Effective September 2013: Volunteer Internship at MGA Office in New York

An intern position at Mercy Global Action Office in New York is open to applicants. Applications will be received until the deadline of August 15th, 2013.

This is a volunteer position five days a week for 9 months.

Applicants can send a resume to: Aine O'Connor rsm

To access the job description, click here

Messages to: Aine O'Connor rsm - MGA Coordinator at the UN
 

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a major concern for Mercy International Association (MIA) and its member organisations. Mercy Sisters around the world have organised lobbying and campaigning on the issue. Reports of these activities have appeared in Mercy E-news.

This year we are asking Mercy sisters to participate in the 2013 Global Frackdown on Oct. 19. The Frackdown, organized by Food and Water Watch, is a series of events around the world calling attention to the environmental, health, earth and community effects of the fracking process.

For more information about Mercy participation and to let us know of events you might be organising in your area contact Mary Purcell.

Messages to: Mary Purcell - Assistant Director Mercy Global Action
 

Prayers with the intercession of Venerable Catherine McAuley are asked for all whose names are in our hearts and on our prayer list

Anne Hannon rsm - Vice postulator Europe and Africa
Sheila Carney rsm - Vice postulator Americas
Caroline Ryan rsm - Vice postulator Australia & PNG, Aotearoa New Zealand, Philippines

An estimated 43 million people worldwide are now forcibly displaced as a result of conflict and persecution. Let us keep in our prayers the needs and concerns of all refugee peoples.

Messages to: Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director MIA

The Sisters of Mercy stand in solidarity with the eight young immigrants who on July 22 put their own freedom at risk to highlight the problems with the U.S.’s broken immigration system. The young adults were detained by border patrol officers after crossing the U.S./Mexico border to reunite with their families in the U.S. and to call attention to the continued detentions and deportations of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants...

Messages to: Institute Justice Office

Editor: Reflecting on the challenges that faced Catherine McAuley - ongoing disputes, clerical opposition, making foundations, poor health...Camilla Hunt rsm says we have to ask 'How did she do it?'

Camilla proposes that Catherine drew on the wisdom of our Catholic tradition and enlisted an ‘Army of Patrons’ to support her and the Congregation.

Camilla continues: 'It occurred to me that some of us may not be familiar with the Saints that Catherine enlisted as the Patrons of our Congregation and that it might be helpful to remind ourselves of each as their feastday is celebrated so I resolved to do this and will begin with St Camillus de Lellis whose feastday was on the 14th July...'

Messages to: Camilla Hunt rsm

Editor: See also the article by Sheila Carney rsm, Vice  postulator (Americas):' Praying for Catherine’s Canonization: Why? and to Whom?' which references the patrons of the Congregation. Read it here.

If you cut across the diameter of an apple you will see a five- pointed star at its centre. Many of the blossoms that turn into the vegetables and fruits that we eat are also shaped like five pointed stars. To the Mercy Centre for Ecology & Justice, the five pointed star is a symbol that we are all connected in a reciprocal relationship with nature and the universe. The Mercy Centre for Ecology & Justice’s mission is to promote the interconnectedness and interrelatedness of all creation and to live in a spirituality flowing out of the sacredness of all creation...

Messages to: Mary Tee rsm

An educational resource has been prepared by the ACRATH ( Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans)  Education Committee to assist secondary school (second level) teachers in raising their students' consciousness and educating them about the issue of human trafficking.

Developed as a 4-step process for teaching about human trafficking: Introduction – Information – Recognition – Action, each step in the process is crucial and requires completion as students move through the learning cycle to a deepened understanding of the issue of modern day slavery and a commitment to taking action.

This resource is available online without charge and is linked to this item.

Messages to: Carole McDonald rsm - ACRATH Co-ordinator for Victoria, Australia

1922:The combined convent, boarding school and Notre Dame Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa were destroyed by fire originating from a neighboring house.

Songs inspired by the writings of women mystics Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Clare of Assisi, Gertrude the great, Hildegard of Bingen.

Composed by Briege O'Hare osc and sung by Marie Cox rsm

The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG) became effective at the commencement of the First Chapter of the new congregation on December 12, 2011, the 180th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland. The stages in that journey can be read here.

A handy sheet prepared by Stanford University's Health and Safety Department of shortcuts for the MAC.