MMM Blog
Child and Bride – Separate those words!
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 19.05.2023 Recently, I read a report that said at the current rate we are going child bride weddings will continue for the next 300 years. That’s just not going to work for me. I am […]
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My Hobby is Bird Watching
by Sr. Marian Scena MMM U.S.A. / Tanzania 17.05.2023 “What colour is its eyebrow, Marian?”, asked one of my MMM Sisters – with […]
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Expanding the Concept of “Home”: Entering into the Unknown
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 15.05.2023 There are two sides to almost every situation but when we are in it, it is hard to see both of them. The excitement of a new adventure and going to a new place […]
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Old Lady’s Circle
by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 13.05.2023 For the last 20 years people have been telling me I should get my hearing tested. I thought I was hearing well so I agreed to go with an older Sister for a […]
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Surgery at Sea! – A surprising missionary journey
by Sr. Raphael O’Connell MMM (1925 – 2022) Ireland 11.05.2023 It was to be the last voyage of the Llangibby Castle, the elderly ship of the Union Castle Line that had once carried Edel Quinn to Africa. Sr. […]
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A Wise Woman…. We need a Laundry
by Sr. Mary Doonan, MMM Ireland 09.05.2023 Mother Mary Martin, the founder of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, was a woman ahead of her time. She saw the need “to start our General Training Hospital which is a crying necessity for our missionary work […]
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The Golden Gift of Unexpected Plot Twists!
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator 07.05.2023 Recently, something unplanned and unexpected happened that caused a little minor earthquake in my plans. I have a book in which I write a daily plan of what I will accomplish that day. Anything unfinished, goes on to […]
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Wounded Healers
by Sr. Rita Kelly MMM Ireland 05.05.2023 Recently, I was asked what influenced me to write the thesis “Towards a Transformative Spirituality: Exploring Stress and Trauma among Missionaries in Ministry.” (See link below) The following are the threads that led […]
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Jesuit Influence on MMM
by Paul Brian Campbell SJ U.S.A. 03.05.2023 I was only 11 years-old when my sister entered the Medical Missionaries of Mary. Some of my memories of that time are fuzzy, but I seem to remember Sheila explaining to the family that, […]
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Celebrating Work – a Worker’s Mass in Tanzania
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney MMM Ireland 01.05.2023 “Where is she going with that? I said, silently, because we were waiting for Mass to begin. It was the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, May 1st, and […]
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