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Mercy International Centre Closes Temporarily for Essential Works
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At the end of September 2025, Mercy International Centre at 64A Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, closed its doors to the public to allow for final preparations for essential works which will take place in the house over the coming months.
While the house was closed to the public, the work of Mercy International Association continued during October alongside the significant task of packing up Catherine McAuley’s historic house.
Our CEO, Mary O'Donovan, shares an update on Catherine's House.
Updates from Mercy Global Action
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Mercy Global Action - MELF Cohort Five
Cambodia Immersion: Threads of Mercy, Friendship and Hope
Mercy Global Action - MELF Cohort Five
Cambodia Immersion: Threads of Mercy, Friendship and Hope
The first immersion experience for Cohort Five of our Mercy Global Action Emerging Leaders Fellowship (MELF) took place in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from 25 September to 5 October. Pamela McLoughlin, a Fellow from Ireland, shares her experience of her time in Cambodia.
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Mercy Global Action
15th Global Forum for Migration and Development Summit in Riohacha, Colombia
Mercy Global Action
15th Global Forum for Migration and Development Summit in Riohacha, Colombia
Cecilie Kern represented Mercy International Association and the NGO Committee on Migration at this year’s Global Forum for Migration and Development Summit, bringing Mercy experiences and values into strategic dialogues to shape civil society advocacy priorities and technical meetings with governments and stakeholders on rights-based solutions and partnerships.
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Mercy Global Action - Cambodia
Cambodia Immersion: Reflection of Programme Manager Marietta Latonio
Mercy Global Action - Cambodia
Cambodia Immersion: Reflection of Programme Manager Marietta Latonio
Marietta Latonio, Programme Manager for the Mercy Global Action Emerging Leaders Programme, shares a reflection on the immersion experience in Cambodia that was undertaken by Cohort Five.
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Mercy Global Action - MELF Cohort Four
Watch the research presentations by MELF Cohort Four
Mercy Global Action - MELF Cohort Four
Watch the research presentations by MELF Cohort Four
MELF Cohort Four presented their research on Monday 1st September and Tuesday 2nd September 2025, in person at Mercy International Centre in Dublin and online via Zoom. You can now watch their research presentations on our You Tube Channel.
Mercy Matters
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Fact
On This Day
29 October 1836
Foundation to Charleville, Co Cork from Baggot St - M Angela Dunne
30 October 1986
Foundation to Piet Retief, South Africa.
31 October 1866
Foundation to Nashville, Tennessee from Rhode Island - M Clare McMahon.
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MIA
Take Five with MIA's Sr Anne Lyng RSM
Sr Anne Lyng RSM is a Sister of Mercy from Co Cavan in Ireland who has recently joined Mercy International Association as Co-ordinator of Opening Doors. She sat down and took five minutes with us to chat about her life, ministry and new role with MIA.
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Communications
Join us for our Mercy Communications Café on social media
Registration is open for our Mercy Communications Café on Wednesday 19th November. We have invited communications practitioners to open up their social media case files with us so as we can learn from each others experiences.
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Communications
Mercy Echoes Podcast Episode Seven
Our guest for episode seven of our Mercy Echoes Podcast is Karen Schneider RSM, MD,MPH. Karen is a Pediatric Emergency Physician at John’s Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, Maryland in the US. Karen speaks to us about her dual vocation to religious life and to medicine. She shares a day in her busy life which involves living in community and working on the frontline of emergency care.
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Spirituality
In November, We Remember
November is the month of remembrance. We will be sharing a special prayer service online during which we will reflect on the last hours of Catherine McAuley and her death at 64a Lower Baggot Street on 11 November 1841. This video resource will be available on our home page for 11th November.
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Heritage
Discover more about Mercy on our heritage portal
Preservica is our online heritage portal designed to provide access to a wealth of primary sources related to Catherine McAuley and the foundation of the Sisters of Mercy. This portal aims to inspire the Mercy World by showcasing a selection of digital images from MIA’s extensive archive. If you have not had a chance to explore it, why not have a look today?
Further Resources
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Worth Reading
First Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Leo focuses on love for the poor
Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te sees the love of Christ incarnated in love for the poor, in caring for the sick, opposing slavery, defending women who experience exclusion and violence, making education available to all, accompanying migrants, charitable giving, working for equality and more.
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Worth Reading
A Mercy Journey of Support to Residents of Direct Provision in Ireland
This is a wonderful story from the Western Branch of the Irish Sisters of Mercy and how they are supporting residents of Direct Provision in the West of Ireland. Their latest project is making/creating ‘Baby Packs' for expectant mothers.
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Worth Knowing
Nuestro #MomentoDeMisericordia ya está disponible en español.
Our daily #MercyMoment which we share on our website and social media is now available in English and Spanish.
Nuestro #MomentoDeMisericordia diario, que compartimos en nuestro sitio web y en las redes sociales, ya está disponible en inglés y en español.
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Worth Playing
There Are Many Rooms - Liam Lawton
This is a wonderful piece of music for use during the month of November when we remember all those we have loved and lost. This is taken from Liam' Lawton's album Healing Song and takes its inspiration from John's Gospel Chapter 14: "My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?"
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Worth Reading
Mercy Day 2025 – Wrapped in God’s Love
Member schools of Mercy Education System of the Americas joined the global Mercy family in celebrating Mercy Day under a special theme: The Cloak of Mercy: From Many Homes, One Mercy Family – Wrapped in God’s Love. They’ve collected photos and reflections into a new edition of their e-zine, Mercy Impact, which highlights joyful moments of prayer, service, and community.
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Worth Knowing
Theme for World Communications Day 2026 released
Pope Leo XIV has chosen “Preserving human voices and faces” as the theme for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, set to take place on 17 May 2026. Pope Leo has repeatedly emphasized the importance for the Church of confronting the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and the development of new technologies.
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Worth Reading
Francis and Catherine: Joyful rebels and prophets for our time
In this wonderful piece , Sister Kelly Williams, RSM, offers us a reflection on Saint Francis of Assisi and Catherine McAuley saying: "Catherine and Francis were prophets of their time. Their role, their calling, wasn’t to make everyone feel good about themselves. They understood that to bring about the Reign of God, they had to shake up the complacent, too-comfortable church and culture around them."
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Worth Reading
Writing by the Sea - Sr Mary Wickham RSM
Sr Mary Wickham RSM takes on the role of Journalist and Roving Reporter in this issue of Mercy eNews. She takes a look at a Mercy success story at the Write By The Sea Festival in beautiful Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford - Ireland's sunny South East.
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Mercy eNews
The newsletter of Mercy International Association is published monthly and distributed to subscribers via email. If you have any queries about the newsletter, please contact mercyenews@mercyinternational.ie
For more information on the directors click here
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