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Sisters of Charity of Nazareth find home in Belize
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For y m the Sisters of (3mi&of p19zareth have been at home in Belize. Now, they will also have a home there. The SCN leadership's recent decision to purchase a building to provide space for emerging ministry needs represents a new moment inthe 's twentythree yea^ history in this small Central American country. Prior to thii time SCNs have not owned property, choosing instead to work and live in parishes or with agencies. Now seemed the time to establish physical roots in Belize - a witness to the ongoing 3CN commit. ment to the people of Belize and a place where new ministries can develop as
What's Inside. 3 SCNs sponmr workshop for women leadm.at Dumberdih 4 SCNs integrate mission into healthcare services 4 Hospital outreach program touch the lives of people in their communk
7 SCN Vocation Network plans vocation promotion strategies
8 Pointr of Interest Along the Way 9 Journeying On... 10 Memolialand HonoraryGifb
they work in collaboration with the people, other service groups and the Church in Belize. "Listening to the people of Belize with whom we live and work and reflecting on our Mission Statement's emphasis on the poor, women and the multicultural reality of our world prompted us to plan several minishy p m gram8 to meet emerging needs," said Anne Rita Mauck SCN,Southern Regional Representative. "We have chosen to focus on informal education for village women and immersion/service programs for US. students. Both of these programs require space large enough to accomme date groups. In addition, we wanted a place to welcome the increasing number of women interested in joining the SCN community," she said. "In a city where finding housing at all much less for groups - is extremely difficult, we felt the Spirit leading us as e b menis needed to make our plan a reality began to fall into place," Sister Anne Rita explained. Prior to locating the facility for the programs. Brenda Qonzales,SCN, who has extensive experience working with young adults
and service programs, accepted the position of director of the new prqmm. Sister Anne Rita added, "A reasonably priced, welllocated building became available and we moved quickly, r e a l i i such an unusual opportunity might not present itself again." The concept of a program for informal education of
women Like herself end their education at grade school: some because the inadequate training in their village schools prevents them from passing the high school qualifying exam; othem because limited family resources offen require a choice of education for a son or daughter, with the scale weighted toward the
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THE , Q AS A CLASSROOM: For dude& h m other aum?ies, visiting Belize, Central America offers not on@a lesson in laneuitge and culture. but one in sw'd iustice and a r e d i z a h of d l i n 0 in their own lives. Here, Brenda Gonzhes, SCN. (bade tented d i m r zf the SCN Center in Belize, poses wrth young people pad~tipatingin the soad immersion pmgram. The dormfbry whid the SCN house in Bdize will contiun followingrenovabon will make it possible for thm students to stay in a safe location with a spiritual atmosphere.
women began with a simple knock on the door. Several yeam ago one young Mayan woman appeared on the doorstep of the sisters' house asking for their help to cornplete her education. Many
boy. Now, Sisters Paschal
Maria Fernicola and Rosemarie Kirwan in the little ViUage of Independence tutor about 10 women in a high school comespondence (&n,,edmpage2)
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course - and the women continue to come. The new Belize City program will expand the current minisby.
The world will theseyoung books and formal learning. vdrmteersin the immersion/ TWO will offer u tw service program component men for women seek of the ministry, on the other hand, will encounter a new ing either high school or post-sewndq education. world in the culture and The women will fmd there people of Beliae - and safe, affordable housing z a they will never be the same. well as emottonal and soclal Speakins of her experience support as they adjust to with immersion/seruice prod a0 life in the gram over her m t w e n t y are to convert y m in campus ministry, the garage of the house into S W Brenda noted that stu. a dormitow for the women dents change as the texts in this prosram. they have studied come addition,a number of atim mq home mad with new the women seek not om
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speak a new huth. Many of them change mqjoors or take Spanish or peace study minors. They get invalved in social justice issues and some gh/e a y a o r ~ ino formally advertised the prom a s the Mercy H m Clinic and the Child Deveb opment Center. Opprtunities for prgyer and reflection eprinS and summer, better* @@her, and with Mkeans, be@l!litlg in m h r will provide the Vhiting m d g of their expedences. Brenda fconfinve8cnga%~a
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SCNs sponsor workshop for women leaders at Dumberdih October 2,1997 became a special day for women leaders of Dumberdih, India and the surrounding villages when twerity-five Santhali women gathered, along with their Uttle ones, at Maria Health Center of the SiiOfulaIityof~ for a fourday residential educational pmgram on safe motherhood and child survival. For the women, 99 percent of whom had never entered a school, these were days -
