Prayers through the intercession of Venerable Catherine McAuley are requested for the intentions of Paul Aquilina, John and Srelinka Shoue 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

Since going to publication last Wednesday, more stories about sharing a Good Cup of Tea on Remembrance Day have been posted on the mercyworld.org website.

Reports from Maricourt Catholic High School, Liverpool, UK; the Companions in Mercy assembled in Philadelphia for their bi-annual gathering; the gathering of Sisters and friends of Mercy in the Cois Abhann Community in Athlone, Ireland; Sisters and parishioners at St Teresa's Heaton and  Broughton Hall, Liverpool as well as the JTS partnership; a gathering at Stechford, Birmingham, UK and the gathering of Sisters, co-workers, students and Board Members at Parramatta, New South Wales, can be found immediately below the report from Mercy International Centre (first report on the page).

Reports continue to be welcome.

Messages to Mercy News

How to make a donation

Online donations:
If you would like to make a secure online credit / debit card donation you can do so at:
www.mercyinternational.ie/donations/donation_general.cfm

Bank payment
You can make a bank payment to:
Bank of Ireland, Baggot Street Branch
Sortcode: 901490
Account No.: 27868395
IBAN: IE59 BOFI 9014 9027 8683 95
BIC: BOFIIE2D

Cheque or Bank Draft
You can send donations directly by cheque or bank draft to:
Mercy International Centre, 64a Lwr Baggot St., Dublin 2, Ireland.

Remember to always name your donation as ‘International Good Cup of Tea’ event.

For further information or enquiries contact: info@mercyinternational.ie

Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director MIA
 

Media Release - November 21, 2011

On December 12, 2011, the 180th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Mercy by Venerable Catherine McAuley in Ireland, 14 of the 17 Australian Mercy congregations, along with their sisters from the Autonomous Region of Papua New Guinea (PNG), will come together as one new institute to be known as Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea.

For many years, but particularly since 2005, the 17 Australian congregations and the Autonomous Region of PNG, which have been federated in the present Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia since 1981, have been searching for the best way to nurture their unity and to strengthen their capacity for engaging in God’s mission of mercy in this twenty-first century...

While three of the existing 17 congregations – Brisbane, North Sydney and Parramatta – will remain independent, they and the sisters in the Institute are anticipating ways of continuing to collaborate and share their common mercy heritage and their love of their founder Catherine McAuley.

The foundation of the new Institute will be celebrated with a Eucharist in St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, on December 18 at 2:00pm.

Messages to Nerida Tinkler rsm - Institute President

After five years of hard work on the part of Mercy's shareholder advocacy staff and members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Wyndham Hotels has become the latest in the travel industry to sign the ECPAT Code to end human trafficking. In 2006, Sr. Valerie Heinonen, osu, director of shareholder advocacy for Mercy Investment Services, engaged Wyndham in a dialogue on behalf of the Sisters of Mercy. Mercy, along with other members of ICCR, filed a resolution on the issue of human trafficking in 2007 and withdrew it based on positive conversations with Wyndham.

Messages to Pat Zerega - director of Shareholder Advocacy

Regular readers of Mercy e-News will have followed the reporting over a number of editions of developments at St John's Mercy in Joplin Missouri, since the tornado hit on May 22.

The 2,000 people who worked for St. John's Mercy  when the tornado hit lost homes, cars and belongings, but they didn't lose their jobs.

Mercy health care system pledged to keep everyone on the payroll — even though the hospital where most of them worked was destroyed. And when the rebuilt hospital opens in about three years, the employees are promised jobs there, too.

Messages to Nancy Corbett - Media Contact
 

Mercyhurst College has received a 2011 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an honor bestowed on only 10 organizations nationwide, the EPA has announced...

The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves through purchases of green power from a utility green-pricing program, a competitive green marketer or a renewable energy certificate (REC) supplier. Besides the Pennsylvania colleges, the other recipients are: Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif.; Datapipe, Inc., Jersey City, N.J.; MetLife, New York, N.Y.; Santa Clara University; Jackson Family Wines of California; State Street Corporation, Boston, Mass.; and the University of Central Oklahoma.

Messages to Mercyhurst College
 

1882: Foundation to Tumut from Goulburn - M Bernard Greenan

1905: Death of M Paul Fielding, Foundress of Yass/Wilcannia, New South Wales - from Rockfortbridge, Co Westmeath

Quotations from the writings of Catherine McAuley, in both HTML form and as a downloadable pdf, are available on the mercyworld.org website and are linked to this item. These quotes have been sourced to Catherine's writings by Mary C Sullivan rsm.

Mercy Center is committed to providing people with the resources necessary to overcome life’s burdens and obstacles in an environment marked by dignity and respect.

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