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Letter regarding Mary's departure and the retreat.

Letter commenting on an upheavel in Glenstal, and expressing sadness at no longer having the Benedictine influence over her life.

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Medical Missionaries of Mary
Rosemount, Booterstown, Co. Dublin

Sunday 20th 1938

My dear Father Prior,

It was good to hear your voice again on the phone. How I should have liked to have seen you, but I know this was impossible owing to the feast tomorrow.

We can all be united in prayer and i say suffering, for I do not think there is anyone in authority who has not a great deal of this. One great thing about suffering is that it leads us to God.

It would be difficult for me to express how much I miss the influence of St. Benedict's Fathers, but I suppose this must all be in God's plan.

Father O'Driscoll has been extremely kind to me. Is it not a strange thing how they Augustinians will be working in ?? Nigeria

I very nearly went down to the boat to see Father Abbot and you, but I feared I might have been in the way, as I would have been, as things turned out.

I am sorry to hear you are going to have another domestic upheaval. If Dom Mathias is in charge of this department, I think it is better for me to keep out of things and let him get his own staff.

If it were you who were in charge, I would do anything to help you get someone.

Say a Low Mass please Father, for both our intentions.

Your devoted and ever-grateful child,
Sr. Mary

Letter enclosing copy of constitutions.

Letter expressing regret to Fr. Prior that she missed him while he was in Dublin. She had wished to speak to him on a matter of conscience.

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My dear Father Prior,
There is many thanks for your note. You know I shall be always only too happy to see you, but I do not expect you to come to see me each time you are up, unless I can do anything for you.

Last time, I fear it was this reason why I was very anxious to meet you. I had something (a matter of conscience) on which I wanted to ask your advice. So when I got no ring from you to say you were in town, I rang up myself on Tuesday to hear you had flown. So I wrote of then ito Fr. Kelly and got an answer on Thursday, so all was well.

I miss Dom David more than I can say. He was always, so helpful. I have come to the conclusion now that he has gone, and Fr. Kelly so far away. It is better for me to seek a good confessor in Dublin. Things crop up so often, especially now in my peculiar circumstances, that need advice.

May I ask you please to say Mass on the 3rd Oct, the feast of the Little Flower, and another on Monday the 4th Oct, for the special intentions and spiritual growth of M.M.M. and Glenstal. 2) for His Excellency the Nuncio’s intentions.

I had also intended, if I met you, to ask you and your Community to pray very specially for M.M.M. during these next few weeks and that we may have a Novitiate House very soon, wherever God wills it.

I am glad Mary Murphy returned to you and hope she will be really helpful to Miss Feeney. May God bless all your work at Glenstal

Letter to Dom Bede thanking for retreat.

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My dear Dom Bede,
Very many grateful thanks for your letter, all to thanks and gratitude, is on my side for all you did for us during our retreat. I did not forget you and asked the novices and with specially to Prior of Glenstal for the Annunciation, and intended doing the same thing myself, but my time has not been my own lately.
I think it would be excellent if we were present in the----- an article could be published in the magazine, but to find a writer and the time). I enclose Photo if you will send it on for me.
I have been very anxious to get M.M.M. now in Belgium and Holland. Have you any contact with the latter? It is a great country for doctors and nurses. Many thanks for much forwarded on letter to Mother Edith.
Please pray much for me. I am very overwhelmed at present with anxieties and work. Remember me especially on to April the day I renew my vows.
In union of prayer in the hearts of Jesus and Mary,

undated letter with general content.