8:30 pm
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Turn your lights out
for 60 minutes!!! 

As a Sister of Bon Secours and as someone who is very conscious about the consumption of our earth’s resources, I would like to ask your participation in this global effort to make a difference.  All you have to do is turn off all your lights for one hour at 8:30 pm (your local time).  Use this as a chance to be creative, and think of something fun to do…like playing board games by candlelight or take an evening walk for one hour.  Each small contribution we make adds up when it is made by the masses.

Earth hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund, began on a “small” scale in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, with about 2.2 million homes and businesses turning off lights.  By 2009, the effort had expanded to hundreds of millions of participants in over 4,000 cities in 88 countries!  You can only imagine what kind of difference is made in energy conservation, and … continue reading…

Sr. Rita Thomas has done it again!  Or rather, she has never stopped doing it.  What, you may ask?  Sr. Rita has never stopped providing good help to those in need.  As a Sister of Bon Secours, good help is just “who” she is!  And now, the Catholic Health Association of the United States has acknowledged her work, and awarded her with their Lifetime Achievement Award.  The award recognizes Sr. Rita’s dedication to strengthening ministries of the Sisters of Bon Secours as well as the Bon Secours Health System.  CLICK HERE to read the full article.

God’s reach is limitless.  A young lady named Ann-Marie studied nursing with the Sisters of Bon Secours in Ireland.  She later moves to South Bend, TX and ultimately ends up serving those in need in Haiti.  CLICK HERE to read her story.

Salt + Light TV is generously airing our full-length DVD special “A Tradition of Good Help” this Sunday, March 7th at 8:30 pm EST, throughout Canada and live on their website.  For those of you in the northern US, you may be able to view it on TV (See schedule of stations below). 

Otherwise, go online for live streaming on Sunday.  Just click “View Live” on the homepage under the Salt + Light banner in the top left corner of the page. 

Here‘s the list of service providers that carry Salt + Light TV:

Bell TV – Serving all of Canada on Satellite Channel 654

Shaw Digital Cable – Serving Western Canada on Digital Channel 160

Rogers Digital Cable – Serving most of Ontario – Toronto (GTA), … continue reading…

I think we have all finally dug out of the snow and gotten back to the normality of life.  I know many people are used to large quantities of snow in the winter, but the locals around her are not!  In fact, Maryland snow made all kinds of records.  After the second blizzard in a week, we were able to boast the most amount of snowfall in a week, the most amount of snowfall in a month, and the most amount of snowfall in a winter season – IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF MARYLAND WEATHER!!!  Wow, is all we really have to say.

I know some people, like my assistant, were thrilled to be “snowed in” and have time to play with the kids.  Although I am sure her husband was a bit less thrilled at the shoveling duties he had acquired.

Some of … continue reading…

Enjoy this article about Patty Dooley’s Entrance Ceremony, as published in the January 2010 issue of good news: A Newsletter for Bon Secours Employees.

CLICK HERE to read the full article.

The Baltimore Sun is spotlighting the landmark “Vocations to Religious Life Study” and the vocation efforts of the Sisters of Bon Secours were featured. Can you believe religious life on the front page of the Baltimore Sun?  CLICK HERE for the full article.