September 24, 2018
Mercy Day
This message by Pope Francis was released on Friday 17 June to highlight an awareness and fund-raising initiative by the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
The recruitment process to fill the post will commence in September 2016.
Every year on June 20th, World Refugee Day, the world takes time to recognise the resilience of people forcibly displaced by wars, conflict and persecution.
Today we publish on our website reflections on the significance of Laudato Si' from Margaret Twomey rsm (The Congregation) and Patricia Powell rsm (ISMAPNG).
Poem with introduction by Jo O'Donovan rsm
MIA joins with our Sisters, Associates and partners-in-Mercy in the United States in prayers and heartfelt sympathy for the relatives, friends and community members of the deceased and wounded victims of the mass shooting
World Environment Day (5 June), Sacred Earth, Sacred Trust (12 June) and the first anniversary of Laudato Si' (18 June), forming part of Laudato Si' week (12-19 June) are important environmental events this month.
Prayer intention for the week 15-21 June
We sat down to talk of Jubilee – Mercy, Golden – and wondered where the years since Silver had gone. Hard to grasp that it was our turn to be golden.