September 24, 2018
Mercy Day
The MIRP Guiding Team and Congregation and Institute Coordinators, together with Mary Reynolds rsm (Executive Director MIA) and Elizabeth Davis rsm (Congregation Leader Newfoundland and MIA Member Liaison), met from 27-31 March in Dublin.
Editor: We are delighted to announce that on Monday this week we learned Mercy eNews was a bronze award winner in the Newsletter section of the 2016 Horizon Interactive Awards.
For the past month we have been praying for the peoples and places of our world affected by drought or flooding rains.
On the Feast of the Annunciation, the little Chapel at Convent of Mercy in Mobile, Alabama, USA, was overflowing with Sisters of Mercy, their Associates, and friends of Sister Mary Aidan Donaldson. All had assembled to celebrate Sr Mary Aidan
A fearsome question could well be on our lips at the end of our human days: “Lord, when was it that we saw you thirsty and did not care for you?”
On 10 March the world learnt from UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien that we now face the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries —Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nige
St Patrick- a story worth recalling, if for no other reason but its relevance to today's reality.
To help each one of us prepare for the Season of Lent (1 March - 13 April), we have collated here a number of new- for- 2017 free online resources for your reading, listening, viewing, praying and reflection.
Registration for the fourth biennial Pilgrimage of Young Mercy Leaders, secondary school students (18 July- 21 July 2017) closes on Friday, St Patrick's Day, 17 March.