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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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