This video is a tribute to the 82 women present at the Synod for their contribution as a voting member – 54 of the women – a facilitator or invited expert. Each woman is shown on screen and her voice is heard in a quote from her reflections on the experience.
The two Mercy Sisters at the Synod —Sr Elizabeth Davis (Newfoundland) and Sr Angela Perez (Oceania) — were voting members.
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