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The sisters of the Little Company of Mary of the Irish Province welcome you to these pages.
As members of an international community of religious sisters, we are part of a wide network of women working for the betterment of humanity.
We are committed to making visible the healing presence of Jesus in the midst of human suffering through prayer, compassion and solidarity.
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Motherhood
01-Jan-12 11:34
Our founder, Mary Potter had clear ideas about motherhood which were not merely romantic, or tied to Victorian idealization. Having had a close and loving bond with a strong mother of her own, she knew the pain of breaking its constraints.
She clearly felt called herself to nurture (mother) many people and she visualized the greater Company of Mary, women and men who would continue this work by making Jesus known. To support us all in this lifework, she wrote encouragingly, and not only for mothers:
‘Angels are sent to help you, and you should keep in their company, and constantly recur to them. They are waiting to bring you gifts to enrich you. You must however, fulfill God’s Will and invoke their help. They do much for us that we shall never know in this world; but they would do more if we sought their assistance.’
(Venerable Mary Potter, God’s Human Family, p. 7)
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(Picture from Crib: St Colman's Church, Inishbofin, Co Galway
Photographer: M.Coyne)
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Our History
Founded in England in 1877, by Venerable Mary Potter, the first Irish community of the Little Company of Mary was formed in 1888 with the opening of St. John's Hospital in Limerick.
From the first beginnings of the Little Company of Mary, Irish women committed themselves to the vision of the founder, and have sought to create a world in which every human person - and particularly those who are dying - receive the care and love they need to become whole in body, mind and spirit...
Our Constitution
"God's love for humankind urges us to respect the human dignity of all those with whom we share our life, or to whom we are sent, to minister in His name. We are all called to make credible by our lives and our works that God is good.
This means we will co-operate with those striving to create a world in which Love, justice and peace prevail: and we reject whatever would be a compromise with any form of social injustice..."
-Constitutions No. 56-
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Province office
Cnoc Mhuire,
29 Woodpark,
Ballinteer Avenue,
Dublin 16
Tel: 01-2987040 Fax: 01-2961936
E-mail: lcom@irishbraodband.net
Vocations information
Sr Kathleen Keane
LCM
40 Braemor Park
Dublin 14
Tel: 01-4990182
E-mail: kskeane@eircom.net
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