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MIA-MGA Advocate for All Experiencing Homelessness
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October 10 marks World Homeless Day. The MIA- Global Action office continues to advocate for all those experiencing homelessness through its participation in the UN Working Group to End Homelessness (WGEH). The WGEH collaborates with the United Nations, global platforms to end homelessness, and academic centers such as the Institute for Global Homelessness at DePaul University. The current focus of this working group is to 1. End Street Homelessness 2. Address systems and structural inequalities together to address Street Sleepers and Hidden Homelessness (disproportionately affecting women and children. Targets include: Addressing all structural and personal drivers of homelessness inter alia; alleviating domestic and family violence; upgrading slums; preventing evictions; increasing social protections; promoting measurement, counts, and disaggregated data regarding persons experiencing homelessness; and building communities’ resources to address housing insecurity and inadequacy. 3. Identifying and highlighting good practices including: support services; leading organizations, technological opportunities; measurement tools. 4. Reviewing research regarding COVID-19, and framing recommendations within the current global pandemic and prospects for a ‘post COVID-19 world”.
We can respond in numerous ways to the issue of homelessness…
Vision in Action
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Programmes
2022 Programme Booklet: Young Mercy Leaders, Sabbatical Retreat, Eco-Spirituality, & more!
Programmes
2022 Programme Booklet: Young Mercy Leaders, Sabbatical Retreat, Eco-Spirituality, & more!
MIA’s Heritage and Spirituality Team recently announced a programme schedule for 2022. Programmes are available both online and at Baggot Street in Dublin, Ireland.
The programme booklet provides dates and programme descriptions, new rates for conference room rentals, and information for scheduling group visits with your school. Just a few of the programme highlights include:
- Catherine’s Suscipe: Prayer of a Social Mystic in March
- Sustainable Development through a Mercy Lens in May
- Eco-Spirituality & The 8th Work of Mercy in June
- Young Mercy Leaders Pilgrimage for both University and High School/Secondary students in July
- A new Sabbatical Retreat in October
These programmes and more are detailed in the information booklet. In-person programmes are being offered in a variety of time commitments including week, weekend, and day. Information about programme speakers/facilitators and additional details will be released in upcoming issues of Mercy eNews.
If you are interested in any programmes detailed in the booklet, please do not hesitate to reach out to the MIA H&S staff at programmes@mercyinternational.ie.
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Prayer
MIA Prayer Intention: Non-violence
Prayer
MIA Prayer Intention: Non-violence
On October 2nd, the world celebrated International Day of Non-violence. A few days later, on October 4th, the Catholic community celebrated the Feast of St. Francis. These days commemorate two great spiritual leaders, Mahatma Gandhi and St. Francis of Assisi, who still share much of their wisdom with us today. In prayer, let us remember their collective call for peace, for protection of our common home, and for trust and tolerance.
In the words of Ghandi, “I am praying for the light that will dispel the darkness; let all those with a living faith in nonviolence join me in the prayer.” Let us pray for nonviolence with the words of St. Francis…
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Members News
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Mercy Investment Services, Americas
Mercy Investments: Advocating for an Inclusive and Equitable Global Food System
Mercy Investment Services, Americas
Mercy Investments: Advocating for an Inclusive and Equitable Global Food System
More than 811 million people globally are undernourished, more than 2.3 billion people lack year-round access to adequate food, and yet approximately 30 percent of all food produced is wasted each year.
Through company engagements, Mercy Investment Services is addressing food systems challenges. In collaboration with the Access to Nutrition Initiative, Mercy engages food and beverage manufacturers, including Kellogg and Nestlé, on the nutritional quality of their products, accessibility and affordability, and responsible marketing. Mercy and partners also engage retailers and restaurants on food waste reduction efforts. Darden Restaurants, for example, has more than doubled their waste diversion rate since 2008 and donated over 6.3 million pounds of food in 2020. Finally, Mercy and partners engage food and beverage manufacturers and retailers on transitioning to regenerative agriculture practices that promote soil and water health, protect biodiversity, and ensure farmer livelihoods.
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The Holy See Approves Mercy Ministry Companions
ISMAPNG
The Holy See Approves Mercy Ministry Companions
In February 2020, the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea proceeded towards formation of a Public Juridic Person of Pontifical Rite to oversee the future canonical governance of the Institute’s incorporated ministries in Australia. In a Decree appropriately dated 24 September 2021, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, approve the formation of the new entity, ‘Mercy Ministry Companions’.
Institute Leader, Eveline Crotty RSM said the Decree means the Institute Leadership can now proceed towards passing the ministries to the canonical authority of Mercy Ministry Companions, with a proposed establishment date of December 3. Mercy Ministry Companions will be responsible for the canonical governance of the Institute’s ministries under three ministry groups – Mercy Education, Mercy Health and Aged Care and a new entity called Mercy Community Services which will encompass the ministries of Mackillop Family Services, McAuley Community Services for Women, Mercy Connect and Mercy Services.
Mercy Matters
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Fact
On This Day
1917: Fire partially destroyed St Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona (it was rebuilt within three months)
Contribute a fact from your Mercy congregation, institute, or federation, to our online archive.
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Member News
Children's Grief Centre Ireland to be Featured on RTE Nationwide
The Children's Grief Centre, led by CEO Sr Helen Culhane, is delighted to announce that they will be featured in an upcoming episode of Nationwide on RTÉ One (Ireland). Tune in on Monday 11th October at 7pm to see their feature.
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prayer
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
“Not too many of us commit murder or adultery. Not too many take hostages or give false testimony in a court of law. Most are ready to honour and care for their parents in their old age....”
Further Resources
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Worth Watching
The Pope Video: Missionary Disciples
At work, with your family, with your friends, when you meet someone by chance... Any moment is suitable for being a missionary disciple. We can all be available for the mission, which is based, as Francis says, on an encounter between people, on the testimony of life of men and women.
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Worth Knowing
Vatican Museums Collection: The Works of Mercy #10
Explore the masterpieces in the papal collections accompanied by the words of the Popes. Today, view The Works of Mercy #10.
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Worth Watching
New Meditation Resource from CHAUSA
Catholic Health Association of the United States offers Meditative Reflections. Listen to Both Day and Night for 1 minute 45 seconds to recenter yourself.
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Worth Reading
Infographics: SDGs & UN Human Rights mechanisms from a Feminst Perspecitve
The Wome’s Major Group created a series, “SDGs & UN Human Rights mechanisms from a feminist perspective”, in infographics. The infographics were written by Diyana Yahya and designed by Naadira Patel of SSWW and are available in English, Spanish, and French.
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Members of Mercy International
Members of Mercy International Association share the passion of their foundress, Catherine McAuley, to bring mercy to people who are poor, sick and uneducated.
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Mercy eNews
The online newsletter of Mercy International Association is published fortnightly, 24 weeks each year and distributed to subscribers via email.
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