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Sacred
Space Christmas Greetings 2004
Christmas greetings to all who acknowledge their reception of God's Mercy
and live their lives helping to share it with all!
In our tropical city in North Queensland the Combined Churches of
Townsville have been partnered by the City Council to create "Stable on the
Strand" which runs for each evening of Christmas week in Strand Park by the
sea. People of all ages and faiths travel through the large tent
encountering people of 2000 years' ago at their work - activities that were
carried on at the time of Jesus' birth - culminating in the tableau of
Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus. Very many families and individuals have been
rostered to play their part in the scene when Jesus was born in a stable in
Bethlehem. Amid all the commercial and secular festivities, Stable on the
Strand carries the true message of Christmas. May this Christmas be a time
of recommitment for ourselves to thank God for the wonderful gift of Jesus
and to be energised anew to continue spreading the Good News during 2005!
From the Townsville Congregation of Sisters of Mercy, Queensland, Australia.
Every best wish to all as we await the peace and joy the Christ Child brings
this Christmas. And may his message of hope enlighten our lives and bring
each of us blessings and enrichment in mercy in the coming Year - joyfully
receiving and giving!
Affectionately, Mary Stainsby rsm Melbourne congregation/Australia
To all our sisters worldwide - wishing you a Holy and blessed Christmas.
From The Sisters of Mercy Croydon, Great Britain
It gives us great joy to remember in Catherine's House our Sisters,
Associates Colleagues and friends this Christmas. May the gift that
Christmas is bless each and everyone with peace.
Anne, Faith, Barb, JoAnne, Pat, Margaret Mary and Rosie
Mercy International Centre Dublin
MINAHAL KONG MGA SISTERS,
KAMI NAGAHANDUM KANINYO NGA TANAN, NIINING PAGKATAWO SA ATONG MANUNUBOS.
HINAUT UNTA NGA MAGBULAHANONG AND INYONG MGA TUIG
UG MAGPUYO NGA MAAYONG PANGLAWAS UBANAN SA KALINAO NI CRISTO JESUS ATONG
GINOO.
ANG NAGMAHAL NINYO,
(We long for your presence on this beautiful season of the year, the birth
of our savior. We wish you a fruitful year full of peace and wholesome
beginning with christ Jesus our Lord.) We love you.
Sisterf of Mercy Philippine Region-Buffalo
Peace and joy to Mercies, Colleagues and Associates everywhere!
Teresa Browne and Canice Hanrahan. Clonroadmore, ENNIS, Co. Clare, Ireland
May we be ever grateful for the birth of the Christ child.
Christmas Blessings from Sister Celina of Guyana, South America
To all our sisters across the world and in a special way to you who live and
work in foreign mission terrritory and away from home - May you all
experience something of the wonder which the birth of Jesus was in his
world, and may that wonder bring your Incarnate Word to birth in your own
patch of world today. United with each of you in love - through this wonder
of e-mail and mercynews from Fraynework.
Ann (Haughian) & Joan (Mc Manus)
Mission House, Saint Colmcille's, Laytown, Co Meath/Ireland
May our God, who chose to become one of us,
awaken us to his wondrous love for us and listen as we intercede through
Venerable Catherine for all our Sisters, Associates and friends who are ill
at this time.
Anne Hannon RSM/Ireland
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