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.
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