Letter from John Mannion, S.C.A., Hon. Secretary, Religious Press Association to +McQuaid enclosing a programme for their seminar on ‘The effective communication of the Mission Message through the medium of the Press’.
A religious pageant for children, probably at a parish school in Cape Province, South Africa.
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23 June 1952 - 3 December 1958
Correspondence relation to setting up hostel for students. Archbishop will allow if sisters can fund and staff it, and submit two proposals re sites. Further correspondence re suitable sites. Bushy Park secured. Correspondence re Bloomfield, Merrion Rd. Archbishop advises to establish school as well as hostel. Boarding school at Clermont, Rathnew; novitiate is transferred there but later to St. Maur Our Lady's, Terenure
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9 January 1959 - 22 December 1971
Routine matters of community life and apostolate, including sodalities Correspondence re property extensions and acquisitions Archbishop's view foundation in New Zealand Question re permission to drive
Includes:
The Office of Compline- sheet music.
A copy of We Offer the Mass- Hymns for Low Mass.
A photocopy of song listings on Glory and Praise Volumes 1-3.
A photocopy of a Christmas Bible Service.
Includes; "Gregorian Chant"; "The Desert, dedicated to Nano Nagle, woman of vision & [and] courage"; "Music you love"; "Let all the children sing"; "Benedictus"; "Women who care, Presentation Sisters, Presentation Heights, Aberdeen, South Dakota [U.S.A.]".
Magazines, circulars and other published booklets written for, and by, religious communities both in original and copied forms.
"Irish Archives" (Winter 2005 - 2006); "Catholic Life" (December 2006); "Presentation studies" (June 2009); "Pastoral letter of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the Catholics of Ireland" (2010); "South Presentation Centre, the Nano Nagle Experience" (c2011); "Presentation studies" (June 2011).
"Heart Aflame" (undated c1984); "Historic Australia" (undated c1980s); "Congregation, focus on … Christian Brothers …" (1998); "History of women religious" (October 2004); "Catholic life" (October 2005).
This series of books of a religious nature give a clear indication of the interest of the Sisters in Religious life as it was lived both within their own congregation and in Australia. Includes the following items: Black covered bound notebook, very old important item – Part of the Rules and Constitutions of the Presentation Order for the convent at Killarney.Handwritten Rule for the community in Killarney by Bishop Francis Moylan, Bishop of Cork, 22 July 1806.
2 hard backed bound notebooks with handwritten Rules.
Constitutions of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Victoria, Australia 1915.
Rules and Constitutions of the Institute of the Religious Sisters of the Presentation of the Ever Blessed Virgin Mary, 1809.
Rules and Constitutions of the Institute of the Religious sisterhood of the Presentation of the Ever Blessed Virgin Mary, 1854.
Canonical Legislation concerning Religious 1981.
Regulations of the Presentation Religious Killarney.
Institute of the Religious sisterhood – Constitutions 1809.
Constitutions Diocese of Kerry 1939.
Constitutions 1935.
Provincial Amalgamation of the Nuns of the Presentation Order in the State of Victoria, Australia Report of Conference Supplementary Rules.
Folder
File includes letters from the Mother General, Sr. M. Finbarr O’ Connell, to Communities regarding the changes in the rules pertaining to the daily religious Life of the Sisters during the 1960s.
Includes; itinerary of lectures given at Glenstal Abbey [County Limerick] at a "Conference for Religious" (Sister Gabrielle Ryan S.N.D. [School Sisters of Notre Dame]).