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| Clergy Our Parish
is served by priests from the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart,
(MSC, from the Latin Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis) and
is currently one of six in England served by the Irish Province
of the MSC.
Current Clergy
Our current priest is Fr Joseph Falloon MSC
Father Joe was born in Belfast and spent his childhood on
the Falls Road. He was an altar boy in the Redemptorist Clonard
Monastery there.
At the age of fifteen years he went to study in the Sacred
Heart Apostolic School, Cork. Two years later he entered the
Novitiate of the MSC in Glandore, West Cork. Then after taking
temporary vows, he studied philosophy at Myross Wood, West
Cork. Moving on to Moyne Park to study Theology, he was ordained
into the Priesthood on 29th September 1953 at the Missionaries
of the Sacred House of Studies in Moyne Park, Ballyglunin,
County Galway.
Parish Work
Father Joe’s first appointment was to the Sacred
Heart College as Dean of Discipline. By 1970 Father Joe had
managed the offices of the Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart before being appointed as curate to the Parish of St
Joseph in Maidenhead.
Following a year in Basingstoke, Father Joe was transferred
to the Parish of St Alban and Stephen, firstly to work as
curate and later as Parish Priest. In 1984 he moved to Liverpool,
initially to the Parishes of St Mary the Mother of God and
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and later to become Parish Priest
of St Albert’s, Cantril Farm.
1992 saw another move to Tamworth to be curate there and
by September 1993 Father Joe was installed as Parish Priest
of Sacred Heart and St William Uppermill, Saddleworth.
Golden Jubilee
The parishioners of Sacred Heart and St William were delighted
to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination with Father
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Previous Clergy
Our previous priests, with the dates they were in our Parish, have
been
Father Kieran Burke MSC. 1990-1993
Father Richard Scriven MSC 1973-1990
Born in May 1911 at Liscarroll, County Cork, Ireland. Educated
at St Joseph’s School there, and at Sacred heart College,
Cork city from 1925 to 1930 when he joined the Order of the Missionaires
of the Sacred Heart. He studied in Belgium for three years and for
four years in Holland where he was ordained in Stein on 10th August
1936.
Father Scriven celebrated his Golden Jubilee of his Ordination
into the Priesthood whilst at Saddleworth. Four years later at his
Farewell Mass on Friday 14th September 1990, Saddleworth thanked
him for his pastoral care and devotion, and prayed that God may
give him many years of peace and happiness in his priestly life
away from the hardship and worries of Parish work.
He returned to visit the parish whenever the opportunity occured.
As the Provincial of the MSC Society, he was instrumental in bringing
the priests of the Society to the parish in answer to an invitation
of the then Bishop Very Rev. John Carmel Heenan, later Cardinal
Heenan.
He also had the distinction of being present for the first Mass
celebrated in 1953 in the newly founded parish at Ladcastle Hall.
Fr Richard died peacefully on 1st Sept 2005 in St Joseph's Care
Home, Cork, after a long period of illness. As he said "He
was ready to go as soon as the Lord called him".
His Funeral took place at the Sacred Heart Church, Cork, attended
by a large number of the Clergy, Members of the Society of the Missionaries
of the Sacred Heart (of which he was a prominent member), relatives
and friends.
Father Jerome O’Hanlon MSC 1965-1973
Father John Wallace MSC 1959-1965
Father Jeremiah Buckley MSC 1952-1959 |
