Morning prayer is prayed in the Chapel at 8.45am on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the year, except when Mass is being celebrated in the House during a programme or for a special event. At such times, the prayer intentions are included with the General Intercessions.

On Tuesdays: we remember in our prayer intentions requested by visitors to the Oratory, visitors to the Chapel and those received on the Mercyworld.org website in the online prayer rooms: the Chapel, the Graveside and the Canonisation Cause Prayer Centre.

On Thursdays: we remember in our prayer the prayer intention most recently published in MercyeNews.

Residents of and Visitors to Dublin and Guests staying at Baggot Street are welcome to pray Morning Prayer with the Team and Staff at MIC. Office books are provided.

Messages to: Anna Nicholls rsm - Team Leader Heritage & Spirituality

25 April marks the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli where, before the campaign ended in January 1916, 44,150 Allies would lose their lives in an effort to secure the peninsula and 86,692 Ottoman soldiers would die in defence of their homeland. For over 8 months troops from Australia, Great Britain and Ireland, France, India, and Newfoundland battled harsh conditions and Ottoman forces. Total casualties amounted to 392,856.

Let us pray with the relatives and communities of those who lost their lives in this campaign, in World War One— "The war to end all wars" —and in all the wars fought since.

Let us pray with renewed vigour today for those parts of our world where there is conflict, unrest or uncertain peace, that peace will be restored.

Post your own Prayer or Reflection in our online Chapel

Messages to: Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director MIA

27 participants - Mercy board directors, senior managers, school principals and deputies, together with Sisters of Mercy and the group's 2 facilitators - have just concluded an intensive and successful week at Mercy International Centre. They were participating in a Mercy Leadership Program and Dublin Pilgrimage, organised by ISMAPNG in partnership with MIA.

The experience is designed to provide formation in the founding story of Mercy and inspiration for leadership in Mercy mission today.

Mercy International Centre is offering a 5-day Ethos program for administrators, staff and board members of Mercy ministries from1-5 October 2018. It is an opportunity for participants to strengthen their approach to Mercy leadership and mission in the context of today's challenges. Places are still available.

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Messages to: Anna Nicholls rsm - Team Leader Heritage & Spirituality

Image: Participants in this week's program

On Sunday, 15 April, 42 Mercy Associates visited Baggot Street for Mass in the Chapel celebrated by their chaplain, Canon Alan McLean, followed by a tour of the house and afternoon tea in the dining room. The Associates were on pilgrimage in Ireland from 15-20 April, visiting significant Mercy sites such as Baggot Street and Coolock House, the ancient monastic site of Clonmacnoise and Ireland's National Marian Shrine at Knock.

In his homily, Canon Alan, himself a Mercy 'old boy' spoke movingly of the contagion that is Catherine McAuley, how she took from all the opportunities of life that came her way, not just for herself but for others, and how if we walk with her she will take us to a miracle of God's presence - the Resurrection.

The pilgrimage was organised by the National Commission of England, Scotland and Wales, a body of Mercy Associates and Sisters who have responsibility for the Mercy Associate Movement (M.A.M.), some of whom (pictured below) were on the pilgrimage.

Messages to: National Commission of England, Scotland and Wales

Image: Back row: Maurice Regan, Canon Alan McLean
            Front row: Bridie Stephens rsm, Brid Regan, Joan Breen rsm, May Raughter, Betty Larkin rsm
 

Since our last update in March, there have been two rounds of intergovernmental negotiations towards a Global Compact on Migration.

Within the second round, the Co-Facilitators of the process, Ambassadors of Mexico and Switzerland, took a step back from proceeding through negotiations objective by objective to ensure that some main areas of contention between Member States were discussed...

Messages to: Angela Reed rsm - MIA Coordinator at the UN - Mercy Global Action

As a Mercy Community, we pray with those in need of physical healing through the intercession of Catherine McAuley.

God of love and mercy, touch with your healing power and restore to full health: Mark and all who have previously asked for our prayers.