for serious thinking, exchange of ideas, study, discussion, planning for the future, and fun. Director Vimala Kar-, SCN, wrote, "It was an eyeapener for me to see their capacit~ to discuss and plan forthem selves and their families." Keeping in mind that unless women in India are o m d and helped to realize their rights in society,they will remain underdeveloped and oppressed, various topics pertaining to women and children were presented in addition to the health cwriculum. Resource personnel including government 0% W, a sodalworker, school teacher, auxiliary nurse and midwife, misted Sister Viiala In covering subjects such as communicauon skâ‚Źlisand tools, community organization, leadership, group strength, environmental protec&n, education of girl children. and small family units. A varlety of teaching aids such as charts,
posters, role plays, skits, group discussions, debates, folk song8 and games were used to maintain interest during the leadership
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officer and block develop ment officer were present for the inaugural function. Both of them gave elaborate descripuons of government resources available at the block and district level for women, ghi children, preg nant mothers, widows and aged persons. They invited the women to avail themselves of these programs. The women, in turn, had free interaction with the ofncials and clarified their doubts ragardingthe govern ment resources. which rarely reach people at the gram. roots level. Following me leadership conference, the women unanimously made the decision to avail themselves of their rights. Some of them, within
a week conFronted the local ration dealer who had been accustomed to charging them extra money and making cuts in the ration. A scarcity of water in the area; pwr means of transportation: limited educational facilities, money and material resources essential for health and development constitute great challenges for life there. However, precious human resources ape abundant and untapp~A, and Sister Vimala believes the people, ifgiven a chance and some support, in time c a n ~ h o ! d ~ o n s of leadership. As a follow-up of the workshop at Maria Health Center, S i r Viala plans to hold similar programs in other villages, assisted by the October "trainees" at the women's workshop in Dumberdih.
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SCNs integrate mission into healthcare services When most Americans think of healthcare, they think of hospitals. However, consider these scenarios: A mlghbomood wman doesn't know w h m to turn when she is suddenly faced with the challenge of caring for her mother-in-law, who
can no kmger wa/k or care for herselt A community social worker intmene6 and
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assists with s a g up home is extorting funds. health care and reh&#.ation A patient in a with treatments that within six no h&& insumcefinds month leave the mother-fn- care in a uniqueplam -on law well enough to care for wheels, andjusta fewsteps herself and I'efUnI to her O M his dm. home. Volunteers intervene when they discover an eldedy patient who is Mng at home is being taken advantage of by a hired n m e who
These don't sound like sit,,ations which take place in a hospital et all, so what do ley have to do with hospfm In fact by xRS? thWre of several
~ o v a t i v healthe outreach programs where hospital meets community, rather than the other way around; a system made mnger through cc-sponsorship with Catholic Health Initiatives. The Southeast Region of Catholic Health Initiatives was formed in September
1997 when the Shtets of
Hospital outreach programs touch the lives of people in their communities Community volun consist of nurses and mWon of the S W B of d m k m but also mpenkts, are homemakers and people thcare from many other professions. minisby to the communities mmunity Health Minktty sumunding the hospitals Members are taught to provide educablonsenice, st %cent lnkmly Malkal counseling and referrals to Center in Little Rock, Ark., meet the holistic needs of has a unique, new program peopte in their communities." which develop partnwhips for health minisky with inner Richan explained. Team members often encounter dty churches, Deborah Rick and address issue as diverse man, coordinator of health as sexual and chemical ministries for St. Vincent, abuse, pychbbic problems, explained that the three and emergency medkd year pilot project began crisis. The pmgmm is d e wlth a goal or developing a partnership with one c h m sigued to be seIf-sn completion of the during the first 14 months pilot project. "rhi is truly a of the program. Now, 18 program out of missionmonths into the program, both multieultlwl and ecumenical," Rickman said. Wnt Joseph hspital in Ldn@on, Kentucky found to modern camthe program's initial goals. following bY scm
Our healthcare ministries today have moved beyond the walls of&e hospitals..."
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Charity of Nazareth Health System entered into a cosponsorship agreement with the rapidlygowhg national healthcare network, Catholic Health Initiatives. The Southeast Region is made
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up of healthcare networks which include hospitals, clinics, primaty care centers, home health agencies, physician practices and hospice care in Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. S i x months into the process of joining together for the purpose of strengthening Catholic healthcare, the Sistes of Charity of Nazareth and the other sponsoring
taldng healthcare to the streets of s m u n d h g ident of mission nem at the haspltal. "We want to serve people who have needs thai no on 6s meeting and who do not have access to get Uuwe needs met." F%morlal Hwpital in Chat. tanT e n n e w , cosponsors the 0
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clinic provides a place to maintain wehem, hitiate prevention and manage illness ouside the normal ac*carrsettirrg.Inaddi. tlon, a network of Saint J m p h physicians have volunteered their time to treat those who have needs
olic CharitiesGhattanooga. This unique program includes a FulCtime, corn munyr.baoed social worker.
