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Sacred
Space Christmas Greetings 2004
Un saludo de Navidad para todas las Hermanas de la Misericordia y asociados. Pedimos por paz especialmente en los lugares donde hay guerra. Que la
esperanza de un mundo nuevo florezca en acciones de justicia y misericordia.
Que las espadas se conviertan en arados para que haya pan para las personas
del mundo.
A Christmas greeting for all Mercy Sisters and associates. We ask for peace
specially in the places where there is war. That the hope of a new world
blooms in actions of justice and mercy. That the swords become plows so that
there is bread for all the people of the world.
Hna. Angelina Mitre/Panamá
 Stable of Bethlehem
Space of tenderness,
home of hospitality
- to an anxious couple
in search of shelter
- to a new-born child,
fragile and vulnerable
- to poor shepherds,
on the margins of society
- to searching Magi, believing in the promise
of the star
As we rejoice in God-with-us
may we become Bethlehem
spaces,
open to receive and embrace
the fragile, the vulnerable,
the displaced
in ourselves
in one another
in our world.
Christmas
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stillness of God, whisper of love
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breath of God, quiet mystery
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light of God, holy wisdom
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shadow of God, birth of mercy.
May God be with us in tenderness and love
this Christmas.
(Card - 'Our Lady of Tenderness' icon by Sr. Aloysius McVeigh
rsm from the original La Vergine, 1350, Monastero do Decani)
The Congregational Leadership Team
From the deep snows of the Haliburton Highlands in Ontario, Canada, I send
greetings of light and warmth to Sisters in Mercy all over the world!
Living here reminds me often of Catherine's pioneering spirit, and her
willingness to endure hardships in order to make Mercy present in new
places. Living in a forest on a river, and heating with wood in -30
temperatures, opens new understanding and relationship with creation in its
season of diminishment and death, also known as dormancy. There are deep
lessons here, a preview of dying and rising that only the earth can give.
So from the depths of cold and snow, the Light of Christmas shines forth in
a warm greeting and joy in abundant life.
Brenda Peddigrew rsm/Newfoundland and Labrador
During this Christmas Season may the peace of Christ be welcomed into the
hearts of all those associated with Mercy throughout the world and may it
spread through them to all those with whom they come in contact.
Sr Rosemary Graham rsm Melbourne/Australia
Christmas greetings from Mercy Western Australia. Peace and joy be yours.
Our love to the Mercies around the world.
Sisters of Mercy Perth/Australia
May the celebratory spirit of Catherine inspire us to be people of hope as
we hold the newborn Christ in our hearts this Christmas and through the year
to come.
Sisters of Mercy Parramatta/Australia
Christmas blessings and joy from Mercy High School in Farmington Hills,
Michigan.
May peace reign on earth!
Nancy Thompson rsm/Americas
To all the Sisters of Mercy throughout the world.
May the Christ Child be born again in all our hearts this Christmas. As we celebrate his birth let us remember the poor and marginalised of the world and let us radiate his love and tenderness to those with whom and for whom we minister.
In love and Mercy. Nollaig faoi shean agus faoi mhaise dibh go leir. A happy and peaceful Christmas to you all. Sisters of Mercy Convent of Mercy TUAM Co. Galway/Ireland
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