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Beginning Medical School in Ireland – 1958
by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 17.04.2023 The long-awaited day arrived. Sr. Martha Collins and I had settled in Rosemount, our House of Studies in Dublin, and had met the other students in the various years of Medical School. We were delighted to meet […]
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Stability – a Benedictine Ideal
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 13.04.2023 Many of you know that MMM spirituality has at its core “the spirit of St. Benedict”. But what can a spirituality set out for monks in a monastery […]
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New Life and Mother Nature
by Sr. Rita Kelly MMM Ireland 11.04.2023 This week I had my first glimpse of primroses. As I watch Mother Nature exploding into new life, first the snowdrops, the daffodils, the buds on the trees gradually unfolding one can […]
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Easter – celebrating with cow dung!
By Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM Nigeria/ Kenya 11.04.2023 The Lord’s resurrection is the hope of our salvation. It is the reason we endure forty days of Lent, conscious living and being. It is also the reason that even the poorest make a meaningful celebration […]
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An Easter Night
by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM Ireland 09.04.2023 In today’s gospel, Mary is at the tomb weeping. Jesus’ tomb is empty. He has risen. When she does meet Him, He tells her she must not cling to Him -to how things were. Something new […]
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Good Friday – Why is it Good?
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney MMM Ireland 07.04.2023 As we continue our Lenten Journey and approach Holy Week, I found myself thinking of the adjectives we use in relation to this very week. We talk of Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, and in between lies […]
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Darkness Unto Light
by Michèle Sinnott Ireland 06.04.2023 My thanks for your company again across the miles, as we move onto The Seventh and Final Stepping Stone for this Lenten Journey… We’ve reached the point of our 7th Wednesday together… Whether […]
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Redemption – a Personal Reflection
by Mary Coffey AMMM Ireland 05.04.2023 Redemption is a word central to Holy Week and I invite you to pause and to come with me on a journey that I made while on holiday in Uganda many years ago, a journey into a very […]
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Overcoming the Injustice of Easter
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 03.04.2023 When I was a little girl growing up in Dublin, there was, and still is, a tradition of children getting beautifully decorated chocolate Easter eggs that you cannot have until Easter Sunday. One year, I recall […]
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The Journey – an unanticipated problem arose
by Susan Akpan, MMM. Nigeria/Angola 01.04.2023 Life is often imbued with uncertainties and unanticipated problems. These problems sometimes reshape and/or empower us to take risks that we ordinarily wouldn’t conceive nor dare try. […]
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