Catholic religious orders which make up CHI, m now finding new ways to live out the mission of Jesus in the form of developinghealthier communities. According to Eleanor F. Martin, SCN, managing attorney at Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Colporation in Brockton, Mass., who was involved in the consolidation
process. "Ultimately, a partnership with Catholic Health Initiatives emerged as the best fit for the Sisters of chixi@of p(azareth.It was also vital for the congregation to continue to serve the poor and oppressed." Values have always been a part of SCN health minisby, from the time the sisters (caWnued on page 6)
grasp of available ~ e s ~ u ~ c e s to steer the person solution; or, in her own words, "look after people who might otherwise fall thmghtheuac&."(&aves has also &%&dshied sevetrll innovative programs to get people out of their houses and into c o m m m adivlties togeiher -includlng health screenings, Friendship Day, and Taste of CUenwd. T y focusSng our efforts on preventive measures, we are able to prevent more major
remedial social work where we sit in the &ice and wait for them to come to us, we go right to where the people able to wsess the needs of live, andlwe are able to make the communtty m d develop a big difference in their lives." valued ralationships with miUents, community businesses, schools and churches. She keeps a keen
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SCN Vocation Network plans vocation promotion strategies The nine members of the sisters of charity of Nameth Vocation Network met the weekend of January 23-25 to discuss initiatives for promoting vocations. The group discussed several possibilities for bringing future members to the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth community: Developing and publishing brochures and posters to be used by all congegationd members 6
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interactive website (The current site address is www.louonline.com/scn) * Speaking at schools, patishes and college *
campuses Working with young adults and teens in mission coops that are established
Carolyn on=, ~ h m b w Planning for a hospitaJity weekend to be held in the Ohio: k’nR ton, Ky.; Kay Wdeld and fall for women who are interested in religious life. Adeline Fehrlbach, Lmbville. Ky.: Mary Eula Johnson, * hoking at possible ways Ownsboro, Kitty of networking with other southHaven, mss,: refisiow clew and laity Eva Kowdshi and Nancy Members of the SCN clerth, Fort Lauderdale, Vocation Network include Fla.: and Brenda Gonzales, the following Sisters of BelIze, Central America. Charity of Nazareth: Sharon *
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to o~ xmgegation, please mntact Sister Luke W i k i , Director of ~
Vocation Plomotion, at P.O. Box 9, N a m ~ t h , KY 40048 or by phone (614) 859-2921. Her e-mail address is: Lukm@lst.net. Pray
Tor an increase in irocations.
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Nazareth Alumni Reunion announced A reunion for alumni of Nazareth College will be held at Nazareth the weekend of June 12-14,1998. The event is being coordinated by Spalding University and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. On Friday evening a reception will be held in the Drawing Room and courtyard (weather permitting) between OConneU Hall and the gymnasium. Saturday's activities will include a tour of the buildings, a 5K walk to benefit a scholarship fund, and dinner in Banner HaU. On Sunday a liturgy will be held in the Motherhouse Chapel. For more informb tion about the reunion weekend, contact Jane Houck Director, Alunmijae Relations, Spalding University at (502)5859911.
Reunion planned for Mokama Nursing School graduates On the weekend of June 19-21,nurses who graduated from the nursing school in Mokama, India are invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the hospital with a reunion at Nazareth. For more information, contact Cassilda Castell. SCN, Director of Projects, Office of Congregational Advancement, (502)34& 1551.
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nity to see SCNs in ministry weeks. For more information about these retreats, there. Please phone Sister Cassilda at (502)348-1551 call (502)348-1515. to request a brochure.
Holistic Retreat scheduled
The SCN Holistic Health Committee will m p o n s o r a holistic retreat in coqjunction with the Catherine Spalding Retreat and Conference Center July 1 Z 17,1998.The retreat "Wholeness is Holiness," will be conducted by SCNs Emily Nabholz and Teresa Rose Nabholz at the Catherine Spalding Retreat and Conference Center at Brochures available for Nazareth. Registration and SCN Pilgrimage to India deposits are required. In In celebratiod of the 50th addition, a wide variety of anniversary of the SCN other retreats on women's Nazareth Hospital in empowerment (in honor of Mokama, India, Cassilda March as Women's History Castell, SCN, will be leading Month), Lent, Faster, and a pilgrimage to this celebra- personal issues will be tion which will include tours offered in the coming of a variety of cities in lndia in addition to the opportu-
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Nazareth Arts for Life to host spring event Nazareth Arts for Life will sponsor a spring event entitled "Spinners, Weavers and S t h ~ April " 17-19, 1998 on the Nazareth Campus. Events will include string music, textile arts, storytelling and some hands-on activities; and are free and open to the public. In addition, there will be an art exhibit in the Gallery of OConnell Hall at Nazareth from March 7 through April 5 featuring the work of Troy Dean Rogers, a graduate of Bellarmine College with a degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis on sculpture. For more information call Nazareth Arts for Life at (502)348-1554or 1513.
