One of our Bon Secours ministries is asking for your help.  The following is a letter from the Executive Director of Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation. 

 Dear Friends of Bon Secours,

 On Friday, June 25, 40 young women ages 17 – 21 who are actively pursuing a GED and have demonstrated strong advancement academically will be given the opportunity to attend their prom at the Country Inn Suites in Annapolis.

 All of these young women are success stories. While every story is unique, the majority of these young women grew up in foster care, dropped out of school by their freshman year, and have at least one child under the age of 4.

But that’s just the beginning of the story. All of these young women participate in Bon Secours’ Family Support Center which provides GED preparation, parenting and life skills training, case management and counseling, financial planning workshops, and job readiness training. The goal of the Family Support Center is provide young families with the resources to become economically self sufficient and to put them on the path to achieving their career and life … continue reading…

A ground breaking ceremony took place on Friday, May 7th for the Bon Secours Wayland Village Senior Apartments in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sister Pat Eck attends the International Union of Superiors General(UISG) Plenary Session May 7-11, 2010 to exchange ideas and experiences on religious life as it is evolving in todays world.

Poll results of defining God’s will

Sister Mary Catherine Rogers, passed away on Wednesday May 5, 2010 following a brief illness.  After completing her novitiate, Sr. Mary Catherine, a graduate of Bon Secours School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD, served in Bon Secours Hospital’s Labor and Delivery,  her department in Baltimore before receiving a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Catholic University of America.

She went on to serve in ministries in Richmond, VA and Grosse, Point, MI. Sr. Mary Catherine later returned to Baltimore just after her 25th jubilee, and in October 1983, she was elected as a councilor to the Congregation Team in Rome, Italy.

Many will remember Sr. Mary Catherine as the Sponsor representative on the Board of Directors at St. Francis Xavier Hospital in Charleston and as Sr. Vice President of Sponsorship at Bon Secours Venice Hospital in Venice, Florida. 

Sr. Mary Catherine was a nursing instructor in the School of Nursing and many a nurse today owe their nursing license to her because  her teaching methods were so thorough. 

She loved the charism of BonSecours.  Sharing … continue reading…

Sisters of Bon Secours pray for all nurses during National Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2010) in honor of their mission to care for the sick, the dying and the poor.

Vocation Rally held at Catholic Campus Ministry of Howard University and nuns and priests and accompany students to talk about religious life, how to discern a catholic vocation (one’s calling), prayer, and ministry.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you DIDN’T do

than by the ones you DID do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbour.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover”

– MARK TWAIN

 The Solemnity of Easter

With Christians throughout the world, we celebrate the solemnity of Easter,  the feast of Christ’s resurrection from the dead: liberation from sin, hope for the world.

Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first,  and he saw and believed. – John 20:8

 Reflection:

The Resurrection of our Lord is the central mystery of Christian faith. It is also the central hope of daily human existence.

With the Resurrection we can be certain that suffering and death is not the final word on the human condition.

This is the deepest source of Christian hope. And it is the wellspring of true Christian joy.

On Easter Sunday God’s Word bursts forth in a joyful hymn of praise as the Church resounds with Alleluias.

Our Lenten observance now finds its fullest meaning.

As the message of Easter resounds in our minds and hearts, the truth of Jesus’ Resurrection finds echo in our lives…. continue reading…

Explanation of the Stations of the Cross. Link to a video to follow in the foot steps of Jesus by way of the cross during Holy Week. A meditative mini-pilgrimage for Good Friday. Stations of the Cross photographed at Sisters of Bon Secours Provincial House in Marriottsville, MD, USA.