Yesteday, the Sisters of Bon Secours celebrated one of the Church’s feasts of Mary, the mother of Jesus.  Every year on on May 24th, we gather to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians (Our Lady of Bon Secours), patronness of our community.  We’d like to share the following prayer with you taken from our prayer manual.

O Mary, our Mother, we come to you today to thank you for all the favors we have received through your intercession, and to ask you as our Patroness, the Help of Christians, to help us in our vocation to Bon Secours to imitate you in your virtues, especially, your humility, patience, love, prayerfulness and hatred for sin.

 Mary, we come before you as a Congregation dedicated to you, look favorably on our sisters in all the countries where we serve; give us good capable leaders, animate us with … continue reading…

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…

though God initiates a call it’s also the personal witness of the sister’s life (or priest’s) which helps to awaken another person’s desires to generously respond to Jesus’ calling.

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.

“When I rocked a child in pain, I comforted the suffering God.”  Follow Pat Fosarelli, M.D. along her heart warming journey away from and back home to God from the January 18-25, 2010 issue of America Magazine.  See how she is able to conquer her medical training and find answers to the overpowering questions asked from her youngest patients.

Being a Sister of a healthcare based order, I can tell you that it does in fact seem as though with every new medical breakthrough, a small portion of our faith-based healing dissipates. 

Medical technology can be explained…it is logical and can be tested and re-tested.  To many, God can not be explained or tested and re-tested.  God can not be scientifically proven in a test tube…but what about the miracles that occur in hospital rooms?  Miracles: the most wonderful, extraordinary things that cannot be explained.  Hmm… Sounds like “someone I know.”

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Discover if your vocation in life is to be a catholic sister by spending a weekend exploring religious life, being with sisters and learning about discernment.

When Jesus began his public ministry it was by word of mouth and deed that people began to see more than “just  another prophet.”   Some saw him only as a prophet though and could not open their hearts to the possibility that he really was the long awaited Messiah that John the Baptist announced.    

 The Gospel today (Mark 6:14-29) shows how the last days of John the Baptist parallels that of Jesus’ passion and death.  Herod even thinks that Jesus is John raised from the dead.  Today, aside from the oral and written words (Scripture) of our faith, through modern technology using the internet and Googling, etc, we have the benefit of learning about Jesus.  Who do we follow?  Can we see the real Jesus?  This is our challenge today – ask yourself, who is Jesus for me and how can I follow him more closely?  Does knowing Jesus help me to understand my vocation in life?  God’s will for me?

Today is my 32nd anniversary as a Sister of Bon Secours – where did the time go?  I clearly remember the day of my entrance.  There were 3 of us – Regina, Sharon and I.  We were all young and full of idealism and energy – anticipating the day we’d begin a ministry and make a difference in the world.  We had no big worries then – just our youth and wondering what the ceremony would be like.  I arrived late morning from Texas at BWI airport after a month-long visit with family.  My folks had moved down to Texas from Massachusetts two years earlier so having time to be with them for an extended time was welcome.

 A year earlier, my folks came to visit my grandmother and us older kids who had stayed in Massachusetts.  One evening, as we stood in the “family house” drive-way, my dad and mom began asking, “Pat why can’t you move down to Texas to live near us – its not like you have ties and can’t find a job working in a Dallas hotel  … continue reading…