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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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The Essential Well of Wisdom: Water is our source of Life

by Nadia Ramoutar   MMM Communications Coordinator              Ireland                              24.07.2022 Currently, there is major construction work going on in front of the house I live in on a road in rural Ireland. […]

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Roses in Syria – Part Two

The Ceremony of the Roses by Mary Coffey AMMM         Ireland         22.07.2023 We have just had our annual literary festival in Kells and I was asked to put together an item about our refugee work of the last 5 years. One of the contributors was […]

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Roses in Syria – Part One

by Mary Coffey AMMM                 Ireland                    20.07.2023 Four years ago, our community welcomed a Syrian family to our little town of Kells, through a Community Sponsorship model. Fedaa Alsultan and her husband Ahmed moved to […]

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Stories of Care – 3 John

by Sr. Marian Scena MMM                     USA/ Tanzania                            18.07.2023 We first met ‘John’ on 19 January 2015 after his wife contacted us and asked us to visit her sick […]

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The Hole in the Wood: What is perfection?

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM            Ireland                16.07.2023 Earlier this year I was in Tanzania and going to an early morning Mass in St. Mathias Church in Arusha. It is a newly built church and there is a lot […]

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Let Go With Grace

by Nadia Ramoutar    MMM Communications Coordinator          Ireland                     14.07.2023 Sometimes no matter how faithful we are, life does not go our way. Suffering can bring us to our knees because the unexpected takes our breath away. We […]

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The Twelfth: Ulster Heritage

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM                 Ireland                       12.07.2023 Every now and again I get drawn back into my ancestral roots, and today is one of these days. We are celebrating the Twelfth of July, […]

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First Medical Year 1959

by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM                 U.S.A.                   10.07.2023 It was the driest summer on record. Water was sold in Donegal for two shillings and six pence a bucket. Coming from the United States, I had […]

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