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Stained Glass and Story Telling

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM             Ireland                        13.08.2023 I am fascinated by stained glass. It is such a simple mixture of colour and light. Without the colour, we would hardly see the glass, but without […]

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What do you mean?

by Sr. Mairead Carroll MMM (1931-2022)                        Ireland                       11.08.2023 Coming from the hospital here in Uganda, at the end of a busy day, I met Solo.  He works with us […]

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Learning from the Old Folks

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM         Ireland            09.08.2022 MMM history can teach me many lessons. When I was scrolling through some material the other day, I found an excerpt from a draft version of our MMM Constitutions from 1978.  It made a lot […]

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The Power of Gratitude: A Tale of Two Towns

by Nadia Ramoutar, MMM Communications Coordinator          Ireland             07.08.2023 Recently, my life took me in two different directions and I found myself spending time in two very different towns.  In one town, the people on the surface appeared to have very little […]

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First Medical 1959 – Christmas to Second Medical

by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM                        U.S.A.                                05.08.2023 How can this be?  Is that what the flight into Egypt felt like?  My two companions […]

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Breath and Prayer

by Eilín Teeling AMMM                    Ireland            03.08.2023 In the winter of 2022, I was ill with pneumonia, a serious respiratory infection.  I needed powerful medicine of strong antibiotics, steroids, and our home nebuliser (breathing in a fine […]

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An Uneven Treacherous Playing Field: Inequality on a Global Scale.

by Nadia Ramoutar  MMM Communications Coordinator           Ireland                01.08.2023 In Ireland a friend of mine who is usually healthy, recently had a heart issue that could have caused him a heart attack or a stroke.  He was quickly referred to […]

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No Dolls for the Fair

by Anna Dillon                   USA              30.07.2023 Anna Dillon, a retired teacher,  was a close friend and supporter of MMM in Boston, USA.  Sr Jude Walsh described her as follows:  “Each year she got better and better ideas […]

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Pilgrimage to Iona

by Sr. Rita Kelly MMM                    Ireland                             28.07.2023 Iona is one of the hundred small islands on the west coast of Scotland. In 563 AD. St Colmcille or Columba […]

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Healing in the Desert

by Sr. Bridie Canavan MMM                  Ireland                                 26.07.2023 The night was alive with a thousand eyes. This came to my mind as I looked out at the star-studded […]

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