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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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Barcodes

by Sr. Sheila Campbell  MMM         Ireland       28.07.2022 Sometimes God comes to tickle you with joy.  At least that is the way I thought about it after I had seen this scene.  The other morning, I walked into our chapel for morning prayer and there it […]

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Barcodes

by Sr. Sheila Campbell  MMM         Ireland      28.07.2022 Sometimes God comes to tickle you with joy.  At least that is the way I thought about it after I had seen this scene.  The other morning, I walked into our chapel for morning prayer and there it […]

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Precious Stones

by Mary Coffey  AMMM     Ireland        26.07.2022 Below is the text of an email that I sent to Colette Morris, head of Migration in the Irish Red Cross, in 2019, less than a month after our Community Sponsorship Group, called ‘New Beginnings Kells’ welcomed a Syrian family […]

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Yohane

by Sr. Cecily Bourdillon   MMM       Ireland       24.07.2022      A few days ago, I received a message from a member of staff of Kasina Health Centre in Malawi telling me of the death of our mutual friend, Yohane. May he rest in peace. The message added […]

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The Tea Towel

by Sr. Sheila Campbell  MMM            Ireland           22.07.2022 Last week someone came into the kitchenette in our office area and took a tea towel. I say ‘took’ although I am tempted to say ‘stole’. I was mad, furious, and beside myself at […]

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The Tea Towel

by Sr. Sheila Campbell  MMM            Ireland           22.07.2022 Last week someone came into the kitchenette in our office area and took a tea towel. I say ‘took’ although I am tempted to say ‘stole’. I was mad, furious, and beside myself at […]

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Unfolding the Petals of Poetry

by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer  MMM       U.S.A.        20.07.2022 Poetry has, until recently, been a mysterious garden where words blossomed like wildflowers. They looked lovely but what was their meaning? How come the ending words did not rhyme but carried me to a different world? It […]

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