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Easter 2004

Wishing all our Mercy Sisters, Associates and Co-workers a blessed Easter 2004.

Easter

E Nga mana, e Nga waka, e Nga hau e wha, tenei koutou katoa i te Aranga o Hehu Karaiti.

Greetings to you all at this time of Resurrection!

Your Sisters of the Federation of Aotearoa New Zealand send you this greeting and our love and support in your communities and ministries around the world. May Easter be a special time of blessing for each of you.

Mary Hanrahan rsm
Aotearoa, New Zealand

May the joy and hope of the great feast of Easter fill your hearts, your homes, our nations and the whole world. May you be blessed in many ways.

Sisters and Associates, Newfoundland and Labrador

As we look around at the suffering in our world during this Holy Week, may we be signs of hope and resurrection to all those we meet.

Sisters of Mercy Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

The Sisters of Mercy of Wellington, New Zealand Aotearoa, pray that God's glorious liberation of Jesus from the tomb may empower you all to live in Easter freedom and joy.

Loving greetings and wishing abundance of joy and peace to all

May your Easter days be lightened by many Christ appearances

From Pat Fox, Paula Smith, Gwen Garland, Jenny Hartley and everyone at the National Centre
Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia

SONG OF MERCY

These two long days of waiting, waiting ...
Of emptying out of empty hopes
And emptier certainties,
Yield to God's call to venture out in darkness,
On Mercy Mission
To the dead and dying all around ....

So that, with Mary,
We may hear Him call our name;
May recognise in all our emptiness,
The fullness of the glory:
His rising from the dead!

Our song, His Song of Mercy:

ALLELUIA!

Marcella Blake rsm
Sisters of Mercy, Perth, Australia

Tena koutou, e tuahine ma. Nga mihi o te wa [Greetings, Sisters, at this time]

May the spirit of Easter be with you in these days of Triduum.

With love

Denise and the Wellington Mercies
Aotearoa, New Zealand

A Prayer for Faith

O give me faith
That I may be
Alive when April's
Ecstasy
Dances in every
White-thorn tree.

O give me faith
That I may see
The angel of
The mountainy
Places of Dream's
Infinity.

by Patrick Kavanagh

In this time of Easter ecstasy

  • may all brokenness be made whole
  • may our dreams for new life be fulfilled and
  • may we come to know in our living the truth of resurrection.

Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy Brazil, Britain, British Columbia, Ireland, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, United States and Zambia.

May the Lord light your life with the courage, love and joy of his resurrection

Happy Easter from the Brisbane Mercies

Easter Greetings to all Sisters of Mercy and Associates throughout the world. We will be gathering as a Community and with our Associates this Easter Sunday for lunch. We will remember you all in our "opening prayer". We acclaim the first words of the Resurrected Christ "Peace".

From the Cairns Sisters of Mercy, Australia

Greetings to all Mercy Sisters and colleagues from the Mercy Justice Office, Belfast N.Ireland. May the Risen Christ renew our hearts with hope, peace and joy this Easter Season.

Mary De Largy rsm

Happy Easter greetings to all our sisters. May we have great hope in the truth that by his passion, death and resurrection Jesus is slowly transforming this world of ours.

Love Joy Ryan

Happy Easter
May you experience the joy and the peace of our Risen Saviour.

Colleen Wilkinson rsm, South Africa

May our personal joy and renewed hope at the Resurrection, and the reassurance of Christ's presence in our lives and ministries, inspire us with the courage and confidence we need to carry on, no matter the cost or times of anxiety and discouragement. "Know that I am with you always, even to the end of time." Matt. 28:20

Institute of Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

In the celebration of Eucharist we acclaim so often "Lord by your cross and resurrection you have set us free". During this Easter Season, we greet and pray for 'Mercies' throughout the world that all will receive blessings of freedom, forgiveness, peace, love and joy!

Sisters of Mercy Congregation Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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