'Come and see' is a familiar invitation across all of our countries and languages. Mary Waskowiak rsm presently serves as the first MIA Director of Development-Fundraising. Prompted by the interest of a special major donor, Sister Mary created the opportunity for potential donors and new/potential staff to 'Come and see Catherine’s Dublin, yesterday and today'.

Led by the gifted expertise of Sisters Mary Reynolds, Mary Sullivan, Àine Barrins, Mary Kay Dobrovolny and Associate Anne Reid, the U.S.-based tour group experienced Catherine’s first house at Baggot Street, as well as her home with William and Catherine Callaghan at Coolock House. Between both locations, they had a “mini-bus tour” of Dublin, looking at where Catherine had been born and where she lived prior to moving in to assist the Callaghan couple...

Messages to: Mary Waskowiak rsm - MIA Director of Development-Fundraising

Mercy International Association joins with the Kenyan Province of The Congregation in praying for the families of the deceased and the survivors, their families and the people of Kenya, all of whom have been deeply affected by the attack last week at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi.

Messages to: Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director MIA

On Wednesday, September 25th Karen Schneider rsm, M.D. spoke on behalf of the Sisters of Mercy and Mercy International Association at the launch of the UNICEF Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) in New York.

GIWA is an exciting new project that will, for the first time, see the world’s many faiths collaborate on water and sanitation issues...

Messages to: 
Aine O'Connor rsm: MGA Co-ordinator at the UN
Karen Schneider rsm: Speaker

A large number of Sisters gathered in Sydney on Saturday, 7 September for the first Launch of the revised and recently approved Constitutions and Directory of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG)...

The Sisters who gathered for the Launch came from one of four Australian States or from Papua New Guinea, thus making tangible the Institute’s new identity as an international group of Sisters of Mercy. Given this geographic spread of Sisters, it was an occasion for some to meet some others for the first time. In the coming months, as launches take place in ten different places throughout both Papua New Guinea and Australia, many other Sisters will also have the opportunity to meet and experience our growing identity as a new Institute...

Messages to: Faith Jones rsm

Mercy Heritage Center, Belmont, North Carolina, preserves and relates the story of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. As a research and educational resource for the general public, it endeavors to illustrate the vibrant and relevant impact of the Sisters of Mercy on society, and inspire visitors to make personal commitments to similar values.

Invited to contribute to a digital exhibit entitled: “Treasures of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance: Women Religious", Mercy Heritage Center chose images from the Pittsburgh Collection—the first Mercy community in the United States and the first former regional community archives to arrive at Mercy Heritage Center.

You are invited to view the Mercy items (select tab 'Institution' then 'Sisters of Mercy of the Americas) and those from other Congregations in the exhibit which will be online through October 2013. You also have the opportunity to post a comment in response to an item, should you wish to do so.

Messages to: Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications Office

Patricia Powell rsm is a founding member and former Director of Rahamim Ecological Learning Community.

Patricia writes: 'Theologian and philosopher, Bernard Lonergan defines community as “not just a number of people [sic] within a geographical frontier. It is an achievement of common meaning.” He identifies as “markers” for community: common experience, common understanding, common judgements, common decisions and commitments. (Method in Theology p79)

Like so much in our reality, community here refers to communities of the human species – communities formed by beings with self-reflective consciousness. It is that same capacity to reflect consciously on our reality, which has now enabled us to experience the insight that we are part of a planetary community: the community of all being. The markers for this community are somewhat different from the markers Lonergan identifies for human community...'

The complete article can be read here

Messages to: Patricia Powell rsm

Editor: Rahamim Inc is this week's featured Mercy website

The Sisters of Mercy in Argentina are preparing the following activities for Global Frackdown Day on 19 October.
• Interviews on the radio (Media) and online explaining the dangers of fracking
• Prayer
• Work on the topic in Schools-
• Participation in protest marches against Fracking
• Sisters and associates will be wearing tee shirts opposing Fracking

Messages to: Ana Siufi rsm

Reminder: Mercy International Association, through Mercy Global Action, is inviting all Mercy Sisters and Colleagues to participate in or organise events for Global Frackdown Day on 19 October 2013. Full details can be read here

1844: Foundation to Killarney from Limerick - M Elizabeth Moore
1857: Foundation to Sacramento, California from San Francisco
1875: Founding of Monte Sant'Angelo convent, North Sydney - M Ignatius McQuoin
1968: Mission to Andros Island, Bahamas - first from Portland, Maine

'Prayer was her delight and refuge in all her trials'. M Clare Moore

Caring for the Nation tells the story of Ireland's best known and perhaps its most highly regarded hospital, Dublin's Mater Hospital. For 150 years, the Mater has been at the centre of city life, from its beginnings helping the poor of Dublin during the 1800s, when only the wealthy could afford to gain access to medical care, through the dark years of the Civil War and the Emergency, through the rapid medical developments that took place during and after World War II...

Written by Eugene Nolan rsm, the hospital archivist, who nursed there for many years, Caring for the Nation is the definitive history of this Dublin institution, and a fascinating insight into the history and health of the city itself.

Purchase online from the Publishers, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin

Rahamim Inc. is a ministry of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG), located in Bathurst. It situates our traditional Mercy human ministries within the context of a new relationship with all of creation, in a spirit of Mercy.

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