THE JOURNAL of the DAUGHTERS of CHARITY Volume 1, 24 of ST VINCENT DE PAUL in the IRISH PROVINCE SPRING 2021 New Beginnings
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New Beginnings THE JOURNAL OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY Volume 1, 24 OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE IRISH PROVINCE SPRING 2021 New Beginnings Contents COMMUNITY: Forewor d Sister Gorett i Butler .......................................................................... 3 Editorial Sister Anne Neylon .............................................................................. 4 PLAYING A PART Activists and Advocates; The Face of the Young Dilinna Aniebonam ............ 5 Neighbourly altruistic deeds of love DC Provincial Assembly Closing Mass August 2020 - Are praised for help, The Beatitudes Rev. Mark Noonan, C.M. ........................................................ 6 and what mercy reveals: COVID-19: Some Wisdom from the Past Rev. Robert Maloney, C.M ............... 7 The Virtual Parish Gerard Reilly ....................................................................... 8 Greeting elderly, Welcome Sister Marian to the role of Provincial Treasurer ........................... 10 taking meals on wheels, Condolence Message to Sister Goretti Butler Sister Franca Edet ................. 11 Raising potential of youth, ‘Savior of Zvenigorod’ ....................................................................................... 11 To improve. Deaths and Acknowledgements ........................................................................ 12 ‘Step Out’- Sister MJ McCullen DC -1987 ...................................................... 13 Humanitarian acts are Christian; ‘Serving Soothes Souls’ (1589) Dee Mansi ...................................................... 14 Ancient societies were often brutal; Poetry Collection Sister Anna May O’Reilly .................................................... 15 Now, secular states learn ‘Together we can do more on Mission Sunday 2020’ ....................................... 16 from the Gospel, Every Pandemic has a Silver Lining Pat Collins CM .................................... 17 And Church members My Insights into the Correspondence between make profession. St Vincent and St Louise Sister Alice Daly .................................................. 18 A Menu for Easter Connor Johnson ................................................................ 20 Of God, truth, faith, ‘Stretch forth your hand to the poor’- World Day of the Poor 2020 ............. 22 the Ten Commandments: Patsy and Mary Brothers Sisters Cabrini O’Connell and Anne Neylon ........ 24 God-inspired aims urge to persevere; The annual visit to the Vet Mary Tiernan ........................................................ 25 In our life St Finnian of Clonard Caroline Teehan ........................................................... 26 there must be full coherence. The Acceptance of our Children’s millennial attitudes Cristita Manzano .............................................................................................. 27 We esteem goodness in each one, The Feast of St Vincent de Paul Covid-19 ...................................................... 28 all ranks, Vaccines for COVID-19 on the Solemnity of the But we must own the dignity Immaculate Conception Cathy Burke .......................................................... 30 Tribute to Sister Eileen Buckley DC ................................................................ 31 we bear, ‘I will be forever grateful’ Susanne Plummer .................................................. 32 And humbly, before all, Books of Interest ................................................................................................. 33 we must say thanks. Welcome to the New Normal in Mt Prospect The Sisters in Mount Prospect ..... 37 Building and Education in Kitale and Thigio, Kenya .................................... 38 Eamon Flanagan Climate Action Award 2020, Chepnyal, Kenya .............................................. 40 (Saints, Scholars, Heroes, p.32) ‘Co-incidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous’ Etáin Nic Cinngamhna ..................................................................................... 41 Shielding and Cocooning during Covid-19-A Belfast experience The Sisters in Belfast ........................................................................................ 42 ‘Say Yes to the Light’ Amanda Smith .............................................................. 43 ‘Uyo: Nigeria-Sisters bring inclusive education to children with and without disabilities’ Kechukwu Inuome ........................................ 44 Aware Sister Bride Lyng .................................................................................... 45 A Significant Celebration in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal ........................................................................................... 