August 2025 Associates Newsletter Now Online

August 2, 2025

“Kitty’s Chronicle” is a monthly newsletter distributed to all Mercy Associates. Each month the latest issue is posted online in the Associates section of our website. The newsletter contains news and views, requests for prayers and material for reflection.

London – The Parable of the Good Samaritan on the stained glass in the church St. Michael Cornhill by Clayton and Bell from 19. cent.

Prayers for the Sick, Resources from the Wisdom Circles, Items of Interest, Important Dates, Welcoming May, An Archival Moment and a delicious Baked Pineapple Salmon recipe are among the many topics covered in our latest issue.

A feature of this month’s issue is Pope Leo’s reflection on the parable of the Good samaritan.

Visit the Associates section of our website to find out about Becoming an Associate and the Associate Program.

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