We Celebrate Mercy Day September 24th !

Today in Sacred Heart we celebrate Mercy Day! All over the world, hundreds of school are celebrating Mercy day.  Sacred Heart Secondary School was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1941. We owe a debt of gratitude to the Sisters who worked tirelessly to establish this school.

On this day in 1827, the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, Catherine McAuley opened the first House of Mercy in Baggot St. Dublin, as a place of safety and refuge, for poor women.

Mother Frances Warde, one of the first Sisters of Mercy, wrote of Catherine that:  “She was a woman of God and God made her a woman of vision”.

Since then, throughout the world, thousands of young women (and more recently, young men) have been educated in Mercy schools, the sick have been cared for in Mercy hospitals and the poor have been cared for by Mercy sisters.