The daughter of two of our parishioners works with the charity Mercy Ships. Each week she forwards a diary of how her week has been.
Mercy Ships are a team of nurses, doctors, surgeons, and other crew members from all over the world, donating our time to help on board the world’s largest non-governmental floating hospital, sailing directly to some of the world’s poorest people to deliver life-saving medical care and provide safe, state-of-the-art facilities in which to treat them.
For more details about the work of the Mercy Ships visit their website.
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It is such an excellent arrangement in the liturgical calendar that we begin each year with this solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – Theotokos. This solemnity is the first and foremost dogma on Mary, upon which the others are based. Since Mary is the Mother of God because of ...
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