We ask this with confidence through the intercession of Venerable Catherine McAuley. Amen.

Messages to: the Vice postulators

In 1945 Yvonne McLay (Sr Anne McLay) joined the Brisbane Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy and in this beautiful autumn season in Australia is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. Anne over these years has contributed to Mercy worldwide through writings, lectures and creative endeavours.

In the Australian Constitutions, written when the Sisters of Mercy became an Institute in 1981, her own call is echoed with all of ours in the section Our Way of Life:

 "We are called to be symbols of a radically transformed meaning of life
-A life that finds the sacred in everything,
-A life that is a powerful sign of profound joy and a deep sense of belonging.
-Through our graced womanhood, we witness, in a particular way to the human face of God.”...

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Messages to: Anne McLay rsm

'We will enjoy and celebrate Earth’s beauty and bounty and her many species. We will honour our duty to love and care for her and add to her well-being wherever possible.'
(Chapter Statement)

Plastic pollution is now considered amongst the greatest of environmental threats, because it is literally found everywhere.

Plastic pollution is attacking Australia’s beaches, waterways and oceans, and the animals that live there...

Messages to: Maria Lawton rsm - Congregation Leadership Team

'...In line with our commitment to "Promote Flourishing Communities of Life for all of Life", we have decided to divest from Companies involved in the production or burning of fossil fuels. We believe now is the time for action...' Complete Statement here

Editor: Sisters of Mercy Northern Province was among the institutions announced by the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) on April 22, Earth Day, as making the pledge to divest from fossil fuels. A full list of Catholic institutions to have joined the campaign is here. 

The widely reported divestment announcement is part of a continuing campaign by the GCCM to encourage Catholic entities to move investments to renewable energy enterprises.

More information about the GCCM and divestment can be found on their website here

Messages to: Sisters of Mercy Northern Province

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'It is not every day that one receives a call extending an invitation to engage in an act of civil disobedience. Yet this is what happened to me early in February 2018...

Ultimately, this is an act of faith. I have no idea who will be moved to take action by what we did or if anyone will be moved. However, our action can be thought of as one snowflake that will coalesce with many others to finally break the branch and bring about justice for our immigrant sisters and brothers.'

Messages to: Karen Donahue rsm

Image: Sister Karen Donahue (far right) stands with other Catholic women religious for justice for immigrants.

'Again and again, life's experiences teach us that, as members of the Earth community, we cannot make it on our own. We need one another, other living beings, the sun, the soil, the water and everything else that formed from exploding stars in the distant past...'

Read the Reflection on the Gospel by Veronica Lawson rsm (ISMAPNG)

Listen to the Gospel read by Fr Eamonn O'Connor (Ireland)

'God needs people to bring the message of [God's] pardon and mercy to the world. To be collaborators of mercy, therefore, presupposes to live the merciful love which we ourselves have first received.'

-Pope Francis to Missionaries of Mercy, 10 April 2018

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‘The Townsville Sisters remain active in diverse ways: sharing with other community members or the world at large, living simply in a world overflowing with commodities, living ecologically, moving into new areas of ministry, ministering to one another, sharing worldly goods with those in need, speaking the truth about unjust structures, living non-violently, offering hospitality, and living a life dedicated to justice and peace.’

- Gaye Lennon rsm, Institute Councillor

1832: Sisters asked to take care of cholera victims, Townsend St Centre, Dublin
1832: M Elizabeth Harley (professed with Catherine '31) died, Baggot St
1853: Foundation to Lancaster from Liverpool (closed July 1928)
1872: Foundation to Meriden from Ennis - M Teresa Perry
1911: Foundation to Goondiwindi, Queensland from Brisbane - M Albert
1921: Opening of Claremont Hospital, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

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The Mercy Association is inspired by the Vision of Catherine McAuley.

It is an opportunity for lay people to deepen their own prayer life and spirituality.

Associates are called to unite themselves with Christ under the banner of Mercy, in corporal and spiritual works...
wherever there is a need ...