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Epiphany 2024

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM                     Ireland                                         06.01.2024 There is something very humbling when we come to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany […]

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Bringing Home the Babies

by Sr. M. Francis Morris (1919 – 1993)                    Ireland                                  04.01.2024 First published by MMM in 1952 The early morning was cool, and the peace and […]

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A woman of Our Time

by Vera Grant AMMM               Ireland           02.01.2024 A couple of weeks ago I sat in the packed auditorium and waited for the first female President of Ireland to enter.  She had agreed to come to the Seamus Heaney Homeplace in Bellaghy […]

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A Christmas Angel

by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM                                    Ireland                                           31.12.2023 A few days before Christmas […]

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How the Cat Found a Home

by Sr. Miriam (Mairead) O’Quigley MMM (1917 – 2003)            Ireland/Tanzania             29.12.2023      A long time ago, cats did not live in our houses as they do now. They lived in the forest or in the bush. Then… Once upon […]

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Treated, Cured, and then Home – 60 years on!

by Sr. Mary Howard MMM (1939 – 2009)              England/ Nigeria         27.12.2023 Editor’s note: Sr. Mary told this story back in 2003 when an understanding of Hansen’s Disease was increasing, and a cure had been found. He was always known to us […]

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A Childhood Christmas

by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly MMM                Ireland              25.12. 2023 Christmas was the most special time of the year in our young lives. I grew up during the time of World War11 when everything was scarce and rationed. […]

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Our Christmas Gift to Mother Earth

by Nadia Ramoutar  MMM Communications Coordinator            23.12.2023 As the year ends, things can get busy and there can be stress around the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.  There is also a sense of rushing to get things done before 2023 snaps shut on us and […]

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The “O” Anitphons

by Paul Campbell SJ                        USA                                          21.12.2023 Lent comes before Easter. Clear and simple. Advent comes before Christmas. Equally clear […]

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First MMM Christmas in Africa – Part Two

by one of the founding MMM Sisters                Ireland/Nigeria                   19.12.2023 Editor’s Note: This is an extract from a larger article, written in Nigeria in 1940. There was to be no midnight Mass at Anua in 1937.  […]

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