Archival Moments

A selection of stories documenting our Newfoundland Mercy Story from our arrival in 1842 can be accessed from this page.

We remember these people, places and events with gratitude for the witness they bear to the dedication of Sisters of Mercy over the years.

July 25, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 19:
Sr Mary Benedicta Fitzgibbons

June 15, 2024 Remembering our Newfoundland Mercy Story 18:
Sr Joseph Nugent on her Anniversary – June 17, 1847

May 12, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 17:
Sister M. Patrick O’Farrell

April 13, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 16:
Sister M. de Camillus Cole

March 31, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 15:
Sister M. de Chantal O’Keeffe

February 3, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 14:
Sister M. Teresa O’Halleran

January 6, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 13:
Sister M. Elizabeth O’Regan Redmond

November 4, 2023 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 12:
Sister Mary Philippa Hanley

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More stories documenting our Newfoundland Mercy Story can be read in “Valiant Women”
See also: Significant Events in Our Mercy Story

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