Mary Martin to Prior - alarming reports

Mary Martin to Prior - alarming reports

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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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  • only too well, how little help we can give in return for all we receive from you and your Monks. —
  • Like you I have money question, my disire would always be to give generously wherever I could help but now I am faced with peat responsibilities as fools instrument of being a Noth…
  • I am absolutely incapable, I trust for also little
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Caritas 2021-08-06/149 Epiphany Sunday - letter continued. 436. Dear Father Prior I continue from where I stopped early this evening to catch post. I am prived & hear Dom firard has received such alarming reports, they were certainly not from me or any of my subjects. I am asking to say I have never written to him since he paid me a visit in '96' I was intending writing to him to morrow & shall certainly do so now - I never felt so happy about M. M. M. & as far as I know my relations with Glenstal are unchanged. I have always longed since Dom firard left to talk all these matters over with you, incuse you would have any difficult views or plans for Glenstal. I am always prepared for difficult outlooks from individuals & could quite understand some not wishing to take on the extra surden of M. M. M. with all the responsibilities already attached to the foundation at Glenstal, as I fully realize,

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2 only too well, how little help we can give in return for all we receive from you and your Monks. — Ishall deal solely with M. M. M. from our point of view, having received definite encouragement to go on, hard as the task seems. Fr. Kelly has yet seen in Dutlin for a few days and we discussed all the problems, especially Fr. Vermersch's letter in detail, which gives me courage & definite lines to make a start, he does not minimize the difficulties of such a work, which adding, "Now, if food will, He can now every defficiently" I go confidently ahead selverously of it is His Will He will bring the work & a successful issue, if I and my deaphtus (as you so nicely put it), correspond to His praces and inspirations at each step, if it is not His Will the work will fail. I hope Him equally in failure as in success, also, I may never be the one to bring it into seing, Ishall do my very last to try and sow the seed. From the seguring I want to make one point very clear:— I hope no discre to start as a Diocesan Congregation - All Missionary

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3/ Bishops advise me to aim at tening directly under "Congregation Propaganda de Fede" first have their approbation & then apply to an Irish Bishop. 1) I am enclosing a few letters that deal with the proof of Dom Gerardo's approach to His Excellency, Archbishop Harty, these will give you as much knowledge and information as I have on this matter. 2) Fr Kelly with his knowledge of me, now that Fr Vermersch says it is possible, advises me after having spent a year at Pleustal under your direction and Spectral formation to apply for a dispensation from having to do another noviciate. What would you & Dom Davids opinion see on this point? The time has come to make a very definite and deliberate start. I stell have the great desire to have myself & the first few provers at least intruded and prepared for their private vows under Benedictine influence. Do you think with the responsibilities I have of trying to establish this work that we can come to some suitable agreement so that for you and N. M. M.

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