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Oh, Give me a Pity! – a poem looking at the light side of life

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM          Ireland                 30.06.2023      Recently someone gave me a copy of a poem which our late Sr. Immaculata Nichols (2017 – 2002) loved and used as a “party piece”. I thought I would share […]

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Going Far: The Many Ways MMMs Collaborate to Create a Healing Community.

by Nadia Ramoutar    MMM Communictions Coordinator              28.06.2023 There is a wise African Proverb that says “If you want to go fast go alone but if you want to go far go together.” We often quote this proverb in our Communication Department because collaboration […]

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Safe in the Habour: is this our life?

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM             Ireland                    26.06.2023 “A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.” ― John A. Shedd This quote was used at Mass by a visiting priest recently and […]

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Stories of Care – 2: Rose and Anna

by Sr. Marian Scena MMM       Tanzania/USA             24.06.2023 Tonight I received a phone call at 11:55pm from Anna, who told me that Rose had died at 11:25pm. Who is Anna? And who is Rose? Maybe I had better start by telling you about Rose. […]

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A Child’s Smile

by Sr. Monica Prendergast MMM          Ireland/Uganda             22.06.2023 This morning a child smiled, and my heart gave a throb of joy.  Little Joseph had been sitting around for two weeks wearing the sad expression of a child deprived of sufficient protein due […]

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The Story of Maria and José – a story of AIDS in Brazil, 1990s

by Sr. Sheila Lenehan MMM (1943-2018)             Ireland/Brazil        20.06.2023    Maria is in her late 40s. She came to see us because they were desperate. They had run out of money. She had a house of her own and her son had a […]

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Creative Fidelity – one of the MMM Values

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM             Ireland                18.06.2023 One of our MMM values that I have seen people scratch their heads about is Creative Fidelity. “What do you mean by that?”, they say. “It doesn’t make sense”. Well, there […]

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Rewiring: Reflections on wifi connections

by Nadia Ramoutar   MMM Communications Coordinator       Ireland          16.06.2023 Does an addict actually know they are addicted until they are without the addiction source?  This thought crossed my mind lately when traveling in East Africa to visit the MMM Missions in Tanzania along with Sr […]

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Listening and Saint Benedict

by Sr. Maura Ramsbottom  (1931 – 2007)        Ireland            14.06.2023 To listen with ‘the ear of the heart’ is the challenge that Benedict puts to us in his Rule. It is the art of deep listening. Imagine a large group in a room. […]

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For the Beauty of the Earth

by Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM            Kenya/Nigeria             12.06.2023 “The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek sustainable and integral development. Humanity still has the ability to work together in […]

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