Sisters Celebrate Jubilees

October 19, 2015

During 2015 seven women celebrated 50 and 60 years as members of the Sisters of Mercy. Fifty and sixty yeara ago they were welcomed into the novitiate of the Mercy congregation in Newfoundland. Diane Smyth was the Golden Jubilarian and Sisters Carmelita Power, Josette Hutchings, Jane McGrath, Nellie Pomroy, Theresa Boland and Lydia Kelly celebrated sixty years – Diamond! A grand celebration of the anniversaries was held in the presence of the total membership during a congregational asssembly in August. Other celebrations were held by individual jubilarians throughout the year.

Congratulations and prayerful good wishes for blessings are extended to these women for their 410 years of life and ministry as Sisters of Mercy!

If we love God, we will undoubtedly love our neighbour also; they are as cause and effect.

Retreat Instructions, p.147

This is your life, joys and sorrow mingled, one succeeding the other.

Letter to Francis Warde

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will quickly show itself in the exterior.

Retreat Instructions, p. 145

May God bless the poor Sisters of Mercy and make them very humble that they may not be unworthy of the distinguished blessings God has bestowed upon them.

Letter to Elizabeth Moore

[God] knows I would rather be cold and hungry than the poor in Kingston or elsewhere should be deprived of any consolation in our power to afford.

Letter to Teresa White