Sale of Work

November 19, 2012

After months of preparation and labour the talent and creativity of a large number of Mercy and Presentation Sisters and Associates went public. At 2:00 p.m. the doors of the Lantern (the Presentation Centre for Spirituality) openned to a large waiting crowd. The hall was flush with paintings and photography, greeting cards, jewellry, Christmas decorations, knitted, needle-worked and crocheted goods, baked goods, other hand-crafted items, and the ever popular "Nuns" Fudge. Crowds explored the goods at each table and in a short time the baked-goods table was bare. Other tables met the same fate – a good thing for the beneficiaries of this sale, the missions of both Congregations. None of the Mall would have done such a brisk business as this event today! Congratulations to the organizers of this event! A huge success. Thanks to all who shared their time, talent and resources.

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