Where We Are

Since our foundation from the House of Mercy, Baggot Street, Dublin in 1842, members of the Newfoundland Congregation of Sisters of Mercy have moved to other parts of the world especially to two regions of Peru.

Throughout the years Sisters have worked in the Labrador region of this province, in Ontario, Canada; in Florida, USA; in Dublin, Ireland; and in Africa.

At this moment there are sixty-seven members of the Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland. Most are living in this most easterly province of Canada, one sister lives in Ontario and six live in Peru. Four of the sisters living in Peru were born there.

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