It is a great privilege for me to share my vocation story with you for it offers me an opportunity (...) Read More
My name is Sr. Josephine Nzengi, I am the fifth born in a family of fourteen siblings. I was born (...) Read More
I am Sr. Lilian Bisieri Misaro. I was born in a Catholic family in the Diocese of Kisii in Kenya. (...) Read More
How I Came To Mercy I’m Marvis Mazhunga, born into a Catholic family in Chirumanzu, Gweru, Zimbabwe. My parents (...) Read More
In May 2014, l received replies to my request to take Perpetual Vows. I was very excited and at the (...) Read More
Esther Erus is a Sister of Mercy from Turkana in Kenya. She is a nurse and works at the Mater (...) Read More
My name is Lucy Gachuki and I am from Kenya. I feel humbled and honoured to share with you how (...) Read More
I was born in Kitui district in Kenya and l went to both primary and secondary school there. It all (...) Read More
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to (...) Read More
Joyce Oluoch rsm I was born in Bondo, Siaya County, Kenya in August 1966. I am the tenth child of (...) Read More
Having spent a number of years as a Sister of Nazareth teaching in Wisconsin and San Diego, California, I felt (...) Read More
To begin to remember the history of my vocation is to recall the arrival of the Mission of the Cork (...) Read More
Looking back to the time when I took the decision to take my first step towards Religious Life and entered (...) Read More
I had never planned to join religious life. In my head and heart I had other plans in store for (...) Read More
I come from the parish of Dromard in North Longford. The ‘North’ part of Longford is very important to me (...) Read More
My vocation to Mercy is tied to a yearning that I began to feel while I was in school with (...) Read More
When I was in secondary school I had it all planned out. I was going to be a teacher, get (...) Read More
My vocation story like most others was first influenced and nurtured in my own home in Co Limerick. Every morning (...) Read More
Do you ever wonder what you’d be if you weren’t doing what you are doing! That’s my thought as I write (...) Read More
It began when I was four. I picked primroses for the May altar on the way to school every day. (...) Read More
‘SISTERS OF MERCY TO PIONEER IN TROUBLED KENYA’. Such was the heading in ‘The Irish Catholic’ in March 1956. As (...) Read More
Though born in Africa of Goan parents and having spent the greater part of my life in Nairobi I am (...) Read More
My vocation story spans 51 years of Mercy life, and all but nine of them were spent in Florida. My (...) Read More
I am the second youngest of a family of eleven, six girls and five boys, born during the war years (...) Read More
I grew up on a modest farm in Castletown Geoghagan, Co Westmeath, the third in a family of eleven – (...) Read More
I was born in Belleek Co Fermanagh, to Mary and Patrick McManus. I began my Mercy journey when I went (...) Read More
Mercy has always been a presence in my life. The Sisters were very active in the Parish as I was (...) Read More
I wonder if any of us Sisters of Mercy had the least inkling of what Mercy really means when we (...) Read More
My story began in 1942 in Fenagh parish, Co Leitrim, the second youngest in a family of 8 girls and (...) Read More
My first contact with Mercy was at three and a half years when I accompanied my older brother to Scoil (...) Read More
Waterford, Ireland is my home, but I spent most of my life in Auckland, New Zealand. It all started in (...) Read More
My life as a Mercy Sister in today’s world is a daily call to be an instrument of God’s loving (...) Read More
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