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.

Remember the Missions in Your WILL

Leaving a gift in your Will is a special way to help our Mission work. Your kindness and generosity can live on even after you are gone.

If you require more information please contact the SMA House nearest to you, or send an e-mail to [email protected].

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““A voice cries out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.’” Isaiah 40:3

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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.

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

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021 – Year B

Jun 24, 2021

27 June 2021 Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 2 Cor 8:7,9,13-15 Mk 5:21-43 ‘Do not be afraid; only have faith’ (Mark 5: 37) Today’s gospel reading from Mark continues where last...

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021 – Year B

Jun 18, 2021

20 June 2021 Job 38.1, 8-11 2 Cor. 5.14-17 Mark 4.35-41 There is a story about a sea captain who in his retirement skippered a boat taking day-trippers to the...

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021 – Year B

Jun 9, 2021

13 June 2021 Ezekiel 17:22-24 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 ‘Small is Beautiful’ In 1973 a German-born economist, E.F. Schumacher, published a famous book on economics,...