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Covenant Challenges And Commitment
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Carmel McCarthy rsm (The Congregation) writes: ‘It is against… a biblical background of covenant that we may be encouraged to respond as fully as possible to the challenges that Pope Francis makes in his Laudato Si’ (published in 2015). There he writes of the urgent need to ‘educate for a covenant between humanity and the environment’ so as to avoid getting caught up in a whirlwind of needless buying and spending’ (§203). On an encouraging note he challenges us to rise above ourselves and to choose again what is good, to make a new start. What better time than NOW ?…’
Vision in Action
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Prayer
MIA Prayer Intention: For Families
Prayer
MIA Prayer Intention: For Families
Today is International Day of Families. Let us remember especially in our prayers today each of the members of our own families and all who are ‘like family’ to us. May our relationships be strengthened. May any conflicts be resolved. May love bind us together.
Let us remember, too, all new families— the struggling not just the celebrated— and all those mourning the absence of family members dear to them, including the widowed, refugees, prisoners, the homeless, persons who are trafficked, runaways, separated parents...
And let us give thanks also for the life of Jean Vanier who showed us all by his life how to form communities (families) - ‘through mutual respect, care, and love’.
Post your prayer in our online chapel.
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MGP
UISG Campaign for the Planet, Laudato Si' and the Way Forward
MGP
UISG Campaign for the Planet, Laudato Si' and the Way Forward
On 7 May 2019, at UISG XX1, Sheila Kinsey FCJM, Executive Co-Secretary of JPIC Commission UISG / USG and Coordinator of UISG Campaign Sowing Hope for the Planet gave a presentation on the efforts of women religious in putting Laudato Sí ' into practice.
The video of the presentation includes references to the Mercy International Reflection Process and the Sowing Seeds of Hope webinar. It incorporates a Statement of Commitment (used in eNews as this week’s The Bottom Line) and a Call to Action. The Call includes many of the steps taken by MIA during MIRP and since to address degradation of Earth.
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MGP
Videos & Talks in English & Spanish from UISG XX1
MGP
Videos & Talks in English & Spanish from UISG XX1
The five videos of the keynotes at the Plenary Conference can be watched and accompanying texts downloaded singly or as a collection, in English or Spanish, from our website.
The video of Pope Francis’ audience with participants at UISG and the text of his address are also included.
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MIA-MGA
Salve Alumna Receives Mercy International’s Inaugural Emerging Leaders Fellowship
MIA-MGA
Salve Alumna Receives Mercy International’s Inaugural Emerging Leaders Fellowship
Julie Morisi, who is currently pursuing a master’s degree in theology and conflict transformation at Boston University, is planning to combine the fellowship’s research project with her final thesis. “I am excited to have this fellowship as a way to focus my current studies,” she said. “I want to focus my education into the types of global concerns that the Sisters of Mercy prioritize, and I hope to direct my career path towards a profession that promotes mercy and justice.”…
Members' News
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Mercy Health-Youngstown Wins Environmental Award
Americas
Mercy Health-Youngstown Wins Environmental Award
‘YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO – For its work in promoting good environmental practices and developing best practices for other hospitals to follow, the Ohio Hospital Association has presented Mercy Health-Youngstown with the Melvin Creeley Environmental Leadership Award.
The local health system, which includes St. Elizabeth Youngstown and Boardman hospitals and St. Joseph Warren Hospital, has developed initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve management of electricity and gas usage and increase recycling of hazardous waste such as pharmaceuticals and light bulbs….’
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North Sydney
Mercy Wins in National Trust Heritage Awards 2019
North Sydney
Mercy Wins in National Trust Heritage Awards 2019
Sisters of Mercy North Sydney – Our Story is the winner of the ‘Education & Interpretation’ category of the 25th annual National Trust Heritage Awards. ‘This hybrid space for learning, exhibition and experience, communicates the beginnings, characteristics, values and social forces that have shaped the Sisters of Mercy North Sydney.’
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ISMAPNG
Silence is no option - Speak Up For Earth
ISMAPNG
Silence is no option - Speak Up For Earth
The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea invites you to sign our petition and send an important message on climate action to the next Australian Government [to be elected 18 May].
Australia needs to elect a government whose members recognise the reality of a changing climate and who can develop credible policies, plans and actions to address this emergency…
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Ireland
Petition Launched to Save the Four Masters Park
Ireland
Petition Launched to Save the Four Masters Park
This petition is to save the Four Masters’ Park on Berkeley Road in Phibsborough, which is expected to be uprooted to make way for a MetroLink station.
