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Reaching the Diamond

by Sr. Helen Aherne MMM Ireland 22.06.2022 Have you ever thought you were younger than you really are and feel? Just lately I was browsing through the recent MMM internal newsletter and saw my name and the date – 3 OCT […]

Mother – a poem

by Sr. Bernadette Fadegnon Rep. Benin/Brazil 20.06.2022 Sr. Bernadette wrote this poem to celebrate Mothers Day which falls on different dates in the year, depending on the country. In her home country, Republic of Benin, it falls on May 29th. In Brazil, her local community […]

Blood Donation

by Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM Kenya 18.06.2022 As a postulant of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, I first grasped the concept of lifesaving from the moment I was needed for blood donation to a dying mother of a set of twins. I thought of myself as a heroine […]

Blood Donation

by Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM Kenya 18.06.2022 As a postulant of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, I first grasped the concept of lifesaving from the moment I was needed for blood donation to a dying mother of a set of twins. I thought of myself as a heroine […]

Day of Delight

By Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer MMM U.S.A. 16.06.2022 Recently I received an email inviting me to a Spring Day of Delight: Art and Meditation. Now what is this, I thought to myself? It seemed to be a way of reflection on Scripture using […]

Listening

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 14.06.2022 The other day I wanted to read and I wanted to sew at the same time. Bother! I needed my eyes for the sewing, so I set myself up with an audio book instead of reading and I sat down for a […]

Family Life Today

By Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM Kenya 12.06.2022 Everyone is born into a family, not by choice, but divine plan. Through the family unit, we learn to appreciate where we are, its goodness and complexities. Pope Francis published the encyclical – Amoris Laetitia, modelling the […]

Smiles

by Mary Coffey AMMM Ireland 10.06.2022 A newborn baby is expected to reach certain key developmental milestones. One such milestone is that a baby should “smile with meaning” at six weeks. That means a smile that can focus, and it is a cause […]

#BeHumanKind: With the Red Cross

by Sr, Ese Idogen MMM Nigeria 08.06.2022 Just recently, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement celebrated its one hundred and fifty-nine years of foundation. I decided to look through the pages of some of the national societies on the internet. When […]

Vocation

by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM Ireland 06.06.2022 Vocation –A call from God, Everyone gets that call. In the scripture for Vocation Sunday we read: “The Lord said I have made you a Light for the nations” Who would not want to be a shining light […]