Month: March 2021

The Friends of Nano have arranged a Pilgrimage of Gratitude and Hope – a virtual walk from Nano Nagle Birthplace, Ballygriffin, Co Cork, Ireland to the burial place of Nano at Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork from 19 – 26 April 2021. The journey is 35km long and they will undertake to walk 5km each […]
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4 April – International Mine Awareness Day Last year, the United Nations mine action community stepped-up to the challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sector continued to deliver results, fulfilling obligations, surveying, clearing, training, and eradicating the threat of landmines and explosive ordnance. The United Nations system advanced its work to mitigate the threat […]
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A February Reflection The Warmth of Love Amidst Winter’s Teasing Love that cannot contain itself keeps birthing itself anew …   In the beginning was the WORD And the WORD was LOVE … Timeless Love, all embracing Love … Thirteen billion years ago … Two thousand years ago … Could Love be all there was? […]
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The Sisters, their lay Associates, friends and co-workers have had a very subdued celebration of the 61stFoundation Day of the Presentation Sisters in the Philippines on 19 February 2021. The day was the Friday after Ash Wednesday and so the liturgy resounded with the hymn “Come Back to me With all Your Heart” and with […]
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Sr Gertrude Howley, pbvm shared the below poem with her Friends of Nano Meditation group recently at an online retreat. The group became aware from listening to the poem and from sharing that Covid is teaching us… To accept what is             To live simply           […]
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Two Presentation Sisters in Taita, New Zealand share their stories of the celebrations of 70 years of Presentation Presence in New Zealand. At a special Mass in honour of the occasion, Cardinal John dew described the purpose of the Presentation Sisters was and still is to help guide others home to God. They brought hope, and […]
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Sr Claude Meagher, pbvm sadly passed away at Presentation Convent, Hospital on 23 February 2021. Sr Claude is remembered as being one of a kind and is remembered with great respect, appreciation and fondness for her lifetime of service to all those with whom she came in contact. Like a gentle breeze blowing in the […]
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