World Day of Art – April 15

April 11, 2024

Each year, on 15 April, celebrations help reinforce the links between artistic creations and society, encourage greater awareness of the diversity of artistic expressions and highlight the contribution of artists to sustainable development. (UNESCO).

Music, art and craft are distinguishing aspect of the Sisters of Mercy, in their history and in their present reality.

Sisters Anita Best and Mona Rumboldt manifest their creativity in needlework (Anita) and card-making (Mona). View samples of their work here.

Works by Sisters Mary Ita Hennessey, Eileen Penney, Madeline Byrne, Mary Denise Costello, Anne Normore, Jean Jenkinson, Mary Gregory Stapleton are among the artworks to be found hanging on the corridors of the Residence at Littledale.
Enjoy browsing this online gallery here

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