MMM Blog
Epiphany 2023
by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM Ireland 05.01.2023 One night in Nigeria, as on many nights then, we had no electricity. Having had a busy day I had no time for private prayer. I took a chair to the garden, and sat down to pray, surrounded […]
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Snakes Alive and Turkey Eggs
by Sr. Mary Casey MMM (1926-2014) Ireland 03.01.2023 Bring a torch if you come to visit us in Tanzania. You’ll need it if you go strolling at night, unless of course you don’t mind snakes. Snake slaying is a skill I […]
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Where is the Joy in January?
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 01.01.2023 Of all the months of the year, January probably has the least popular reputation. December offers us the joy of Christmas and the fun of the New Year with all the celebration, rich food, […]
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New Year, New Beginnings
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney MMM Ireland 30.12.2022 For weeks, our daily newspaper has been filled with full page advertisements about how to have the perfect Christmas – food-wise, drink-wise, gift-wise; provided of course that we could afford to do so. We […]
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The Need to Knead
by Ann Marie Hook, AMMM U.S.A. 28.12.2022 You may have seen bread recipes that boast “No Knead.” There are many of these recipes on the internet and YouTube; and entire cookbooks are dedicated to this “fast and easy” method of making yeast […]
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Christmas 1955
By Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 26.12.2022 It was a very cold snowy morning at 5:30 AM when my parents, sister, two brothers and I got into the car to visit my grandparents in Florida. How would we make […]
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Christmas Eve
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 24.12.2022 When I was a small child, I was not allowed to go to Midnight Mass. That was only for the grown-ups. In those days, Midnight Mass meant midnight, not 8pm or 9pm the way it is […]
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Liking and Loving
by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM Ireland 22.12.2022 It was the day of the Christmas Craft Fair, in the afternoon. I had a visit from a young family, parents and two young teenagers. It was delightful visit. The boy had a very interesting question. […]
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Christmas through a Child’s Lens
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 20.12.2022 As adults it would be easy to get away from the joy of Christmas. The over commercialisation of gift giving and the shops playing music and selling decorations in November can […]
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Little Donkey
by an MMM Sister Drogheda Ireland 19.12.2022 In recent days listening to the media reporting that the live crib would not be at the Mansion House in Dublin this year I felt sad and […]
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