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Old Lady’s Circle

by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 13.05.2023 For the last 20 years people have been telling me I should get my hearing tested. I thought I was hearing well so I agreed to go with an older Sister for a […]

Surgery at Sea! – A surprising missionary journey

by Sr. Raphael O’Connell MMM (1925 – 2022) Ireland 11.05.2023 It was to be the last voyage of the Llangibby Castle, the elderly ship of the Union Castle Line that had once carried Edel Quinn to Africa. Sr. […]

A Wise Woman…. We need a Laundry

by Sr. Mary Doonan, MMM Ireland 09.05.2023 Mother Mary Martin, the founder of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, was a woman ahead of her time. She saw the need “to start our General Training Hospital which is a crying necessity for our missionary work […]

The Golden Gift of Unexpected Plot Twists!

by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator 07.05.2023 Recently, something unplanned and unexpected happened that caused a little minor earthquake in my plans. I have a book in which I write a daily plan of what I will accomplish that day. Anything unfinished, goes on to […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]