This week at Soup and Substance Aedin McLoughlin from Good Energies Alliance Ireland Ltd spoke to a group of more than 20 people on the topic “Why Religious Communities should be concerned about Fracking”

The reflection  undertaken at the meeting can be accessed here

Messages to: Mary Purcell - Assistant Director Mercy Global Action

Fr Liam Lawton will be the celebrant at the Closing Eucharist for the Young Mercy Leaders Pilgrimage in July. Fr Liam is a priest in the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin, Ireland. He is internationally famous for his music. Visit his site here. Thank you Fr  Liam for agreeing to be part of our pilgrimage.

A reminder that registration is still open for the 2013 Pilgrimage of Young Mercy Leaders. Keynote presentations will be combined with workshops, discussions, rituals, socials, and the sharing of gifts and talents in an evening talent show. Details can be accessed here.

Visit the Young Mercy leaders Facebook page here

Messages to: Mary Kay Dobrovolny rsm - Assistant Director Heritage & Spirituality

Sisters of Mercy considering renewal time in 2013 are invited to participate in the month long renewal programme being offered at Mercy International Centre ( 2 June - 29 June).

Presenters are: Marie Chin rsm (Americas), Veronica Lawson rsm (ISMAPNG), Madeline Duckett rsm (ISMAPNG), Janet Ruffing rsm (Americas). Facilitator is Dervilla Byrne (The Congregation)

Summaries from the presentations from the 2012 Wellsprings programme keynote speakers are still available online: Elizabeth Davis rsm, Ray Maria McNamara rsm, Elaine Wainwright rsm and Mary C Sullivan rsm.

Detailed information about the presenters, facilitator and programme which offers participants the opportunity to take 'time out' in an atmosphere of warmth, hospitality, and internationality is linked to this item

Messages to: Mary Kay Dobrovolny rsm - Assistant Director Heritage & Spirituality

Mercy International Association joins with the universal church in praying for Pope Benedict XV1 as he prepares to leave the papacy on February 28.

Messages to: Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director

We pray for hearts free from anxiety and fear and full of self-surrender.
Morning and Evening Prayer of the Sisters of Mercy p 856

Prayers with the intercession of Venerable Catherine McAuley are asked for all whose names are in our hearts and on our prayer list.

Messages to:
Anne Hannon rsm - Vice postulator Europe and Africa
Sheila Carney rsm - Vice postulator Americas
Caroline Ryan rsm - Vice postulator Australia & PNG, Aotearoa New Zealand, Philippines

Black History Month is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for the remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in February and the United Kingdom in October. Source: Wikipedia

In the video linked to this item, Mercy Sisters and Associates recount their experiences and recall the past in order to celebrate the present and hope for the future.

Messages to: Lincoln Sigwald -Mercy Associate, Director of Mercy Association, South Central Community

In Randwick, New South Wales on 19 February, Catholic Religious and colleagues heard case studies of young Australian women forced into marriage in their parents’ home countries. They heard that new Australian legislation will criminalise forced marriage and empower the young women threatened with forced marriage. Speaking on this topic was Associate Professor of Law at UTS, Jennifer Burn, a keynote speaker at the annual national conference of ACRATH, Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans...

Messages to Carole McDonald rsm, Victorian Co-ordinator ACRATH

Editor: The February issue of Stop Trafficking is available for download here

Every two weeks in National Catholic Reporter in the section " Conversations with Sr. Camille," Camille D’Arienzo rsm interviews members of the Catholic Church about how their faith has affected them. In the current issue we meet Laurel Jerome who shares her sources of inspiration - her mother and the Mercy sisters with whom she worked.

Messages to: Camille D'Arienzo rsm

The Search Committee for Mercy High School's next President in its first search did not find a suitable candidate. So they decided to go with an Interim President for academic year 2013-2014. This announcement was made to the faculty Wednesday afternoon, Feb 20th. A letter was mailed to current parents that evening. Brief and lovely asssembly with students first thing Thursday morning. Baltimore Mercys were informed by email Thursday night. Alumnae were informed by email Friday late afternoon. Some more letters were mailed Friday evening to other significant connections.

Further details are linked to this item

Messages to: Carol Wheeler rsm - President

1840: M Clare Augustine Moore professed at Baggot St
1851: Sisters take charge of Illinois General Hospital

'The Book of Flowers' is one of Clare Augustine's most celebrated works. It bears an inscription on its first page that reads 'Convent of Our Lady, St Vincent's Goldenbridge', which dates the manuscript to after 1856, when Clare Augustine began to teach at the school. It consists of the inscription, title page and twenty illuminated prayers.

Turn the pages to view the illuminations by placing your cursor at the corner of the page ( far right) then clicking the cursor.

Rockhaven Ecozoic Center's mission is to create an environment and model a way of living that embodies our connection with Earth.

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