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Catherine's Canonisation Cause: Prayer requests
Please remember in your prayers the intentions of all those who have asked us to pray for them:
Jamie Nicholson, Sheila Wilson, Paul Remark, Scott and Christen Van Heekeren, Douglas Power, Eamon Gibbons and family, Tony, Kate McCarthy's niece, Lisa Van der Zwaag; nephew, Timothy McCarthy; niew-in-law, Sue McCarthy, Laura pasek and all those whose names are on our prayer list.
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
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New Leadership Team Elected (Americas)
The Sisters of Mercy have elected the new leadership team for the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas:
Patricia McDermott rsm, president;
Eileen Campbell rsm, vice president;
Anne Curtis rsm; Mary Pat Garvin rsm and Deborah Troillett rsm.
Their term begins August 1.
Thank you for the many prayers, messages of support and good wishes that accompanied us through the Fifth Institute Chapter days.
Messages to Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications
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Brisbane pilgrimage to Mercy International Centre (Australia)
This year is a special year for the Sisters of Mercy in Brisbane as they celebrate the 150th anniversary of their founding.
One of the events to mark the occasion was a ten-day pilgrimage to Ireland by twenty-four of the community. On Saturday, June 18 those twenty four Sisters gathered in Mercy International Centre to begin the pilgrimage. They were welcomed ‘home’ by Mary Reynolds and there followed a moving opening ritual during which each participant chose a shell as a symbol of the journey they were about to undertake and lit her pilgrimage candle.
Messages to Aine Barrins rsm
Editor: There are many opportunities to participate in scheduled events and programmes at Mercy International Centre this year and in 2012 or, contact the Centre to organise a special programme for your Mercy ministry or community.
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Celebrating the works of Mercy in Nenagh since 1854 (The Congregation)
Societies can forget that they became great through the unremembered idealists that are its ordinary teachers, carers and listeners.
This year two Sisters - Anne O’Callaghan and Joan O’Carroll retired from Nenagh Primary School. The Parish marked the occasion with a ‘thank you’ celebration of all the Sisters have done down through the years and continue to do in Nenagh. One of their past pupils, Margaret Roche Scroope, gave the reflection on the occasion which traces the Mercy history of Nenagh since its foundation from Birr in 1854.
Messages to Margaret Corkery rsm
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Human Trafficking (The Congregation)
Human trafficking is one of the most horrific crimes committed in our society today. It places persons in situations of slavery or slave-like conditions, forced labor or services, such as forced prostitution or sexual services, domestic servitude, bonded sweatshop labor and other debt bondage...
The Office of Social Concern in the Diocese of San Bernardino, California has set up a Trafficking Committee to increase people’s awareness of this scourge of our time. We try to provide immediate help for trafficked people...
Messages to Carmel Crimmins rsm
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Sisters of Mercy Commend Senator for Immigration Reform Bill (Americas)
Each participant in the Fifth Institute Chapter of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, signed a letter to Senator Robert Menendez thanking him for introducing the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2011 in the U.S. Senate.
The letter is linked to this news item.
Messages to Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications
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'Opening our Treasures: Some Images of Mary by Sister Clare Augustine Moore' has just been published by Mercy International Association and is available for purchase from the Centre.
This booklet presents a small sample of the extraordinary work done by Sister Clare Augustine Moore during the early decades of the Congregation of Mercy.
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ARAPAMESU's name is the Romanian acronym for "The Romanian-American Association for the Promotion of Health, Education and Human Services". We were established by Sr Mary Rose Christy rsm RIP.
Our organization's mission is to provide social services in order improve the quality of life of children and their families in difficulty and reducing the number of children that are sent to orphanages from Romania.
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Gone in 60 seconds; the death of the attention span
'... Do we need to be able to slow down and think deeply about things, when information about everything is instantly available? My guess is...yes. Because there is a difference between information and meaning. The former can be had right now, no waiting, no obligations, no problemo. The latter comes only with time and effort..'
Source: The Age
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