On September 24 198 years ago, God spread over our Mercy family the great warm Shawl of God’s Mercy, and asked us to extend it, as wide as we could, over the poor, sick, ignorant, lonely, hungry and suffering of our own time and place.

In Dublin on September 24, 1827, Catherine McAuley extended the great Shawl of God’s Mercifulness by opening wide the front door of the newly built House of Mercy on Baggot Street.

This is what we commemorate on September 24, 1827. 

This is what we celebrate on September 24, 2025. 

Mercy Day reflections

Extending God’s Mercy: nurturing and empowering students by Sister Helen Libo-on 

What is ours to do? by Sister Rose Marie Tresp