Letter to Msgr Moynagh

Letter to Monsignor Moynagh from Greenbank Monkstown. No author, but presumably Mary Martin.

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Monastery: Glenstal Abbey, Murroe
Subject: Monastery, Monks, Religious Life
Creator: Glenstal Abbey
Place: Murroe, Limerick, Cashel Diocese, Diocese of Cashel
Language: English
Glenstal Abbey: Morther Mary Martin Collection, Religious Sisters, Correspondence, Medical Missionaries of Mary Foundation, Foundation, Sister Novices
Glenstal Abbey: Letters, Prior, Medical Missionaries of Mary
Religious Sisters: Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mother Mary Martin, Foundation
Subject: Nuns, Sisters, Religious Congreations, Religious Life, Foundation of a Congregation, Monastic Life, Mother Superiors
Date: 1930-40, 1930's-1940's, 30's, Thirties
Place: Murroe, Monkstown, Dublin, Limerick, Cashel, Diocese of Cashel
Topic: Religious Life, Religious Formation, Spiritual guidance

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People

May(4)
Little(2)
Each(1)
Clear(1)

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Monkstown(1)
Moynagh(1)

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May I try to do this now? I wish humbly to ask of you a further favour, which is to reconsider your decision, at least to the extent of accepting two members with myself in January…
c) It is not merely a question of risking loss of oportunities and vocations. In spite of our retirement at Glenstal and our discretion, something is known of our aims and intentio…
You may feel however that even with these provisions made, our presence in your Vicariate would involve you in more that you would wish to undertake, and that you would prefer that…

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GREENBANK MONKSTOWN 23th Nov. 1936. 2021-09-09/184 Dear Monsignor Moynagh, Very many thanks indeed for your very welcome letter and for writing so fully. Of course, your decision came as a disappointment to us, but we appreciate the grounds which determined you, and are very grateful for the good will that you have for the future of our Society. It is a matter of great regret to me that my letter by air mail to you was necessarily so hurried and incomplete. If I had had time, I should have given you a full account of the circumstances in which our decision was reached. You know the difficult it is to give a picture of these things in a letter, especially when they are very complicated and involve a number of people. And unfortunately the priests from whom you might have expected to learn about the circumstances, in fact knew nothing of them. I am afraid my letter merely stressed the necessity for immediate action without fully explaining the reasons for it and did little to show how much I forsaw your practical difficulties. As to the explanations, I feel if I had succeeded in giving you an adequate account of these, you would have agreed with all who have advised me in full knowledge

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cumstances in which our decision was reached. You know how difficult it is to give a picture of these things in a letter, especially when they are very complicated and involve a number of people. And unfortunately the priests from whom you might have expected to learn about the circumstances, in fact knew nothing of them. I am afraid my letter merely stressed the necessity for immediate action without fully explaining the reasons for it and did little to show how much I forsaw your practical difficulties. As to the explanations, I feel if I had succeeded in giving you an adequate account of these, you would have agreed with all who have advised me in full knowledge of the circumstances. As to ways and means, I should have liked to have relieved you of a great deal of the responsibilities that you must have felt at the prospect of accepting us so unconditionally. May I try to do this now? I wish humbly to ask of you a further favour, which is to reconsider your decision, at least to the extent of accepting two members with myself in January 1937, in light of the following considerations. a) The erection of M.M.M into a religious Society is absolutely requisite. If this is to be in your Vicariate, the visitation of His Excellency, Monsignor Riberi will Providentially permit this to be done with the minimum delay and with the least trouble to yourself. b) Our present indeterminate status make all progress for

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