Prayers through the intercession of Venerable Catherine are requested for: Alfredo Moreno, Derville, Cindy Hogman, Duncan Mitchell, Alice Smyth, Fr Denis, Goretti, Joan gee, Esther and Albert.

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

More and more the globally interconnected, ecologically sensitive issues at the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) are being interpreted in a fundamentally ethical framework.

The thematic cluster for the eighteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development: Mining, Waste Management, Transport, Chemicals, and Sustainable Consumption and Production is tragically appropriate to recent global ecological catastrophes. With the BP oil spill continuing its assault in the Gulf of Mexico, the recent mining tragedies in the US, China and Russia, and the earthquakes in Haiti and Argentina several side events, as well as the plenary sessions featured especially emotional and morally challenging topics.

Messages to Mary Bilderback rsm c/- Deirdre Mullan rsm - Director MGC

Editor: Two other documents have been added to the 'Commissions' section of the MGC area of the MIA website:
- Towards Gender Responsive And Equitable Climate Change Financing (pdf)
- Commission on Sustainable Development - Report of the Secretary-General (pdf)

May 25, 2010 - Sisters of Mercy in Jamaica report that they are safe but request your prayers for the people of Jamaica during the current violence and unrest which has resulted in the declaration of a state of emergency in the capital, Kingston.

Messages to Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications

In early May, the Sisters of Mercy requested prayers for peace and safety for all Filipino people as the Philippine National Election took place on May 10.

Sister Letty de los Santos, a Sister of Mercy in the Philippines, responded with her thanks for all of the prayers. 'Your prayers gave strength and courage to stand with our conscience,” she said. “We were rained with tremendous prayers from you, our Mercy sisters, and people from different denominations all over the world.'

Messages to Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications

Sisters of Mercy have been ministering in Panama for over 50 years as twelve sisters from Brooklyn, New York, responded to the invitation of the Vincentian Fathers to join them in their ministry. Each of the original twelve sisters committed to living and ministering in Panama for a period of five years. Today, seven Sisters of Mercy live and minister in Panama. One is a sister who arrived from Brooklyn, New York, in 1964, and the other six are originally from Panama.

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

On Monday 10th May, fire destroyed the main building of St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Georgetown, Guyana.

This year marked the 65th anniversary of the hospital which has been managed and staffed by Sisters of Mercy from many of the Provinces in the USA until recently. Thank God, all the patients were safely evacuated and are presently housed at a few hospitals in the city. Doctors' offices, as well as Outpatients Department, were reopened at other buildings in the hospital compound.

Please remember in your kind prayers Administration, nurses, staff and patients of the Hospital.

Messages to Noel Menezes rsm

1887: Sisters of Mercy in Sacramento California became an independent congregation

A collection of songs infused with a deep spirituality of justice by Helen Kearins rsm.

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MUCEC is a non-profit charity supporting distressed women in Colon, Panama. MUCEC began in 1985 with efforts to help some of the poorest of Colon’s impoverished inhabitants -- the abused women and their children with little or no income.

If you have a photocopier in your office that you and your colleagues have been using for years to make paper copies of important documents, here’s an important fact that may surprise some of you.