Month: December 2020

The Congregational Leadership Team of the Presentation Sisters (Union) extend warm greetings to all Presentation Sisters, Friends of Nano, Associates and Co-Workers all over the world.  May the true spirit of Christmas shine in your heart and light your path.  To view the special message prepared by the Congregational Leadership Team, please click here   […]
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4 January – World Braille Day World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people. Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to […]
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The images of thousands of migrant labourers with families returning to their native villages during the lockdown are still fresh in our memories. They walked thousands of kilometres in the scorching Summer heat to reach their destination. There were pregnant women too among these, some of them in their ninth month of pregnancy. It was […]
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New Community at Nano Nagle Place, Cork, Ireland Recently Sister Sheila Reen from the US Unit moved to Ireland to join Nano Nagle Place where Sister Mary Kealy, also from the US Unit already ministers. Sister Sheila writes: A new community has been formed at Nano Nagle Place but Covid-19 has curtailed activities and cut […]
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Tom, a member of the Friends of Nano Meditation Group, Dungarvan shared the following experience… I was walking the Cunnigar about 5.30pm yesterday evening. Everything was dead still…the dog could not see her paw in front of her in the fog. The only sound was my footprints on the crushed shells and my mind went […]
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It was with great sadness and a huge sense of loss that the news of the untimely death of Sr Anne Coffey reached us. With St Paul who exhorts us to “Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God.”, we fondly remember Anne knowing that as believers we are the “ones […]
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1 December – World AIDS Day Health is a human right. Health must be a top investment priority to achieve universal health coverage. On this World AIDS Day let us recognize that, to overcome COVID-19 and end AIDS, the world must stand in solidarity and share responsibility.  – UN Secretary General, António Guterres Every year, […]
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It was in the Summer of 1988 that I was assigned to the Community in Youghal, as a member and leader, anxious yet joyful at the prospect of experiencing the Presentation Way of Life in a beautiful seaside location. Youghal is the final residential ‘STOP’ in County Cork; it is on the edge of the […]
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On 14 November ‘Joti Prub’ was celebrated in Tando Allahyar parish. What is special about this celebration? Let us start by the meaning of these words. Joti or jot means feast in Kutchi Kohli language. Thus, ‘Joti Prub’ is for us, Kutchi Kohli Christians, the feast of light. On this special day, the celebration began with a gathering […]
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During these days of lockdown, as I continued to reflect on my life the following experience prompted me to put down my reflections. I always sat in my room looking outside through the window for meditation. The sky, trees, flowers and fruits attracted me so much. One fine day I noticed that the jack fruit […]
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During the lockdown our Sisters were confined to the house for the most part of six months. Sr Ishrat organised weekly zoom classes with Sr Anna Sheehy for the temporary professed Sisters. It was a very successful venture. The idea of a book club emerged for Sr Anne O’Leary while she was leading an online […]
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Ciao to the Presentation Family worldwide from Rome, Italy! When I was appointed to the ministry of being the Postulator for our Congregation, I felt that I wanted to have communication with the members of the Congregation, I felt that I wanted to have communication with the members of the Congregation as a priority to […]
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As we celebrate Presentation Day on 21 November, we send warmest greetings to all of our Sisters, Brothers, Friends of Nano, Associates and co-workers and all who form part of the Presentation Family worldwide. The Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple reminds us that at a young age she was taken from […]
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Our eyes search to see as you saw. Our hearts yearn to know as you knew… Be light for our darkness. Be dawn for our new day. ∼ Raphael Consedine, pbvm: Presentation – Mary of the Dawn This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us.   No other […]
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And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1   To Our Lady Mother of all that is good, of the light that is always touching the world blessing all things, the efficient system of each leaf, the dark impasses of the lines of my […]
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Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother… John 19:25   Pieta A year ago you came Early into the light. You lived a day and night, Then died; no-one to blame.   Once only, with one hand, Your mother in farewell Touched you. I cannot tell, I cannot understand.   A thing so dark and […]
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The mother is Jesus was there… “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:1,5   Cana It might have been a neurotic’s paradise, With all that water there for endless washing. The catering shaky, and most of us wondering What sort of promise such a beginning held For the couple’s days and years. And then the wine […]
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He then went with them and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. Luke 2:51   The Gift Be still, my soul and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and […]
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Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “You see this child: he is destined for the fall and for the rising of many…, and a sword will pierce your own soul too…” Luke 2: 34-35   The Second Music   Now I understand that there are two melodies playing, one below the other, one […]
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…the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to a son… Luke 2:6,7   One has to think of him as her son: looking very like her, with her walk, her gestures, her patterns of thought, many of her tastes and then remember that this is not some fine mask for […]
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