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Blog Appreciation
By Paul Campbell SJ U.S.A. 15.08.2022 For ten glorious and very enjoyable years, I was the Publisher of Loyola Press of Chicago. (A side benefit of this position was that I amassed enough frequent flier miles to visit my MMM sister several times both […]
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Words are like Coins
by unknown MMM writer undated Ireland 13.08.2022 Words like coins are good currency. But like currency they can suffer devaluation. Some words even wear thin with usage. Jargon I’d say is counterfeit currency. It goes from being shorthand to short change. The English word ‘listen’ is […]
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Lily Murphy
By Monica Shaw U.S.A. 11.08.2022 Lily Murphy was my great aunt. In 1950, Lily went with the Medical Missionaries of Mary to Ogoja, Nigeria to teach the leper children. At the time, she was 57 years young, and stayed in Ogoja for […]
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Telephones
by Sr. Cecily Bourdillion MMM Ireland 09.08.2022 My last mission was in rural Malawi, ministering at Kasina Health Centre. Though the people of Kasina are subsistence farmers and live from hand to mouth it was wonderful and amazing to witness patients using a cell phone to contact […]
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What’s in a Name?
by Mary Coffey AMMM Ireland 07.08.2022 My Da used to call me Moll and, years later, my brother Paddy used it also as a term of endearment, connecting us both back to the well-spring of Da’s gentle love. My Auntie Mary sometimes called […]
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Unworked Racism
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 05.08.2022 Yesterday I was talking with one of our Sisters about racism. She was an Irish Sister, talking about the anti-English behaviour of her father during her formative years, but we all know the prejudices and stereotypes that can […]
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Unworked Racism
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 05.08.2022 Yesterday I was talking with one of our Sisters about racism. She was an Irish Sister, talking about the anti-English behaviour of her father during her formative years, but we all know the prejudices and stereotypes that can […]
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Be not Afraid
by Vera Grant AMMM Ireland 03.08.2022 How many times have we heard or read these words? It is said that they appear 365 times in the bible – one for every day. I don’t know. I haven’t counted. Our celebrated poet, Seamus Heaney, […]
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Sounds of Summer
by Nadia Ramoutar Communications Coordinator Ireland 01.08.2022 It is summer here in our part of the world, though in Ireland that is a vague term. While it is certainly warmer, the sky today looks more like October. Someone recently asked me when […]
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Anybody want a Doctor?
Editor: The following article was first published in an early MMM magazine. I enjoyed it so much I thought our blog readers would enjoy it too by Medicus, an unnamed Volunteer Doctor 1957 30.07.2022 You never know what kind of a job you will […]
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