A Letter From Our Sister
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When you are an apostolic congregation: How do you continue on when demographics say you’re getting older? How do you serve when you are confronted with a once-every-100-years pandemic? How do you continue when it feels like everything is shut down or is shut down?
This issue of Intercom gives several responses as to how.
Contents Features Compassion at the Next Level............ 6-7 S. Montiel Rosenthal educates health care professionals. Welcome Home............................... 8-11 Community gathers for first time since pandemic. Healthy Improvements................... 12-13 S. Annie Klapheke journeys with clients to a healthier lifestyle. Excellence in Care.......................... 14-15 The Sisters of Charity legacy as nurse educators. Mission Focused............................. 18-19 Associate S. Karen Elliott connects the SC charism to MSJU. Body, Mind and Spirit.................... 20-21 S. Mary Fran Davisson’s ministry of massage therapy.
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spirituality of work is based on a heightened sense of sacramentality, of the idea that everything that is, is holy and that our hands consecrate it to the service of God. When we grow radishes in a small container in a city apartment, we participate in creation. When we sweep the street in front of a house in the dirtiest city in the country, we bring new order to the universe. We tidy the Garden of Eden. We make God’s world new again. When we repair what has been broken or paint what is old or give away what we have earned that is above and beyond our own sustenance, we stoop down and scoop up the earth and breathe into it new life again, as God did one morning in time only to watch it unfold and unfold and unfold through the ages … when we care for everything we touch and touch it reverently, we become the creators of a new universe …” S. Joan Chittister, There Is a Season Our ministerial life did not shut down. Our hearts and hands continue to serve God, God’s people and the planet. Admittedly, moving forward has taken more patience and a heavy dose of creativity as to how to do what was once an efficient routine. We look forward to everyone returning to the Motherhouse. We look forward to sharing our pandemic stories and we look forward to showing all the changes that were made at the Motherhouse while you were gone. Congratulations. Hazard Yet Forward. Let us give thanks and celebrate.
Departments EarthConnection.................................16 Journeying Toward a Better Future
S. Teresa Dutcher
OPJCC................................................22 A Call to Action Timeless Treasures................................27 St. Aloysius Academy, Fayetteville, Ohio On the Cover: Sister of Charity Montiel Rosenthal, MD, is in her 18th year as a member of the core residency faculty for the Christ Hospital/University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Residency Program. Read more on pages 6-7. Disclaimer: The information contained in Intercom is intended for general information and educational purposes only. Opinions expressed herein are the views of individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.
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In Memoriam Please visit “In Memoriam” at www.srcharitycinti.org for biographical information and reflections on the Sisters of Charity and Associates who have died. May our Sisters and Associates enjoy the fruits of their labor as well as peace with their God. S. Katrinka Gunn July 31, 2021
S. Florence Cremering April 22, 2021
S. Elizabeth Jane Mann July 27, 2021
S. Kathleen Houck April 12, 2021
S. Jean Welling June 19, 2021
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