This week’s stories are Compassionate Care award, Open Enrollment, and Project Fit America.

This week’s stories are Good Choices, Flu Vaccine, and A Visit to the Whitehouse.

Today is Columbus Day. Many countries in the Western Hemisphere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492, as an official holiday. The event is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day in the Bahamas, as Día de las Américas in Uruguay. In the U.S., Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in 1937. However, people have celebrated Columbus’s voyage since the colonial period. In 1792, New York City and other U.S. cities celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World.

This week’s stories are Stewardship Program, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Flexible Spending Accounts.

We are happy to have Sr. Bernie Claps here at the Provincial House and Spiritual Center in Marriottsville with us now.  Sr. Bernie began her ministry as Manager of Spiritual Care and Mission at the end of the summer. The Spiritual Center is a direct ministry of the Sisters of Bon Secours and flows out of its charism of compassion, healing and liberation. This charism is further elaborated in the sister’s ministry focus of caring for all of creation and working to eliminate all that diminishes life. 

Sr. Bernie elaborated on her new role at the Spiritual Center in a brief interview:

Could you tell me about your hopes for the center? 

 My hope for the center is that it will become a spiritual home for those who are seeking to deepen their relationship with God  and with all the manifestations of God in the wonder of … continue reading…