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The Passion and Death of Gabi

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM                     Ireland        05.11.2023  Nobody knew her age. She was tall and thin and looked in her early twenties, but looking back now, I think she was probably more, close to thirty. Gabi was part […]

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Autumn Colours

by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM             Ireland            03.11.2023 The five cherry trees in our garden are beautiful just now. With the mild weather in this part of Ireland they have held on to most of their leaves and are now […]

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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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