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Reflections on being a Working Mother

International Women’s Day by Nadia Ramoutar  MMM Communications Coordinator     Ireland          08.03.2024      Being a woman in our modern world is not easy, but talking about why it is challenging can also be – well, challenging. In the middle of the night last night my […]

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George Floyd and the Hawk

by Jo Doyle                        Ireland                            06.03.2024 Woosh. Like a black meteorite flashing past the window frame. A quick glance up from the dinner table, where three of […]

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Living our Dash

by Sr. Siobhan O’Keefe SHMJ                         Ireland               04.03.2024      My lasting memory of ‘Joe’ was as he stood before the food cupboard of an Evangelisation and Outreach Centre in a major city one […]

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Swaying in the Wind

by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM                      Ireland                          02.03.2024 This morning as I enjoyed my breakfast tea I sat looking out on the garden. It was wet and windy. […]

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Ladies Privilege Day

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM                            Ireland                                                29.02.2024 One of the things about being born […]

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Spring Musings

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM                                     Ireland                           27.02.2024 On Christmas morning I went into the chapel and sat down expecting to be […]

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How About Praying?

by Sr. Redempta Twomey SSC           Ireland                          25.02.2024 There is a story told about a holy man who was sitting in by the river, praying. A young man came up to him and said, “I […]

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Caring for the Elderly

by Sr. Noeleen Mooney                     Ireland                         23.02.2024 The Healing Charism is a gift I have been given. It comes with responsibility. It involves: Coaxing – that those who feel they can’t, […]

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Triplets in Turkana

by Sr. Sheila Devane MMM                            Ireland                      21.02.2024 This story comes from my years in the Turkana Desert in northern Kenya.  It is one fittingly of “Mother and […]

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Going Up and Coming Down: Departure and Arrival

by Sr. Triona Harvey MMM               Ireland          19.02.2021 First published in 1986 Many writers have tried to describe what life and death mean to them. When writing about death, a pilot once said that, for him, the idea of going to […]

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