The Congregation of the Queenship of Mary

May 4, 2015

Mercy Convent had a visit from a new religious community, the “Queenship of Mary” from Ottawa.

Their foundress, Mother Mary Bernadette, had been in St. John’s in 2014 and had stayed at Mercy Convent. The whole community of seven members is in St. John’s from April 30 to May 7, 2015 to attend a vocations discernment weekend at Mary Queen of the World Parish and also a mission at Corpus Christi Parish.

Four sisters are staying at McAuley Convent and three at St. Bride’s Convent. They drove from Ottawa in a mini-van staying overnight with the Sisters of Charity in St. John, New Brunswick and also at St. Catherine’s Renewal Centre in Grand Falls.

It was interesting to hear of their call and response to the Spirit. Pictured above is the whole community with Sisters Maureen O’Keefe and Margie Taylor at Mercy Convent. To the left is Mother Mary Bernadette, the foundress, with Sister Rosemary Ryan.

May God’s blessings be with them in their founding years.

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