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Wounded Healers
by Sr. Rita Kelly MMM Ireland 05.05.2023 Recently, I was asked what influenced me to write the thesis “Towards a Transformative Spirituality: Exploring Stress and Trauma among Missionaries in Ministry.” (See link below) The following are the threads that led […]
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Jesuit Influence on MMM
by Paul Brian Campbell SJ U.S.A. 03.05.2023 I was only 11 years-old when my sister entered the Medical Missionaries of Mary. Some of my memories of that time are fuzzy, but I seem to remember Sheila explaining to the family that, […]
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Celebrating Work – a Worker’s Mass in Tanzania
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney MMM Ireland 01.05.2023 “Where is she going with that? I said, silently, because we were waiting for Mass to begin. It was the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, May 1st, and […]
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Waiting and Waiting
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 29.04.2023 I am sitting waiting for something to start. Something I am responsible for, and I am nervous. I can’t concentrate on anything else and I invent small tasks to pass the time. Did […]
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Refugee Camp – a look at reality
by Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM Nigeria/Kenya 27.04.2023 What might your description of a refugee camp look like? A place with little or no food, electricity, and water? For many years I have heard of the Kakuma refugee camp here in Kenya and my […]
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Bragging – Should I boast?
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 25.04.2023 Recently one of the Fr. Richard Rohr’s daily meditations was about boasting, or bragging. Instinctively I say to myself “that is a horrible thing to do!” But Saint Paul talks a lot […]
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Answering the Serenity Prayer with Scrutiny
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 23.04.2023 “Courage in women in often mistaken for insanity”. Infamous Quaker suffragette Alice Paul is quoted as saying. In so many ways, human history “white washes” stories to cover over what women experienced to fight for freedom. This same […]
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Compassion – my favourite of the MMM values
by Wilfreda Omwalo, AMMM Kenya 21.04.2023 I am very much privileged to be associated with MMM. The Congregation has six core values and compassion is my favorite. It is one of the best because it […]
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Writing for Pleasure
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 14.03.2023 This morning I had a desire to write. What about? Well, I didn’t exactly know but I sat down anyway and began. Then it dawned in me that what I wanted to write about is writing itself. […]
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Beginning Medical School in Ireland – 1958
by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 17.04.2023 The long-awaited day arrived. Sr. Martha Collins and I had settled in Rosemount, our House of Studies in Dublin, and had met the other students in the various years of Medical School. We were delighted to meet […]
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