OUR MISSION
A group of lay people and Missionaries manage the centre and reflect together on their lives, the church, the world,
and the times. They hope the centre will be a sacred space where people can experience and explore God’s love for
themselves and where they can hear God’s word. They hope people will find support for their journey and find
opportunities to be a light and hope for other seekers.
Croi Nua wants to be the heart of Christ for our world, to be with people in their joys and hopes,
their grief and anguish. They trust the world God gives us is full of promise and we need to bring empathy and
care to it, whatever the complications and mixed messages we meet.
We trust this world can be saturated with the energy of the Resurrection because the Living Christ is the
Greatest Gift we can give it. A spirituality of the heart recognises and values all the struggles and
glories of the human story and includes a deep respect for our earth, a passion for justice and
peace and the equality of all God’s children, irrespective of gender, race, class, or faith.
The same passion drives us to recognise and create a church that is inclusive, that makes space for all
whatever their story, a church that sees variety as enrichment and that struggles for unity with our sister churches.
Our History
Croi Nua Galway was established in 2002. It is a project of the Irish Province of the Missionaries
of the Sacred Heart. A Core Group of lay people was involved from the beginning.
Fr. Patsy Kelly MSC was its first director. The constitution of the Centre requires
that a third of members are replaced when they have served their term.
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