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Anatomy Lessons Made Easy

by MMM Medical Students 1969                                     Ireland                 01.11.2023 After some time studying textbooks, we, students, almost feel that we could publish one ourselves.  Not for us the […]

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All Saints – and one I know

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM              Ireland            30.11.2023 Tomorrow is Halloween. For most young people today, it is all about witches and pumpkins and I would guess few know the origins of the celebration at all! It is the evening […]

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Preserving the Past, Empowering the Future

by Sr. Rita Kelly MMM                Ireland              28.10.2023    It is strange how some sentences “jump out” from an article and stay with one. I do not remember the article where I read the sentence “Preserving the Past, […]

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The Question – and the fun that followed

by Sr. Sheila Devane, MMM                   Ireland              26.10.2023 As a little girl I asked a lot of questions. All children do. I wanted to know so much about so many different things. No sooner had I got […]

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Stories of Care 5 – Njiku the Farmer

by Sr. Marian Scena                 USA/Tanzania                   24.10.2023 In early February 2016 our palliative care volunteer, Sammy, arrived with a man who he thought needed care.  Sammy had gone to his shamba(farm) in a rural part of […]

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Knock and its Special Parish Priest.

by Sr. Sheila Devane MMM                       Ireland                                                     22.10.2023 I have visited our national Marian shrine in […]

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Where Do I Put My Heart?

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM                          Ireland                        20.10.2023 Did you know that Earth and Heart are the same word with the letters mixed up a different way? I […]

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The Taste of Tea – the True Cost

by Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM                     Nigeria/Kenya                18.10.2023 History has it that the first tea seeds were introduced by the expatriates over a century ago in Kiambu County, Kenya.  From then on, 19 tea-growing counties […]

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A Quick Journey by Plane?

by Sr. Sheila Campbell, MMM                Ireland                26.09.2023 Nowadays we are used to jumping on a plane, off on a summer holiday. Business people fly all over the world, working as they travel. Despite our concerns nowadays […]

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The Barabaig Woman

by Sr. Margaret Garnett MMM (1920 – 1990)         England            14.10.2023 First published in 1989.  Sr Margaret, a medical doctor, spent all her missionary life in Tanzania. The Barabaig are a nomadic and pastoral people who live in Tanzania and have many difficulties […]

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