Tag: Eileen O'Connor

  • Father McGrath with Srs McGahey, Cooney and Fitzgerald

    A happy reunion

    June 19, 2018
    15 April 1973. Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. By this stage, co-founder Rev. Father Edward…
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    A difficult childhood

    June 19, 2018
    11 April 1881. Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor co-founder, Rev. Father Edward (Ted) McGrath, is b
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    An abundance of divine graces

    June 19, 2018
    15 April 2013. His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, gives an Apostolic Blessing to the congregation of O
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    A cherished painting

    June 19, 2018
    10 April 1920. Knowing that her health is fading, Eileen O’Connor commissions a portrait of hersel
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    Eileen’s thoughts on compassion

    June 19, 2018
    “The cause of poverty is nothing to do with you; you don’t ask questions you help the poor.”
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    Eileen’s thoughts on love

    June 19, 2018
    “Happy the heart that finds joy in loving, rather than in being loved. Find Our Lord and love Him,
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    North to Brisbane

    June 19, 2018
    1 July 1956. Our Lady’s Home, Brisbane, opens after more than a decade of talks with Most Rev. Jam
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    An unfortunate coincidence

    June 19, 2018
    27 June 1914. Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Visitor General, Rev. Father Hubert
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    A sad practicality

    June 19, 2018
    12 June 1915. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Rev. Father Edward (Ted) McGrath msc,
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    Eileen’s thoughts on compassion

    June 19, 2018
    “See all Our Lord suffered in the garden. Think of how He loved, and loves us; think of the pain,