MMM Blog
Quick Community Action on Cholera
Inter-connectedness by Sr. Celine Jones and Sr. Cecily Bourdillion MMM Ireland 27.03.2022 Hippocrates, in 400 BC, described a diarrhoeal disease which could have been Cholera. Since antiquity cholera was known to exist in the Ganges Valley, India. Pandemics in the 19th century […]
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Let it Be Done to Me
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 25.03.2022 Today is the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord also called the Feast of the Incarnation. Exactly nine months before Christmas Day – how good a timing is that! I began thinking about this Feast a few […]
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Tackling HIV/AIDS in Malawi
by Sr. Cecily Bourdillion MMM Zimbabwe 23.03.2022 I arrived in Lilongwe, capital city of Malawi, central Africa, in September 2001 having been assigned to Chipini Health Centre. Sr. Christine Lawler drove me to Chipini. This was a five-hour journey on the one highway in Malawi, linking north to […]
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Home Visits to the Sick in Angola
by Sr. Beatrice Chiamaka Iyioku Angola 21.03.2022 “Anointed by the Spirit, Christ is the one sent by the Father to heal, to proclaim the Good News. Follow Him….” MMM Constitutions 9.1 Our healing charism springs from the charitable response of Mary who went in haste to […]
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Coping with Covid
by Sr. Sheila Campbell, MMM Ireland 20.03.2022 We are in a different ball park from two years ago. Here in Ireland most of us are vaccinated and boostered against Covid-19. And yet – after two years of being very careful, finally it has come to our house […]
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Miracle of Birth
by Eilín Teeling AMMM Ireland 19.03.2022 “I understand birthdays now!” The new Dad was celebrating his son’s first birthday with his wife, with me, and with the three other grandparents. The baby looked at the lit candle on the birthday cake and smiled too. He […]
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Patrick
by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 17.03.2022 Today is the Feast of Saint Patrick, a great missionary of the 5th Century. In some sense, having always grown up with “Saint Patrick” in our lives, we tend to take him for granted. But recently I have been turning […]
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On a Protest March
by Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 15.03.2022 Recently I was asked “What is it like to be on a protest march?” Here is my answer. So often, the feeling of hopelessness comes over me when I hear the cries of suffering people. […]
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The Power of a Simple Touch
By Sr. Keresifon Clement Ekanem Republic of Benin 13.03.2022 She walked into the Clinic (one of the Clinics I worked after my training) emaciated with wrinkled skin, looked weak and breathless, accompanied by her mother who looked exhausted too. Other patients were excused and Patience (not her real […]
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Words Bring Results
by Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM Kenya 11.03.2022 Here she is called Mama Kemba, Mercy, 85 years old. She was referred to us by one of the palliative caregivers (Esther). The latter had, alongside others, received a couple of training on identifying, reporting and assisting […]
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