cork
   * Dromantine Conference Centre
   * SMA Worldwide
   * FOUNDER – Melchior de Marion Brésillac
 * News
   * All News
   * Sunday Homilies
   * SMA Ireland
   * SMA International
   * SMA Events
   * Obituaries
 * Projects
   * Tanga House
   * Twafwane Housing Project
   * Education of Priests – Kabwe
   * Remote School in Zambia
 * Justice
   * Advocacy
   * Human Trafficking
   * Care for Creation
 * Ways to Support
 * Resources
   * Videos on events, mindfulness and teachings
   * Synodality
   * Living Faith Means Living Justly Programme
   * Lenten Reflections
   * Advent Reflections
   * Biodiversity Awareness
   * African Missionary Magazine
 * Contact Us
 * SMA Webcams
 * SMA Safeguarding
 * DONATE TODAY




ABOUT THE SMA

The Society of African Missions (SMA) is a catholic missionary society founded
in 1856 by Venerable Bishop Melchior de Marion Brésillac.  It is an
International family of Missionaries bonded together by their common response to
the command of Jesus Christ to: “Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good
News to all creation” (Mk 16: 15).

SMA’s work to build up faith communities, church structures, provide education,
health care, social development and to promote justice and care for creation. 
Through these means, SMAs seek to be an effective response to the missionary
vocation of the Church, chiefly among Africans and people of African origin.

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OUR PROJECTS

The Tanga House project is run by members of the Society of African Missions
(SMA) in cooperation with Polish Loreto Sisters and SMA lay missionaries.  It
provides a safe home for Albino children in Tanzania – who because of their
condition are often stigmatised and excluded.  They are sometimes killed or
subjected to violence and mutilation due to a superstitious belief associated
with witchcraft that albino body parts can bring wealth.

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EVENTS IN 2024

Novena to Our Lady of Knock: ending with the Annual SMA Pilgrimage to Knock –
17th to 25th May
Facebook Live Panel Review of Traficking in Persons 2024 Report: Organised by
SMA OLA Justice Offices -June/July, subject to the release of the 2024 report.
Dromantine Summer Camps:  7th July to 2nd August.
Novena in honour of St Therese of the Child Jesus: 23 September to Ist October.
5th Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice: Organised by SMA OLA
Justice Offices – October 17th.

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CHAINS, DESERT AND FREEDOM - FAITH

The 17th September, 2018 is a day that Fr Luigi Maccalli SMA will never forget.
On that evening, a gang of armed mujahidin kidnapped him from the Mission, where
he had lived and worked for eleven years, in the small village of Bomoanga,
Niger.  

For almost two weeks he was taken by motorcycle across the border into Burkina
Faso and then further on into the deserts of Mali.  This was the beginning of a
long and difficult period of captivity, loneliness and suffering in the Sahara
desert that lasted a total of 752 days.

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LATEST NEWS


SEASON OF CREATION 2024 – EXPLAINER AND EVENTS.

Sep 4, 2024

“Each year from September 1 to October 4, the Christian family unites for this
worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home. It is a
special season where we celebrate God as...


REFLECTION ON READINGS FOR SAT 31 AUGUST 2024 – FR KEVIN O’GORMAN SMA

Aug 31, 2024

Readings: 1Cor 1:26-31; Ps 32: 12-13, 18-21; Matt 25:14-30. We have a wonderful
seam of spirituality in today’s selection of scriptural readings. Paul, the
master of paradox, pits the weak against...


SMA INTERNATIONAL NEWS – SEPT 2024

Sep 2, 2024

This month we go to Ivory Coast to hear about training of young people, aged
between 8 and 16, in the values of peace and non-violence in the school
environment. This was part of the third Peace...


CARING FOR THE WONDERS OF CREATION – IN WILTON PARISH

Aug 24, 2024

Even though it has not been a great summer life goes one and much is happening,
even though we may not notice.  As we approach the Season of Creation, beginning
on the 1st of September, this short...


MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF
CREATION – 1ST SEPT 2024

Sep 1, 2024

“Hope and Act with Creation” is the theme of the World Day of Prayer for the
Care of Creation on 1 September 2024. The theme is drawn from Saint Paul’s
Letter to the Romans (8:19-25), where the...


A NEW RESOURCE PAGE ON SYNODALITY

Aug 21, 2024

Over the last year Fr Michael McCabe SMA has written and published a series of
thee articles on the topic of Synodality.  These were followed by a series of
three public talks which were filmed....

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SUNDAY HOMILIES


HOMILY FOR THE 23RD SUNDAY, YEAR B

Sep 5, 2024

Readings: Isaiah 35:4-7, James 2:1-5  and Mark 7:31-37. In the gospel today
Jesus meets a man who is deaf and also has a speech impediment. We note the
sensitivity of Jesus. He takes the man apart...


HOMILY FOR THE 22ND SUNDAY, YEAR B

Aug 28, 2024

Readings: Deut 4:1-2,6-8; James 1;17-18,21-22,27; Mk 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 Theme: Be
doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves Today’s first
reading is taken from the Book of...


HOMILY FOR 21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 2024, YEAR B

Aug 21, 2024

Readings: Joshua 24:1-2, 15-17, 18; Ephesians 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 Theme: Lord,
to Whom shall we go? In today’s Gospel we are being asked to make a choice, as
we are, to choose to follow Jesus or...

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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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