Destination: Nepal
SCNs lose friend in ministry to the tide of rising violence against the Church
Father Cahey was present at a rooftop tea paw following the blessing of the SCN convent in Kathmandu in 1979.Pictured left to right are Father Ray Hi//, M.M., Father William Cdvin, M.M. and Father
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On Dec. 15,1997 Father Tom Gafney, SJ, was found murdered in his room at the boys' hostel in Kathmandu. Re@, One Of a p h g nUmber of Catholic missionary around the world.
News of Father aafney's mwder follows the murder of another priest and arrest of yet another who were in acquaintance with SCNS workkg in the Biharstate of India.
Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1965 in Patna, India, Father
Gafney came to be known as "Father Social Work" bong the smSin ~ ~ ~ who had known and worked On social issues with Father ~h~~ over the ye'earswas Sister Roselyn Karakkath~. On J a n u q 22,1998SCNs Margaret Rodericks, Anna Malie canary,M&Keuey, and Rachel willett attended a memorial M a s s held by the Jesuits for Father Qafney at st. mcis uderChurch, Ohio. SCN lourn,
Sister Charles Clare Caranna Sister Charles Clare Caranna died on December 25, 1997 at Nazareth Home at the age of 84. She was a native of 6eUaire. Ohio and a member of the Sisters of charity of Nazareth for 53 years. Sister Charles Clare sewed as an elementary school teacher in Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and Massachusetts. She is survived by two sisters, Louise DeVault of Bridgeport, Ohio and Adeline presutti, of Port Orange, Fla.: and one brother, Victor Caranna of Steubenville, Ohio.
Sister Sara Cecelia Bailey Sister Sara Cecelia Bailey died at Nazareth on December 30,1997 at the age of 74. She was a native of St. Mary County, Md., and a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth for 54 years. Sister Sara Cecelia sewed as a teacher, princi-
pal and superior in schools in Kentucky, Vuginia and Tennessee. At the time of her death she was serving on Nazareth's Renovation Committee. She is survived by a sister,'Mmm de Sales, SCN, and several nieces and nephews.
Sister Joan de Paul Logsdon
nated to the SCM Program or to the Retirement Fund Sister Joan de Paul Lopdon of the Sisters of Charity died on Wednesday,February of Nazareth. I Ith at Piorton Hospital, Lou- Sister Ann Simon isville, at the age of 72. She Sister Ann Simon died was a native of Louisville, on February 16, 1998 at Ky., and a member of the CARITAS Medical Center at sisters of charity of Mazareth the age of 83.She was a Sister Mary for 47 years. Sister Joan de native of Calhoun, Ky., and Paul sewed as a teacher in Edward Johnson a member of the Sisters of Sister Mary Edward Johnson schools in Tennessee, Mary- Charity of Nazareth for 52 land, and Massachusetts. died on January 12, 1998 years. Sister Ann served in She also sewed from 1988- infant care and in the food at Nazareth Home at the a$e 1996 as a member of the of 88.Sister Mary Edward service departments of Core Council of the Sisters was a native of Richmond, institutions in Kentucky of Charity of Nazareth A s m and Arkansas, including the Va.. and a member of the Sisters of Charity of N d dates p r c g m . She is sur- Home for Infants in Louisfor 66 years. She served as vived by four sisters: Clara ville. Survivors include two Baker, Sister Mary Fulgence sisters, Virginia Payne and a psychiatric nurse in Kentucky,including M t St. Agnes Logsdon, R.S.M., and Joan lnez Hornsby, and a bmther, Vollmer, aII of Louisville: Sanitarium, St. Joseph James Simon; all of Alice Cheatham of CasselInfwmary, and Our Lady Owensboro, Ky. beny, Fla.: and three broth. of Peace Hospital (now em, Carl w o n of Louis. Memorials to SCNs may h CARlTAS Peace Center). deSgnW to the Mraion of the ville, Ky., Robert @don of She is survived by a three Sisters of Chady ofNazarth Sarasota, Fla., and Edward sisters, Marie L. Johnson, thiuugh #I office @ of SCN, of Louisville, Ky., Irene Lopdon of Pewee Valley,Ky. CongregafmnalAhrancemeflt EO.Box N m t ' ~KY Wall0 and Catherine Moffett, Memorials in honor of Sister Joan de Paul may be desig 4004&0009 both of Richmond, Va.
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