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Health Care in the Highlands
By Sheila Brosnan, SC Expectant mothers wait to be weighed at Clinica Mariana, Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. When the Sisters of Charity arrived in Guatemala in 1971, the anticipated life span of...
Caring for Our Common Home
by Sister Mary Ann Garisto from the Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation Sr. Mary Ann Garisto The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. In the spirit of Laudato Si’, we may want to consider ways to reduce our carbon footprint and take better...
The Guatemalan Mission — 1971 – 2021
The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. by Mary Mc Cormick, SC New York Sisters of Charity have always cherished Elizabeth Seton’s understanding of her desire to be known as a “citizen of the world.” Sr. Marie Immaculata Burke provided care to...
In Memoriam: Sister Kathleen T. Sullivan, SC
Sister Kathleen received a BA in History from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, an MS in Education from Fordham University and a Sixth Year Certificate in Supervision and Administration from the College of Staten Island. She was also awarded New York State Permanent...
From a Small Seed, A New Community Grows
July 31 marks the foundation day when Elizabeth Seton began the community in Emmitsburg. By Regina Bechtle, SC On a hot summer day in 1809, a group of women made their way to a lush valley in the rolling hills of northern Maryland, near the village of Emmitsburg. They...
In Memoriam: Sister Mary Damian Gardner, SC
Sister Damian’s gentleness endeared her to parents and children, especially as a first-grade teacher. Sister Mary Damian Gardner (Dolores Ann) was born October 1, 1930, in Hawthorne, New York. She was one of five children, four sons and a daughter, of Michael and...
A Summer to Remember: Cooper Union Students at the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center
For six weeks this summer the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center is hosting three undergraduate engineering students from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The Guatemala experience is the newest element...
“WE/US”: An Ever-Widening Circle
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of VISION. By Regina Bechtle, SC “People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand.” As David Whyte reminds us in his poem, “Loaves and Fishes,” and as many events of recent months attest, words...
Live in Hope
“I live in hope – you know, and if in this world all is blasted, still we will hope and hope to the last.” – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Collected Writings, Volume 2, 649) Hope by its nature desires something in the future, and expects to receive...
Pandemic Response: Service with the Medical Reserve Corps
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of VISION. By Lisa Shay, SC Associate Partnership with the laity has been a Sisters of Charity model from the very beginning, since the first three sisters founded St. Patrick’s Asylum in 1817 at the behest of laymen Robert...