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Sr. Helen Culhane

Group: South Central

I had never planned to join religious life. In my head and heart I had other plans in store for myself. I am the second eldest of ten children and had always dreamed of having my own family. However God had His plans.
Sr. Brigid O'Flanagan

Group: Southern

I was a thought in God’s mind and in the minds of my parents way back in 1923 when the mystery of my human journey began to unfold.
Sr. Lucy Gachuki

Group: Kenya

My name is Lucy Gachuki and I am from Kenya. I feel humbled and honoured to share with you how I became a Sister of Mercy.
Sr. Agnes Curran

Group: Western

I had high ambitions – to be a saint! I got in touch with a few convents and finally decided to visit the Convent of Mercy, Loughrea, Co. Galway. I knew instantly that this was the place for me and my search was over.
Sr. Teresa Sheerin

Group: Western

I grew up on a modest farm in Castletown Geoghagan, Co. Westmeath, the third in a family of eleven – five brothers and five sisters. Four girls chose the Religious life and two brothers became priests.
Sr. Esther Murphy

Group: South Central

My vocation story was first influenced and nurtured in my own home in Co. Limerick. Every morning my father would kneel and pray at a kitchen chair before beginning his work on the farm. This simple gesture made a lasting impression on me.
Sr. Carmel Lohan

Group: United States

Do you ever wonder what you’d be if you weren’t doing what you are doing! That’s my thought as I write my life story. I wouldn’t call it an extraordinary life by any standards and yet I feel I have had a wonderful and very fulfilling life.
Sr. Scholasticah Nganda

Group: Kenya

I am a Kenyan Religious Sister of Mercy, vowed since 1989. My vocation to Mercy is tied to a yearning that I began to feel while I was in school with the Sisters of Mercy in Makueni Girls' Secondary School.
Sr. Pat Mc Manus

Group: United States

I began my Mercy journey when I went to Mount Lourdes Secondary school, Enniskillen and was taught by many wonderful Mercy Sisters.
Sr. Aurea Roldan Santiago

Group: Peru Southern

To begin to remember the history of my vocation is to recall the arrival of the Mission of the Cork Sisters of Mercy to Peru. I was studying in Primary school and it was there I first knew the Sisters when they came to visit the school.

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