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An Easter Night
by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM Ireland 09.04.2023 In today’s gospel, Mary is at the tomb weeping. Jesus’ tomb is empty. He has risen. When she does meet Him, He tells her she must not cling to Him -to how things were. Something new […]
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Good Friday – Why is it Good?
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney MMM Ireland 07.04.2023 As we continue our Lenten Journey and approach Holy Week, I found myself thinking of the adjectives we use in relation to this very week. We talk of Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, and in between lies […]
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Darkness Unto Light
by Michèle Sinnott Ireland 06.04.2023 My thanks for your company again across the miles, as we move onto The Seventh and Final Stepping Stone for this Lenten Journey… We’ve reached the point of our 7th Wednesday together… Whether […]
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Redemption – a Personal Reflection
by Mary Coffey AMMM Ireland 05.04.2023 Redemption is a word central to Holy Week and I invite you to pause and to come with me on a journey that I made while on holiday in Uganda many years ago, a journey into a very […]
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Overcoming the Injustice of Easter
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 03.04.2023 When I was a little girl growing up in Dublin, there was, and still is, a tradition of children getting beautifully decorated chocolate Easter eggs that you cannot have until Easter Sunday. One year, I recall […]
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The Journey – an unanticipated problem arose
by Susan Akpan, MMM. Nigeria/Angola 01.04.2023 Life is often imbued with uncertainties and unanticipated problems. These problems sometimes reshape and/or empower us to take risks that we ordinarily wouldn’t conceive nor dare try. […]
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Outer Vision, Inner Vision
by Michèle Sinnott Ireland 30.03.2023 Welcome back and glad you can be here again this morning… And so, together we move to the Fifth Lenten Stepping Stone to Pause On… Outer Vision, Inner Vision… Last Sundayè’s Gospel offered […]
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Pioneering Sisters: The Secret of the Healing Charism
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 28.03.2023 Recently, I faced a daunting challenge and survived. Go through the photographs of the MMMs and select only six images that reflect the pioneering spirit of the Irish Sisters. This request is for the MMM to participate […]
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A Lenten Poem – a Reflection on Fasting
by Paul Brian Campbell SJ U.S.A. 26.03.2023 My favorite Lenten poem comes from Robert Herrick (1591-1674). Is this a Fast, to keep The larder lean, And clean, From fat of […]
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The Hidden Gifts of Easter
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 24.03.2023 One day, when my son was very little after school he was crying. Like any parent, I was concerned. ‘I have really bad news,’ he sobbed. ‘They murdered Jesus. Murdered him.’ I must have […]
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