Mercy Global Presence (MGP) 'Integrated' Themes  Are Gifts For This Laudato Si' Week

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MIA Prayer Intention: Laudato Si' Week

Prayer

MIA Prayer Intention: Laudato Si' Week

Prayer

MIA Prayer Intention: Laudato Si' Week

‘As we contemplate new understandings of our world, let us pray
God of wisdom,
Help us to embrace new ways of seeing our world and our connections
with all living beings.
Open our hearts to others
as expressions of your love.
Inspire us to encourage, empower and enable others to seek new ways of living the Gospel in a changing world.
Help us to live always with love, peace, mercy and justice.
Amen’
Source: Mercy Partners Laudato Si’ Prayers (PDF)

Post your prayer in our online chapel

MESSAGES TO: Berneice Loch rsm CEO MIA
Reflective Posters on Segment Four 'Integrated' Now Online for May Gatherings

MGP

Reflective Posters on Segment Four 'Integrated' Now Online for May Gatherings

MGP

Reflective Posters on Segment Four 'Integrated' Now Online for May Gatherings

The posters for Segment Four, Themes One and Two and accompanying reflection guides are now available here for download.

Bookings for the Regional Gatherings are being confirmed as received. Bookings remain open until the day before the Gathering. All are welcome to participate in a Gathering or Gatherings.

If you have already registered for any of the Gatherings you should have received an email with the zoom link and details of the Gathering.

MESSAGES TO: MGP Guiding Group
Mercy Global Action Network Called to Recognise Nakba Day

MGA

Mercy Global Action Network Called to Recognise Nakba Day

MGA

Mercy Global Action Network Called to Recognise Nakba Day

May 14th marks Nakba (Catastrophe) day for the Palestinian people. At a recent gathering of the Mercy Global Action Network, Sr Kathleen Rushton called on the Mercy World to acknowledge the Palestinian people and to make an effort to learn about the significance of Nakba and its implications.  We are invited to listen to Indigenous Palestinians in a significant document**, ‘A Cry for Hope: A Call to Decisive Action. We cannot serve God and the oppression of the Palestinians’.** Published less than a year ago by Kairos Palestine and Global Kairos for Justice, it calls on all people of faith for decisive action in relation to the people of Palestine over their continuing loss of land since 1947…

Members' News

Jesus Prays for All Disciples

Aotearoa New Zealand

Jesus Prays for All Disciples

Kathleen Rushton rsm discusses how John 17:6-19 can challenge and support our commitment to justice in the world. Sr Kathleen writes: ‘As a Christian community, we need to confront modern human slavery and worker exploitation in our world — and eradicate it.’

Download the article here

All Hallows' School Celebrates 160 Years of Mercy Education

Brisbane

All Hallows' School Celebrates 160 Years of Mercy Education

The 10th of May is always a special day at All Hallows' School but this year, the celebration of the School's Foundation Day was particularly special. This year, we celebrated the 160th anniversary since the arrival of Mother Vincent Whitty and her companions who, soon after their arrival, started what we now know as All Hallows' School.

Students began the day by creating a 160 formation on the terrace lawn which we filmed and photographed using a drone. The images are a stark reminder of just how much we have grown as a school community. Mother Vincent Whitty would never have imagined that her school would be educating nearly 1600 students each day…

Rosary of Creation

Americas

Rosary of Creation

Sister Anamaria Siufi of Argentina has created a Rosary of Creation for individual and group reflection on quotes from Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si. The rosary is made up of three videos: the joyful mysteries, the sorrowful mysteries and the mysteries of the fullness of the universe. A brief guide offers suggestions for how you might pray these with a group.

Mercy Matters

21 May, International Tea Day

International days

21 May, International Tea Day

2021 marks ten years of MIA's Good Cup of Tea. Join us this year in the ‘Season of Mercy’ - from Mercy Day (24th September) to Foundation Day (12th December) - and share in a Good Cup of Tea with your family and friends.

All funds raised from these events will go towards the Heritage Redevelopment at Mercy international Centre.

Pentecost Sunday, Year B Duccio di Buoninsegna - Pentecost. Public domain

Gospel

Pentecost Sunday, Year B

John 20:19-23

'Pentecost Sunday is often called the birthday of the Church. For the ancient Israelites, Pentecost (meaning “fiftieth”) was a harvest festival celebrated 50 days after the beginning of the harvest. When the Jerusalem Temple was built, this harvest festival was transformed into a pilgrimage feast to celebrate the covenant that God had made with Israel on Mt Sinai. In the decades following the death of Jesus, the early Christians reflected on their origins and chose this feast to mark the birth of God's new covenant with God's people...'

