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Getting Ready for Christmas in September
Getting Ready for Christmas in September Oddly enough, we are inspired about what to do in the future by reading what MMMs did in the past. This year, Sr Sheila and I got a big pile of past MMM Publications and read what Mother Mary used to do to spread […]
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Morning Lights
by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM Ireland 28.09.2022 It was a dull breezy morning when I set off for my early morning walk. As usual at this time of year, I took the three steps up into the local graveyard and immediately on my right I […]
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Leaving Home for the First Time
by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 26.09.2022 “It is almost March first.” My mother used to sing me these words from the song, “It is almost tomorrow.” We would pause and look at each other. Yes, with a little mix […]
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Forgiveness rather than Permission
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 24.09.2022 One day, when I was a young Sister on mission, I was dithering about doing something a little bit differently. One of the more experienced Sisters said to me: “It is easier to ask […]
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Reaching New Heights
by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator Ireland 22.09.2022 When I was a child, I thought that good things happened to good people. It was something I gathered in my own little imagination and labelled it as truth. As I aged, I saw that I was […]
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A Useless Bit of Information
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 20.09.2022 The other day I was in the car as a passenger, commenting to the driver about the other cars as we bowled along the motorway. “Did you know”, I said, “That cars from the North of Ireland have […]
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My Favourite Season
by Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM Nigeria/Kenya 18.09.2022 Seasons in Africa are unclassified. Yet they exist with no outstanding memories to merit a class, like the winter, autumn, spring, and summer we know from other continents. Here in our part […]
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Francis and Babu
by Sr. Noeleen Mooney MMM Ireland 16.09.2022 Ediitor’s Note: This reflection was written by Sr. Noeleen in 2005 when she worked in the Kitale AIDS Programme, Kenya. I got to know him on his regular visits to the clinic. He […]
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Where there is a will
by Sr. Beatrice Chiamaka Iyioku MMM Angola 14.09.2022 The phrase “Where there is a will, there is a way” is largely used to connote persistence and creativity as a virtue. But sometimes we do not know or imagine how far and how well […]
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Gazing
by Theresa McDonnell Friström AMMM Ireland 12.09.2022 I have a new pastime. It is gazing. The instruction is to gaze at something, big, tiny, or anything in between, and to gaze at it long enough for it to gaze back at […]
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