Lenten Spirituality Reflection Series
You are invited to journey through the Lenten season with MIA through spirituality, prayer, and reflection. There will be a recorded video prayer session each Wednesday as well as written Lenten reflections each Monday and Friday. Each video session will be hosted by a different member of our global Mercy world, and each written reflection will be prepared by the Mercy Emerging Leaders Fellows. The theme of our prayer and reflection this Lent is 'Journey'.
Please complete the form linked below to register for the Lenten Reflection Series. Registrants will receive an email on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday throughout the Lenten Season with reflection and prayer material.
Vision in Action
Mercy International Association
MGA Advocacy Workshop on Water, 1st March 2023 - Ahead of the UN Water Conference
Mercy International Association
MGA Advocacy Workshop on Water, 1st March 2023 - Ahead of the UN Water Conference
Mercy Global Action is offering the first of three virtual advocacy workshops on March 1st. The workshop will focus on Water and will be facilitated via Zoom. A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent via email to all participants.
Date & Time:
Session One - March 1st, 4:00pm NY/9:00pm IRE/8am AEDT (2nd March)
Session Two - March 2nd, 6:00am NY/11:00am IRE/10:00pm AEDT
*It is expected that participants will attend both morning and evening sessions as it is formative in the advocacy workshop process.
Who’s this for? The workshop is open to members of the Mercy World who wish to engage in advocacy for systemic change at local, national, and international levels.
The Workshop: Over the course of the two sessions, the workshop will equip participants with effective tools and strategies to advocate on issues of water justice.
Prayer
MIA Prayer Intention: End Human Trafficking
Prayer
MIA Prayer Intention: End Human Trafficking
As we prepare for the Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita on February 8, we pray especially for an end to all human trafficking. Born in 1869 in Sudan, Saint Bakhita was kidnapped as a young child and sold into slavery. Saint Bakhita was canonized by Pope John Paul II who said “in St. Josephine Bakhita we find a shining advocate of genuine emancipation. The history of her life inspires not passive acceptance but the firm resolve to work effectively to free girls and women from oppression and violence, and to return them to their dignity in the full exercise of their rights” (St. Bakhita’s Canonization Mass, October 1, 2000).
Together, we pray…
St. Josephine Bakhita, you were sold into slavery as a child and endured untold hardship and suffering. Once liberated from your physical enslavement, you found true redemption in your encounter with Christ and his Church. O St. Bakhita, assist all those who are trapped in a state of slavery; Intercede with God on their behalf so that they will be released from their chains of captivity. Those whom man enslaves, let God set free. Provide comfort to survivors of slavery and let them look to you as an example of hope and faith. Help all survivors find healing from their wounds. We ask for your prayers and intercessions for those enslaved among us.
Amen.
Prayer is attributed to the USCCB available here in English and Spanish.
Mercy Matters
Fact
On This Day
February 8, 1832: M Aloysius (Anne) O'Grady died, Baggot St
1837: M Veronica Corrigan died of typhus, Baggot St
Contribute a fact from your Mercy congregation, institute, or federation, to our online archive.
Mercy International Centre
Ash Wednesday Prayer Service
Mercy International Association presents an Ash Wednesday Prayer Service. We encourage all those within our Mercy community and beyond to use this resource on Ash Wednesday. MIA’s theme for Lent this year is ‘journey’. May each of us be called to journey closer to God in the spirit of Mercy.
Mercy Global Action
Please Sign: Civil Society Declaration for the 61st Commission on Social Development
Sr. Angela Reed rsm is the current Member-at-Large of the NGO Commission on Social Development, a group dedicated to promoting People-Centred Development through the UN.
This year, the aim of the 61st Session of the Commission for Social Development is "Creating full and productive employment and decent work for all as a way of overcoming inequalities to accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development".
In order to achieve this, we are working towards a Renewed Social Contract.
Regardless of ECOSOC accreditation, all individuals and organizations are allowed to sign. Mercy Global Action would greatly appreciate your support by signing the Declaration.
Further Resources
Worth Watching
The Pope Video January: For Parishes
In The Pope Video for February, Francis tells us that parishes “have to become once again schools of service and generosity, with their doors always open to those who are excluded. And to those included. To all.” Parishes must be “close-knit communities, without bureaucracy, people-centered.” Pope Francis asks us to “be daring” to create parishes like this.
View the Video
Worth Knowing
Americas, Mercy Justice Team offers Border Immersion Experiences in 2023
The Justice Team for the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas is offering two border immersion experiences in 2023.
June 4-9, 2023, El Paso, Texas, USA/Juárez, CI, Mexico, hosted by the Columban Mission Center. Details here.
October 1-6, 2023, Rio Grande Valley, South Texas (McAllen), hosted by ARISE and its Mercy Associates. Details here.
Worth Watching
2022 Report on SDG 1: End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere
As we begin 2023, we look in reflection to 2022 and how we as a global community have accomplished progress with the Sustainable Development Goals set forth by the UN. This report details a derailment for SDG 1 - from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine. Watch the short video, view the infographics, and read the report at the link below.
View the Video, Infographic, & Report
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
