by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 07.03.2022 Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. So today I want to tell you part of the story of Sr. Nina Underwood MMM. I say part of the story because recently I read her account of being kidnapped by guerrilla […]
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By Sr. Margaret Anne Meyer, MMM U.S.A. 06.03.2022 When I last wrote to you about the meaning of Advocacy which I learned from Sister Cora Wall MMM, I also remembered the very beginnings of the founding of our Mission in Ogoja to those suffering […]
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By Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 05/03/2022 Isn’t it cheating a little bit to say you are walking for Lent when actually you do go out walking most days? These thoughts were in my head when I set out to start the MMM […]
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by Theresa McDonnell Friström, AMMM Ireland 03.03.2022 When I unexpectedly walked in the funeral procession of Fr. Mick Reynolds, CSSp, from Kimmage Manor to the Church of the Holy Spirit in Dublin one Monday morning, something strange happened. Firstly, I was the only woman. Secondly, I […]
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Creative Fidelity by Sr. Brigid Corrigan MMM England/Tanzania 01.03.2022 The urgent call from the ‘high dependency ward’ came early in the morning. Along with others, I made my way to find a young boy, Sospeter, 15 yrs of age, in a deep coma. Swift examination, resuscitation and essential […]
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By Sr. Sheila Campbell, MMM Ireland 25.02.2022 One of the questions I am asked, often if not frequently, is “How did you know you wanted to be a Sister?” Well, the truthful answer – I always knew – is not very helpful so I went […]
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by Sr. Cecily Bourdillon MMM Zimbabwe 23/02/2022 Not long after my arrival at Zungeru Rural Health Centre in Northern Nigeria, I was called to see a young woman who was bleeding to death having been bitten by a snake. We were unable to give our patient a blood […]
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by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 21.02.2022 I am now in my seventies and in recent years I have found myself drawn again to doing jigsaw puzzles. I think it began when I had a period of forced inactivity from work due to medical reasons. But no matter how I […]
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by an unknown MMM author – undated 19.02.2022 A Chinese riddle asks which is better ‘a teaching, a story or a greeting?’ The answer given is a greeting. Why we may ask: To greet is to bless, to bless is to greet, to greet is to expect a […]
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by Vera Grant AMMM Ireland 17.02.2022 We waited, we prayed and we hoped the outcome would be the same. The same in that Rayan, the five-year-old Moroccan boy would survive as had the twelve Thai boys and their coach, trapped in an underground cave some eighteen […]
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