by Vera Grant AMMM Ireland 24.02.2023 I always liked my granny. Some of my sisters didn’t but that didn’t matter. I did. She was called Rose, was born in 1883 and died in 1976 when I was 26 years old. […]
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by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 22.02.2023 Recently I came across a definition of Lent as celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox tradition as “bright sadness”. I love this idea. It speaks to the heart of the matter. The forty days of Lent are a […]
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by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 20.02.2023 Our first daffodil made its appearance in full flower on January 25th this year. Yes, it is earlier than usual, but we have had a reasonably mild winter and no doubt climate change […]
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by Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM Nigeria/Kenya 18.02.2023 The following of Christ for some may have been influenced by friends, but for a greater percentage, both parents would have been devout Christians and Catholics. They would wake children […]
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by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM USA 16.02.2023 My heart was pounding loudly with excitement as the fog horns screamed welcome to the shores of Ireland. Our little tug boat which received us from the large cruise ship, Mauritania, was gliding into the harbor. My […]
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by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator 14.02.2023 The 14th February, St Valentine’s Day seems to have become some kind of commercial fiasco of chocolates, gifts and overpriced cards in much of the world. In some places, children give all the other children in their class valentine […]
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by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 12.02.2023 All of a sudden, the mornings are getting brighter and the evenings stretching out a little. At least that is true here in the Northern Hemisphere. But of course, it is not “all of […]
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by Sr. Noeleen Mooney, MMM Ireland 10.02.2023 There were no flashing lights or sudden inspirations. Initially I joined a medical missionary Congregation to become a nurse – no more, no less. There was a vague attraction of ‘missionary’ travelling, but it was […]
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by Sr. Ese Idogen MMM Nigeria/Angola 08.02.2023 Never underestimate the power of storytelling! Some years ago, I was very excited as I read a story about the missions written by an MMM sister. I still remember […]
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by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 06.02.2023 I love learning new things and blogs are the ideal place to share such gems with other people. I recently found out that the word February is one of the most commonly misspelled words in the English […]
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