46 New Beginnings is published by: Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, The cover page shows a work St Catherine’s Provincial House, Dunardagh, Temple Hill, Blackrock, Co Dublin Tel 00 353 1 2882896 E-mail [email protected] of art painted by Weronika Website: www.daughtersofcharity.ie Permission granted to insert photographs. Thank you to Majer to celebrate the feast of Sisters and colleagues who helped in the production of this journal, New Beginnings. St Vincent de Paul on 27 Published February 2021 Designed & printed: Levins Print QUOTATIONS Quotations are taken from Chapter 6, ‘Dialogue and Friendship in Society’, September 2020. Weronika is a Pope Francis Encyclical Fratelli Tutti (2020). third year student in Caritas Images are copied from websites found on google College, Ballyfermot, Dublin. ‘Approaching, speaking, listening, looking at, coming to know and understand one another, and to find common ground: all these things are summed up in the one word “dialogue.”’ (no. 198). 2 New Beginnings FOREWORD Congratulations to the Daughters of Charity in Guatemala who received Greetings to all readers of the New the medal of the ‘Order of Monsignor Beginnings journal. Thank you again Gerardi’ in recognition of their to those who submitted articles and ‘support of the poorest of the poor and also, to those who encouraged others whose human rights are often to contribute. May ‘the Lord look disregarded.’ From Uyo, Nigeria we upon you kindly and give you peace.’ read how the Sisters bring inclusive (Nm 6:26). education to children with and without disabilities. Dee Mansi keeps us Though the pandemic is still with us, posted on the gallant work of the AIC. we live in hope. Spring is here and we Sister Alice Daly draws insights from thank God for the beauty it brings to the letters between St Vincent de Paul the Planet. Let us recognise the and St Louise de Marillac. ‘goodness and beauty’ and help us ‘to Conscious also of the number of create healthier societies.’ (Pope deaths due to the pandemic or other Francis, Fratelli Tutti , no. 287). illness, I offer my condolence to all Sisters adapted to the changing life who are bereaved at this time. Sister I take this opportunity on behalf of the circumstances in creative ways. The Franca Edet shares her memory of Daughters of Charity to welcome experience of Covid-19 with the work Sister Elma Hurley. The staff of Bishop Dermot Farrell in his of the Domestic and Provincial Henrietta Street School took the time appointment as Archbishop of Dublin. Assemblies and with Pope Francis’ to send a tribute on the death of Sister I also thank Most Reverend Diarmuid Encyclical Letter on ‘Fraternity and Eileen Buckley. May they rest in Martin for his leadership and service Social Friendship’ offer local peace. as Archbishop and his kindness to the communities the opportunity to Daughters of Charity and the Reading each article one is keenly practically live and experience ‘the Vincentian Family of the diocese for aware that the Church is missionary mystique of community.’ The local sixteen years. I also congratulate by nature and so is the Company. communities in Belfast and Mount President Joe Biden and the Vice Sister Gertrude Foley DC, writes that Prospect share their Covid-19 President Camela Harris as they take everything in St Elizabeth Ann experiences, as does Sister Anna May on the role of President and Vice- Seton’s life story suggests ‘a O’Reilly in her poetry collection. President of the USA. spirituality for mission is a spirituality developed in mission.’ How wonderful to celebrate the I am grateful for daily blessings in Blessed Virgin Mary as the only https://vinformation.org/en/st- the Province and express my gratitude Mother of the Company! A pilgrimage elizabeth-seton-a-spirituality-for-mis to Sister Justine O’Brien whose term of prayer is currently taking place in sion/ as Provincial Treasurer is complete. Italy, as a statue of Mary Immaculate I welcome Sister Marian Harte to this Dilinna Aniebonam inspires hope as is brought to various churches. new role. A new publication (2020) she praises the work of youth as ‘Saints, Scholars, Heroes’ of poems, Activists and Advocates. The homily There is more to read and encounter, commentary and prose reflections for the closing of the Provincial than I have mentioned here! On the written by Eamon Flanagan CM Assembly (August 2020) spurs on the note of encounter, I encourage you in provides a hopeful and inspiring Daughters to the dynamic theme of the words of Sister Francoise Petit, to ‘picture of today’s world.’ ‘Ephata’ and our life as beatitude. ‘be ever more a neighbour to others.. Congratulations Fr Eamon on this God works anew through the events .following the model of the Good latest publication. of this pandemic. Writers reflect how Samaritan…’