UISG: Leadership in Times of Crisis- Religious Leaders Share Congregational Resources

Resource

UISG: Leadership in Times of Crisis- Religious Leaders Share Congregational Resources

‘How has COVID 19 disrupted your personal life? Your community life? Your teaching, nursing, etc.? What consequences does COVID 19 have for you? For your community? For your institution? What has changed?’

Downloads:

Videos: English & Spanish
PPT: English & Spanish
Handout: English & Spanish

NASA’s View of Earth, in Music

Digital Life

NASA’s View of Earth, in Music

Discover what NASA’s Earth data sounds like when it’s turned into music.

On This Day

Fact

On This Day

1897: Foundation to Bridgeworth from Shrewsbury

Contribute a fact from the story of your Mercy congregation, institute or federation, to our online archive.

9 Days of Prayer (Novena) for the Care of Creation

Resource

9 Days of Prayer (Novena) for the Care of Creation

The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has prepared nine days of prayer reflecting on the account of creation in the book of Genesis. There is an online version and a downloadable version (PDF)

Further Resources

Every Country Has Its Own Climate Risks. What’s Yours?

Worth Reading

Every Country Has Its Own Climate Risks. What’s Yours?

An interactive exploration of global climate risks

Insert where you live and see how your country compares
Latest Issue of The Yale ISM Review Now Online

Worth Reading

Latest Issue of The Yale ISM Review Now Online

‘How do music, the arts, ritual, and worship affect the way we experience disasters? How do they help us make sense of death, loss, and anguish? In a year that has been marked by disaster for so many people across the globe, these questions are as important as ever. This issue of The Yale ISM Review invites readers to explore these questions in several different contexts…’

Access the articles exploring these questions
Matthew Fox: 'Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic and Beyond'

Worth Knowing

Matthew Fox: 'Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic and Beyond'

In introducing us to the teachings of Julian of Norwich in their reflective prayer for MGP Segment 3, Theme One ‘Presence Of, To and With God’, Josephine Davies rsm and Cathy Edge rsm (GB Institute) alerted us to the fact that Julian lived at the time of the pandemic known as the bubonic plague. Matthew Fox in his latest book offers the next step in understanding Julian’s insights and their relevance for our time.

Order the book from iUniverse (ebook or soft cover)

Catholic Social Teaching

Worth Reading

Catholic Social Teaching

‘*Rerum novarum,* Pope Leo XIII's encyclical  “On Capital and Labour” which was published on 15 May 1891, is considered to be the founding text of Catholic Social Teaching. Explore the body of teaching, often called “the Church's best kept secret”, that has developed in the 130 years since.’

Read about Catholic Social Teaching on Thinking Faith >>
Clare Sands, Steve Cooney & Tommy Sands perform ‘Abair Liom do Rúin (Tell Me Your Secrets)’

Worth Watching

Clare Sands, Steve Cooney & Tommy Sands perform ‘Abair Liom do Rúin (Tell Me Your Secrets)’

The second in a four part collaboration
‘Tírdreacha agus Fuaimdreacha’ (Landscapes and Soundscapes) by Clare Sands with Irish artists. The first, ‘Carry My Song’ was the musical highlight in Mercy eNews issue #906.

Watch/listen here
The Laudato Si' Action Platform Overview

Worth Knowing

The Laudato Si' Action Platform Overview

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform is being ‘launched’across the world on Monday, May 24th 2021. 
All of us are invited to a public commitment to begin the journey.
Vision for Action – the purpose of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform is: To create communities around the world totally sustainable in the spirit of the integral ecology of Laudato Si’…

Read the article here

Send suggestions and contributions for the ‘Worth’ Section 2021 to: The Editor

The Bottom Line

‘This Pentecost, let us look again. In this age of colliding catastrophes, the urgency of the moral and spiritual connection of humanity, creation, and Creator has been starkly unveiled. Yet the vision of Pentecost still shines…

Indeed, if need is the criterion, now is  the best of times for the rush of a mighty wind of renewal.  The pain of a fearful future threatens every particle of creation. We need the hope of the Pentecost vision of life and love.  Yet how are we to become ecclesial communities fired by love of the Lord and united by passion for [God’s] people and [God’s] creation?  Where shall we look for the Pentecostal hope that gives birth to a new heaven and a new earth?…’ Read more

—The Presidents of the World Council of Churches, Pentecost Message, May 2021

Mercy eNews

The online newsletter of Mercy International Association is published fortnightly, 24 weeks each year and distributed to subscribers via email.

For more information on the directors click here