Sr. Mary James Keating was born in Bethlehem, PA. She worked as a bookkeeper for the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company before entering the community. Her first contact with the Sisters of Bon Secours came when she told her parish priest that she wanted to become a nurse.
Sr. Mary James entered the Novitiate in 1942, and graduated from the Bon Secours School of Nursing in 1947. She served the sick in Grosse Pointe, Mich,; Methuen, Mass., Darby and Rosemont, PA.; Wildwood, N.J.; and Richmond, Va. She became a registered X-ray technician in 1958 and served in this capacity for many years.
Sr. Mary James ministered at the Osteopathic Medical College Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., for 17 years. She also did home nursing as well as visiting the sick and elderly until her retirement in 2003. “By caring for the sick in their homes, I have been able to carry on the original charism of the Sisters of Bon Secours,” says Sr. Mary James.



Sr. Fran Gorsuch meets God in the faces of those she helps. “My spirituality is at the moment of encounter— to bee there, to hear their nee ds. As sisters, we’re called to universal love. Some people may not appear lovable, but you get to know them. We’re all so much more alike than wee are different,” she says. Sr. Fran sees our similarities in an unlikely place: among immigrants from Haiti, Latin America, Russia, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East, now living in Rockland County, outside of New York City. As director of Community Initiatives with Bon Secours Charity Health System’s Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, Sr. Fran advocates for disadvantaged people in communities that have some of the fastest growing immigrant populations. She helps people who need medical care by connecting them with appropriate caregivers, including Good Samaritan. Sr. Fran is part of the Rockland County Immigration Coalition, an organization that helps defend and protect their rights and human dignity of all who seek to … 

The Sisters of Bon Secours invite you to participate in World Day of Prayer for Vocations as you ponder your own vocation. 