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Light and Love
by Sr. Joanne Kelly MMM Ireland 26.02.2023 One morning I took a walk in our garden. The walk through the garden rises in a long gentle slope lined on the right by four almond trees now stripped and bare in this winter season. It was a […]
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Grannies
by Vera Grant AMMM Ireland 24.02.2023 I always liked my granny. Some of my sisters didn’t but that didn’t matter. I did. She was called Rose, was born in 1883 and died in 1976 when I was 26 years old. […]
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Caring for the Elderly
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney Ireland 23.02.2023 The Healing Charism is a gift I have been given. It comes with responsibility. It involves: Coaxing – that those who feel they can’t, […]
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Bright Sadness
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 22.02.2023 Recently I came across a definition of Lent as celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox tradition as “bright sadness”. I love this idea. It speaks to the heart of the matter. The forty days of Lent are a […]
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Pioneers
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 20.02.2023 Our first daffodil made its appearance in full flower on January 25th this year. Yes, it is earlier than usual, but we have had a reasonably mild winter and no doubt climate change […]
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A Youth’s Faith Journey in Nigeria
by Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM Nigeria/Kenya 18.02.2023 The following of Christ for some may have been influenced by friends, but for a greater percentage, both parents would have been devout Christians and Catholics. They would wake children […]
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Landing in Cobh 1958
by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM USA 16.02.2023 My heart was pounding loudly with excitement as the fog horns screamed welcome to the shores of Ireland. Our little tug boat which received us from the large cruise ship, Mauritania, was gliding into the harbor. My […]
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The St. Valentine’s Mystery
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator 14.02.2023 The 14th February, St Valentine’s Day seems to have become some kind of commercial fiasco of chocolates, gifts and overpriced cards in much of the world. In some places, children give all the other children in their class valentine […]
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Paying Attention
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 12.02.2023 All of a sudden, the mornings are getting brighter and the evenings stretching out a little. At least that is true here in the Northern Hemisphere. But of course, it is not “all of […]
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Why did I become a missionary?
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney, MMM Ireland 10.02.2023 There were no flashing lights or sudden inspirations. Initially I joined a medical missionary Congregation to become a nurse – no more, no less. There was a vague attraction of ‘missionary’ travelling, but it was […]
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