This week will be the final week for the 'Soup and Substance: Let’s Live Lent' programme.  We will be featuring stories and the socio-economic context from Kenya for the theological reflection process. 

For those who are able to access the DVD 'How Are You?' by the Mukuru Promotion Centre, this DVD provides an excellent view on the conditions in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi where Sisters of Mercy minister and the ministry of the Mukuru Promotion Centre.  See also their website at www.mukuruex.org.  'How Are You?' is the DVD we will be using at Mercy International.  Another option for video clips features the response of Mercy to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the first section of the Mercy and Justice Shall Meet DVD entitled 'From Denial to Healing'.  

Suggestions for inspiration from Scripture and our Mercy tradition are provided on Mercy and Justice Shall Meet, and the process is that which was outlined in the feature article for 15 February 2010 Mercy World E-News.

Messages to Mary Kay Dobrovolny rsm  - Assistant Director Heritage & Spirituality

The Research Paper which was presented by Bonnie Brennan at the MIRC Conference ‘ Being Mercy in the 21st Century’ on the Ministry of Spirituality of the Sisters of Mercy, provides an interesting overview of the Ministry of Spirituality offered by the Sisters of Mercy of Ireland throughout the years, under four headings:

1. The lifetime of Catherine McAuley and her early associates
2. The long period of mainly institutionalised ministry
3. Post Vatican II diversification
4. The present day, more collaborative style of the ministry

This  presentation invites us to reflect on the various ways we might ‘ endeavour to fan the flame of mercy into a blaze for the future’. Perhaps we might find a lens offered  by Meister Eckhart helpful to our reflection:
    We never desire anything so earnestly
    as God desires to bring us to Himself,
    that we may know Him. 
 
Messages to Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director MIA

Today, Monday March 22nd, is World Water Day. A Special Report  'The Global Trade In Water' has been posted on the MGC section of the mercyworld.org website. This report discusses the global water crisis and the commodification of the world's water supply.

'Water is a Free Beverage' said Catherine McAuley in 1840.  'Water is a Free Beverage' is a recent publication from MGC.

A sample of the booklet is available in (low res) pdf format here. The booklet can be purchased from MGC for US$1 per copy, plus postage.

This full colour, illustrated little booklet looks at the Water Crisis and the Food Crisis, the bottled water industry and invites each of us to look at our use of Water.

Messages to Deirdre Mullan rsm - Director MGC

3 Briefing Papers for March 2010 are now online:

No 1: Letter from Ms. Rachel Majanja - Adviser on Gender Issues
No 2: Seminar on Rape as a weapon of War
No 3: Launch of the 2010 Education for all Monitoring Report

Messages to Deirdre Mullan rsm - Director MGC

Prayers through the intercession of Venerable Catherine are sasked for all those whose names are on our prayer list and, in particular, most recently added: Jennifer Kline.

Messages to:
Anne Hannon rsm - Vice postulator Europe and Africa
Sheila Carney rsm - Vice postulator Americas
Mary Duffy rsm - Vice postulator Australia, New Zealand, Philippines

A significant event for the present Regional Leader of the Papua New Guinea Sisters of Mercy, Theresia Tina, was her recent Graduation as a Bachelor of Special Education.  Her story is one of perseverance and initiative.

Messages to Pat Wood rsm

Continuing the effort to accompany the Honduran people after the June coup, Jean Stokan, director of the Institute Justice Team was asked to help set up a week of advocacy meetings in Washington, D.C. in early March for Honduran Jesuit Ismael Moreno (Melo)

Lee Mas

Messages to Institute Justice Team c/- Pat Kenny rsm Institute Communications

Sisters of Mercy ministering in Kenya belong to four different Mercy families: The Congregation of Sisters of Mercy (Ireland);  Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia; Institute of Our Lady of Mercy (Great Britain); and Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland.  The Congregation of Sisters of Mercy (Ireland) has a province based in Kenya.

Messages to Mary Kay Dobrovolny rsm - Assistant Director Heritage & Spirituality

Editor: Mukuru Promotion Centre is this week's featured Mercy website

1966 - Provincialate and novitiate moved from Detroit to Farmington Hills Michigan

Book of 80 rituals divided into four parts representing the four pathways of Creation Centered Spirituality, by Margie Abbott rsm.

Each part has its own introduction, theological reflection and 20 rituals with original poetry introducing each section.

We aspire, in conjunction with the Mukuru community, to establish and operate, a holistic and sustainable health, educational and social development program which will address the basic needs of the most vulnerable groups in the community.

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