Mercy International Association

04/06/2026

Today is 🚴🏻‍♂️🌎

Naturally, we had to feature the Mercy Pedalers in Sacramento, California!

Founded by Sister Libby Fernandez, these bicyclists are on a mission to "𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀." 💚

This legion of volunteers offer coffee, hot chocolate or a blend of the two (known as a Cadillac 🚗 ) to those sleeping on the streets.

They also provide: food, deodorant, hand sanitizer, flashlights, clothing, a listening ear, and a warm smile to a community that is growing more and more invisible.

🚲 Want to help? Check out their website: https://mercypedalers.com/ 🚲

04/06/2026

As Ireland prepares to celebrate Bloomsday, we remember James Joyce as one of Ireland’s best-known writers and poets. Bloomsday is celebrated each year on 16th June and honours James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the main character of the novel, following Bloom’s life and thoughts as well as those of others on June 16,1904 - from 8.00am through to the early hours of the following morning. Joyce’s novels are set in and around Dublin and feature his family, friends and fellow Dubliners. One of those featured characters is Eveline in The Dubliners reputed to be loosely based on Joyce’s sister Margaret Alice Joyce.

Margaret Alice Joyce, reportedly James Joyce’s favourite sister, became Sister Mary Gertrude Joyce, who served as a Sister of Mercy in New Zealand until her death, aged 80, in 1964.

Read more in our latest Heritage Corner https://mercy.flash.togetherdigital.ie/spirituality/heritage-corner-james-joyce-s-favourite-sister-margaret-alice-joyce/

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01/06/2026

The English editorial team of Vatican Radio – Vatican News has prepared an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas.

01/06/2026

Today, Monday 1st June is a public holiday in Ireland so the offices of MIA are closed.

In the meantime you can read the latest issue of Mercy eNews which is hot off the press!

https://www.mercyworld.org/newsroom/enews/mercy-enews-issue-1015/

31/05/2026

30/05/2026

Professor Léocadie Wabo Lushombo, a Congolese theologian based at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, United States, ...

30/05/2026

To close the month of Mary, Pope Leo XIV prays a Rosary for peace at the Grotto of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens, urging everyone to make the daily ...