The Four Masters' Park is a small green lung on Berkeley Road in the heart of the North inner-city; one of the very few. It was given by the Sisters of Mercy for the benefit of the local community.
The current plan for the new MetroLink is to consume a substantial part of our green space for the new metro station. Less than 100 metres away from our park is a station already built under the Mater Hospital.
Mercy Matters
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International Days
16 May. International Day of Light
The International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.
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Resource
Walking with the Risen Christ – New Creation Retreat
As we continue our journey through the Easter Season, this audio retreat from the Jesuits in Britain helps us reflect on our relationship with the world around us
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Digital Life
The End of Private Space
‘To live with a part of your mind perpetually in the world of the news, exposed to an entire planet’s worth of mendacity and suffering, railing against events too vast for any individual to alter, is to feel what Greenfield, author of the book Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, calls “a low-grade sense of panic and loss of control”, so normal it has come to feel routine...’
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Artist: Emil NoldeGOSPEL
19 May 2019. 5th Sunday in Easter
John 13:31-35
'The literary context for today’s gospel reading is Jesus’ final meal with his disciples. Jesus has washed the feet of his foot-weary table companions, and has thus provided an example of what it means to love. What he has done for them, they are to do for one another. In other words, no form of service is too menial for a Christian disciple...'
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Facts
On This Day
1863: Foundation to Cahir, Co Tipperary from Cappoquin, Co Waterford - M Teresa Phelan
Contribute a fact from the story of your Mercy congregation, institute or federation, to our online archive.
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Reflection
For the Love of Creation
Christians leaders from across Canada came together on Earth Day to issue an urgent call to climate action.
Their collective message is clear: the global climate crisis has reached a critical stage and requires an urgent moral and spiritual response.
Further Resources
Worth Watching
'The Ground' from Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo.
Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua (Heaven and Earth are full of thy glory)
Experience it here)
Worth Reading
What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland'
‘From prehistoric cave paintings to buried nuclear waste, underground spaces record how humans have lived. To explore Underland means voyaging into the deep past – and raises urgent questions about our planet’s future.’
Read the article by McFarlane on his new book hereWorth Knowing
A Sudanese Slave Starts a New Life in an Italian Convent
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
By Véronique Olmi
Translated by Adriana Hunter
‘Véronique Olmi’s novel retells the story of a strong young woman who was exploited and dehumanized before finding herself in more merciful and hopeful circumstances…’
Read the review here)
Worth Watching
On the Road with Thomas Merton
‘In May 1968, Christian mystic Thomas Merton undertook a pilgrimage to the American West. Fifty years later, filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and writer Fred Bahnson set out to follow Merton’s path, retracing the monk’s journey across the landscape. Amid stunning backdrops of ocean, redwood, and canyon, the film features the faces and voices of people Merton encountered. The essay offers a more intimate meditation on Merton’s life and the relevance of the spiritual journey today.’
Watch the film and read the essay here)
Worth Reading
Wild Abandon
‘The Lake Eyre Basin is one of the largest and most pristine desert river systems on the planet, supporting 60,000 people and a wealth of wildlife…
This year, the water arrived in a way not seen for 45 years…’
Read the article & view stunning imagery hereWorth Knowing
An Extraordinary New Book Dismantles the Myths That Surround Domestic Violence
‘In her extraordinary new book, “No Visible Bruises,” Rachel Louise Snyder reports on what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.”’
Read the article here)
Worth Reading
Archbishop Auza Urges Greater Care of Forests
At the UN Forum on Forests on 6 May, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the United Nations Forum on Forests said: ‘Better management of our forest resources is a crucial part in our care for our common home and for those who live in it.’
Read Archbishop Auza's Statement in full here)
Worth Reading
Nearly all countries agree to stem flow of plastic waste into poor nations
‘Almost all the world’s countries have agreed on a deal aimed at restricting shipments of hard-to-recycle plastic waste to poorer countries, the United Nations announced on Friday.’
Read the article hereSend suggestions and contributions for the ‘Worth’ Section 2019 to: The Editor
The Bottom Line
'We commit ourselves to both personal and communal conversion and
We wish to move forward together in an orchestrated and coordinated response in
Listening to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the Poor
As we go forth as instruments of hope
In the heart of the world.’
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Mercy eNews
The online newsletter of Mercy International Association is published weekly, 48 weeks each year and distributed to subscribers via email.
For more information on the directors click here
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