What Can You Do?

‘Reflecting her belief that grinding poverty was God’s plan for no one, Catherine’s desire to serve the poor explains why she …insisted that her Sisters of Mercy not be confined by cloister or convent walls.’ (Denis Horton. New Zealand. September 2008)

People called to mercy in the tradition of Catherine McAuley are not just spectators. They are active participants in the global movement to continue the works of mercy in ways that are creative and appropriate to the needs of today’s globally aware society.

Mercies are drawn to difference aspects of the global ministry made possible by MIA.

The pamphlet has a list of possibilities which enable each person to choose to be part of the ‘radical communion beyond all borders’ made possible by Mercy International Association.

At this time in the story of the Sisters of Mercy, it is a gift and a privilege to be part of a contemporary realisation that God’s gracious and compassionate Mercy is the wellspring, the source of never failing supply, for all those who cherish and seek to live out this gift of Mercy.

‘God knows that I would rather be cold and hungry than that the poor…. should be deprived of any consolation in my power to afford them.’ (Catherine McAuley to Mary Teresa White, November 1, 1838)